Bedford-Fenwick, Ethel, 1857-1947
<p>Ethel Gordon Manson Fenwick; BIRTH 26 Jan 1857, Elgin, Moray, Scotland; DEATH, 13 Mar 1947 (aged 90), Cumbria, England; BURIAL
St Helena Churchyard, Thoroton, Rushcliffe Borough, Nottinghamshire, England.</p>
<p>Founder of the International Council of Nurses and leader of the campaign for state registration of nurses in Britain. Trained as a nurse at Nottingham Children's Hospital and at the age of 24 (1881) was Matron of St. Bartholomew's Hospital (London) before resigning in 1887 on marrying Dr Bedford Fenwick. She founded the British Journal of Nursing in 1893, and remained its editor until 1946, primarily as a vehicle for her polemics on professional status.<p>
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Date: 1857-01-26 (Birth) - 1947-03-13 (Death)
Ethel Gordon Fenwick (née Manson; 26 January 1857 – 13 March 1947) was a British nurse who played a major role in the History of Nursing in the United Kingdom. She campaigned to procure a nationally recognised certificate for nursing, to safeguard the title "Nurse", and lobbied Parliament to pass a law to control nursing and limit it to "registered" nurses only ...
Founder of the Royal British Nurses' Association ...
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Name Entry: Bedford-Fenwick, Ethel, 1857-1947
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Name Entry: Manson, Ethel Gordon, 1857-1947
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Place: India, Asia
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