A NOTABLE NURSE

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21356, 26 December 1934, Page 10

A NOTABLE NURSE

* If she were not so aggressively youthful in mind and body at 77, Mrs Bedford FenwicTt, of Dean's Yard, London, could surely be styled the "Grand Old Woman" of the nursing profession in Great Britain. Nurse at the Nottingham ("England) Children's Hospital in 1373, 'sister at the London Hospital from 1879 to 1831. and matron of St. Bartholomew's, London, till 1887, this amazing woman has since then lived a crowded life. In 1889 she became the managing director of the Gordon House Hospital and then founded the British Nurses' Association whicii now counts its members by the thousands. As president of the British nursing section at the first Chicago Exhibition, she was awarded two special medals, and then, joining the Red Cross, she did special work in the Graeco-Tur-kish War of 1899. Besides presiding at national conferences of nurses in Britain, U.S.A., India, and Ireland, Mrs Bedford Fenwick saw service in France during the war, edited (as she still does), the British Journal of Nursing, became president of the Society of Women Journalists, and accepted honorary membership of virtually every body of nurses in the world, yvnen sh? is not organising and editing, she nowadays collects china and visits hospitals everywhere. A Davidson of Morayshire I.Scotland), she married Dr. Bedford Fenwick in IM7. She has on* son.