Isla Stewart

Isla Stewart began her nursing career at the age of twenty-three as a probationer at the Nightingale Training School .

Isla Stewart assumed the post of matron at the smallpox camps in Darenth near Dartford, Kent.

Isla Stewart became the Matron of St Bartholomew's Hospital .

Isla Stewart established the Matrons' Council , an organization devoted to attaining a register of nurses. She also served as its president.

Mrs Ethel Fenwick and Isla Stewart began the Matrons' Council of Great Britain and Ireland .

The Society for the State Registration of Trained Nurses was founded with women's activist Louisa Stevenson as president, former Matrons' Council president Isla Stewart as vice-president, and former Royal British Nurses' Association president Ethel Gordon Fenwick