Matrons' Council of Great Britain and Ireland

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10 December 1887: Mrs Ethel Fenwick, with twenty-nine hospital...

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10 December 1887

Mrs Ethel Fenwick , with twenty-nine hospital matrons, officially named and founded the British Nurses' Association ; this was the first organized attempt by nurses to improve the status of their profession.
McGann, Susan. The Battle of the Nurses: A Study of Eight Women who Influenced the Development of Professional Nursing, 1880-1930. Scutari, 1992.
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1894: Isla Stewart established the Matrons' Council,...

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1894

Isla Stewart established the Matrons' Council , an organization devoted to attaining a register of nurses. She also served as its president.
Holcombe, Lee. Victorian Ladies At Work: Middle-Class Working Women in England and Wales, 1850-1914. Archon Books, 1973.
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July 1894: Mrs Ethel Fenwick and Isla Stewart began...

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July 1894

Mrs Ethel Fenwick and Isla Stewart began the Matrons' Council of Great Britain and Ireland .
McGann, Susan. The Battle of the Nurses: A Study of Eight Women who Influenced the Development of Professional Nursing, 1880-1930. Scutari, 1992.
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1902: The Society for the State Registration of...

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1902

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

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