Matrons' Council of Great Britain and Ireland

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.

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