Dr Rosemary Crowley
Australian member of Parliament and physician
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Edith Butler
Edith Butler trained as a nurse at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, where she was later staff sister. She was awarded the Royal Red Cross in 1945 in recognition of her work in the Australian Army Nursing Service in the south-west Pacific area.
Feziwe Bookholane
South African nurse and activist
Elizabeth Burchill
Elizabeth Burchill worked as a nurse in many diverse locations, including England, Canada, the USA, New Guinea and Thursday Island. She has written several books about her nursing experience, including Thursday Island Nurse and The Paths I’ve Trod.
Mona Grey
Irish nurse and philanthropist who promoted nursing education
Margaret Boyle
First countess of Orrery in 1600s Ireland
Joan Burke
Irish nurse, politician and farmer
Bridget Hedderman
Irish district nurse
Julia Walworth Long
Ohio temperance activist who helped organize two Presbyterian churches in Cleveland and devoted much time to social service
Lucinda Elizabeth Stewart Boyce
The first Euro-American woman to live permanently on San Juan Island, she also served as a community leader and role model for hundreds of women who braved the primitive conditions of the island’s early settlement years.