Nurse and midwife. Trained at the British Lying-in Hospital. She was the first superintendent, and later inspector general, of the Queen's Jubilee Institute for District Nursing at the London Hospital.
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Dame Rosalind Paget
The plaque gives 1739 as the foundation date but sources give 1749.
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