Edith Sheriff MacGregor Rome RRC SRN (died 6 June 1938) was a British nursing matron and administrator. She served as President of the

Royal College of Nursing The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is a registered trade union in the United Kingdom for those in the profession of nursing. It was founded in 1916, receiving its royal charter in 1928. Queen Elizabeth II was the patron until her death in 2022. ...

(RCN) from 1933–34 and again from 1937–38.

Biography

Edith Sheriff MacGregor was born in Scotland in 1870. She was trained at

Westminster Hospital Westminster Hospital was a hospital in London, England, founded in 1719. In 1834 a medical school attached to the hospital was formally founded. In 1939 a newly built hospital and medical school opened in Horseferry Road, Westminster. In 1994 the ...

and later served as Assistant Matron of the Warneford Hospital, Leamington and as Matron of the Paddington Green Children's Hospital. During World War 1 she led a nursing unit of the British Red Cross Society into Romania in 1916 and then onwards in 1918 to Russia and Serbia with Lady Muriel Paget's unit. She was later the first Secretary of the Student Nurses' Association until leaving to get married in 1930. She was Matron-in-Chief of the

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before going on to serve two terms as President of the RCN.Obituary
rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk; accessed 6 May 2016.

Honours

She served with distinction during

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. She was awarded the: *

Royal Red Cross The Royal Red Cross (RRC) is a military decoration awarded in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth for exceptional services in military nursing. Foundation The award was established on 27 April 1883 by Victoria of the Un ...

, 1st Class (UK) * Order of Regina Maria, 1st Class (Rumania) *

Order of Saint Anna The Imperial Order of Saint Anna (russian: Орден Святой Анны; also "Order of Saint Anne" or "Order of Saint Ann") was a Holstein ducal and then Russian imperial order of chivalry. It was established by Karl Friedrich, Duke of Hol ...

(Russia).

Death

Rome died on 6 June 1938. Her funeral was held at the Southampton Crematorium on 13 June 1938 and a memorial service was held in the chapel.

References

Year of birth unknown 1938 deaths Nurses from London British nursing administrators Members of the Royal Red Cross Place of birth missing Date of birth unknown Presidents of the Royal College of Nursing {{nurse-bio-stub