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Martha Durward Farquharson
Martha Durward Farquharson (1847 Galway, West Region, Ireland – 12 August 1929, Bendigo, Victoria (Australia)) was an administrator, nurse and private hospital owner. Biography Farquharson was the second of eight children born to John Farquharson and Anne Christopherson. In July 1861, they emigrated to Australia. A year later, her mother and a younger sibling died and her father remarried. Career When she was 25, she went to England and taught at Mildmay Mission in East London which was run by Evangelical Anglicanism, evangelical Anglicans. In 1884, she entered their three-year nurses' training program at the affiliated Deaconess Nursing House. She returned to Australia in 1885, working as a nurse and was appointed matron of Coast Hospital (later Prince Henry Hospital, Sydney, Prince Henry's) at Little Bay. By 1888, she was Lady Superintendent at Sir Thomas Fitzgerald's Private Hospital in Spring Street, Melbourne followed by being Matron at Melbourne's The Alfred Hospital, Alfre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galway
Galway ( ; ga, Gaillimh, ) is a City status in Ireland, city in the West Region, Ireland, West of Ireland, in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Connacht, which is the county town of County Galway. It lies on the River Corrib between Lough Corrib and Galway Bay, and is the List of settlements on the island of Ireland by population, sixth most populous city on the island of Ireland and the List of urban areas in the Republic of Ireland by population, fourth most populous in the Republic of Ireland, with a population at the 2022 census of Ireland, 2022 census of 83,456. Located near an earlier settlement, Galway grew around a fortification built by the Kings of Connacht, King of Connacht in 1124. A municipal charter in 1484 allowed citizens of the by then walled city to form a Galway City Council, council and mayoralty. Controlled largely by a group of merchant families, the Tribes of Galway, the city grew into a trading port. Following a period of decline, as of the 21st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
