Harriott Ritchie
New Zealand hospital matron, servants’ home matron and dressmaker
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Alice Anderson
New Zealand district nurse
Vilma Hugonnai
In 1879, Countess Vilma Hugonnai successfully defended her dissertation and was awarded a medical doctorate by the University of Zurich.
Ellen Dougherty
New Zealand nurse and hospital matron
Leslie de Barra
Irish republican and Red Cross pioneer
Lucy Cane
Irish public servant and assistant director of the Women’s Royal Naval Service during WWI
Valerie Place
Irish nurse and overseas aid worker
Enid Tapsell
New Zealand nurse, community leader, writer and local politician
Mary Joseph Aubert
Mother Aubert’s career in New Zealand spanned more than six decades. There was scarcely one of these decades in which she did not initiate a new venture or stamp her personality on some major project. Her lasting legacy to New Zealand was the religious order she founded.
Georgina Burgess
New Zealand hotel-keeper, midwife, postmistress