Ethel Bentham
Irish doctor and Member of Parliament
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Kitty Kain
Kitty Kain was appointed superintendent of New Zealand’s Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) in 1941.
Edith Blake
Irish botanical illustrator and writer
Maude Delap
Irish naturalist and marine biologist
Constance Delap
With her father and sisters she collected plants and animals from the shore and, following her father’s habit, began writing and sending specimens to the Natural History Museum in London.
Elizabeth Bell
Irish medical doctor and suffragist
Ettie Annie Rout
Ettie Rout gained a public profile as a cyclist, vegetarian, freethinker and physical culturist.
Evelyn Augusta Conyers
Conyers had joined the Australian Army Nursing Service as a sister in 1903 and in 1914 went with the Australian Imperial Forces first to Cairo and later to Greece. In December she was appointed Matron-in-Chief with responsibility for almost all nurses serving overseas.
Margaret Clay Ferguson
American botanist who became the first female President of the Botanical Society of America in 1929
Jane Grey Swisshelm
American journalist, anti-slavery agitator and war nurse