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Ethel Gordon Fenwick (née Manson; 26 January 1857 – 13 March 1947) was a British nurse who played a major role in the History of Nursing in the United Kingdom.She campaigned to procure a nationally recognised certificate for nursing, to safeguard the title "Nurse", and lobbied Parliament to pass a law to control nursing and limit it to "registered" nurses only.
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Ethel Gordon Fenwick was the first nurse on the English register. The National Asylum Workers' Union organised strikes at Prestwich Hospital, Whittingham Hospital and Bodmin Hospital in 1918. It threatened to organise strikes in all the London asylums in support of a 48-hour week in 1919. The Professional Union of Trained Nurses was founded in ...
Eliza Fenwick (1766–1840), English author; Ethel Gordon Fenwick (1857–1947), British nurse; Fairfax Fenwick (1852–1920), New Zealand cricketer; George Fenwick (editor) (1847–1929), New Zealand newspaper proprietor and editor; Herbert Fenwick (1861–1934), New Zealand cricketer; Irene Fenwick (1887–1936), American stage and silent ...
It was well funded by an anonymous donor who had been encouraged by Fenwick's husband, Dr. Bedford Fenwick. He acted as trustee and treasurer, [2] [4] while Mrs. Bedford Fenwick was the president. The aims of the College were "efficient professional and civic education, economic security, legal protection, social and benevolent help". [2]
The Fenwick Weavers' Society was a professional association created in the village of Fenwick, East Ayrshire, Scotland by 16 weavers on 14 March 1761. The Fenwick Weavers' Society is considered to be the earliest known co-operative in the world for which full records exist. [ 1 ]
Florence Elsie Waters (19 August 1893–14 June 1990) and her sister Doris Ethel Waters (20 December 1899–18 August 1978) were English comic actresses and singers who performed as a double act. They are remembered for creating the comedy characters Gert and Daisy , and have been described as "the most successful female double-act in the ...
Elizabeth Fenwick Way (April 5, 1916 – November 20, 1996), [1] who wrote as Elizabeth Fenwick and E. P. Fenwick, was an American mystery writer, novelist, and author of books for children. [2] Her 1963 mystery novel The Make-Believe Man was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award by the Mystery Writers of America .