Alicia Lloyd Still
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 Dame Lloyd-Still , British nurse, matron and member of the General Nursing Council , 1934 | |
| Born | Alicia Frances Jane Lloyd Still November 4, 1869 |
| Died | July 23, 1944 (aged 74) |
Dame Alicia Frances Jane Lloyd Still, DBE, RRC, SRN (1869–1944) was a British nurse, teacher and hospital matron.[1][2]
Early life and nursing career
Alice Frances Jane Lloyd Still was born in Colombo, Ceylon on 4th November 1869 to Isabel (nee Clements) and Henry Lloyd Still, a member of the Ceylon Civil Service.[3] She was the eldest of four children and grew up in Walton, by Clevedon, Somerset. [2] Her admiration of Florence Nightingale led her to chose to become a nurse. [3]
She commenced nursing in July 1893 at the Cottage Hospital , Warminster, Wiltshire as at the time the larger hospitals with nursing schools did not accept women younger than 25 years to train.[3] Lloyd Still became a probationer at the Florence Nightingale School at St. Thomas' Hospital, London, UK on 29th December 1894, under matron Miss Gordon.[3] Miss Nightingale was still closely involved with the school, the Nightingale Fund and the appointment of new hospital sisters at St. Thomas' Hospital.[3] Lloyd Still completed her training and was appointed Sister of Charity ward in the same year (1897); receiving directly from Florence Nightingale a letter, a medical text book and a posy of flowers on her appointment. [3]
Later nursing career: hospital matron, nurse educator and leader of nursing as a profession
Lloyd-Still was appointed matron first at the Brompton Hospital, 1904, then the Middlesex Hospital, 1909 and then St. Thomas' Hospital 1913 ,where she was also superintendent of the Nightingale Training School, until her retirement in 1937.[1] During World War I she was Principal Matron of the No. 5 London (City of London) General Hospital, and was awarded the Royal Red Cross and the C.B.E. for her services.[4]
As matron of St. Thomas Hospital she was a founding member of the College of Nursing Ltd (March 27th 1916) which was established to promote better and uniform education and training of nurses, maintain a register of nurses who had certificates of proficiency and support parliamentary actions to in support of the profession of nursing. [5]
The General Nursing Council
Dame Lloyd-Still was the second nurse to be added to the newly established register of the General Nursing Council in 1921.[6]
Awards
Royal Red Cross awarded in 1917[7]
Medaille d'honneur de l'assistance publique [8]
Commander of the British Empire
Florence Nightingale Medal awarded in 1933 [9]
Dame of the British Empire awarded in 1934[8]
Retirement
Lloyd-Still retired to Curry Rivel, Sedgemoor in Somerset, during the Second World War. When she became terminally ill, she moved in with her younger sister in Buckfast, Devon, where she was nursed by two Nightingale nurses. She died there on 23 July 1944. A funeral service was held in the chapel at St Thomas's Hospital, and she was buried on 26 July in Brookwood cemetery, Surrey, in an area that she had acquired for Nightingale nurses.[2]
Florence Nightingale Museum
Lloyd Still collected material things used or associated with Florence Nightingale as important artefacts for the history of the nursing profession.[4] Her papers helped to found the Florence Nightingale Museum (Museum and Galleries Commission Registration #584), opened in 1989, which was based on the life of Florence Nightingale. It is on the historical site of the first purpose built nurse training institution, the Nightingale Training School for Nurses, which closed in 1996, at St Thomas' Hospital.[citation needed]
The collections held by the Museum may be traced back to the gifts from Florence Nightingale to the nurses at St Thomas' in the late 19th century; Lloyd Still was Matron of St Thomas' from 1913-37. There were plans for a Nightingale Museum as early as the 1930s but these were shelved with the Second World War and not reconsidered until the late 1970s.
Prior to the formation the collections were displayed and received acclaim on major anniversaries such as 1954 (the Crimean Centenary), 1960 (the Nightingale Training School Centenary) and 1970 (the 150th anniversary of Nightingale's birth). The Florence Nightingale Museum Trust was formed in 1983 and is run as an independent charity with strong links with Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, with the British National Health Service in general, and with nursing organizations across the world. The Museum aims to provide excellent educational services for a range of users from special educational needs groups in the local community to international nurses. The Museum had 27,400 visitors in 2004. The Museum is a Registered Charity #299576.
Students
Among Lloyd Still's notable students was Theodora Turner, a future President of the Royal College of Nursing.[10]
References
- ^ a b Alicia Lloyd Still profile, Oxford Biography Index; accessed 22 July 2017.
- ^ a b c "Still, Dame Alicia Frances Jane Lloyd- (1869–1944), nurse". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/56823. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
- ^ a b c d e f Seymer, Lucy (1953). Dame Alicia Lloyd Still : A Memoir. London: Smith & Ebbs Ltd. p. 1.
- ^ a b Anon, Anon (June 1933). "MISS ALICIA F. J. LLOYD~STILL, C.B.E., R.R.C." British Journal of Nursing (June): 164, first paragraph – via Royal Holloway University of London: Digital Repository.
- ^ Baly, Monica E. (1995). Nursing and social change (3rd ed.). London: Routledge. ISBN 0-203-42487-5. OCLC 51912518.
- ^ Bendall, E R D; Raybould, E (1969). A History of the General Nursing Council for England & Wales 1919-1969. H.K. Lewis & Co. Ltd. pp. 43, 52, 68, 144. ISBN 0718600916.
- ^ Editorial (4 March 1917). "Court Circular". The Manchester Guardian. Proquest The Guardian and the Observer Historical Newspapers. p. 3.
- ^ a b Editorial (13 January 1938). "Dame Alicia Lloyd Still: Forty years of hospital service". The Times: 9 – via The Times Historical Archive by Gale.com.
- ^ Editorial (November 1933). "THE FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE MEDAL". The British Nursing Journal. 81: 306 – via RCN Archive.
- ^ "Obituaries: Theodora Turner". The Independent. 31 August 1999. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
Bibliography
- Lucy Seymer, Dame Alicia Lloyd Still, D.B.E. R.R.C., 1869-1944: A memoir [With Portraits], Nightingale Fellowship, St. Thomas's Hospital, Smith & Ebbs, London (1953)
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