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Dame Rosalind Paget, DBE, ARRC (4 January 1855 -19 August 1948), was a noted British nursing sister, midwife and reformer.
She was the first Superintendent, later Inspector General, of the Queen's Jubilee Institute for District Nursing at the London Hospital,[1], which was re-named as the Queen's Institute of District Nursing in 1928 and as the Queen's Nursing Institute in 1973.
Family
Mary Rosalind Paget was the daughter of a Whig author and police magistrate, John Paget and his wife Elizabeth Rathbone. She never married.
Death
Rosalind Paget died in 1948, aged 93.
Honours
She was named a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1935.
Legacies
The Dame Rosalind Paget Memorial Lecture and Rosalind Paget Trust were established in her honour.