Selina Sutherland
Selina Murray McDonald Sutherland (26 December 1839 – 8 October 1909) was a notable New Zealand nurse and social worker. She was born in Culgower, Sutherlandshire, Scotland in 1839. She came to New Zealand in 1865 and went to visit her sister Margaret Grant in Gladstone in the Wairarapa. Trained in medicine, she helped many people during their illness, as the area lacked any medical provisions. She was the driving force behind the hospital in Masterton being established in 1879. In the same year, she became matron at Wellington Hospital, but left in the following year after disputes with management. From 1881, she lived in Melbourne, Australia, where she died in 1909 from pleurisy and pneumonia. She is commemorated in Wairarapa Hospital by a memorial tablet.[1]
Sutherland was inducted onto the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2010.[2]
References
- ^ Simpson, K. A. "Selina Murray McDonald Sutherland". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved December 2011.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|access-date=(help) - ^ "VICTORIAN HONOUR ROLL OF WOMEN List of Inductees 2001 to 2011" (PDF).
External links
- Sutherland, Selina Murray Macdonald in The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia
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