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unusual facts about Matron


HMHS Llandovery Castle

Among those lost were fourteen nursing sisters from Canada, including the Matron Margaret Marjory (Pearl) Fraser from Nova Scotia (daughter of Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Duncan Cameron Fraser).


1960 Birthday Honours

Mrs Mabel Winifred Gunn - matron of the Whataroa Hospital, South Westland.

Anne Thomson

: Matron-in-Chief of the QAIMNS (now the QARANC) from 1948 to 31 January 1949

Bridget Jones Nelson

She has played characters as diverse as Mr. B Natural and Lisa Loeb but is probably best known for two roles: Nuveena, Girl of the Future, Mike's singing love interest in episodes 524, "12 to the Moon", and 614, "San Francisco International", and Flavia, an evil Roman matron and Pearl Forrester's nemesis in a multi-episode arc in season eight.

Carole Cook

Ball was matron of honor at Cook's wedding in 1964 to actor Tom Troupe, to whom she remains married; the couple has no children.

Cybele

Roman legend connects this voyage, or its end, to the matron Claudia Quinta, who was accused of inchastity but proved her innocence with a miraculous feat on behalf of the goddess.

Doctor Rhythm

Dr. Bill Remsen (Bing Crosby) helps cover for his ailing policeman friend (Andy Devine) and takes the policeman's latest assignment as the bodyguard for a quirky but wealthy matron Mrs. Lorelei Dodge-Blodgett (Bea Lillie).

Elgin Academy, Scotland

Brigadier Helen Cattanach CB, Matron-in-Chief and Director of Army Nursing Services from 1973 to 1976 of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps

Eliza Farnham

She retained the office of matron until 1848, when she moved to Boston, and was for several months connected with the management of the Institution for the Blind.

Elizabeth Lawrie Smellie

During World War I, she was posted at Cliveden, Lady Astor's estate, and became matron of the Moore Barracks Hospital at Shorncliffe Army Camp where thousands of Canadian soldiers were treated.

Ernestine Schumann-Heink

In the movies of the 1930s, many a buxom opera singer/instructor/matron was modeled on her; see for instance 1937's Stage Door.

Evelyn Varden

It was not until the 1930s and into her forties that her stage career took off in the theater, notably playing Mrs. Gibbs, the small town matron who dreams of Paris, in the original production of Our Town.

Helen Gillespie

Brigadier Dame Helen Shiels Gillespie, DBE, RRC, QHNS (1898–1974) was a British nursing matron during World War II.

From 1952 until her retirement on 31 July 1956 on completion of her term, Gillespie served as Matron-in-Chief of Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (QAIMNS/QARANC).

Henry O'Farrell

The Prince was hospitalised for two weeks, and cared for by six nurses trained by Florence Nightingale, who had arrived in Australia that February under Matron Lucy Osburn.

Joan Sydney

She remains remains best known for her long-running Logie Award winning television role between 1983-1990 as Margaret "Maggie" Sloan', the matron and patriarch of the fictional Wandin Valley Bush Nursing Hospital, in A Country Practice on the Seven Network.

Kathleen Best

Having completed her training, Best nursed at Wyong Hospital on the New South Wales central coast, was appointed Acting Matron at the Rachel Forster Hospital in Sydney and later Deputy-Matron at the Masonic Hospital in Ashfield.

Liber

His temples held the image of a phallus; in Lavinium, this was the principal focus for his month-long festival, when according to St. Augustine, the "dishonourable member" was placed "on a little trolley" and taken in procession around the local crossroad shrines, then to the local forum for its crowning by an honourable matron.

Louis Kronberg

Kronberg was vastly supported by Boston's great art matron Isabella Stewart Gardner, and hence his work is represented in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, as well as in the museums of Boston and Indianapolis.

Marjorie Gordon

She later appeared in a few films, playing Ruth Hopkins in Danger Trails (1935), Matron in All the Way to Paris (1967) and Passenger in Golden Rendezvous (1977).

Monica Golding

Brigadier Dame Cecilie Monica Johnson Golding, DBE (born 6 August 1902, London - died 6 June 1997, Bournemouth) was a British Army nurse, who rose to Colonel Commandant, Matron-in-Chief and Director of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (QARANC).

Searson Wigginton

A school reminiscences website from Zimbabwe records that Wigginton was "caretaker and groundsman" at the Gifford High School, Bulawayo between 1953 and 1969, with his wife acting as "cook-matron".

Sophia Fowler Gallaudet

As the founding matron of the school that became Gallaudet University, she played an important role in deaf history, even playing a key role in lobbying Congressmen in the effort to establish Gallaudet (then the "National Deaf-Mute College").

Susan and God

Susan (Joan Crawford), a flighty society matron, returns from Europe earlier than expected waxing enthusiastic about a new religious movement.

The Dead Line

Doña Croll, the actress who played Stella, also had a part in parent series Doctor Who as Matron Casp in the episode "New Earth".


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