Henrietta Stockdale
Sister Henrietta CSM and AA was a nursing pioneer. Through her influence and pressure the first state registration of nurses and midwives in the world was brought about when the Cape of Good Hope Medical and Pharmacy Act of 1891 passed into law. As a member of the Anglican Community of St Michael and All Angels.
Sister Henrietta was born onJuly 1847 at Gringley on the Hill, Nottinghamshire, the eldest of five children of the Revd Henry Stockdale, the vicar of Misterton and, later of Bole. She was confirmed by John Jackson, bishop of Lincoln onMarch 1863, at Walkeringham. A few weeks previously the Edward Twells, newly consecrated bishop of the Orange River Mission , visited the Walkeringham Vicarage, where Mr. Stockdale, Henrietta and a cousin of hers met with him. The young Henriettas missionary enthusiasm was fired by this meeting, and she and her cousin were both made Associates of the Bloemfontein Mission.
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