Eva Luckes

Eva Charlotte Ellis Luckes CBE RRC DStJ was Matron of The London Hospital from 1880 to 1919.

Eva Charlotte Ellis Luckes was born in Exeter, Devon onJuly 1854 into an uppermiddleclass family. Her father, Henry Richard Luckes, was a banker who had established a comfortable home for his family in Newnham, Gloucestershire. Miss Luckes, the eldest of three daughters, was educated at Malvern, Cheltenham College and Dresden. She suffered from some physical disablement and had a horse to help her travel about the countryside. After finishing her education she returned to Newnham and helped her mother run the house and visited the sick of the parish. It was this that developed her interest in nursing.

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