Edith Pye

Edith Pye was an English nurse, midwife and international relief organiser, born in London in 1876. She became a registered midwife in 1906, trained as a nurse, and in 1907 was central superintendent of the Raynard District Nurses. With her partner, the physician Hilda Clark, she ran maternity hospitals and convalescent homes for refugee women and children in France during the First World War and later gave aid in Vienna, earning the Legion d honneur in 1919. She was president of the British Midwives Institute from 1929 and of the International Confederation of Midwives from 1934 to 1936, organised Quaker relief during the Spanish Civil War, and died in Somerset in 1965.