Annie Warren Gill

Annie Warren Gill (1862 to 1930) was a nurse born in Castletown on the Isle of Man, the daughter of the vicar of Malew. She trained at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, became a head nurse there, and served as matron of an Edinburgh hospital unit sent to South Africa during the Second Boer War. She later returned to run nursing in a concentration camp in the Orange River Colony, work for which she received the Royal Red Cross in 1901 and a bar to it in 1919. After a spell as matron of the Royal Berkshire Hospital she was elected matron and Lady Superintendent of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, a post she held from 1907 to 1925. She campaigned within the General Nursing Council for Scotland for separate registration of nurses in Scotland, helped found the College of Nursing in 1916 and its Scottish board, founded the Scottish Matrons' Association, and served as president of the College of Nursing in 1927. She died in Hove in 1930 and is buried at Malew, and a prize and a college building on the Isle of Man carry her name.