Biography:Christina Graham Knight
Christina Graham Knight | |
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| Born | 1862 Aberdeen |
| Died | 1959 Teddington, Middlesex |
| Alma mater | The London Hospital |
| Occupation | Matron, Dreadnought Branch Hospital in the Royal Victoria and Albert Docks, London |
| Honours | Officer of the British Empire |
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Christina Graham Knight, OBE[1] was a nursing leader and matron of the Albert Dock Seamen's Hospital, - - the Dreadnought Branch Hospital in the Royal Victoria and Albert Docks, in London's Docklands for over twenty years.[2][3] She was a founding member of the College of Nursing (now Royal College of Nursing).[4]
Early life
Knight was born on 20 November 1862 at 1 Trinity Quay, Aberdeen. She was the third eldest of at least four children born to her parents, George Knight, a Grocer and Spirit Dealer, and his wife Jessie. Knight worked for a while as a salesperson in a confectioners shop before she commenced nursing.
Nursing career
Knight trained as a nurse from 1891-1893 under Eva Luckes, Matron of The London Hospital, Whitechapel. Afterwards, she worked as a staff nurse at the hospital for three years, before being promoted to Sister at the Dreadnought Branch Hospital in the Royal Victoria and Albert Docks in 1896.[5] In 1898 Knight was appointed as matron at the hospital, and she remained there for 21 years.[6][7] In November 1919 she resigned and was appointed matron of the Tropical Diseases Hospital, Endsleigh Gardens, London.[3][8]
She was a founding member of the College of Nursing.
Retirement and death
By the Second World War Knight had retired, and was living in Great Bookham, Surrey. She died twenty years later in 1959 at Teddington Medical Nursing Home, Teddington, Middlesex. Her estate was valued at over £7500.
Honours
- OBE, June 1918[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "King's Birthday Honours". The London Gazette: 6732. 7 June 1918.
- ↑ "Appointments: Matrons". The Nursing Record and Hospital World 21: 392. 12 November 1898.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Miss Graham Knight, Matron of the Seamen's Hospital". Nursing Times 15 (757): 1164. 1 November 1919.
- ↑ The first 500000 members were Founding Members, Knight was member 20,880. See: GNC Roll of Nurses1923, p. 335
- ↑ Burdett, Henry (1898). Burdett's Official Nursing Directory. London: Scientific Press. pp. 453.
- ↑ "Nursing Tropical Diseases in London". The Hospital: 60–63. 30 Apr 1904.
- ↑ "The Queen Visited". Nursing Times 14 (671): 292. 9 Mar 1918.
- ↑ Cranna, Victoria (11 Nov 2020). "100th anniversary of opening of Endsleigh Gardens building". https://blogs.lshtm.ac.uk/library.
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