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Margaret Currie Neilson Lamb
Margaret Currie Neilson Lamb FRCN (1907–1991) was the first nurse to chair the General Nursing Council in Scotland. Career Lamb was born in Kincardine-on-Forth in Fife in 1907, her father was in the army and died when she was a child. Her mother later moved the family to Dundee where she remarried and Lamb spent her childhood, attending the Harris Academy until she was 15. She had wanted to become a teacher but could not afford to, so worked towards becoming a sister tutor instead. Lamb trained as a nurse at the Dundee Royal Infirmary, registering in 1934. She worked as a staff nurse in the Dundee Royal Infirmary before training as a midwife, qualifying in Dundee and registering as a midwife in 1936. She then became a night sister in the Randolph Wemyss Memorial Hospital Buckhaven, Fife, which at that time was local colliery hospital. Her next post was at the Barshaw Hospital, Paisley where she gained midwifery experience. She then went to the Southern General Hospital, G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kincardine-on-Forth
Kincardine ( ; ) or Kincardine-on-Forth is a town on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, in Fife, Scotland. The town was given the status of a burgh of barony in 1663. It was at one time a reasonably prosperous minor port. The townscape retains many good examples of Scottish vernacular buildings from the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries, although it was greatly altered during the construction of Kincardine Bridge in 1932–1936. It is in the civil parish of Tulliallan. Etymology The name ''Kincardine'', recorded in 1540 as ''Kincarne'', may be of either Pictish or Gaelic origin (It is also recorded as ''Kincarnyne''). The second element is Pictish ''*carden'', conceivably loaned into Gaelic, meaning "woodland" or perhaps "enclosure, encampment" (Middle Welsh ''cardden''). The first element is the Gaelic ''ceann'', "head end", but in view of the second element's "Pictish" distribution, it is most appropriately seen as an adaptation or translation of the cognate Pictis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |