Anna Baillie

[1] (1864–1958), was an inspiring manager who established the first provincial Preliminary Training School for Nurses,[2] and served as a Principal military Matron of Bristol during the First World War.

[9] She was promoted rapidly and in November 1892, just two months after she had successfully completed her nurse training, Baillie was appointed as a ward sister.

[17]As part of the preparedness in the event of a large scale military conflict, Baillie was appointed in 1909 as organising matron of the local General Territorial Hospitals.

[20][21] In 1916 Baillie, and Agnes Watt, a fellow Londoner and matron of the Radcliffe Infirmary received the Royal Red Cross at Buckingham Palace.

[1] Baillie died twenty years after she retired on 21 August 1958 in St. Monica’s Home of Rest at Westbury-on-Trym, where she had previously been matron.