Emily Margaret Cummins

[2] In 1924 Cummins arranged what is thought to be the first annual nurses service in England to coincide with the anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale.

[8] She was the eldest child of two born to William John Lawrence Cummins, a Major in the army and engineer at Woolwich, and his wife Emily.

[9] Her mother, was an innkeeper in 1891, and ran the Royal Oak, public house, in Milbourn St Andrew, near Blandford in Dorset.

[5] Cummins died at Teignmouth Hospital on 14 April 1934 from Atrial Fibrillation and a Cerebral Embolism.

[6] Archdeacon Howson gave the address at her memorial service which was held in the chapel of Liverpool Royal Infirmary the day after her death.