Haldane Colquhoun Turriff (12 January 1834 – 5 February 1922) was an Australian hospital nurse, administrator.
In August 1866,[4] Haldane enrolled at the nightingale training school attached to St. Thomas's Hospital in London.
With the help of the brilliant journalism of the Argus and the ‘Vagabond’, complaints about the matron’s ill temper, the alleged abuse of power and her command over female staff boiled over in 1877.
The hospital president, James Service, had a strong influence on the matron, and most of the complainants resigned or were discharged.
The failure of the matron to fulfill her duties as a ‘nightingale’ graduate and to set up a training school may have been due to a lack of talent in the formal teacher’s part.