Martha Durward Farquharson (1847 Galway, West Region, Ireland – 12 August 1929, Bendigo, Victoria (Australia)) was an administrator, nurse and private hospital owner.
A year later, her mother and a younger sibling died and her father remarried.
[1] When she was 25, she went to England and taught at Mildmay Mission in East London which was run by evangelical Anglicans.
[1] She returned to Australia in 1885, working as a nurse and was appointed matron of Coast Hospital (later Prince Henry's) at Little Bay.
[3] In her memory, in recognition of her capabilities, the Martha D. Farquharson prize was established and awarded annually to the trainee nurse with the best practical skills in the Bendigo, Alfred and Royal Melbourne hospitals.