Muriel Barron

Sister Mary Gabriel MBE (21 June 1904 – 29 February 1988), whose birth name was Muriel Marie Barron, was a New Zealand religious sister and pharmacist.

[1] She joined the Sisters of Mercy in 1929 in Auckland and having previously studied music teaching.

[2][3] She took her religious vows three years later, taking the name Sister Mary Gabriel.

During that time she was a foundation member of the New Zealand Hospital Pharmacists' Association and of Auckland branch of the Pharmaceutical Society.

She was one of the first New Zealand pharmacists to be made a Fellow of the Pharmaceutical Society and the first New Zealand woman to be made a Fellow of the Pharmaceutical Society.