Sarah Swift

[3] Swift held a number of senior nursing and matron positions in Dundee (Home for the Incurables 1886).

[3] She was Matron of Guy's Hospital (1901–09), then retired,[1] but at the outbreak of the First World War she was appointed matron-Chief for the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St John of Jerusalem in England.

[2] A letter was sent out to all the training hospitals outlining the idea pointing out that although there was disagreement on issues relating to registration there was a need to coordinated nursing and all trained nurses should unite in one democratic organisation with the power in the hands of the membership.

[5] In 1919 she was made Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) for her services to nursing.

[6] In 1929 she was awarded the Florence Nightingale medal of the International Committee of the Red Cross.