of work as adviser to a major international health care corporation, travelling extensively in the Middle East and Far East, establishing health care facilities along British lines. She worked for the Civil Service Commission and was appointed a Governor of Epsom College and of Aylesbury Grammar School. She died at the age of 88 in 1999. Personal life In 1959 she married Professor John Thornton Ingram; he died in 1972. Endowments Kathleen A Raven Lecture at the Royal College of Nursing to provide a platform for distinguished speakers to promulgate their views on current nursing problems. Dame Kathleen Raven Chair in Clinical Nursing was endowed by Raven in 1998, the year before her death. The first holder of the chair was Professor Claire Hale. The most recent holder is Professor Steven Ersser, 2014–2017. Honours Her honours include Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing (of which she was once Vice-President), Officer of the Order of St John, and Honorary degrees from Keele University and the University of Leeds. She was made a Patron of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and was an Honorary Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Barbers. References External links Dame Kathleen Raven blog Royal College of Physicians museum Oxford Database Index Archival material at 1910 births 1999 deaths English nurses NHS Chief Professional Officers British nursing administrators Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire People from Coniston, Cumbria People educated at Ulverston Grammar School Fellows of the Royal College of Nursing British nurses