 Mary Southcott

Mary Meager Southcott (1862–1943) was a Newfoundland-born nurse, hospital administrator and campaigner.She went to London, England to study nursing between 1899 and 1901, then returned to Newfoundland and was soon appointed Superintendent of Nursing at the St John's General Hospital, where she founded the St. John's General Hospital School of Nursing in 1903.