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Wing, Laura Alica

Biographical

Registration number960
SurnameWing
First name(s)Laura Alica
Address(es)

Elford House, Holyhead Road, Coventry; The Acland House, Oxford

Date of registration2 May 1890
Qualifications

Certificate, Addenbrooks Hospital 1883

Remarks

Nursing Inst Coventry Sept 1891 to date; District Nurse Worcs and Kidderminser 1882-86; Coventry 1886-90 Withdrawn

Personal details

Date of birth1851
Place of birthLeicester
Family details

In 1851 census the name seems to have been mispelled to Koing or King. In 1871 she was Governess to the Tyson family in Sculthorp in Norfolk

Date of deathAbt 1931

Professional details

Additional training

Home for Sick Children, Lower Sydenham Sept 1900 to Sept 1903; Middlesex Hospital October 1903 to Aug 1907; Acland House Oxford from then

Additional qualifications

Certificate Middlesex Hospital

Work experience

District Nurse, Worcs and Kidderminster 1884-6; Coventry 1886; Lady District Nurse and Superintentent in Coventry (St Michael and St John) 1891; Head - Bishopsheer, St Marks Coventry 1901.

Professional activities

Approved as being added to the rolls of Queen's Nurses as Suprintendent 1894

Additional professional details

In July 1899 Princess Louise presented silver badges to Inspectors and superintendents of district nursing homes as a mark of office - including Miss Wing

Sources

Register of Trained Nurses 1892; RBNA Roll of Members 1909 and Register of Nurses (RBNA 4/1) - Royal British Nurses' Association Records, King's College London Archives 1851, 1871, 1891 and 1901 census British Journal of Nursing The Nursing Record and Hospital World Vol 13, 1894; Vol 23, July 1899;

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