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The Royal British Nurses Association (RBNA)was founded (as the British Nurses' Association) in December 1887, by Dr Bedford Fenwick, and his wife, Ethel Gordon Fenwick, former Matron of St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, with HRH Princess Christian, daughter of Queen Victoria, as its first President. There was considerable opposition to the Association, particularly from Florence Nightingale, who felt that it would destroy the 'vocational spirit' of nursing. The Association was renamed the RBNA in 1891 and received its Royal Charter in 1893. Dr and Mrs Fenwick took over the Nursing Record (started in 1888), in 1893 and renamed it the British Journal of Nursing in 1902. Mrs Fenwick and Isla Stewart (Matron of St Bartholomew's Hospital) founded the Matrons' Council of Great Britain and Ireland in 1894. The Society for the State Registration of Nurses was formed in 1902, with Ethel Fenwick as Secretary and Treasurer. The National Council of Trained Nurses of Great Britain and Ireland was established 1904, with Ethel Fenwick as President. Between 1906 and 1909 the RBNA drafted three Parliamentary bills on nurse registration. The Central Committee for the State Registration of Nurses was formed 1909 with Ethel Fenwick as joint honorary secretary. From 1910-1914 the Central Committee introduced annual Parliamentary bills on nurse registration. The College of Nursing (later Royal College of Nursing) was established 1916, and in 1917 there were inconclusive discussions on the possibility of a merger between the RBNA and the College. The Nurses' Registration Acts were passed in 1919. The General Nursing Council, chaired by Mrs Fenwick was established 1920. The British College of Nurses (BCN) was founded by Mrs Fenwick, 1926, with herself as President, and Dr Fenwick as Treasurer. In 1927 the College of Nursing applied for its Royal Charter, the application, opposed by the RBNA, was granted in 1928 and it was renamed the Royal College of Nursing in 1939. Bedford Fenwick died 1939 and Ethel Fenwick, 1947. The British College of Nurses closed in 1956.

Born in 1894; educated at Repton School and City and Guilds Engineering College, University of London; began apprenticeship with shipbuilders Hawthorne, Leslie and Company, 1912; joined Royal Engineers, 1915; transferred to Royal Flying Corps, 1915, and served in UK with 1 Reserve Aeroplane Sqn and with the BEF in France with 8 and 12 Sqns, 1915-1916; Capt, 1916; worked as experimental pilot for Aircraft Directorate, and later Designs Department of the Air Board, [1918-1921]; carried out first tests on man-dropping parachutes from an aeroplane, and designed the necessary casting-off gear; joined staff of Alfred Holt and Company, where he was involved in repairing and reconditioning company ships; rejoined Hawthorne, Leslie and Company, becoming a director in 1922, and serving as chairman, 1943-1965; died in 1981.

Born 1854; educated Balliol College, Oxford; a private income alleviated the need for Round to follow any definite profession, and he spent the majority of his time undertaking historical research and writing related articles, and corresponding with other historians, despite lifelong ill-health; Honorary Historical Adviser to the Crown in Peerage Cases, 1914-1922; President of the Essex Archaeological Society, 1916-1921; Vice-President of the English Place-Name Society; died 1928.

Publications: The history and antiquities of Colchester Castle (Benham and Co, Colchester, 1882); editor of Register of the scholars admitted to Colchester School, 1637-1740 (Colchester, 1897) from the transcript by the Reverend C L Acland; introduction to The Great Roll of the Pipe for the twenty-seventh year of the reign of King Henry the Second (London, 1909); editor of Calandar of documents preserved in France, illustrative of the history of Great Britain and Ireland (HMSO, London, 1899-); The manuscripts of His Grace the Duke of Rutland, Vol 4 (London, 1888-1905); The manuscripts of James Round Esq, M.P., of Birch Hall, Essex ; editor of Ancient charters, royal and private, prior to A.D. 1200. Part I (London, 1888); Danegeld and the finance of Domesday (1888); Feudal England: Historical studies on the Xith and XIIth centuries (Swan Sonnenschein and Co, London, 1895); Geoffrey de Mandeville: a study of the Anarchy (Longmans and Co, London, 1892); La bataille de Hastings (Paris, 1897); Notes on Domesday measures of land (1888); Notes on the systematic study of our English place-names (Harrison and Sons, London, [1900]); Peerage and pedigree: studies in peerage law and family history (James Nisbet and Co, London, 1910); St Helen's Chapel, Colchester (Private, London, 1887); Studies in peerage and family history (Constable, London, 1901); Studies on the Red Book of the Exchequer (Private, London, 1898); The chronology of Herny II's charters ; The Commune of London and other studies (Constable and Co, Westminster, 1899); The early life of Anne Boleyn (E. Stock and Co, London, 1886); The introduction of knight-service into England. With a note on the Oxford Council of 1197 (Private, London, 1891); The King's Sergeants and Officers of State, with their Coronation services (James Nisbet and Co and St Catherine's Press, London, 1911); contributor to the Encyclopedia Britannica , the Dictionary of National Biography , the Genealogist , the Ancestor , the Essex Archaeological Society's Transactions and the Sussex Archaeological Society's Collections .