11th October 1886
Other than of a member of the Royal Family, Britain's first statue to honour a woman is erected in Walsall in the West Midlands. Its a statue in memory of Dorothy Pattison - known as Sister Dora.
Sister Dora (born Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison, 16 January 1832, at Hauxwell, Yorkshire; died 1878) was a 19th century nurse in Walsall, Staffordshire.
She was the second-youngest child of the Rev. Mark James Pattison, and sister of the scholar Mark Pattison Jnr. From 1861-1864, she ran the village school at Little Woolstone, Buckinghamshire. In the autumn of 1864, she joined the Sisterhood of the Good Samaritans at Coatham, Middlesbrough. She was known for her compassion.
She was the second-youngest child of the Rev. Mark James Pattison, and sister of the scholar Mark Pattison Jnr. From 1861-1864, she ran the village school at Little Woolstone, Buckinghamshire. In the autumn of 1864, she joined the Sisterhood of the Good Samaritans at Coatham, Middlesbrough. She was known for her compassion.
Ironically the hospital she worked in is run down and next to the site of the new Walsall Manor Hospital which is just under construction which I (the writer) am involved in.
