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Emily Blair

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Life and career
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| name = Dame Emily Mathieson Blair
DBE RRC FNM
| image =
| caption =
| birthname = Emily Mathieson Blair
| birth_date = 12 January 1890^[1]
| birth_place = Boghead, Lenzie, Kirkintilloch, Scotland
| death_date = {{death date and age|1963|12|25|1890|df=y}}
| death_place = London, England
| known_for = Matron-in-Chief at the British Red Cross Society
| awards = Florence Nightingale Medal
| occupation = Military nurse
| nationality = Scottish
}}Dame Emily Mathieson Blair DBE RRC FNM (12 January 1890 – 25 December 1963) was a Scottish nurse and Matron-in-Chief, serving in both Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service and the British Red Cross Society.

Life and career

Born 12 January circa 1890 at Boghead, Lenzie, Kirkintilloch, daughter of Mary Ann (née Croll) and Hugh Blair, a business man and muslin manufacturer. From 1912 to 1916 she trained as a nurse at Western Infirmary, Glasgow.^[2]

During the World War I Blair served with the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service. When the Royal Air Force was formed in 1918 she moved to the Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service becoming Matron-in-Chief in 1938. During the World War II she was mentioned-in-dispatches.

In 1943, she became Matron-in-Chief of the British Red Cross Society and was responsible supplying trained nurses for service in hospitals and convalescent homes. On 2 June 1943 she was made a Dame of the British Empire (military division). In 1947 she was awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal by the International Committee of the Red Cross.^[2] Blair retired in 1953 and remained a member of the Council of the British Red Cross until her death.

She died of lung cancer on 25 December 1963 in a London nursing home.

References

1. ^{{cite web |title= 1890 BLAIR, EMILY MATHIESON (Statutory registers Births 498/ 25) |url=https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/view-image/nrs_stat_births/43193730 |website=Scotland's People |publisher=National Records of Scotland and the Court of the Lord Lyon |subscription=yes}}
2. ^¹{{cite journal|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-51954|title=Blair, Dame Emily Mathieson (1890–1963), nurse and nursing administrator - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001|doi-broken-date=2019-03-15}}

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