This marble tablet erected to the memory of Mary Owen can be seen inside the church of St Bartholomew the Less, at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. It remembers that she “FOR THIRTY NINE YEARS FAITHFULLY AND KINDLY DISCHARGED THE DUTIES OF A NURSE AND SISTER OF THE HOSPITAL” and that “SHE BEQUEATHED THE SUM OF L250 THE CHIED SAVINGS OF HER USEFUL LIFE TO THE SAMARITAN FUND ATTACHED TO THIS HOSPITAL”.
- Photo by @ (July 2011), courtesy of Barts and The London NHS Archives.
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