Catherine Mulgrave
Catherine Elisabeth Mulgrave also Gewe (19 November 1827 ─ 14 January 1891) was an Angolan-born Jamaican Moravian pioneer educator, administrator and missionary who accompanied a group of 24 Caribbean mission recruits from Jamaica and Antigua and arrived in the Danish Protectorate of Christiansborg, now Osu, Accra in Ghana in 1843. Mulgrave was a leading figure in pedagogy and the education programme for girls in both Jamaica and on the Gold Coast. She was the Basel Mission’s first female teacher active on the Gold Coast. Under the auspices of the society, she played a pioneering role in the Christian women ministry of the Protestant movement in colonial Ghana. Catherine Mulgrave was also one of the first African woman teachers in the missionary educationalist system in Africa.
Edith MacGregor Rome
Edith Sheriff MacGregor was born in Scotland in 1870. She was trained at Westminster Hospital and later served as Assistant Matron of the Warneford Hospital, Leamington and as Matron of the Paddington Green Children's Hospital. During World War 1 she led a nursing unit of the British Red Cross Society into Romania in 1916 and then onwards in 1918 to Russia and Serbia with Lady Muriel Paget's unit. She was later the first Secretary of the Student Nurses' Association until leaving to get married in 1930. She was Matron-in-Chief of the British Red Cross Society before going on to serve two terms as President of the RCN.