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MARFELL, Lilian Mary (1876-[1965])


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 LMA/4635

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: MARFELL, Lilian Mary (1876-[1965])

Date(s): 1901

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.01 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Marfell | Lilian Mary | 1876-[1965] | nurse

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Lilian Mary Marfell (1876-[1965]) was born in Guildford, Surrey, the daughter of a farmer. She began working as a probationer at the Westminster Hospital in 1901 having previously worked at a cottage hospital, and was promoted to staff nurse in 1903. She left the Hospital prior to 1914. She was also a member of the Royal Pension Fund for Nurses.

The Royal Pension Fund for Nurses was founded in 1887 as the National Pension Fund for Nurses by Henry C Burdett (1847-1920), and based at 8 King Street, Cheapside, London. The chief object of the Fund was to provide nurses with a retirement income or give allowances for nurses who found themselves unable to work through sickness or accident. Burdett used his connections to the Prince and Princess of Wales to secure their patronage for the Fund.

The Fund was based upon the contribution of members, the profits made from investments of these contributions, and a Donation Bonus Fund. The Fund attracted a number of benefactors, with the first donation of £20,000 received from Junius S. Morgan (head of merchant bank J S Morgan and Company, which in 1910 became Morgan, Grenfell and Company). The Fund's administrators solicited further donations and annual subscriptions from both from individual donors and organisations involved in the training and employment of nurses.

An allied organisation, the Morgan Benevolent Fund, was established as a memorial to Junius Morgan. The Morgan Benevolent Fund offered relief to members of the Royal Pension Fund for Nurses who were in distress or unable to keep up their pension contributions as well as annuities for Fund members over 60 who, through no fault of their own, were unable to provide for themselves after the age of 60.

In 1901 Marfell was one of the eighth and ninth thousandth nurses to join the fund and was therefore invited to a reception for the Fund's nurses held by the Fund's president, Queen Alexandra, at Marlborough House.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Certificate, souvenir programme and menu card from a reception held by Queen Alexandra for nurses from the Royal National Pension Fund for Nurses at Marlborough House.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

3 items.

Conditions governing access:

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information may be subject to access restrictions.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright is held by the depositor.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited in April 2013.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

The Evelina Hospital collection (H09/EV) includes a prospectus for the fund from 1888 (H09/EV/Y5/1) and leaflets outlining schemes of federation to enable hospitals and other institutions to enrol their staff in the Fund (H09/EV/Y/05/002 and H09/EV/Y/05/003). The St. Thomas' Hospital Nightingale Collection includes a letter from Henry C. Burdett to Henry Bonham Carter on the initial success of the Fund (H01/ST/NC/18/027/073).
Westminster Hospital's staff registers H02/WH/C/01/002 and H02/WH/C/02/003 include entries for Marfell.
This collection forms part of the Pensions Archive.

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Added May 2013.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Nursing | Medical sciences
Pensions | Social security | Social services

Personal names
Marfell | Lilian Mary | 1876-[1965] | nurse

Corporate names
Royal National Pension Fund for Nurses

Places