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Matron. Nicholina Theodora "Dora" Hutchinson
Territorial Nursing Service
Lady Superintendant of Drumcondra Hospital in 1912, Dora Hutchinson was appointed in April 1915 as Matron of the Portobello Hospital.
Born in 1877 in Cavan, she was the daughter of the Reverend William Henry Hutchinson and his wife Nicholina Deverell. She died, unmarried, in 1955 at the Mercers Hospital, Dublin. Her aunt Letitia Deverell was married to the hospital chaplain at Drumcondra, the Rev. Henry Taylor.
The photograph is from a family archive now belonging to Kings Inns Dublin it is part of a collection of items preserved by Ireland's first practicing woman barrister Averil Katherine Statter Deverell, who was Nicholina's 2nd cousin.
