- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE0577
Sutherland, Selina Murray Macdonald
(1839 – 1909)- Born 26 December, 1839, Parish of Kildonnel Sutherland Scotland
- Died 8 October, 1909, Melbourne Victoria Australia
- Occupation Nurse, Philanthropist, Welfare worker
Summary
Selina (also spelt Sulina) Sutherland was the first person in the State of Victoria to be licensed under the 1887 Neglected Children’s Act. The Act sanctioned private licensed individuals to remove children from unfit homes and take them under their own guardianship. The daughter of Baigrie and Janet (née MacDonald) Sutherland, Selina Sutherland was born in Scotland, spent some time in New Zealand before settling in Melbourne, Australia, in 1881. Initially she worked as a nurse and, along with Mrs Maria Armour, founded the Scots’ Church Neglected Children’s Aid Society in 1881. For the next 28 years Sutherland was involved with helping Melbourne’s poor. Following her death on 8 October 1909 a public appeal was held to erected a granite memorial for her grave.
Events
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1970 - 1970
Wrote a paper on slum life in Melbourne for the second Australasian Conference on Charity
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1970 - 1970
Visited the United Kingdom during the Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jublee and presented to Queen Victoria
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2010 - 2010
Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women
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1970 - 1970
Emigrated to New Zealand on the Eastern Empire
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1970 - 1970
Principal founder of Masterton Hospital
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1970 - 1970
Matron of Wellington Hospital
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1970 - 1970
Interrupted a meeting of the Melbourne Ladies’ Benevolent Society, with a group of poor people whose needs she felt the Society was failing to meet.
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1970 - 1970
The first person to be appointed in Victoria to receive children under the Neglected Children’s Act, part 8
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1970 - 1970
Established the Presbyterian Neglected Children’s Aid Society
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1970 - 1970
Established the Victorian Neglected Children’s Aid Society
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1970 - 1970
Settled in Melbourne, Victoria
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1970 - 1970
Established the Society in Aid of Maternity Hospital Patients
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1970 - 1970
Founded the Melbourne District Nursing Society
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1970 - 1970
Appointed by the Presbytery of Melbourne the first Lady Missionary to the Presbyterian Churches in Victoria
Published resources
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Resource
- Trove: Sutherland, Selina Murray Macdonald (1839-1909), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-762096
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Site Exhibition
- The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders