Papers of Mary Baxter (nee Evans)

Personal papers of nurse, midwife and health visitor Mary Baxter (nee Evans.)

This collection also contains the badges and objects of Mary Baxter (nee) Evans, stored under C915/B and C915/U respectively.

Mary Baxter (nee Evans) was born in Greater Manchester on 19 Mar 1915. She gained her first qualification as a nurse in c.1940 in Greater Manchester. She registered as a nurse in Tasmania, Australia in 1941 and saw war time service in India and Egypt before returning to Manchester to train as a midwife at St. Mary’s Hospital, Newton Heath in 1946. In 1950, Evans travelled to Australia again to work as a nurse and she returned to Manchester in 1951 where she subsequently trained as health visitor. She retired from nursing and health visitor practice in 1969 due to ill health. Mary Baxter passed away in 1999.

This collection is available for research. Readers are advised to contact the RCN Archives in advance of their first visit.

Royal College of Nursing