Windback Wednesday - Lucy Grace Lillywhite

Lucy Grace Lillywhite of ‘Perroomba’ Wattle Park was the third Australian woman, and second South Australian, to receive the prestigious Florence Nightingale Scholarship. This scholarship is designed for nurses and midwives and funds scholars’ training, research and professional development. In 1938, Lucy headed for London to undertake study in postgraduate nursing and hospital administration at Bedford College. Lucy’s plans to return to Adelaide in 1939 were abandoned when she was diagnosed with tuberculosis on a visit to Norway. As her health deteriorated in hospital, she observed the outbreak of World War II before passing away in 1942.

Learn more about Lucy’s story in the ‘Local History Corner’ at www.burnside.sa.gov.au/Latest-News/History-Corner/Lucy-Grace-Lillywhite

Photograph: Lucy in nurse’s uniform, circa 1938.