Agnes Curran

Agnes Curran MBE (12 February 1920 – 29 September 2005) was a British prison governor. She was the first female prison governor of a UK prison for men

Life Curran was born, Agnes Brennan, in Gourock in 1920. She was the eldest of nine children.

She became a mental health nurse and rose to be deputy matron of Ravenscraig Hospital.

In 1979 she became the governor of Dungavel prison. She was the first female prison governor of a prison for men in Britain. Curran was surprised to be appointed and she had to deal with the attitudes taken by male staff and prisoners to a woman governor. She realised that the staff only ran the prison because the prisoners allowed it. She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1984.