Agnes Mary Lions

Agnes Mary Lions MBE known as Molly Lions (22 April 1908 – 22 December 1992) was an Australian industrial nurse and unionist. She was a founding member of the New South Wales College of Nursing.

Life Lions was born in 1908 in Subiaco, Western Australia. Her parents were Mary (born McDonald), who was a Scot, and John Maximilian Lion, who was an engineer born in Sweden. She had two elder brothers. Her brother Francis became a chemist In about 1910 the family moved to Sydney and she attended Petersham Girls’ Intermediate High School. In 1931 she qualified as a nurse after training at Sydney's Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. In 1947 she became a senior industrial nurse at the Eveleigh Railway Workshops in Sydney. She was a founding member of the New South Wales College of Nursing (now part of Australian College of Nursing. The others were Georgina McCready MBE, Muriel Knox Doherty RRC and Margaret Frances Looker. The four of them met a week after a meeting of nurses on 5 January 1949 in Sydney which resolved to create a College of Nursing. Between 1949 and 1952 she created the syllabus and contents for NSWCN's qualification for industrial nurses and in 1950 she gained the qualification herself.