Edna Mary Anna Jane Shaw

Edna Mary Anna Jane Shaw OBE (7 June 1891 – 25 January 1974) was an Australian hospital matron (formerly deputy matron), nurse and midwife. She was called the "Mother of 100,000 babies".

Biography Shaw was born in Murrumburrah, New South Wales. Her parents were Mary Emillia (born Druitt) and her husband the Rev. Augustus Rutherford Shaw, an Anglican clergyman. They had both been born in Australia. She was their first child and they would have five more. She trained as a nurse at Marrickville Hospital in the suburbs of Sydney during the war years of 1914 to 1917. She qualified as a midwife in the following year at what became the Royal Hospital for Women. She volunteered for the military but the armistice was soon agreed.

Shaw retired as a matron in 1952 having been identified as "the mother of 100,000" babies. A public appeal raised a thousand pounds for her. She had been made an OBE in 1950 for her services to nursing.

She died in Waverley in 1974.