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Eileen Marjorie Fosbery Chambers

1906 – 1989

Nurse, hospital matron, nursing tutor and administrator

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Lived 1906 – 1989 (aged 82). Eileen Marjorie Fosbery Chambers was a New Zealand nurse.

Eileen Marjorie Fosbery Chambers (29 May 1906 – 6 April 1989) was a New Zealand nurse, hospital matron, nursing tutor and administrator. She was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on 29 May 1906.

Early life Chambers was born in Sydney on 29 May 1906 to Fosbery Maunsell Nancarrow, a shipping clerk, and Violet Marjorie Campbell. The family moved to Christchurch around 1910 and Chambers attended the private girls' school St Margaret's College. Her father would not allow her to go to university so instead she became a governess. In 1927, Chambers married a sheepfarmer, Bernard Chambers; however the marriage didn't last and the couple was divorced in 1938.

In 1988, Chambers published her autobiography, My Life in Nursing. She died in Christchurch the following year, aged 83.

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Officer of the Order of the British Empire

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Nurse, hospital matron, nursing tutor and administrator (1906–1989)

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Eileen Marjorie Fosbery Chambers was born on 29 May 1906 in Sydney.

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Eileen Marjorie Fosbery Chambers died on 6 April 1989 in Christchurch.

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Eileen Marjorie Fosbery Chambers was a nurse.

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Eileen Marjorie Fosbery Chambers was New Zealand.

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· Wikipedia: Eileen Marjorie Fosbery Chambers

· Wikidata: Q5349406

· DBpedia: Marjorie Chambers

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