Margaret Currie Neilson Lamb

Margaret Currie Neilson Lamb FRCN (1907–1991) was the first nurse to chair the General Nursing Council in Scotland.

Career Lamb was born in Kincardine-on-Forth in Fife in 1907, her father was in the army and died when she was a child. Her mother later moved the family to Dundee where she remarried and Lamb spent her childhood, attending the Harris Academy until she was 15. She had wanted to become a teacher but could not afford to, so worked towards becoming a sister tutor instead. She worked as a staff nurse in the Dundee Royal Infirmary before training as a midwife,

She then became a night sister in the Randolph Wemyss Memorial Hospital Buckhaven, Fife, which at that time was local colliery hospital. Initially she was not qualified as a Nurse Tutor, but gained a Diploma in Nursing from University of London via a correspondence course, and subsequently became Principal of the Southern's nursing course. and was living in Edinburgh.

In 1952 Lamb took a study break from the RCN where she had become Secretary to the RCN Scottish Board. as Scotland's first Rockefeller fellow. and 1965. Lamb retired from the RCN in 1966.

Lamb died in the Royal Victoria Hospital, Edinburgh, on 1 July 1991.