Mona Grey

Mona Elizabeth Clara Grey (24 September 1910 – 27 May 2009) was a British nurse who was named Northern Ireland's first Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) in 1960.

Biography Grey was born and raised in Rawalpindi, British India (now Pakistan), the daughter of missionaries. Her mother died when she was six and so Grey and her elder sister, Trixie, attended Oakgrove boarding school near the Himalayas. The pair then went to the Church of England Missionary School in Bombay, where her sister died of tuberculosis.

She prepared to be a teacher at St. Bede's College, Shimla, where she graduated with honours and remained in India to work at Lawerence College in Murree Hills. In the 1930s she moved to London, looking for a teaching post. In 1933, she took a job at Royal London, then known as London Hospital. Whilst at London Hospital she also qualified as a midwife.

Awards and honours RCN Northern Ireland Lifetime Achievement Award (2002) Officer of the Order of the British Empire (1952)

Legacies The Mona Grey Endowment Fund (Queen's University Belfast) The Mona Grey Prize (Manchester University) The Sarah Thewlis Good Citizen Award The Mona Grey Scholarship (London South Bank University)