About Muriel Skeet
Lived 1926 – 2006 (aged 80). Muriel Skeet was a lecturer and nurse.
Muriel Hilda Skeet FRCN (12 July 1926 – 22 November 2006) was a British nurse, known for her international work and publications.
Early life Muriel Hilda Skeet was born in Colchester on 12 July 1926. Following a private education in Colchester, she then joined Endsleigh House School.
Nursing career Skeet trained as a nurse at London's Middlesex Hospital in March 1945, where she qualified and registered with the General Nursing Council in 1948. She worked there as a staff nurse, ward sister and administrative sister until 1960.
Skeet then spent a year in the South of France and Rome carrying out private nursing including for the Agnelli family. now Nuffield Trust. During this time, she undertook a one-year course in medical statistics and epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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Who was Muriel Skeet?
British nurse, lecturer and WHO official
When was Muriel Skeet born?
Muriel Skeet was born on 12 July 1926 in Colchester.
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Muriel Skeet died on 22 November 2006.
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Muriel Skeet was a lecturer and nurse.
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