Nina Catherine Muir

Nina Catherine Muir (20 October 1900 – 9 June 1981) was a New Zealand medical doctor.

Early life Nina Muir (née Howard) was born in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1900. Her father was Dr Ernest Henry Howard (d. 1954) who practised in Murchison and Taumarunui where he was superintendent of the hospital. Muir went to school at Auckland Girls' Grammar School where she was joint head girl and then to the University of Auckland to complete her medical intermediate exams. She became a senior house surgeon at Cook Hospital in Gisborne in 1928. At Cook Hospital and Te Puia Hospital she attended births and treated patients in remote areas. After her marriage she became the first general practitioner to practise in the maternity unit of Cook Hospital. In 1949–1950 she did a postgraduate diploma in obstetrics and gynaecology at the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin.

Personal life In 1929, she married Percy Rutherford Muir, a Gisborne journalist and printer, whose family owned the Poverty Bay Herald. They had two daughters.

Muir died in Gisborne in 1981.