FENWICK, ETHEL GORDON (Mrs. Bedford Fenwick) (1857— ), English nurse and journalist, was born at Spynie House, Morayshire, on Jan. 26, 1857. In 1881 she was appointed matron of St. Bartholomew's hospital, London. She married a gynaecologist, Dr. Bedford Fenwick, and devoted herself to the work of organizing and raising the status of the nursing profession by State registration. An act of Parliament for this purpose was passed in 1919. Mrs. Fenwick became, in 1893, honorary editor of The British Journal of Nursing, and was a prominent member of the Society of Women Journalists. She founded the Royal British Nurses' Association in 1887, the International Council of Nurses in 1899, and was president of the National Council of Nurses of Great Britain, a constituent part of the International Council. Mrs. Fenwick was also president of the British College of Nurses.