Edinburgh Doctor's Bride

Category

Library Item

Item no

32454

Title

Edinburgh Doctor's Bride

Description

The picture is captioned "Dr Edwin M.Robertson, Edinburgh, and Miss M.M. Elder, daughter of the Rev.H.Elder, Moffat, after their wedding in St. Andrew's Church, Edinburgh.

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1930

Size

8x6.7cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Dr Robertson was an assistant physician at the Edinburgh Royal Maternity and Simpson Memorial Hospital. He emigrated to Canada in 1940.

This image comes from a photograph album donated to Edinburgh Libraries covering the nursing career of Miss Mary Morag Bird Cunningham. Mary was born in 1888 and at the age of 22 began training at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary (RIE) as a nurse. Once qualified in 1915 she moved to the Edinburgh Royal Maternity Hospital (ERMH) and obviously found her calling in the care of children. In 1917 she became one of Edinburgh's first health visitors as part of the introduction of Edinburgh's Child Welfare Scheme. The album contains early photographs of the RIE and ERMH as well as images of child health care clinics that she worked in during the 1930s at Portobello and Prestonfield.

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Clothing and dress > Garments > Wedding dresses

Events > Ceremonies > Weddings

People > Health and safety > Doctors

Places > Edinburgh areas > New Town

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh