Florence Nightigale interest: a bronze Royal British Nurses Association badge

Florence Nightigale interest: a bronze Royal British Nurses Association badge, Margaret M. Beveridge 3882; together with a copy of a religious publication with manuscript pencil dedication to Nurse Beveridge: "Margaret Beveridge New Zealand with Florence Nightingale's best wishes London July 20/97"; also Beveridge's R.N.B.A. Trained Nurse's Registration Certificate, her portrait photograph, and other items.

Margaret Beveridge was born on the 31st August 1862 in Kinross. Her family sold their estate and moved to New Zealand in December 1892, where Margaret entered Christchurch Hospital as a student nurse, qualifying in May 1896. She married Alexander Brooke Boyd at St Mary's Church, Christchurch, in July 1898.