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Friday the 6^th October 2023 marked the 112 year anniversary of the death of Sr Henrietta Stockdale in 1911. Henrietta was a British nursing pioneer and Anglican nun. She moved to South Africa in 1874 having had some training as a nurse at the Clewer Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital for children. She first went to Kimberley in 1876 where she worked as a District Nurse in the mining camps and then at Kimberley Hospital. It was later in Kimberley that she established Southern Africa’s first training school for nurses at the Carnarvon Hospital. Through Henrietta’s influence and pressure the first state registration of nurses and midwives in the world was brought about when the Cape of Good Hope Medical and Pharmacy Act of 1891 passed into law.