Sutherland, Selina Murray Macdonald (1839-1909)

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Philanthropist, Nurse and Welfare worker
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Selina (also spelt Sulina) Sutherland was the first person in the State of Victoria to be licensed under the 1887 Neglected Children’s Act. The Act sanctioned private licensed individuals to remove children from unfit homes and take them under their own guardianship. The daughter of Baigrie and Janet (née MacDonald) Sutherland, Selina Sutherland was born in Scotland, spent some time in New Zealand before settling in Melbourne, Australia, in 1881. Initially she worked as a nurse and, along with Mrs Maria Armour, founded the Scots’ Church Neglected Children’s Aid Society in 1881. For the next 28 years Sutherland was involved with helping Melbourne’s poor. Following her death on 8 October 1909 a public appeal was held to erected a granite memorial for her grave.

  • 28 August 1864 Emigrated to New Zealand on the Eastern Empire
  • 1879 Principal founder of Masterton Hospital
  • 1879 - December 1880 Matron of Wellington Hospital
  • 1881 Settled in Melbourne, Victoria
  • March 1883 Established the Society in Aid of Maternity Hospital Patients
  • 17 February 1885 Founded the Melbourne District Nursing Society
  • May 1886 Appointed by the Presbytery of Melbourne the first Lady Missionary to the Presbyterian Churches in Victoria
  • 1888 The first person to be appointed in Victoria to receive children under the Neglected Children's Act, part 8
  • 1891 Wrote a paper on slum life in Melbourne for the second Australasian Conference on Charity
  • 1892 Interrupted a meeting of the Melbourne Ladies' Benevolent Society, with a group of poor people whose needs she felt the Society was failing to meet.
  • 1894 Established the Presbyterian Neglected Children's Aid Society
  • 1895 Established the Victorian Neglected Children's Aid Society
  • 1897 Visited the United Kingdom during the Queen Victoria's Diamond Jublee and presented to Queen Victoria

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  1. Selina M. Sutherland : her life story and work
    Jessop, J. C.
    [1967]
    Published: Sutherland Homes for Children
  2. Selina Sutherland: Child RescuerDouble time : women in Victoria - 150 years Lake, Marilyn and Kelly, Farley 109-116 : Selina Sutherland: Child Rescuer
    Swain, Shurlee
    [1985]
    Published: Penguin
  3. Selina's legacy: from VCAS to Oz Child
    Hilton, Della, 1931-
    [1993]
    Published: Oz Child-Children Australia
  4. The Victorian Charity Network in the 1890s
    Swain, Shurlee
    [1977]
    Published: University of Melbourne
  5. John's Notable Australians, 1906
    Johns, Fred
    [1905]
    Published: George Robertson & Company Proprietary Limited
  6. State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection: Victorian Children's Aid Society records (1893 - 1976)
    Includes by-laws, minutes, annual reports; financial records; case histories, court committals, fostering and adoption records of children under the care of the Society; correspondence relating to children under the control of the Society and the administration of the Society; some published records, press cuttings, photos of children under the care of the Society.
    MS 10051, Boxes 1-53.

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