Constance Watney
Constance Watney, MBE, COC, SRN, MBCN (1878 – 23 November 1947), was a British born missionary nurse in Uganda. Early years. Constance Watney was born in 1878 in Beddington, Surrey. A member of the Watney family, she was the fourth daughter of Norman Watney of Westerham, Kent, son of the brewer James Watney. Early in life Constance dedicated herself to missionary work, and for this purpose trained as a nurse at St Bartholomew's Hospital. In 1906 she went as a student of midwifery to Clapham Maternity Hospital, 41-43 Jeffreys Road, Clapham, London, a pioneering hospital training women  for work both at home and abroad, and took her CMB Examination. Missionary work in Uganda. In 1908 Constance was accepted by the Church Missionary Society (C.M.S.) and sent out to Kampala, Uganda, where she worked in the Mengo Hospital, under Dr Sir Albert Ruskin Cook. Albert Cook was a contemporary at Trinity College, Cambridge of her brother, Arthur Norman Watney, so they may have met through him. In 1917 Mengo hospital, in addition to its missionary work, served as a base hospital for the fighting in East Africa, and for her share of the very heavy work, "Sister Connie