Inspirational Black nurses : Annie ‘Nurse Ophthalmic’ Brewster
Annie Catherine Brewster was born in 1858 in the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent. She is one of the pioneer nurses of Afro-Carribean descent working in Britain in the late 1800s and who contributed to the British health service way before the Windrush generation and the birth of the NHS. Photo Credit : Queen Mary University London Annie Brewster moved to South London in the 1860s with her father, Pharour Chaderton Brewster, a wealthy merchant from Barbados and her younger