Zerephina Veitch

PLAQUES marking the lives of pioneering midwives are to be unveiled by the Seven Dials Trust.

The Seven Dials Trust’s People’s Plaques scheme is paying tribute to Zerephina Veitch and Dame Rosalind Paget at an event on July 26. Both trained at the Lying-In Hospital, a maternity hospital that was open until 1913, and now houses the private members’ Hospital Club. The plaque will be unveiled by Kathryn Gutteridge,

president of the Royal College of Midwives. She said: “This is a wonderful accolade for two pioneering and trailblazing midwives and in this year of celebrating women’s suffrage it is right that they receive this recognition.”

Seven Dials Trust chairman David Bieda added: “The Seven Dials Trust is delighted to celebrate the lives and work of these two pioneers of midwifery and to make public their part in the rich history of the medical profession.”