Edith Pye

Edith Mary Pye was an English midwife and International Relief Organizer. She worked as a nurse and midwife in maternity hospitals for women refugees and was the president of the British Midwives Institute for 20 years. Along with being a member of Friends Germany Emergency Committee, Red Cross, and the International Commission for the Assistance of Child Refugees in 1907, she became Superintendent of District Nurses in London. Following her lengthy career in international relief efforts and as a midwife, she died at her home in Somerset in 1965.