Katharine Cook

Lady
Katharine Cook
Old damaged and faded monochrome photograph of a woman wearing a pith helmet, long-sleeved and -skirted dress and apron. She is sitting beside a bed, over which hangs a religious picture and behind which is a wall made of reeds.
Miss Timpson seated to the left of a patient convalescing, Mengo Hospital, Uganda.
Born
Katharine Timpson

1863
Died17 May 1938(1938-05-17) (aged 74–75)
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Missionary, nurse and educator
Medical career
InstitutionsMengo Hospital
AwardsOrder of the British Empire
Belgian Red Cross
Queen Elisabeth Medal

Katharine, Lady Cook CMG OBE (née Timpson; 1863 – 17 May 1938) was a British medical missionary who worked in Uganda. She co-founded the Church Missionary Society Hospital at Mengo, which opened in May 1897, and served as its matron until 1911. In 1918, she began training midwives via the Maternity Training School in Namirembe, which she founded. She later became consulting physician to the Government European Hospital in Kampala.