QUAILE, (Ida) Barbara Helen, n. Renton, OBE, born Edinburgh 28 March 1906, died Glasgow 15 Feb. 1999. Hospital matron. Daughter of Ida Sandeman, and David Renton, solicitor.

Educated at St Trinneans School, Barbara Renton trained as a nurse at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE). She joined the College of Nursing in 1932, obtained her Diplomas in nursing (London 1936) and midwife teaching (1939) and registered as a Sister Tutor in 1946. As Miss Renton, she was the youngest Scottish matron when appointed to the 2,000-bed Emergency Hospital at Bangour in 1940. After the war, she became Matron of the Victoria Infirmary in Glasgow (1946—55) then Lady Superintendent of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. She retired to marry Kenneth Quaile, a Glasgow stockbroker, in 1959. Later voluntary work included membership of the Western Region Hospital Board, Chair of the governors of Queen's College Glasgow, and divisional president of the Bearsden Red Cross. Barbara Renton's career (she was awarded OBE in 1958) illustrates commitment to public service and continuing professional education. BEM

• Quaile, B. H. (n.d.) The Story of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Nurse Training School 1872—1972. The Scotsman, 5 March 1999 (obit.).

QUIBELL, Annie Abernethie,‡ n. Pirie, born Aberdeen 15 Dec. 1861, died Cambridge 26 Dec. 1927. Artist and Egyptologist. Daughter of Margaret Chalmers Forbes, and William Robinson Pirie, Professor of Divinity, Principal of Aberdeen University.

Annie Pirie trained as an artist. She moved to London to further her fascination with Ancient Egypt and studied under Flinders Petrie at University College London. Together with Rosalind Piaget, she worked as a copyist for Petrie at Saqqara in 1895, making drawings and sketches of the reliefs and sites. She married Petrie's assistant, James Edward Quibell (1867-1935), with whom she had worked at Thebes, on 6 September 1900. They moved to Egypt when he became an inspector of antiquities there and worked with others to document and protect antiquities as well as the sites they excavated. In 1904 they contributed to the Egyptian exhibition for the World's Fair in St Louis. Annie Quibell was credited with most of the work on the installation of the display, which included three life-size recreated scenes of Ancient Egyptian life. When Edward Quibell became Keeper of the Cairo Museum in late 1913, she had less archaeological work to undertake and published a series of volumes aimed at the general public.