| AdminHistory | Marion Paterson first met Henrietta Barnett in 1876 and became her close personal assistant, nurse and companion from the 1890s onwards. Seth Koven suggests that the two women's friendship deepened after the death of Henrietta Barnett's husband Canon Samuel Barnett in 1913. He notes that Marion Paterson responded to letters of condolence which were received after Dame Barnett's death in 1936. |