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Gloria Hanley (June 1948 - ) - was the first and only Black female on the Leeds Primary Care Group and a champion for the health of the Black community. She had a seat as a magistrate on the Leeds Bench and was Chair of the Mary Seacole Nurses Association.

Biography
Hanley was born in St Kitts and travelled to the UK in 1968, training as a nurse before coming to Leeds in the early 1980s to pursue a career as a midwife.

Career
Hanley's midwifery career began when she was 18; upon coming to England she settled in London to train as Nurse in the NHS. Moving to Leeds in the 1980s Hanley subsequently spent the next 30 years as a Community Midwife in Harehills, Leeds at St James' University Hospital. Hanley was continuously held in high regard within the communities she worked with in her time in Leeds despite facing racism and prejudice particularly in the early stages of her nursing career.

Publications
Everybody's Midwife: My Community Experience (BookTrail Publishing, 2022)

Legacy
Hanley featured in Leeds Museums' exhibition, entitled 'A City and its Welcome: Three Centuries of Migrating to Leeds'. Her midwifery bag, ID badge and the hat she once wore were displayed.

Hanley was included in the 2019 exhibition at Leeds Central Library entitled 'Eulogy' that celebrated the lives and journeys of first generation Jamaicans who settled in Leeds during the 1940s to 60s.

She was introduced to King Charles III during his Royal visit to Leeds in 2022.