High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sister Dora (born Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison, 16.01.1832,Hauxwell,Yorkshire - 24.12.1878, Walsall) was a 19th century Church of England nun and a nurse in Walsall, West Midlands.She was the second-youngest child of the Rev. Mark James Pattison, and sister of the scholar Mark Pattison Jnr. From 1861 1864, she ran the village school at Little Woolstone, Buckinghamshire. In the autumn of 1864, she joined the Sisterhood of the Good Samaritans at Coatham, Middlesbrough and devoted her life to nursing. She was sent to work at Walsall's hospital in Bridge Street and arrived in Walsall on 8 January 1865. The rest of her life was spent in Walsall and it was there that in local eyes she became to be compared with Florence Nightingale.