Sister Dora (born Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison, 16 January 1832, Hauxwell, Yorkshire - 24 December 1878) was a 19th-century Anglican nun and a nurse in Walsall, West Midlands.Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison was the eleventh of twelve children of Rev Mark James Pattison and his wife, Jane. One of her siblings was the scholar Mark Pattison. Her childhood was overshadowed by the illness of her father, who had suffered a mental breakdown and became violent and domineering. In 1856, she became secretly engaged to a man called James Tate, the son of the headmaster of Richmond school. The Tates were one of the few families with whom the Pattisons had social contact. At the same time she also developed feelings for another man, Purchas Strike. After her mother's death in 1860, she broke off her engagement with James. She thought she preferred Strike, but broke away from him as well. She was able to leave home with a £90 bequest from her mother. From 1861–64, she ran the village school at Little Woolstone, Buckinghamshire. Wikipedia
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