Foundation
The Society was established in 1894 as the Society of Trained Masseuses by four nurses - Lucy Marianne Robinson, Rosalind Paget, Elizabeth Anne Manley and Margaret Dora Palmer - who wished to protect their profession after stories in the press warned young nurses and the public of unscrupulous people offering massage as a euphemism for other services.
In 1900 the Society acquires the legal and public status of a professional organisation and becomes the Incorporated Society of Trained Masseuses.
Under the new name of the Chartered Society of Massage and Medical Gymnastics the society was granted a Royal Charter by King George V on 11 June 1920. In the same year the Society amalgamated with the Institute of Massage and Remedial Gymnastics.
The society adopted its present name in 1944.
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