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Evelyn Stokes was Principal of Deaconess House from 1946-1951.

Emily Norbury came out from England in 1937 and was ordained Deaconess in 1939. She held the offices of Principal of Deaconess House from 1938, and of Head Deaconess from 1939 until her death in 1944.

Sophie Newton was born in 1867 and became a Deaconess in 1892. She worked in Foochow (Fuzhou) and surrounding regions in China as a missionary with the Church Missionary Society, experiencing the Boxer and Nationalist Rebellions. She trained Bible women and opposed the practices of foot binding and female infanticide. She also coordinated fundraising for various projects including the Hospital for the Jews in Jerusalem, translation and distribution of Hebrew scriptures and the sponsorship of a pupil in a school in Jerusalem. She is buried at St Thomas' Church, Enfield.

The first Home of Peace, 'Eversleigh' in Petersham, was opened by the Governor of NSW Sir Harry Rawson in 1907. The former Red Cross Convalescent Hostel in Neringah Ave Wahroonga was purchased and opened as the second Home of Peace in 1955. Greenwich Hospital was opened in 1966 and managed the Pallister Girls' Home (with care of boys as well) from 1977. In 1982 this work was transferred to Lower North Shore Area Adolescent Service. Braeside Anglican Hospital was added in 1986.

The Deaconess Institution began training Deaconesses at 'Bethany' in Balmain in 1891. Deaconess House, in Carillon Ave, had been the training institution for Deaconesses in Sydney since 1916. It became Mary Andrews College in 1997 and is currently located in St Andrew's House.