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Florence Nightingale and Sir Harry Verney. On 24 June 1858, Parthenope married Harry Verney, 2nd Baronet, MP for Buckingham, a supporter of liberal causes and possessor of the family seat, Claydon House. Harry Verney had become involved with the Nightingale after his late wife's request for their daughter to meet Florence Nightingale.
Florence Nightingale (/ ˈ n aɪ t ɪ ŋ ɡ eɪ l /; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing.Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. [4]
She assisted in some of Nightingale's publications, and wrote on her behalf to Karl Pearson while he was writing his biography of Francis Galton. Rosalind Shore-Smith was the elder daughter of Florence Nightingale's cousin William Shore Smith (afterwards Shore Nightingale), whom Florence Nightingale "regarded almost as a brother".
His mother was Mary née Evans (1760–1853) who died at Tapton House, Sheffield. She was the niece of one Peter Nightingale, a lead mining entrepreneur, under the terms of whose will William Shore inherited the Lea Hall estate in Derbyshire, but also assumed the name and arms of Nightingale in 1815.
Mary Jane Seacole (née Grant; [1] [2] [3] 23 November 1805 – 14 May 1881) was a British nurse and businesswoman.. Seacole was born in Kingston to a Creole mother who ran a boarding house and had herbalist skills as a "doctress". [4]
One of Tooley's best-known works was her Life of Florence Nightingale (1904). English journalist and biographer Sarah Anne Tooley (née Southall; 1856–1946) was an English journalist and biographer particularly known for her celebrity interviews.
However Clarkey made exceptions including George Eliot, Lady Augusta Stanley, Elizabeth Gaskell [1] and Florence Nightingale in particular. She and Florence were to remain close friends for 40 years despite their 27-year age difference. Mohl demonstrated that women could be equals to men, an idea that Florence did not obtain from her mother. [6]
She became close friends with Florence Nightingale in 1846, and the Bracebridges travelled with her to Rome from 1847 to 1848, and around Europe, Greece, and Egypt between 1849 and 1850. [ 2 ] Florence Nightingale with Charles Holte Bracebridge and Selina Bracebridge in a Turkish street (1859)