"Florence Nightingale David Florence Nightingale David, also known as F. N. David (23 August 1909 – 23 July 1993) was an English statistician, born in Ivington, Herefordshire, England. She was head of the Statistics Department at the University of California, Riverside in 1970. David was named after Florence Nightingale, who was a friend of her parents. David was tutored privately by a local parson, beginning at age five. By that age she already knew some arithmetic, so she began with algebra. Since David already knew English, the parson taught her Latin and Greek. At the age of ten, she entered"
"Anna Maxwell Anna Caroline Maxwell (March 14, 1851January 2, 1929), was a nurse who came to be known as ""the American Florence Nightingale"". Her pioneering activities were crucial to the growth of professional nursing in the United States. Maxwell was born in Bristol, New York on March 14, 1851. Her father was a Scottish emigrant, clergyman John Eglinton Maxwell, and her mother was an American-born woman of English descent, Diantha Caroline Maxwell. The family moved to Canada for some of Maxwell's childhood, returning in 1874. That year, she began nursing without formal training, as an assistant matron at New England"
"against Florence's idea of nursing at first. She died in May 1890 aged 71 at Claydon House, the family seat. Frances Parthenope Verney Frances Parthenope Verney ( Nightingale; Naples, 19 April 1819 – Claydon House, Buckinghamshire 12 May 1890) was an English writer and journalist. Parthenope was born in Naples, Italy and was named after its Greek predecessor, ""Parthenope"". She was the oldest daughter and child of William Nightingale and his wife, Frances Smith. After her parent's three-year tour in Italy, Parthenope and her sister Florence moved to Embley Park, their father's estate in Hampshire, England. During their childhood, they"
"Henrietta Rae Henrietta Emma Ratcliffe Rae (30 December 1859 – 26 January 1928) was a prominent English painter of the late Victorian era, who specialised in classical, allegorical and literary subjects. Her best-known painting is ""The Lady with the Lamp"" (1891); depicting Florence Nightingale at Scutari. Henrietta Rae was born on 30 December 1859 in Hammersmith, London, to Thomas Burbey Rae, a civil servant, and Ann Eliza Rae (), a musician who had been a student of Felix Mendelssohn. She had three brothers and three sisters. Rae began formally studying art at the age of thirteen, being educated at the"
"the legend of the lady with the lamp was born. Reform and Inspire shows the other side of Nightingale, the reformer who campaigned tirelessly for health reform at home and abroad. Highlights from the Collection include the writing slate Nightingale used as a child, her pet owl Athena (which she rescued in Athens and hand reared, and which became her constant companion, travelling everywhere in her pocket), and Nightingale's medicine chest, which she took with her to the Crimean. It contains a mix of medicines and herbal remedies, from bicarbonate of soda to powdered rhubarb. The museum displays a rare"
"Lucy Osburn Lucy Osburn (1 April 1836 – 22 December 1891) was an English nurse trained at the School of Nursing founded by Florence Nightingale (now part of King's College London). She is regarded as the founder of modern nursing in Australia. Osburn was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, England. Her father William Osburn was a wine and spirits merchant but his passion was for Egyptology, writing books and social reform. When Lucy was around five years old, her father became bankrupt and reputedly moved to Manchester. She remained in Leeds where she lived with her aunt. When she was 21"
"awards and honours: Myra Bennett Myra M. Bennett, CM, MBE (April 1, 1890 – April 26, 1990) born London, England, died Daniel's Harbour, Newfoundland, Canada. Dubbed ""The Florence Nightingale of Newfoundland"" by the Evening Telegram, is a tribute to her tremendous contribution to the people of the Great Northern Peninsula and known simply as ""The Nurse"". Bennett (née Grimsley) worked as a tailor in London before training as a nurse at Woolwich during the first World War. She later studied midwifery at Clapham School of Midwifery. She came to Newfoundland as a district nurse under the outport nursing scheme. Her"
"Osburn died there from complications of diabetes. Lucy Osburn Lucy Osburn (1 April 1836 – 22 December 1891) was an English nurse trained at the School of Nursing founded by Florence Nightingale (now part of King's College London). She is regarded as the founder of modern nursing in Australia. Osburn was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, England. Her father William Osburn was a wine and spirits merchant but his passion was for Egyptology, writing books and social reform. When Lucy was around five years old, her father became bankrupt and reputedly moved to Manchester. She remained in Leeds where she lived"
"Myra Bennett Myra M. Bennett, CM, MBE (April 1, 1890 – April 26, 1990) born London, England, died Daniel's Harbour, Newfoundland, Canada. Dubbed ""The Florence Nightingale of Newfoundland"" by the Evening Telegram, is a tribute to her tremendous contribution to the people of the Great Northern Peninsula and known simply as ""The Nurse"". Bennett (née Grimsley) worked as a tailor in London before training as a nurse at Woolwich during the first World War. She later studied midwifery at Clapham School of Midwifery. She came to Newfoundland as a district nurse under the outport nursing scheme. Her plan was to"
"objective of tracing a story of redemption through expiatory suffering and kenosis, a subject much explored by writers, in several European languages, connected with the literary renouveau catholique movement. The ""Dop Doctor"" was followed, two years later, by ""Between Two Thieves"". This novel has as a leading character Florence Nightingale under the name of Ada Merling. The story was at first to have been called ""The Lady with the Lamp""; but the author delayed it for a year and subjected it to a complete rewriting, the result of a new and enlarged conception of the story. She died at the"
"was born in Florence, Italy. Contrary to popular belief, Florence Nightingale was not the first person to be given this name. The wife of Richard de Wylughby, of London, was Florence, in 1349 A later example was Florence Wrey (d.1718), wife of John Cole of the Irish County of Fermanagh (married in 1707), who was herself named after her mother, Florence Rolle, the wife of Sir Bourchier Wrey, 4th Baronet (c. 1653-1696) of Tawstock, Devon, and the daughter of Sir John Rolle (d.1706) of Stevenstone, by his wife and distant cousin Florence Rolle (1630-1705), an even earlier Florence, the daughter"
"Frances Parthenope Verney Frances Parthenope Verney ( Nightingale; Naples, 19 April 1819 – Claydon House, Buckinghamshire 12 May 1890) was an English writer and journalist. Parthenope was born in Naples, Italy and was named after its Greek predecessor, ""Parthenope"". She was the oldest daughter and child of William Nightingale and his wife, Frances Smith. After her parent's three-year tour in Italy, Parthenope and her sister Florence moved to Embley Park, their father's estate in Hampshire, England. During their childhood, they received numerous visits from cousins and distinguished guests. Parthenope and her sister were educated at home by a governess, although"
"and ""the quintessential nurse of the twentieth century"". In a 1996 article in the ""Journal of Advanced Nursing"" Edward Halloran wrote, ""Virginia Henderson's written works will be viewed as the 20th century equivalent of those of the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale."" Henderson was born on November 30, 1897 in Kansas City, Missouri to Daniel B. Henderson, a lawyer who worked with Native Americans, and Lucy Minor (Abbot) Henderson. She was the fifth of their eight children. She grew up in Virginia where she received her early education at her grandfather's community boys' school. Henderson's early education was at"
"school in Maxwell's name. Maxwell was one of the first women buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Columbia University awarded her an honorary Master of Arts degree. Due to her military service, establishing the Army Nurse Corps, she was one of the first women buried in Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors. Anna Maxwell Anna Caroline Maxwell (March 14, 1851January 2, 1929), was a nurse who came to be known as ""the American Florence Nightingale"". Her pioneering activities were crucial to the growth of professional nursing in the United States. Maxwell was born in Bristol, New York on March 14,"
"the night and silence and darkness have settled down upon those miles of prostrate sick, she may be observed alone, with a little lamp in her hand, making her solitary rounds. The phrase was further popularised by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1857 poem ""Santa Filomena"": Lo! in that house of misery A lady with a lamp I see Pass through the glimmering gloom, And flit from room to room. In the Crimea on 29 November 1855, the Nightingale Fund was established for the training of nurses during a public meeting to recognise Nightingale for her work in the war. There was"
"a woman's brooch (less than 10 cm diameter). A common graphic is an old pattern oil lamp. These lamps or candles were the only lighting available before kerosene became available early in the twentieth century. There are a selection of lamps in the Florence Nightingale museum, thought to have been used in the Scutari hospital in the area known geographically as the Balkans (then British Moldavia, now southern Ukraine), during the war with Russia. American Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote a poem ""Saint Philomena"" dedicated to the work of Florence in 1857. In this verses, Longfellow characterised Florence as ""The"
"two plaques including one that includes a quote from Florence Nightingale. Nightingale wrote to her and described her as ""Saint of the laundry, cooking and health"". Fanny Calder Fanny Louise Calder (26 March 1838 – 6 June 1923) was a promoter of education in domestic subjects in Liverpool. The college that she created would in time become part of Liverpool John Moores University Calder was born in Liverpool in 1838 to James and Jane Calder. Her father bought and sold cotton and he had lived in America for some years. She was the youngest of eleven and she was a"
"Florence Sarah Lees Florence Sarah Lees (31 March 1840 – 19 October 1922) was one of the English pioneers of district nursing. Florence Lees was born on 31 March 1840 in Blandford, Dorset. She used to visit the sick with her mother and in 1866 she became an observer in Florence Nightingale's school at St Thomas' Hospital (now part of King's College London) in London. When the Franco-Prussian War broke out in 1870 she volunteered for military nursing. She was put in charge of the hospital at Marange and then Homburg by the Crown Princess of Prussia, Queen Victoria's eldest"
"from the war. A school of nursing dedicated to her was formed in 1859 in England. The school was recognised for its professional value and technical calibre, receiving prizes throughout the British government. The school of nursing was established in Saint Thomas Hospital, as a one-year course, and was given to doctors. It used theoretical and practical lessons, as opposed to purely academic lessons. Nightingale's work, and the school, paved the way for intensive care medicine. Walter Edward Dandy was born in Sedalia, Missouri. He received his BA in 1907 through the University of Missouri and his M.D. in 1910"
"is regarded as the founder of the modern nursing profession. There was no real hospital training school for nurses until one was established in Kaiserwerth, Germany, in 1846. There, Nightingale received the training that later enabled her to establish, at St Thomas' Hospital in London, the first school designed primarily to train nurses rather than to provide nursing service for the hospital. In the Crimean War against Russia, Nightingale was appointed to oversee the introduction of female nurses into the military hospitals in Turkey, after criticisms in the British press. In November 1854, Nightingale arrived at the barrack hospital near"
"Dasha from Sevastopol Darya Lavrentyevna Mikhailova (Дарья Лаврентьевна Михайлова) (November 1836 – 1892) was a Russian nurse during the siege of Sevastopol in the Crimean War, from which she became better known by the name Dasha of Sevastopol (Даша Севастопольская). She was one of the founders of modern nursing with Florence Nightingale. Mikhailova was born in a village near Klyuchischi in the Kazan Governorate. Her father, a sailor in the Russian navy, was killed in the Battle of Sinope in 1853. She was a 17-year-old orphan when the Crimean War broke out in 1853. Before the war, she worked as"
"""Psyche at the Throne of Venus"" (1894) measures and contains 13 figures. Her painting ""Sir Richard Whittington Dispensing His Charities"" (1900) depicts Richard Whittington; a medieval merchant and four-time Lord Mayor of London. She also painted many socially prominent people; including Lord Dufferin in 1901. Her works include: Henrietta Rae Henrietta Emma Ratcliffe Rae (30 December 1859 – 26 January 1928) was a prominent English painter of the late Victorian era, who specialised in classical, allegorical and literary subjects. Her best-known painting is ""The Lady with the Lamp"" (1891); depicting Florence Nightingale at Scutari. Henrietta Rae was born on 30"
"time, a fact which Florence Nightingale only later realised. The training in surgical nursing was particularly poor. When Lucy Osburn was one month into her training, the Matron of St Thomas', Sarah Wardroper, selected her to lead a team of nurses to found the Nightingale system of nursing in Australia. The opportunity to go to Australia had come about because the politician and social reformer, Henry Parkes, wrote to Florence Nightingale requesting nurses to reform nursing in New South Wales. They were to be based at the Sydney Infirmary and Dispensary and train nurses to institute the new nursing system"
"Crimean War. Seacole claimed that associates of Nightingale rebuffed her attempts to work with the English nurse and her contingent, an allegation Nightingale later admitted to. Nightingale also questioned Seacole's morals, and the parentage of her daughter. During the Crimean war, Nightingale gained the nickname ""The Lady with the Lamp"" from a phrase in a report in ""The Times"": She is a ""ministering angel"" without any exaggeration in these hospitals, and as her slender form glides quietly along each corridor, every poor fellow's face softens with gratitude at the sight of her. When all the medical officers have retired for"
"Joanna Fox Waddill Joanna Painter (Fox) Waddill (September 24, 1838 – January 3, 1899) was a nurse assisting wounded and ill Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War. She became celebrated as the ""Florence Nightingale of the Confederacy"" for her humanitarianism. Joanna Fox was born in Bristol, Pennsylvania, to James C. Fox and his wife Catherine Bessonett. Fox was a brickmason who moved his family to the Mississippi River port city of Natchez, Mississippi, when Joanna was a baby. Fox was only 22 years old when the Civil War erupted in early 1861. She and two other Natchez ladies traveled"
"Florence (given name) Florence is a feminine English given name. It is the French version after ""Saint Florentia"", Roman martyr under Diocletian. It comes from Latin ""florens, florentius"" ""blossoming"", verb ""floreo"", meaning ""to flower"", in the sense of a blossom. Florence was in olden times also used as a translation of the Latin version Florentius, and may be used in this context as a male given name. A notable Florence was Florence Nightingale, who was a nurse in British hospitals during the Crimean War and is usually considered the founder of modern nursing. She was given the name because she"
"Margaret Huxley Margaret Rachel Huxley (1854–1940) was an English nurse who introduced structured, scientific nursing training in Ireland. Her initiatives led to the establishment of the first nursing school in Dublin. She was involved in numerous organisations promoting professionalism in nursing and campaigning for nurse registration throughout the British Isles. She was born in Croydon, Surrey on 21 December 1854 to Esther (""née"" Hopkins) and William Thomas Huxley, a railway official who was the brother of the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley. She was inspired by Florence Nightingale's work and decided to become a nurse, even though her family were opposed"
"when he established the first Protestant hospital in Kaiserswerth, which evolved into a leading modern nursing school. He was also responsible for establishing the diaconesses in Germany, as an order of nurses which attracted widespread enrollment and recognition. Florence Nightingale, the British nurse of Crimean War fame, was trained at Kaiserswerth and was influenced by the work of Sieveking. She probably met Sieveking in London through her friend Christian von Bunsen. Nightingale made nursing a profession of trained middle-class ""women in white"". A very pious person, Sieveking anonymously published tracts, ""Betrachtungen"" (Observations) and ""Beschäftigungen mit der heiligen Schrift"" (Considerations on"
"Embley Park Embley Park, in Wellow (near Romsey, Hampshire) was the family home of Florence Nightingale from 1825 until her death in 1910. It is also where Florence Nightingale claimed she had received her divine calling from God. It is now the location of Hampshire Collegiate School, a co-educational independent school for 3 -18 year olds. In 1826, Florence Nightingale's father William Nightingale purchased Embley Park house for the family to use as a permanent residence with Lea Hurst being used as a summer residence. The house was the larger of the two and was described as: ""“a good-sized plain"
"Nelly Brennan Eleanor (Nelly) Brennan, (26 January 1792 – 23 January 1859) was a Manx washerwoman who became instrumental in the introduction of the practices of nursing on the Isle of Man. She came to prominence during the cholera outbreaks which affected the Island in 1832 and 1833 in which she nursed those suffering from the disease. This has led to her becoming known as the """"Florence Nightingale of the Isle of Man."""" Eleanor Brennan (always known as Nelly) was born in Douglas, Isle of Man in 1792. Her Irish father was a boatswain on a man-o-war and had been"
"Florence Nightingale. Five of those depicted were born in Lancaster or the surrounding area: William Turner, Edward Frankland, Richard Owen, William Whewell, James Williamson, 1st Baron Ashton. At the time of construction, of the people featured on the monument, six were still alive: William Turner, Luke Fildes, Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Florence Nightingale and James Williamson, 1st Baron Ashton himself, the author of the monument. Amongst the people of Lancaster, the monument is also known as “King Victoria”, because of the shape of the silhouette against the Western sky at dusk. The frieze on"
"Though no one believed in her, even her own parents, Florence Nightingale proved to be one of history's greatest example of a social entrepreneur: an individual with innovative solutions to social issues. In her time, nursing was considered a very negative term which generally implied a woman of a rough nature who was often drunk or involved in illegitimate sexual activities. However, as is evident now, Nightingale transformed nursing into a highly respected vocation. How did she perform such a monumental accomplishment against all odds? Not through gentle charm or merely giving her time and resources, ""it was by strict"
"from the Nurses' Chapel in the Abbey and handed from one nurse to another, thence to the Dean, who places it on the High Altar. This signifies the passing of knowledge from one nurse to another. At St Margaret's Church at East Wellow in Hampshire, where Florence Nightingale is buried, a service is also held on the Sunday after her birthday. The U.S. celebrates National Nursing Week each year from 6 May to 12 May (the birthday of Florence Nightingale). Canada celebrates National Nursing Week each year during the week that includes 12 May, which is Florence Nightingale's birthday. The"