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Florence Nightingale

(1820-1910), Reformer of hospital nursing and of the Army Medical Services

Later Victorian Portraits Catalogue Entry

Sitter associated with 37 portraits
Nightingale reformed hospital nursing during the 19th Century. She trained as a sick nurse and was invited to take nurses out to tend the wounded in the Crimean War (1854). She travelled to Scutari, a suburb of Constantinople, where she transformed the appalling conditions at the Barrack Hospital and laid the foundations for lasting reforms in nursing care. Her campaign on behalf of the sick and wounded British soldiers was one of the great achievements. Within months she was described in the British press as a 'ministering angel' and demands were made for her likeness. She was subsequently consulted by foreign governments at war as an authority on hospital administration and sanitation.

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Dr Iain Wilton

28 November 2019, 15:21

I was interested to see the biographical information about Florence Nightingale.

You might like to expand it to take account of the two following points: (i) 2020 will be the bicentenary of Florence Nightingale's birth; and (ii)
while being most famous for her nursing role, Florence Nightingale was an eminent statistician and a pioneer of data visualisation. Indeed, she was the first female member of the Royal Statistical Society (where I'm Director of Policy & Public Affairs, and planning the RSS's contribution to the wide-ranging bicentenary celebrations).