Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Florence Nightingale was born on 12 May 1820 into a wealthy and well-connected British family at the Villa Colombaia, [9] [10] in Florence, Tuscany, Italy, and was named after the city of her birth. Florence's older sister Frances Parthenope had similarly been named after her place of birth, Parthenope, a Greek settlement now part of the city ...
Frances Parthenope Nightingale was born on 19 May 1819 in Naples, Italy, [2] during her parents' honeymoon. Parthenope's birth was a rather traumatic one for both Fanny and Parthe. At the time of her birth Fanny was far from home and alone having her first child who was born small and weak. [3]
She was born Florence Nightingale Graham on her family's farm in Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada.She played with her birth date, but although her birth record seems to have disappeared, census records and a statutory declaration by her older brother, William Pearce Graham (1877–1959), both put the date at 1881.
It was held in the Lady Chapel of the Liverpool Cathedral on Sunday, 18 May shortly after the anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale. [ 11 ] John Eyton-Jones (1862-1940), was latterly house surgeon at the infirmary; also an amateur footballer , played as Wales international and for Everton .
The letter by Florence Nightingale (Andrew Matthews/PA) “It is a remarkable find and is completely unspoiled, despite spending the last 140 years in an old scrapbook which belonged to the famed ...
Frances Parthenope Verney, Parthenope Nightingale, the elder sister of Florence Nightingale and wife of Sir Harry Verney, named after her place of birth in Naples;
The Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care is an academic faculty within King's College London. The faculty is the world's first nursing school to be continuously connected to a fully serving hospital and medical school ( St. Thomas' Hospital ). [ 3 ]
A notable increased use of the name came in the aftermath of Florence Nightingale, 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 was born in Florence, Italy. The 14th century wife of Richard de Wylughby, of London, was named Florence. [3]