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Person1810 – 1861
Sidney Herbert
British politician who, as Secretary at War during the Crimean War, sent Nightingale to Scutari and afterwards led army health reform with her
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Nightingale led 38 nurses to the British army hospital at Scutari in the Crimean War; making her rounds each night with a lamp, she became “the Lady with the Lamp”.
People who appear alongside
- Florence Nightingale1820 – 1910
British nurse who reformed sanitation in the military hospitals of the Crimean War, cutting soldiers’ death rates, and laid the foundations of modern nursing and its training
Mary Seacole1805 – 1881Jamaican nurse who, refused as an army nurse in the Crimean War, opened her own lodging near Balaklava and cared for soldiers close to the front
Themes this person appears in
- Florence Nightingale1820 – 1910
The woman who trained as a nurse against her family’s wishes, tended soldiers by lamplight in the hospitals of the Crimean War, changed sanitation with statistics and made nursing a profession