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date: 20 January 2020

Cavell, Edith Louisalocked

(1865–1915)
  • Claire Daunton

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Cavell, Edith Louisa (1865–1915), nurse and war heroine, was born on 4 December 1865, the first child of the Revd Frederick Cavell (1825–1910), Church of England clergyman, and his wife, Louisa Sophia (1835–1918), née Warming, in Swardeston vicarage, Norfolk. Her father, a graduate of ...

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(1801–)
Imperial War Museum, London
National Portrait Gallery, London