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Cavell, Edith Louisa

(1865–1915)

Claire Daunton

https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/32330

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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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date: 07 March 2021

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