Nightingale, Florence
(1820–1910)
- Monica E. Baly
- and H. C. G. Matthew
- , revised
Extract
Nightingale, Florence (1820–1910), reformer of army medical services and of nursing organization, was born on 12 May 1820 at Villa Columbaia, Florence, where her parents were on a European tour. Their other daughter, Frances Parthenope Nightingale (1819–1890) [see Verney, Frances Parthenope], born in ...