Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), 1891. By Payne & Son. Famed for her work during the Crimean War, where she gained the title of "The Lady With the Lamp", Nightingale is also revered for having laid the foundations of professional nursing with the establishment of her nursing school at St Thomas's Hospital in London. She is pictured here aged seventy-one at Claydon House, Buckinghamshire, home of the politician Sir Harry Verney, widower of her sister, Parthenope, Lady Verney (1819-1890). She is shown engaged in the letter writing that occupied much of her career.

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