They only met for about 5 minutes (during the Crimean War) and played very different roles in it. Born in 1805 Jamaica, Mary Seacole is determined to live an extraordinary life. It was 200 pages long and cost one shilling and sixpence.

Flanders Fields Display Banner - Showing results for 'mary' - show more. 1873 carte de visite printed, with photograph of Seacole wearing medals, Maull & Co. April 1881 Census entry, Seacole living in St Marylebone, occupation “independent”. 1894: Nightingale begins work on nurse training for Italy; publishes revised articles in Quain, 1895: Nightingale writes fundraising letter for St Thomas’ Hospital; works with new medical instructor at St Thomas’ training school; begins work on trained nursing in Boston; works on nursing for Bolton Workhouse Infirmary, 1896: Nightingale works on nurse training for Finland; circulates information on Finnish aseptic procedures; advises on telephones and bells at St Thomas’; works on trained nursing for Irish workhouses and for Calcutta; mentors matron of City of Dublin Hospital; publishes letter on district nursing, 1897: Nightingale works on nursing at London Hospital; assists matron at Edinburgh under investigation; advises nurses departing for Hong Kong and India, 1898: Nightingale tries to establish district nursing in Canada; does last work on health visitors; holds last meetings with St Thomas’ nurses; makes last notes on antiseptic procedures, 1899: Nightingale meets with matron of a New York hospital; meets with nursing leaders from Canada, U.S. and New Zealand, 1900: Nightingale holds last meetings with matrons of St Marylebone Workhouse Infirmary and London Hospital; advises on nursing for Boer War; sends last ‘address’ (of fourteen) to nurses, 1901: Nightingale sends public letter on district nursing; Census entry: ‘living on own means’, 1902: Nightingale holds last meeting with matron of St Thomas’ Hospital, 1903: Nightingale sends letter on district nursing to Australia, 1904: Has last meeting with a Kaiserswerth deaconess; sends last greetings to Australian nurses, 1905: Nightingale sends last letter to nurses at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, 1906: Nightingale meets with a midwife from Canada, 1907: King confers Order of Merit on Nightingale; International Red Cross meeting recognizes her influence, 1908: Nightingale sends last greetings to nurses and last survivors of the charge of the Light Brigade; City of London confers Freedom of City on Nightingale, 1909: holds last meeting with former matron Angelique-Lucille Pringle, 1910: new building of Hospital for Gentlewomen opens; first Italian training school based on Nightingale principles opens in Rome. Template by CMSimple_XH | 2 visits to England, on 2nd sold Jamaican pickles and preserves, 1836 married Edwin Seacole; together ran store in Black River; “nursed” him and patroness in dying days, no specifics given, 1843 mother’s boarding house destroyed by fire, rebuilt, 1850 travels to Panama, supervises food/clothing production for sale at brother’s hotel/store; opens own store/restaurant; cholera epidemic but no doctor--she treats patients, claims some cures, uses lead acetate, 1853 in Jamaica sees yellow fever epidemic, no cures, 1854 returns to Panama, invests in gold mine, prospects; in September leaves for London to attend to gold stocks, unsuccessful, Late October 1854 starts applying in person to be “army assistant,” does not submit application to be a nurse; reports rejection; forms plan with business partner to open “mess table and comfortable quarters” for convalescent officers, February 1855 departs for Crimea, arrives 8 March at Scutari, meets FN, brief conversation, gets bed for night, March 1855 arrives in Crimea; for 3-4 weeks provides tea and lemonade at wharf for soldiers awaiting transport; opens “Mrs Seacole’s hut” at Kadikoi, for food, drink and catering for officers, with a “canteen for soldiery”, 18 June 1855 sells 2 mule-loads of food and drink to spectators at Cathcart’s Hill watching 1st Redan assault, assists with first aid post-battle, 16 August 1855 sells food and drink at Battle of Tchernaya, assists with first aid post-battle, 8 September 1855 sells food and drink at 2nd Redan assault; assists with first aid post-battle; takes souvenir loot from Russian bodies, 9 September 1855 borrows mules for catering deserted Sebastopol, visits city; takes souvenir loot from Russian churches/soldiers, September 1855-April 1856 caters for excursions, expands business during peace negotiations, April 1856 troops/officers depart for England on signing of peace treaty 30 March; Seacole's business fails, July 1856 returns to England, feted: dinners, races, etc., briefly runs store at Aldershot, November 1856 first bankruptcy court hearing; Seacole wears medals; fund raising begins, 1857 Publishes Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (London: James Blackwood), 17 January 1857 bankruptcy certificate granted for Seacole and Day, July 1857 Surrey Gardens festival for Seacole, but proceeds meagre, 1859 Weekes does sculpture of Seacole wearing medals (now at Getty Centre, Los Angeles), October 1865 Seacole returns to England from Jamaica, August 1866 donates 100 bottles of anti-cholera medicine and 100 boxes of pills to Lord Mayor’s Fund (ingredients unknown), January 1867 fundraising begins, which supported Seacole for rest of her life, 1869 Challen paints portrait of Seacole wearing 3 medals (now at National Portrait Gallery), April 1871 Census entry, Seacole living in Paddington, London, occupation “annuitant”, July 1871 Gleichen terracotta bust of Seacole wearing 3 medals (now at Institute of Jamaica).
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Born as the daughter of a Scottish soldier in the British Army and a free Jamaican woman, Mary acquired … Mary Seacole was a Jamaican-born nurse who became a heroine of the Crimean War. Mary Jane Grant was born in Kingston, Jamaica. 1890: appointment of new matron at St Thomas’; Nightingale writes introduction to Rathbone, 1891: Nightingale meets with Indian delegates to hygiene congress; publishes ‘Sanitation in India’; Census entry: ‘director of Nightingale Fund Training School for Nurses’, 1892: Nightingale works on district nursing in England and Scotland; mentors matron for Consumption Hospital; works on midwifery nursing; publishes ‘The Reform of Sick Nursing and the Late Mrs Wardroper’ in, 1893: Nightingale meets with American nursing leaders Isabel Hampton and Louise Darche; assists matron Flora Masson under investigation at Radcliffe Infirmary. She was buried in St Mary’s Roman Catholic Cemetery, Harrow Road, Kensal Green, London. Timeline - Mary Seacole. We hope you enjoy our website.

Reservations are strongly recommended and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Login, Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole Timeline, Seacole’s Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands, 1820s: Seacole makes two visits to England; on second sells Jamaican pickles and preserves, 1836: Marries Edwin Seacole; together run store in Black River; ‘nurses’ him and patroness in dying days, no specifics given, 1837: Nightingale called to service, wants to nurse, family does not allow her, 1843: Seacole's mother’s boarding house destroyed by fire, rebuilt, 1840s: Nightingale visits workhouse infirmaries which ‘broke the visitor’s heart’, 1850: Seacole travels to Panama; supervises food/ clothing production for sale at brother’s hotel/store; opens own store/restaurant; cholera epidemic but no doctor--she treats patients, claims some cures, uses lead acetate, 1850: Nightingale's first visit to Kaiserswerth Deaconess Institution, Germany, 1851: Nightingale nurses three months at Kaiserswerth, 1852: Seeks hospital experience in Dublin but hospital closed for renovations, 1853: Seacole in Jamaica; helps in yellow fever epidemic, no cure available; cares for dying grandmother at her home, 1853: Nightingale nurses three months in Paris hospitals, 1854: Seacole returns to Panama, invests in gold mine, prospects; in September leaves for London to attend to gold stocks, unsuccessful, 21 Oct 1854: Nightingale leaves for Crimean War with 38 nurses, Jan/Feb 1855: serious overcrowding at Scutari Barrack Hospital and rising death rates ; new hospitals opened, Apr 1856: troops/officers depart for England on signing of peace treaty 30 Mar; Seacole's business fails, Mar-May 1856: Nightingale makes third visit to Crimea; establishes nursing at Land Transport Corps hospital; in Apr made superintendent of all Crimean hospital nursing, 17 Jan 1857: bankruptcy certificate granted for Seacole and Day; Early Jul: Seacole publishes, 1857: Nightingale works on own reports and evidence to Royal Commission on the war; advises on nursing in the Royal Navy, 1858: Seacole takes ship to Antwerp (purpose of trip not known); French translation of, 1858: Nightingale publishes 'Notes on the Health of the British Army, Subsidiary Notes [on] the Introduction of Female Nursing into Military Hospitals'; sends first papers on hospital reform to the National Association for the Promotion of Science, 1859: Henry Weekes makes sculpture of Seacole wearing medals (now at Getty Centre, Los Angeles), Jan 1860: Nightingale publishes 'Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not', 1861: Nightingale Ward and midwifery training open at King’s College, London; Nightingale starts work on trained nursing at Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley; publishes 'Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes'; sends advice on nursing/hospitals to U.S. government for Civil War; starts research on health conditions in India; Census entry: ‘formerly hospital matron’, 1862: Nightingale liaises on nursing in Baden; works on India royal commission; advises on British Army hospitals, 1863: Nightingale gives evidence to Royal Commission on India; publishes 'How People May Live and Not Die in India', 1864: Nightingale starts work on workhouse infirmary reforms; articulates principle of quality hospital care regardless of ability to pay; advises British delegation to Geneva Convention, Oct 1865: Seacole returns to England from Jamaica.