Mary Seacole, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetMary Seacole
British-Jamaican businesswoman and nurse
Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1805
Place of Birth: Kingston, Surrey County, Jamaica
Date of Death: 14-May-1881
Profession: writer, nurse, autobiographer
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Mary Seacole
- Mary Jane Seacole (née Grant; 1805 – 14 May 1881) was a British-Jamaican business woman and nurse who set up the "British Hotel" behind the lines during the Crimean War.
- She described this as "a mess-table and comfortable quarters for sick and convalescent officers", and provided succour for wounded servicemen on the battlefield.
- Coming from a tradition of Jamaican and West African "doctresses", Seacole used herbal remedies to nurse soldiers back to health.
- She was posthumously awarded the Jamaican Order of Merit in 1991.
- In 2004 she was voted the greatest black Briton.She acquired knowledge of herbal medicine in the Caribbean.
- When the Crimean War broke out, she was one of two outstanding nurses to tend to the wounded, along with Florence Nightingale.
- Hoping to assist, Seacole applied to the War Office but was refused, so she travelled independently and set up her hotel and tended to the battlefield wounded.
- She became extremely popular among service personnel, who raised money for her when she faced destitution after the war. After her death, she was largely forgotten for almost a century but today is celebrated as a woman who made a success of her career, despite experiencing racial prejudice.
- Her autobiography, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs.
- Seacole in Many Lands (1857), is one of the earliest autobiographies of a mixed-race woman, although some aspects of its accuracy have been questioned by present-day supporters of Nightingale.
- The erection of a statue of her at St Thomas' Hospital, London on 30 June 2016, describing her as a "pioneer nurse", has generated controversy and opposition from supporters of Nightingale.
- Earlier controversy broke out in the United Kingdom late in 2012 over reports of a proposal to remove her from the UK's National Curriculum.
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See Also
- Famous People's Birthdays on 01 January, Jamaica
- Famous People's Birthdays in January, Jamaica
- Famous writer's Birthdays on 01 January, Jamaica
- Famous writer's Birthdays in January, Jamaica
- Famous nurse's Birthdays on 01 January, Jamaica
- Famous nurse's Birthdays in January, Jamaica
- Famous autobiographer's Birthdays on 01 January, Jamaica
- Famous autobiographer's Birthdays in January, Jamaica
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