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Dramatis Personae Frances (Smith) Nightingale (1788-1880), mother William Edward Nightingale (1794-1874), father Parthenope, ‘‘Pop’’ (Nightingale), Lady Verney (1819-90), sister Mary Shore Smith (1798-1889), ‘‘Aunt Mai’’ William Shore Smith (1831-94), ‘‘Shore,’’ cousin, Nightingale heir Louisa Shore Smith, wife of ‘‘Shore’’ Smith, Julia (1799-1883), aunt Sir Harry Verney (1801-94), brother-in-law Captain (Sir) Edmund Verney (1838-1910), son of Harry Verney Margaret Verney (1844-1930), wife of Edmund Verney Frederick Verney (1846-1913), youngest son of Harry Verney Maude Verney (d. 1937), wife of Frederick Verney Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-61) ‘‘AHC,’’ husband of Blanche Smith Henry Bonham Carter (1827-1921), cousin, secretary of Nightingale Fund Captain (Sir) Douglas Galton (1822-99), husband of cousin, Royal Engineer, sanitary expert (Sir) Edwin Chadwick (1800-90), sanitary expert Dr William Farr (1807-83), physician, statistician Gathorne Hardy (1814-1906), president of the Poor Law Board Sidney Herbert, Lord Herbert of Lea (1810-61), secretary of state for war Agnes Elizabeth Jones (1832-68), nurse, superintendent, Liverpool Workhouse Infirmary Mary Jones, Anglican nun, nurse, nursing educator Benjamin Jowett (1817-93), Master of Balliol College, priest, friend John Stuart Mill (1806-73), political philosopher, mp William Rathbone (1819-1902), philanthropist, mp Dr John Sutherland (1808-91), physician, sanitarian C.P. Villiers (1802-98), president of the Poor Law Board Sarah Elizabeth Wardroper (c1813-92), matron, St Thomas’ Hospital / ix ...

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