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Appendix Douglas Galton, Royal Engineer, Nightingale’s most trusted expert on hospital design. Photograph courtesy of NPL. 948 / [34.238.138.162] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 13:06 GMT) Appendix A: Biographical Sketches (Sir) Douglas Galton (1822-99) D ouglas Strutt Galton,1 a relative by marriage to Nightingale cousin, Marianne Nicholson (1821-1909), was an esteemed Royal Engineer and a favourite colleague. Nightingale worked mightily behind the scenes to get him appointed as assistant under secretary at the War Office, in 1862, as the best chance to get the planned army health measures actually implemented. After he left that position in 1868, he became director of Public Works and Buildings, 1869-74. During the Franco-Prussian War he served on the National Aid Society. Nightingale also greatly appreciated his contributions as a member of the Cubic Space Committee and the Metropolitan Asylums Board. He was made a fellow of the Royal Society in 1859 and knighted in 1887. Galton was a member of a wealthy family, with a fine country establishment at Droitwich, near Worcester, purchased by his father, John Howard Galton. Francis Galton and Charles Darwin were both cousins. The Galtons’ religious affiliations were complicated, with Quakers on his father’s side, and Plymouth Brethren on his mother’s, the Strutt family of Derbyshire. The family became Church of England at Droitwich , where Douglas was baptized. His older brother with his wife later converted to Roman Catholicism and two of their sons became Jesuits. Galton himself remained a faithful member of the Church of England. The Galtons had two daughters, whom Nightingale knew and to whom she left legacies. Nightingale was godmother to their only son, named with such hope Herbert Nightingale Douglas Galton, who was born in 1861 and died the following year. 1 On Galton see the entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. / 949 Galton and Nightingale held similar views on public health and its importance. Each brought their own professional knowledge and particular skills. She set the goals and the broad principles, which he shared, and he contributed his considerable technical expertise as a trained army engineer. The correspondence shows enormous deference on his part. He incorporated her views on all matters of nursing and the basic precepts on hospital construction. In turn, she deferred to him on all technical matters. Each asked the other to vet their writing . He was assiduous in answering questions for her and rose to the challenge when she wanted more detail. She frequently asked him to go over her critiques of hospital plans before sending them in to the hospital committee or architect in question. The two obviously liked each other enormously—he was a rare visitor who was urged to stay for coffee when he brought her information. Much of their correspondence has survived, in Add Mss 45759-67, including numerous letters designated ‘‘Burn.’’ Nightingale left him £300 in her will, but he predeceased her. Galton is remembered in the restoration of a Warwickshire church: ‘‘The 15th century glass in this window was restored and dedicated to the glory of God by the parishioners of Himbleton in dear memory of Captain Sir Douglas Galton, kcb, an earnest and true-hearted seeker after God. A.D. 1901.’’ (Sir) Robert Rawlinson (1810-98) Robert Rawlinson (1810-98),2 son of a builder, became a government public health inspector in 1848, and later headed the department. In 1855 he went with the sanitary commission, headed by Dr Sutherland, to clean up the British Army hospitals of the Crimean War. He and Nightingale became friends there and, after the war, he became a member of her inner circle of collaborators. He assisted in the work for the first royal commission, and was a member of the Indian royal commission and the War Office’s Army Sanitary Commission. For over forty years he was Nightingale’s major consultant on civil engineering and water issues. Each consulted the other on their respective projects. Rawlinson was one of the ‘‘wise old men’’ Nightingale’s sister described as being not too proud to learn from Nightingale, ‘‘so profoundly convinced of her knowledge.’’3 2 On Rawlinson see the entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 3 Cited in Cook, The Life of Florence Nightingale 1:353. 950 / Florence Nightingale and Hospital Reform [34.238.138.162] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 13:06 GMT) Nightingale liked him enormously and worried that her father would not treat her friend correctly when he went...