Grace Darling - the famous victorian heroine. Schools - Famous People. Florence Nightingale. Florence Nightingale is best known for her work at Scutari hospital, Turkey, during the Crimean War and then afterwards for her role in developing nursing as a profession.
She is also known as 'the lady with the lamp' and this quotation relates to an article published about her in the Times newspaper on Thursday 8 February 1855, which reads: 'She is a "ministering angel" without any exaggeration in these hospitals, and as her slender form glides quietly along each corridor every poor fellow's face softens with gratitude at the sight of her. When all the medical officers have retired for the night, and silence and darkness have settled down upon these miles of prostrate sick, she may be observed alone, with a little lamp in her hand, making her solitary rounds.'
Country Joe McDonald's Florence Nightingale Tribute. N the 12th of May, 1820, in the city of Florence, Italy, Frances Nightingale gave birth to her second child.
Another girl. In honor of the city of her birth and in keeping with the tradition started by her parents, the little girl was named Florence. An unusual thing to do in a conservative time. This little girl was to bear no children of her own but to become perhaps the most famous woman of all time and give birth to the profession of nursing as we know it today.
In response to a call from God to nurse the sick poor she was to turn her back on love, wealth, society and comfort the likes of which few will ever know to single handed champion a new direction for women of the world and health of all its citizens.