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Mary Seacole. Mary Jane Seacole (née Grant; [1][2][3] 23 November 1805 – 14 May 1881) was a British nurse and businesswoman. Seacole was born in Kingston to a Creole mother who ran a boarding house and had herbalist skills as a "doctress". [4] In 1990, Seacole was (posthumously) awarded the Jamaican Order of Merit.
Mary Seacole (born 1805, Kingston, Jamaica—died May 14, 1881, London, England) was a Jamaican businesswoman who provided sustenance and care for British soldiers at the battlefront during the Crimean War.
Sep 27, 2023 · Mary Grant Seacole, known as “Mother Seacole” by her patients, was a contemporary of Florence Nightingale. Yet, while Nightingale’s name rings through the halls of nearly every nursing program, Seacole was all but forgotten until 1980, when historians rediscovered her story.
Mary Seacole was a daring adventurer of the 19th century. A Jamaican woman of mixed race, she was awarded the Order of Merit posthumously by the government of Jamaica and celebrated as a “ Black Briton” in the United Kingdom.
Mary Seacole was born in Jamaica more than 200 years ago. This was during the period when many black people in the Caribbean were forced to work as slaves. Although Mary’s mother was black, her father James Grant was a white Scottish army officer and Mary was born a ‘free person’.
Mary Seacole was British-Jamaican, born in 1805. Her mother was a free Jamaican, her father a soldier in the British Army. Mary grew up in her mother’s hotel in Jamaica. Mary had a lot of...
Sep 6, 2022 · A Historian’s Quest to Unravel the Secrets of Mary Seacole, an Innovative, Long-Overlooked Black Nurse. During the Crimean War, the Jamaican businesswoman operated a storehouse and restaurant...
Read facts about the life of Mary Seacole the pioneering nurse and heroine of the Crimean War. Discover why her reputation rivalled that of Florence Nightingale.
Mary Seacole was a British-Jamaican nurse famous for nursing hundreds of British soldiers back to health during the cholera pandemic of 1850 and, later, the Crimean War.
The Mary Seacole Trust exists to educate and inform the public about the life, work and achievements of Mary Seacole, the 19th century Jamaican-born nurse who overcame racism and injustice to nurse soldiers during the Crimean War.
