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    Mary Jane Seacole (née Grant; 23 November 1805 – 14 May 1881) was a British nurse and businesswoman. Seacole was born in Kingston to a Creole mother who...
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    The statue of Mary Seacole stands in the grounds of St Thomas' Hospital, Lambeth, London. Sculpted by Martin Jennings, the statue was executed in 2016...
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  • Surrey and Borders Partnership and CCGs. The Centre is named after Mary Seacole, a British-Jamaican nurse known for her role in supporting British soldiers...
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  • published listing. The result of Vernon's campaign was that in February 2004 Mary Seacole was announced as having been voted the greatest Black Briton. Following...
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    with her fellow nurse Mary Seacole, who ran a hotel/hospital for officers. Seacole's own memoir, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands, records...
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    portrait of Jamaican nurse Mary Seacole by Albert Charles Challen. The picture now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery. Mary Seacole features in Rappaport's...
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  • award-winning Rosemary Branch Theatre. She was also an Ambassador for the Mary Seacole Memorial Statue Appeal (MSMA). In April 2019 she was awarded Screen Nation's...
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  • campuses are in Luton and Bedford. In Buckinghamshire, the dedicated Mary Seacole Aylesbury campus for Healthcare students opened in February 2020 at Stoke...
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    Manley Bob Marley (February 1981) Herb McKenley (2004) Rex Nettleford Mary Seacole (1990, posthumously) Sir Philip Manderson Sherlock (1989) M. G. Smith...
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  • personnel who were overlooked for their services and co-founded the Mary Seacole Memorial Association to bring recognition to the accomplishments of the...
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    Brozovic. In 1998, by then a Professor of Nursing, Anionwu created the Mary Seacole Centre for Nursing Practice at the University of West London. She holds...
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  • Channel 4's sitcom Damned (2016–2018). She also played historical figure Mary Seacole in the thirteenth series of the BBC One long-running science fiction...
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    trustees of Mary Seacole Memorial Statue Appeal, now renamed the Mary Seacole Trust, which worked for the erection of the statue of Mary Seacole in the grounds...
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  • became a campaigner for the abolition of slavery in the Empire, and Mary Seacole, a heroine of the Crimean War. In the first half of the 20th century...
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  • Morris, Connie Mark, Fanny Eaton, Diane Abbott, Margaret Busby, and Mary Seacole – among eight Black women who have contributed to the development of...
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  • producer and artist George Semper. In 2005, Baden-Semper appeared as Mary Seacole at a bicentenary exhibition at the Florence Nightingale Museum. Baden-Semper...
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    Hull Paragon Interchange station was presented in 2010. His statue of Mary Seacole (2016), one of his largest works, stands in the grounds of St Thomas'...
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  • nurses used to be called 'Nightingales'. Nightingale's contemporary, Mary Seacole, was a Jamaican "doctress" who also nursed soldiers who were wounded...
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    adulterated with lead acetate (see also Beethoven's liver). In the 1850s, Mary Seacole applied lead(II) acetate, among other remedies, against an epidemic of...
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    planter)), Sarah Adams, Cubah Cornwallis, Mary Seacole, and Mrs Grant (who was the mother of Mary Seacole). These doctresses practised the use of hygiene...
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    to request Education Secretary Michael Gove to keep both Equiano and Mary Seacole in the National Curriculum. American Rev. Jesse Jackson and others wrote...
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    site is made up of three buildings, designated Seacole, Peel and Fry. They are named after Mary Seacole, Robert Peel and Elizabeth Fry, figures who had...
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  • Seacole is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: Jason Seacole (born 1960), English footballer Mary Seacole (1805–1881), British-Jamaican...
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    all-female jazz band for a charity performance to raise awareness of the Mary Seacole Memorial Statue Appeal, which was established to erect a statue of the...
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    into Auschwitz. He has also questioned the level of acclaim given to Mary Seacole, saying "She was a very worthy woman, it would be churlish not to hold...
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    reports. The Crimean medical care, shelter and protection of all ranks by Mary Seacole was also publicised by Russell and by other contemporary journalists...
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  • series include Craig Parkinson as the Grand Serpent, Sara Powell as Mary Seacole, Gerald Kyd as General Logan, Penelope Ann McGhie as Mrs Hayward, Steve...
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    Jamaican who became minister of Cradley Heath Baptist Church in 1837 Mary Seacole (1805–1881), a nurse in the Crimean War. Voted the greatest ever Black...
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    and Corey Ford. Some pioneering female outdoor enthusiasts include Mary Seacole, Isabella Bird, Emma Rowena Gatewood, Claire Marie Hodges, Mina Benson...
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    and Mary Seacole) 2018: Abbott was named on the Evening Standard's list of 14 "Inspirational black British women throughout history" (alongside Mary Seacole...
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