What was florence Nightingales occupation ?
Florence Nightingale was born into a rich, upper-class well-connected British family at the Villa Colombaia, Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, and was named after the city of her birth. Florence’s older sister Parthenope (pronounced ParTHENopee) had similarly been named after her place of birth, a Greek settlement now part of the city of Naples. Her parents were William Edward Nightingale (1794–1875) and Frances Nightingale née Smith (1789–1880). William Nightingale was born William Edward Shore. His mother Mary née Evans was the niece of one Peter Nightingale, under the terms of whose will William Shore not only inherited his estate Lea Hurst in Derbyshire, but also assumed the name and arms of Nightingale. Fanny’s father (Florence’s maternal grandfather) was the abolitionist William Smith. Inspired by what she took as a Christian divine calling, experienced first in 1837 at Embley Park and later throughout Florence’s life, she committed herself to nursing (though discouraged by her p
