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Mary Seacole
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British-Jamaican businesswoman and nurse
Key facts
- Born
- Mary Jane Grant , ( 1805-11-23 ) 23 November 1805, Kingston , Colony of Jamaica
- Died
- 14 May 1881 (1881-05-14) (aged 75), Paddington , London , England , U.K.
- Other name
- Mother Seacole
- Occupations
- Hotelier boarding house keeper author world traveller nurse
- Known for
- providing a restaurant for officers during Crimean War
- Spouse
- Edwin Seacole ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1836 ; died 1844 )
- Honours
- Order of Merit (Jamaica; posthumous , 1990)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Mary
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Kingston
- Place of death
- London
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- nurse
- Image
- Seacole - Challen.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1805-01-01
- date of death
- 1881-05-14
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- Mary Seacole
- Commons category
- Mary Seacole
- place of burial
- St Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green
- ethnic group
- Black Britons
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Encyclopedic overview
Mary Jane Seacole (née Grant; 23 November 1805 – 14 May 1881) was a Jamaican nurse and businesswoman. She was famous for her nursing work during the Crimean War and for publishing the first autobiography written by a woman of African descent in Britain.
Seacole was born in Kingston, Jamaica, to a Creole mother who ran a boarding house and had herbalist skills as a "doctress". In 1990, Seacole was (posthumously) awarded the Jamaican Order of Merit. In 2004, she was voted the greatest Black Briton in a survey conducted in 2003 by the black heritage website Every Generation.
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