Although burial in Westminster Abbey was offered to the family of Florence Nightingale, famous nurse and ... She started her career helping out in London hospitals and at the outbreak of the Crimean ...

Florence Nightingale is considered the founder of modern nursing, while Mary Seacole built a hotel in Crimea to help treat soldiers. Her offers of help had been rejected twice, so she had funded ...

She went to the Crimean War to nurse wounded ... to stop disease spreading. Florence Nightingale changed the way injured and sick people were treated. In London, she started the first nursing ...