Mary Secole

Mary Secole

01

Early Life

- Extract from Mary’s Autobiography.

“It was very natural that I should inherit her tastes; and so, I had from early youth a yearning for medical knowledge and practice which never deserted me…. And I was very young when I began to make use of the little knowledge I had acquired from watching my mother, upon great sufferer – my doll… and whatever disease was most prevalent in Kingston, be sure my poor doll soon contracted it.”

02

Crimea

03

Post Crimea

- The Times War Correspondent, Sir William H Russell 1857

“I trust that England will not forget one who nursed her sick, who sought out her wounded to aid and succour them, and who performed the last offices for some of her illustrious dead”.

04

Her last years

05

Legacy

06

On Display

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