Mary Seacole
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Mary Seacole Net Worth

Mary Seacole was a Jamaican-born writer and nurse who was born on November 23, 1805 in Kingston, Jamaica. She is remembered for her memoir Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands, and for her work during the Crimean War, where she assisted soldiers and fought for racial tolerance by celebrating her multi-ethnic heritage.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Birth Day November 23, 1805
Birth Place Kingston, Jamaica
Age 214 YEARS OLD
Died On May 14, 1881 (age 75)
Birth Sign Sagittarius

💰 Net worth: $8 Million (2024)

About

Remembered for her 1857 memoir Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands, this Jamaican-born Writer and nurse assisted Soldiers during the Crimean War and fought for racial tolerance by openly celebrating her multi-ethnic heritage.

Before Fame

She first traveled from her native Jamaica in the early 1820s, living in England for a year and doing her best to combat the racial prejudice she encountered there.

Trivia

During the Crimean War, she traveled overseas and established a medical and rest facility in Crimea (modern-day Ukraine) known as the British Hotel.

Family Life

The child of a Scottish military man and a Jamaican Medicine woman, she was born Mary Jane Grant and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. In the 1830s, she married Edwin Horatio Hamilton Seacole.

Associated With

She and Florence Nightingale both nursed Soldiers wounded in the Crimean War.

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