![]() Mary née Evans, William's mother, was a niece of Peter Nightingale. Nightingale's father was a wealthy landowner with two estates: one in Lea Hurst, Derbyshire, and the other in Embly, Hampshire. ![]() William Edward Shore was Nightingale's father (who had changed his surname from "Shore"), and Frances ("Fanny") Nightingale, née Smith, her mother. William Smith, an abolitionist and Unitarian, was Fanny's father (and Florence's maternal grandfather). ![]() Florence's older sister, Frances Parthenope, was named after her birthplace, Parthenope, a Greek colony now part of Naples.įlorence Nightingale's family resided in Embley, Hampshire, and Lea Hurst, Derbyshire, after returning to England in 1821. Nightingale was the younger of two girls from a wealthy British family who belonged to upper-class social circles. Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy, on May 12, 1820, the city that inspired her name.
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