Mary Seacole

This will also be significant to  all people as it offers recognition of the importance of the all important nursing profession. A memorial  statue, in honour of the Jamaican-born Black nurse , Mary Seacole, (1805 – 1881),  of great courage and compassion will be unveiled in  the grounds of St. Thomas’s hospital , located directly opposite  to the Houses of Parliament in UK on Thursday 30 June. Mary Seacole’s  statue unveiling, is a great moment in British history as, after, 12 years of…