Mary Jane Grant Seacole

Born: 1805

Died: 1881

Country of Birth: Jamaica

Nationality: Jamaican; British

Ethnicity: Black

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Field of Study: Nurse Practitioner; Entrepreneur; Author

Institution/Corporation: none

Degrees & Memberships: none

Awards: 1990 Jamaican Order of Merit; 2004 voted Greatest Black Briton Every Generation; 2016 Google Doodle; buildings medical wards & facilities awards & a society are named after her in Britain & Jamaica

Achievements: "Set up the ""British Hotel"" behind enemy lines in Crimea to treat wounded soldiers; wrote ""Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands"" (1857) the 1st autobiography written by a Black woman in Britain; 1st British woman to enter Sevastopol after it fell; "