Nursing & Midwifery
Agnes Jones, 1832-1868
Display No. 153
Agnes Jones was from County Donegal, Ireland. She was the pioneering leader of an experiment, paid for by philanthropist William Rathbone, to provide professional nursing care in a workhouse setting at Liverpool Workhouse Infirmary.
After studying at the Nightingale Training School for Nursing, she led a large team of 12 trained nurses, 18 probationers and 54 female inmate assistants. Nightingale said of Jones: ‘I looked upon hers as one of the most valuable lives in England’. Jones died of typhus fever at the young age of 35.
Lithograph. Florence Nightingale Museum Collection
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