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Cecil Woodham-Smith

AKA Cecil Fitzgerald

Born: 29-Apr-1896
Birthplace: Tenby, Wales
Died: 16-Mar-1977
Location of death: London, England
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Historian

Nationality: Wales
Executive summary: Florence Nightingale

Father: James FitzGerald
Husband: George Ivon Woodham-Smith (solicitor, m. 1928, d. 1968)

    High School: Royal School for Officers' Daughters, Bath (expelled)
    University: BA English, St. Hilda's College, Oxford University (1917)

    Commander of the British Empire 1960
    Expelled from School

Author of books:
Florence Nightingale (1950, biography)
The Reason Why (1953, history)
The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849 (1962, history)
Queen Victoria: Her Life and Times, 1819-1861 (1972, biography)



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