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Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale at the Barrack Hospital in Scutari (Üsküdar), writing letters for wounded soldiers of the Crimean War, 1855.
Florence Nightingale was buried in the family plot at St. Margaret’s Church in East Wellow, Hampshire.1
Although she was offered a state funeral and burial in Westminster Abbey upon her death in 1910, her family declined the offer in accordance with her prior request. Instead, she was honored with a memorial service held at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London.1