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Dame Agnes Hunt
Dame Agnes Gwendoline Hunt Order of the British Empire, DBE Royal Red Cross, RRC (31 December 1866 – 24 July 1948) was a British nurse, who is generally recognised as the first Orthopaedic nursing, orthopaedic nurse. Early life She was born in London, daughter and sixth of eleven children of Rowland Hunt (1828-1878) of Boreatton Park, Baschurch, a village in west Shropshire, England, and his wife, Florence Marianne, eldest daughter of Richard Buckley Humfrey of Stoke Albany, Northamptonshire, England. She was a cousin of the Naval officer Sir Nicholas Hunt, his son being the politician Jeremy Hunt. Her own brother, another Rowland Hunt (1858-1943) was also a politician. Hunt was brought up at Boreatton Park until 1882, then at Kibworth, Kibworth Hall, Leicestershire before her widowed mother took the children to Australia, where they lived on a small farmstead. She was disabled from osteomyelitis of the hip that she suffered from as a child following septicaemia. Nursing care ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baschurch, Shropshire
Baschurch is a large village and civil parish in Shropshire, England. It lies in North Shropshire, north-west of Shrewsbury. The village has a population of 2,503 as of the 2011 census. The village has strong links to Shrewsbury to the south-east, Oswestry to the north-west, and Wem to the north-east. There is a large village not far west of Baschurch called Ruyton-XI-Towns. History The earliest references to Baschurch are under its Welsh name ''Eglwyssau Bassa'' (Churches of Bassa), in a seven-stanza ''englyn''-poem of the same name found in the Welsh cycle of poems called ''Canu Heledd'', generally thought to date to the ninth century: The English name ''Baschurch'' first appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ''Bascherche'', and both names may derive from an Anglo-Saxon personal name ''Bass(a)''. Thus the name in ''Canu Heledd'' is a Brittonic version of an English name. Local tradition holds that the Berth Pool and its ancient earthworks outside the village are the resti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |