1. Agnes Jones gave all her time and energy to her patients and died at the age of 35 from typhus fever.
10 Facts About Agnes Jones
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Agnes Jones was born on 10 November 1832 in Cambridge into a wealthy family with both military and evangelical religious connections.
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Agnes Jones's uncle was Sir John Lawrence, later Lord Lawrence who went on to become Governor General of India.
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Agnes Jones visited the Institution in Bonn, and saw the hospital, orphanage, an asylum and two schools run by the deaconesses.
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Agnes Jones returned home to Ireland and used the experience she had gained.
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In 1862 Agnes Jones commenced nurse training in the Nightingale School at St Thomas Hospital in London.
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Liverpool philanthropist William Rathbone obtained permission from the Liverpool Vestry to introduce trained nurses at the workhouse hospital in 1864, and invited Agnes Jones to move from the London Great Northern Hospital, to be the first trained Nursing Superintendent in 1865.
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Agnes Jones's only publication was a Bible study, The Gospel Promises shown in Isaiah I to VI.
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Agnes Jones's sister published her Memorials of Agnes Elizabeth Jones in 1871.
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Agnes Jones's recently refurbished grave can be found in the quiet country graveyard of Fahan, 4 miles south from Buncrana in County Donegal.