Rosalind Nash, nee Smith (1862-1952) was a relative and confidante of Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale OM, RRC was a celebrated English nurse, writer and statistician. She came to prominence for her pioneering work in nursing during the Crimean War, where she tended to wounded soldiers. She was dubbed "The Lady with the Lamp" after her habit of making rounds at night...

. She assisted in some of Nightingale's publications, and wrote on her behalf to Karl Pearson

Karl Pearson

Karl Pearson FRS was an influential English mathematician who has been credited for establishing the disciplineof mathematical statistics....

, when Pearson was writing his biography

Biography

A biography is a detailed description or account of someone's life. More than a list of basic facts , biography also portrays the subject's experience of those events...

 of Francis Galton

Francis Galton

Sir Francis Galton /ˈfrɑːnsɪs ˈgɔːltn̩/ FRS , cousin of Douglas Strutt Galton, half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath: anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician...

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Rosalind Smith was the elder daughter of FN's cousin W. Shore Smith (afterwards Shore Nightingale), whom Florence Nightingale "regarded almost as a brother". Lady Stephen, the wife of Sir Harry L. Stephen, was her younger sister. She married the progressive economist Vaughan Nash

Vaughan Nash

Vaughan Nash was an economist, the husband of Rosalind Nash, and a correspondent of Florence Nightingale. He served as the Secretary for Reconstruction in the Coalition Ministry of Herbert Henry Asquith.-Publications:...

. After Nightingale's death, Vaughan played an important role gathering and copying her correspondence.

She is buried with her husband in Wellow

Wellow

Wellow could be one of these places in England:*Wellow, Hampshire*Wellow, Isle of Wight*Wellow, Nottinghamshire*Wellow, Somerset...

 graveyard.

Works

• The accidents compensation act 1897, 1897
• Life and death in the potteries, 1898
• A Sketch of the Life of Florence Nightingale
• (ed. with preface), Florence Nightingale
  Florence Nightingale
  Florence Nightingale OM, RRC was a celebrated English nurse, writer and statistician. She came to prominence for her pioneering work in nursing during the Crimean War, where she tended to wounded soldiers. She was dubbed "The Lady with the Lamp" after her habit of making rounds at night...
  
  's To Her Nurses. A Selection from her addresses to probationers and nurses of the Nightingale School at St.Thomas's Hospital. London,Macmillan,1914
• (ed. with Sir Edward Tyas Cook, The Life of Florence Nightingale, Macmillan and Co, London, 1925. (An abridged version of Cook's 2-volume The Life of Florence Nightingale, Macmillan and Co, London, 1913)
• Florence Nightingale according to Mr. Strachey, 1928