Lady Strangford
British illustrator, writer and nurse (1826-1887) · Writers · Died at 61
Emily Ann Smythe, Viscountess Strangford or Emily Anne Beaufort RRC, was a British illustrator, writer and nurse. There are streets named after her and permanent museum exhibits about her in Bulgaria.
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Color lithograph panorama of Palmyra, Syria by Nicholas Hanhart after Emily Anne Beaufort Smythe, 1862.
Egyptian Sepulchres and Syrian Shrines by Beaufort![One of the hospitals she helped create in Batak where a massacre had taken place in May 1876[8]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Bulgaria-the-eastern-question-lady-Strangfords-hospital-at_Batak-print-1877.jpg/500px-Bulgaria-the-eastern-question-lady-Strangfords-hospital-at_Batak-print-1877.jpg)
One of the hospitals she helped create in Batak where a massacre had taken place in May 1876[8]
An exhibition about Strangford in a museum in RadilovoAwards
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She established hospitals and mills to assist the Bulgarians following the April Uprising in 1876 that preceded the re-establishment of Bulgaria. She was awarded the Royal Red Cross medal by Queen Victoria for establishing another hospital in Cairo.
