BLACKWOOD

SCUTARI, THE BOSPHORUS AND THE CRIMEA
TWENTY FOUR SKETCHES

BLACKWOOD, Alicia Lady

Ventnor, Isle of Wight, 1857

Lady Alicia Blackwood née Lambart, (1818 – 30 July 1913), the daughter of George Frederick Augustus Lambart, Viscount Kilcoursie (1789–1828) and Sarah Coppin, was an English painter and nurse, married to the Rev. James Stevenson Blackwood (1805–1882).[1]

As she recounts in A Narrative of Personal Experiences & Impressions during a Residence on the Bosphorus throughout the Crimean War (1881), Lady Alicia Blackwood and her husband “were deeply moved to go out” after hearing of “the battle of Inkerman, that terribly hard-fought struggle”. Dr. Blackwood obtained a chaplaincy to the forces; Lady Alicia and two young women friends accompanied him, determined to find some way to help. Lady Alicia applied to Florence Nightingale at Scutari in December 1854.