Nightingale recognised her expertise and competence at once, and described Roberts after just ten days on the wards as being worth her weight in gold and appointed her as Head Nurse. Her health had sufficiently improved that on the outbreak of the Crimean War in the following year she volunteered to join Florence Nightingale's team of 38 nurses travelling out to tend the sick and wounded at Scutari Hospital, having been recommended by Robert Whitfield of St Thomas' as 'a thorough surgeon & a superior woman.' She arrived at Scutari with Nightingale and the other nurses on 23 October 1854. Eliza Roberts is portrayed kneeling tending a wounded soldier Crimean War The Mission of Mercy: Florence Nightingale receiving the Wounded at Scutari, Jerry Barrett, 1857. In 1853, after twenty-four years service at St Thomas' and aged 51 years old, she retired to her home at Maida Vale owing to failing health. The 1851 census lists her as married, aged 47 and a Day Nurse resident at St Thomas'. However, her management skills were poor, in 1848 her ward having the highest turnover of assistant nurses of any ward in the hospital. Robert Whitfield, the apothecary and senior resident medical officer at St Thomas' similarly described Roberts as the best nurse he had ever encountered, 'one in a century of thousands, a thorough practical nurse'.

Dr John Flint South (1797–1882), a surgeon at St Thomas', thought that Roberts, by then a specialist in lithotomy and accident cases, had more clinical knowledge and experience of hospital matters than any one else, male or female, in the military hospitals in the Crimea. In 1840 she became a sister on George Ward, a men's surgical and accident ward. Early career īorn in 1802 in Shadwell in East London into a working-class family, Roberts began her medical career in 1829 as an assistant nurse in men's surgery at St Thomas' Hospital in London. Nightingale regarded her as the best of her nurses and appointed her Head Nurse.

As of March 2023, the couple is still going strong.Eliza Roberts - detail of The Mission of Mercy: Florence Nightingale receiving the Wounded at Scutari ( Jerry Barrett, 1857)Įliza Roberts (1802–1878) was an English nurse who was among the first group of nurses to accompany Florence Nightingale to Scutari Hospital during the Crimean War. He's the opposite of a Hollywood guy - he's just a cowboy type.' However, this was more than a fling. 'I think finds in Kevin what she didn't find in. In 2017, Page Six reported that Torres coupled up with a Utahn entrepreneur named Kevin Wright, whom she met, extraordinarily enough, on a beach in California. 'I think when you've been married a long time and you become single, you look for someone that has what your ex was missing,' a source reportedly told Page Six. Their split in 2016 was seemingly amicable, with Torres describing their relationship to People as 'a love story with a different ending than either one of us had expected.' The two married in 2002, but it was not a union meant to last.

'I was always open to love and being loved and having a family and being in a partnership,' she told Bustle. Torres met Fishburne during her late 20s. The Hollywood veteran was married to Torres for well over a decade, with the power couple sharing a daughter and several screen appearances (most memorably in 'The Matrix' film franchise).

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