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What's new: August 2021
This month’s update features the lives of three women in the family of William Shakespeare; also, the early promoters of the British Red Cross and St John Ambulance; and modern economic thinkers. Read the introduction here.
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Furley, Sir John (1836–1919), promoter of first aid and ambulance organization
Sir John Furley promoted the foundation of the British Red Cross, to aid the sick and wounded in war, and the St John Ambulance Association and St John Ambulance Brigade, to provide life-saving first aid in peacetime. He was made a Companion of Honour in 1918.
