The Victorians

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The Victorians

• Find out about lots of famous people from the
  Victorian times.

By Lois McCarthy
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Queen Victoria

• Victoria was born in 1819 in Kensington Palace in
  London. Her name was Alexandrina Victoria. When
  Princess Victoria was 18 years old her uncle King
  William died and she became queen. She was
  crowned at Westminster Abbey in 1838.  Victoria
  married her handsome cousin Albert a young prince
  from Germany. (She had proposed to him).

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Queen Victoria
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Sir Robert Peel
Robert Peel was born in Bury, Lancashire, on 5th
February 1788. His father, Sir Robert Peel
(1750-1830), was a wealthy cotton manufacturer
and member of parliament for Tamworth. Robert was
trained as a child to become a future politician.
Every Sunday evening he had to repeat the two
church sermons that he had heard that day.
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Sir Robert Peel
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Prince Albert
Born at Schloss Rosenau, he was the younger son
of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. He was educated
at Bonn and married Victoria his first cousin in
1840. Albert encouraged in his wife a greater
awareness of social ills and without Melbourne's
protective influence he was able to air his
concerns. He took an active role in bringing
about reform and invited Lord Shaftesbury, the
driving force behind successive factory acts, to
Buckingham Palace to discuss the matter of child
labour. This meeting marked the beginning of
Victoria's increased involvement in social
welfare.
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Statue of Prince Albert
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Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale is most remembered as a
pioneer of nursing and a reformer of hospital
sanitation methods. For most of her ninety years,
Nightingale pushed for reform of the British
military health-care system and with that the
profession of nursing started to gain the respect
it deserved. Unknown to many, however, was her
use of new techniques of statistical analysis,
such as during the Crimean War when she plotted
the incidence of preventable deaths in the
military. She developed the "polar-area diagram"
to dramatize the needless deaths caused by
unsanitary conditions and the need for reform.
With her analysis, Florence Nightingale
revolutionized the idea that social phenomena
could be objectively measured and subjected to
mathematical analysis. She was an innovator in
the collection, tabulation, interpretation, and
graphical display of descriptive statistics.
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Florence Nightingale
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Victorian School

• Only a few children attended school at the
  beginning of Queen Victoria's reign. Most poor
  children worked, and their earnings were an
  important part of the family income. If they went
  to school, their families would lose this money.

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Victorian Play
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Our school trip

• In January 2006 we went on a trip to Tatton
  Park.We pretended to be Victorian servan