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Matt Edgar

A very rainy walk around Wentworth Castle Gardens. Bonus find: monument to a woman pioneer of inoculation

Person in raincoat with hood up using a smartphone to take a picture of a classical stately home
Stone obelisk with golden sphere at the top
Chalkboard with writing: The Sun Monument. This monument is probably the oldest in the country dedicated to a (then) living non-royal woman. It is a tribute to Lady Mary Wortley-Montague who pioneered innoculation against smallpox in the 1720s
Inscription on monument: To the memory of the Rt Hon Lady Mary Wortley-Montague who in the year 1720 introduced innoculation of the smallpox into England
Matt Edgar

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu defied convention, most memorably by introducing smallpox inoculation to Western medicine after witnessing it during her travels and stay in the Ottoman Empire
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Mar

en.wikipedia.orgLady Mary Wortley Montagu - Wikipedia
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