ABSTRACT
Lady Alicia Blackwood (1818–1913) was the younger sister of the Earl of Cavan. She married James Blackwood, a Church of England clergyman, who belonged to the Evangelical Alliance. The Blackwoods were active philanthropists. Moved by the calamitous descriptions of conditions in the East, they travelled to Scutari in December 1854, where James became a military chaplain, and Alicia showed great resourcefulness in alleviating the conditions of army wives at the request of Florence Nightingale. After the war they returned to Yorkshire where James became a vicar and both continued to pursue philanthropic work.
