About Ayo Vaughan-Richards
Lived 1927 – 1993 (aged 65–66). Ayo Vaughan-Richards was a Nigerian nurse and educator.
Gladys Ayo Vaughan-Richards (née Vaughan, c. 1927 – 1993) was a Nigerian nurse, educationist, socialite and author. As a descendant of the American freedman Scipio Vaughan, she was a member of the prominent Vaughan family of Lagos.
After being educated in Lagos and studying nursing in Edinburgh, Vaughan-Richards returned to Nigeria and established the Lagos State School of Nursing, one of the earliest nursing and general care teaching hospitals in the country. Vaughan-Richards was a member of the Akinsemoyin royal family of Lagos. She was also related to the Lagos aristocrat Chief Taiwo Olowo, who was her grandfather, and the women's rights activist Kofo, Lady Ademola, who was her first cousin once removed.
She died in 1993.
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Who was Ayo Vaughan-Richards?
Nigerian nurse and educator
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Ayo Vaughan-Richards was born in 1927.
When did Ayo Vaughan-Richards die?
Ayo Vaughan-Richards died in 1993.
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Ayo Vaughan-Richards was a nurse and educator.
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Ayo Vaughan-Richards was Nigerian.
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