FLORA SHAW BARONESS LUGARD / PLACE OF BIRTH.

FLORA SHAW WAS BORN WOOL WICH, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM  INTO A LARGE FAMILY FOR WHOM SHE HELPE TO CARE. SHE BEGAN HER CAREER IN JOURNALISM IN 1886-7 WRITING FOR THE PALL MALL GAZETTE AND THE... SHAW, FLORA (1852-1929) LADY LUGARD,  JOURNALIST, WAS BORN IN DECEMBER 1852 IN KIMMAGE, CODUBLIN,  THIRD AMONG FOURTEEN CHILDREN OF GEN. GEORGE SHAW. FLORA SHAW WAS THE BRITISH WOMAN WHO NAMED "NIGERIA " SHE WAS BORN IN ENGLAND IN 1852. FLORA SHAW BEGAN HER CAREER AS A JOURNALIST, WORKING FOR SEVERAL BRITISH NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES. SHE VISITED SOUTH AFRICA AND AUSTRALIA IN 1892-3, CANADA AND THE KLONDIKE IN 1898, AND SOUTH AFRICA IN 1900 AND 1902. SHAW WAS AN EVANGELISING... TODAY IS THE 17IST ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF DAME FLORA LOUISE SHAW,  LADY LUGARD, DBE (19 DECEMBER 1852-25 JANUARY 1929) AS A PROMINENT FIGURE IN BRITISH... FLORA SHAW IS PERHAPS BEST REMEMBERED IN NIGERIA HISTORY FOR COINING THE NAME "NIGERIA" IN AN ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN TIMES ON JANUARY 8,. BETWEEN 1888-9 SHE LIVED IN EGYPT FROM WHERE SHE SENT REPORTS TO THE PALL MALL GAZETTE AND THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN ON LIFE UNDER BRITISH OCCUPATION. ON HER... FLORA WAS BORN IN WOOL WICH, THE THIRD CHILD OF A CAPTAIN IN THE ROYAL ARTILLERY. HER MOTHER HEALTH WAS NEVER GOOD AND FLORA FOUND HERSELF RUNNING THE... WHERE HER FATHER WAS STATIONED. SHE BEGAN HER CAREER IN JOURNALISM IN 1886 AND WAS SENT BY THE MANCHESTER... FLORA SHAW STEWART (1886-1979),BETTER KNOWN AS "MA" STEWART, WAS A POPULAR PIONEERING HOTEL OWNER IN THE TERRITORY OF POPUA AND THE TERRITORY OF NEW GUINEA (... BRITISH JOURNALIST, FLORA SHAW IS WIDELY CREDITED WITH THE COINAGE OF THE NAME "NIGERIA" TO DESCRIBE THE NIGER AREA, WHICH WAS THEN A TERRITORY... IN THE 1890S FLORA SHAW TRAVELLED THROUGH OUTBACK QUEENSLAND AND THE SOUTHERN AUSTRALIA COLONIES REPORTING FOR THE LONDON TIMES. SHE WAS A REMARKABLE... THE NAME "NIGERIA" WAS SUGGESTED BY BRITISH JOURNALIST FLORA SHAW IN THE "1890s". SHE REFERRED TO THE AREA AS NIGERIA, AFTER THE NIGER  RIVER WHICH DOMINATES...