# Ben Hawes — Eminent Victorians character guide

> Ben Hawes in Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Sir Benjamin Hawes, the Nightingale Cabinet

**First appearance:** 0015-florence-nightingale

## Who they are

British civil servant and brother-in-law of Florence Nightingale.

## In the story

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/eminent_victorians_se/chapters/iii)

The Permanent Undersecretary at the War Office, dubbed 'Ben Hawes the Nightingale Cabinet' by Miss Nightingale's circle. He resists Sidney Herbert's reforms using all the arts of official obstruction, and Miss Nightingale hopes his resignation will result from their scheme.

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