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Rosalind Frances Nash, née Shore-Smith (December 1862 – 17 October 1952) was a journalist and co-operator. She was the niece and confidante of Florence Nightingale.
She was educated at Girton College, University of Cambridge, where she became close friends with Margaret Llewelyn Davies.
Barbara (nee Margaret Thyra Barbara Shore-Smith), Rosalind's sister, married barrister and Judge of the Calcutta High Court Sir Harry Lushington Stephen. In 1893, Nash married the progressive economist Vaughan Nash (1861–1932) and they lived at Loughton in Essex.
Nash was a member of the Co-operative Women's Guild, which she referred to as "a kind of trade union" for housewives during a paper "The Position of Married Women," presented at the Guild Congress in 1907. She was also a Suffrage, supporting the campaign for women's enfranchisement.
Nash worked as a journalist, primarily writing about women's suffrage and labour issues such as the conditions of dangerous trades. She assisted in some of Nightingale's publications, and wrote on her behalf to Karl Pearson while he was writing his biography of Francis Galton. After Florence Nightingale's death, her husband Vaughan Nash played an important role in collating and copying her correspondence.
Nash died in 1952. She was buried with her husband, who had predeceased her by twenty years in 1932, in the graveyard in the parish church of St. Margaret of Antioch, Wellow, Hampshire.Lee, J. M. (2008)
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