Florence Bravo

Florence Bravo (née Campbell; 5 September 1845 – 17 September 1878), previously known as Florence Ricardo, was an Australian-born British heiress and widow who was linked to the unsolved murder of her second husband, Charles Bravo. On 21 April 1876, after three days of agonising illness, Charles died of antimony poisoning. Although there was widespread innuendo in the press about Florence's role in his death, she was never indicted and the case never reached the courts due to lack of evidence.

During the Coroner's inquest, the lurid details of Florence's past affair with Dr James Manby Gully, a married man thirty-seven years her senior, became a topic of intense fascination, covered by newspapers ranging from The Times and The Daily Telegraph to The Illustrated Police News, as well as publications overseas.^: 93

Florence had previously inherited £40,000 after her first husband, Alexander Ricardo, an alcoholic who drank himself to death. Florence herself lived for only two years after Charles' death and died at the age of 33.