Isabella Bird

Isabella Bird
FRSGS FRGS
Born
Isabella Lucy Bird

(1831-10-15)15 October 1831
Boroughbridge, Yorkshire
Died7 October 1904(1904-10-07) (aged 72)
Edinburgh, Scotland
Resting placeDean Cemetery, Edinburgh
Occupation(s)Writer, photographer and naturalist
SpouseJohn Bishop (m. 1881)
Parent(s)Dora Lawson, Edward Bird

Isabella Lucy Bishop FRGS (née Bird; 15 October 1831 – 7 October 1904) was an English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist.[1][2][3] Alongside fellow Englishwoman Fanny Jane Butler, she founded the John Bishop Memorial Hospital in Srinagar in modern-day Kashmir.[4] She was also the first woman to be elected as a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.[5]

  1. ^ Middleton, Dorothy (2004). "Bishop [Bird], Isabella Lucy (1831–1904)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31904. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ "Isabella Bird (1831–1904)". The John Murray Archive. National Library of Scotland. Archived from the original on 17 March 2014. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
  3. ^ Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey (1986). Women in science : antiquity through the nineteenth century : a biographical dictionary with annotated bibliography (Reprint. ed.). Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. pp. 38. ISBN 9780262650380.
  4. ^ "Health Care Institutes - John Bishop Memorial Mission Hospital, Kashmir". Diocese of Amritsar. Archived from the original on 26 December 2014. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
  5. ^ "Mrs Bishop". The Times. Obituaries (37521). London, England: 4. 10 October 1904.