Mabel Bent

Mabel Bent
Bent in 1891
Born
Mabel Virginia Anna Hall-Dare

(1847-01-28)28 January 1847
County Meath, Ireland
Died3 July 1929(1929-07-03) (aged 82)
London
Occupations
Spouse
J. Theodore Bent
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(m. 1877; died 1897)​

Mabel Virginia Anna Bent (née Hall-Dare, a.k.a. Mrs J. Theodore Bent) (28 January 1847 – 3 July 1929), was an Anglo-Irish explorer, excavator, writer and photographer. With her husband, J. Theodore Bent, she spent two decades (1877–1897) travelling, collecting and researching in remote regions of the Eastern Mediterranean, Asia Minor, Africa, and Arabia.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ Much of the biographical material herein is from two obituaries of Mabel Bent: 'Mrs. Theodore Bent', Nature 124, 65 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124065a0 and The Times, 4 July 1929.
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  3. ^ Bo Beolens; Michael Watkins; Michael Grayson (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. JHU Press. p. 23.