Isabella Bird
Explorer and writer
Isabella Lucy Bishop FRGS was an English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist. Alongside fellow Englishwoman Fanny Jane Butler, she founded the John Bishop Memorial Hospital in Srinagar in modern-day Kashmir. She was also the first woman... Wikipedia
Born: October 15, 1831, Boroughbridge, United Kingdom
Died: October 7, 1904 (age 72 years), Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Parents: Dora Lawson and Edward Bird
Siblings: Henrietta Amelia Bird
Spouse: John Bishop (m. 1881–1886)
Place of burial: Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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