Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair

Ishbel Maria Hamilton - Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair, GBE born Majoribanks ( born March 15, 1857 in London, † April 18, 1939 in Aberdeen ) was a Scottish social reformer and women's rights activist.

Life

Ishbel was born as the daughter of Dudley Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth and Isabella Weir Hogg. 1877 she married the democratic politician John Hamilton - Gordon, 7th Earl of Aberdeen and 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair ), in St. George 's Church, London. Her husband was 1893-1898 Governor General of Canada. The couple had five children: George (1879-1965), Marjorie Adeline (1880-1970), Dorothea Mary ( * / † 1882), Dudley Gladstone ( 1883-1972 ) and Archibald Ian ( 1884-1909 ).

Lady Aberdeen founded together with Henrietta Muir Edwards, Susan B. Anthony, May Wright Sewall and other women of the suffragette movement, the first of which she was president International Council of Women (ICW ), with interruptions, 1893-1936.

1886, during their stay in Ireland as the wife of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, founded Ishbel Hamilton - Gordon, the Woman's National Health Association.

Between 1893 and 1898 lived Ishbel Hamilton - Gordon in Canada and founded in 1897 the Victorian Order of Nurses ( VON). My main concern was primarily the health of women in remote parts of Canada and the fight against tuberculosis. Today, OF is the largest Canadian charity.

In 1904 she was involved in women's suffrage and from the 1930s for the appointment of women to senior positions of the Church of Scotland.

Awards

  • Freedom of Limerick, 1894
  • As the first woman receives Ishbel Maria Hamilton - Gordon, the honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Law, Queen's University of Kingston, Ontario, 1897
  • Freedom of Edinburgh, 1928
  • Dame Grand Cross GBE, 1931
  • Naming of several streets, squares and public institutions in Canada to Ishbel Maria Hamilton - Gordon
  • "Lady Aberdeen ," a rose breeding of May Court Clubs of Canada in honor of its founder, 2001

Work

  • Encouragement of Home Industries. In: The Congress of Women: Held in the Woman 's Building, World's Columbian Exposition. Chicago, USA, 1893
  • Women in Profession Being the Professional Section of the International Congress of Women. Reprint, 2008 Xlibris, ISBN 9780559240461
  • Through Canada with a Kodak. W. H. White, Edinburgh 1893, reprint 1994
  • Ireland 's Crusade against Tuberculosis. 3 Bd, Maunsel & Co., Dublin 1908
  • The Canadian Journal of Lady Aberdeen, 1893-1898. John T. Saywell (ed.), Champlain Society, Toronto 1960
  • The Journal of Lady Aberdeen. The Okanagan Valley in the Nineties. Middleton, R. M. (Eds.), Morris Publishing, Victoria BC, Canada, 1986
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