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Title: | Lady |
Prename: | Ishbel Maria |
Surname: | Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen |
Name of birth: | Marjoribanks |
Profession: | Philanthropist, woman's rights advocate |
Birthday: | 03/14/1857 |
Place of birth: | London |
Date of death: | 04/18/1939 |
Place of death: | Aberdeen |
Married since: | 1877 |
Married to: | John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, Lord Aberdeen |
Profession husband: | Politician, 1886-1890 Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1893-1898 Governeur of Canada |
Children: | Four (George, Marjorie Adeline, Dudley Gladstone, Archibald Ian) |
Education: | 1897 Honorary LL.D., Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada |
Career: | 1893–1936 president, International Council of Women (ICW) |
Memberships: | 1887 founder of the National Health Association of Ireland; 1897 founder, and until 1898 chair of Canadian Council of Women and of Scottish Council for Women’s Trades; 1889 president, Victorian Order of Nurses |
Biographical literature: | Doris French, *Ishbel and the Empire. A Biography of Lady Aberdeen* (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1996) |
Major works: | *Women in Politics* (London: Fisher Unwin, 1900) |