Ishbel Maria Hamilton-Gordon

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Ishbel Maria Hamilton-Gordon on the occasion of being awarded an honorary doctorate in 1897. Photography by William James Topley (1845–1930)

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

Life

Ishbel is born to Dudley Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth and Isabella Weir-Hogg. In 1877 she married the Democratic politician John Hamilton-Gordon, 7th Earl of Aberdeen, in St. George's Church in Hanover Square, London . Her husband was Governor General of Canada from 1893 to 1898 , Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1886 and 1905 to 1915, and was promoted to Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair in 1916 . As his wife, she led from 1877 to 1916 the courtesy title Countess Aberdeen and from 1916 the courtesy title Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair . The couple had five children: George (1879-1965), Marjorie Adeline (1880-1970), Dorothea Mary (* / † 1882), Dudley Gladstone (1883-1972) and Archibald Ian (1884-1909).

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

In 1888 she founded the International Women's Council (ICW) together with Henrietta Muir Edwards , Susan B. Anthony , May Wright Sewall and other women of the suffragette movement , of which she was first president between 1893 and 1936, albeit with two breaks of several years for recreation.

Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon lived in Canada between 1893 and 1898 and founded the Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) in 1897 . Her main concerns were the health of women in remote parts of Canada and the fight against tuberculosis . The VON also played an important role on the Allied side during the First World War (1914–1918). Today VON is considered to be the largest Canadian aid organization.

From 1904 she campaigned for women's suffrage and from the 1930s for the appointment of women to higher positions in the Church of Scotland .

Awards

  • Freedom of Limerick, 1894
  • Ishbel Maria Hamilton-Gordon was the first woman to receive an Honorary Doctorate from the Law School of Queen's University of Kingston , Ontario, in 1897
  • Freedom of Edinburgh, 1928
  • Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE), 1931
  • Naming of several streets, squares and public facilities in Canada after Ishbel Maria Hamilton-Gordon
  • “Lady Aberdeen”, a rose cultivated by the May Court Club of Canada in honor of its founder, 2001

plant

  • 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, Xlibris 2008, ISBN 9780559240461
  • Through Canada with a Kodak . WH White, Edinburgh 1893, reprinted 1994
  • Ireland's Crusade against Tuberculosis . 3 vol., 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, RM (Ed.), Morriss Publishing, Victoria BC, Canada, 1986

literature

  • Literature by and about Ishbel Maria Hamilton-Gordon in the catalog of the German National Library
  • Marjorie Adeline Gordon Sinclair Pentland: A Bonnie fencer. The life of Ishbel Marjoribanks, marchioness of Aberdeen & Temair, GBE, LL.D., JP, 1857 to 1939. Batsford, London 1952.
  • Doris French: Ishbel and Empire. A Biography of Lady Aberdeen. Dundurn Press, Toronto et al. 1996, ISBN 1-550-02038-2 .
  • Horst-Peter Wolff (Ed.): Biographical lexicon for the history of care. = Who is who in Nursing History. Volume 4. Elsevier, Urban & Fischer, Munich et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-437-26083-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Klimpel : Ishbel Lady Aberdeen . In: Hubert Kolling (Ed.): Biographical Lexicon on Nursing History “Who was who in Nursing history” , Volume four, Urban & Fischer 2008, p. 144 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Hamilton-Gordon, Ishbel Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hamilton-Gordon, Ishbel, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair; Hamilton-Gordon, Ishbel, Countess of Aberdeen; Gordon Abe Temair, Ishbel; Lady Aberdeen; Aberdeen, Ishbel; Majoribanks, Ishbel Maria (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish social reformer and women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1939
Place of death Aberdeen