Isabella Bird


Isabella Lucy Bird, married name Bishop FRGS , was a nineteenthcentury English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist. With Fanny Jane Butler she founded the John Bishop Memorial hospital in Srinagar. She was the first woman to be elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Bird was born onOctober 1831 at Boroughbridge Hall, Yorkshire, the home of her maternal grandmother. Her parents were Rev Edward Bird BA and his second wife, Dora Lawson . Boroughbridge was her fathers first curacy after taking orders in 1830, and it was here he met Dora.

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