Barbara Arbuthnott
Barbara Elrington Douglas Arbuthnott was a Scottish woman who lived in Sunndal, Norway where she engaged in charitable work and wrote about her life.
Douglas was born into a wealthy Scottish family in Templemore, Ireland. Her father, Sir Neil Douglas, KCB, KCH was a Scottish officer and Lieutenant General in the British army. Her mother was the daughter of a wealthy banker in Edinburgh. In her youth, she studied the Greek, Latin and German languages in Brussels . She met Queen Victoria in 1842. On her fathers travels in the East she learned to speak Hindi.
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