Adeline Paulina Irby was a Balkan heroine known as Miss Irby. A British travel writer and suffragist, she founded an early girls school in Sarajevo and organised relief to thousands of refugees. The centenary of her death was commemorated throughout Yugoslavia.
Paulina Irby was born in 1831. Her fathers home was at Boyland Hall in Morningthorpe. Her parents were RearAdmiral Frederick Paul Irby and Frances Wright. Her mother, her fathers second wife, came from Mapperley Hall near Nottingham. Her brother Colonel Howard Irby was a noted ornithologist.
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