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| Born | Isabella Lucy Bird 15 October 1831 Boroughbridge, Yorkshire |
| Died | 7 October 1904 (aged 72) Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Resting place | Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, photographer and naturalist |
| Spouse | John Bishop (m. 1881) |
| Parent(s) | Dora Lawson, Edward Bird |
Isabella Lucy Bishop FRGS (née Bird; 15 October 1831 – 7 October 1904) was an English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist.[1][2][3] Alongside fellow Englishwoman Fanny Jane Butler, she founded the John Bishop Memorial Hospital in Srinagar in modern-day Kashmir.[4] She was also the first woman to be elected as a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.[5]
- ^ Middleton, Dorothy (2004). "Bishop [Bird], Isabella Lucy (1831–1904)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31904. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "Isabella Bird (1831–1904)". The John Murray Archive. National Library of Scotland. Archived from the original on 17 March 2014. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
- ^ Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey (1986). Women in science : antiquity through the nineteenth century : a biographical dictionary with annotated bibliography (Reprint. ed.). Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. pp. 38. ISBN 9780262650380.
- ^ "Health Care Institutes - John Bishop Memorial Mission Hospital, Kashmir". Diocese of Amritsar. Archived from the original on 26 December 2014. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
- ^ "Mrs Bishop". The Times. Obituaries (37521). London, England: 4. 10 October 1904.
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