Isabella Bird
(1831-1904)

woman, explorer, missionary, and author

Died aged 72

Isabella Lucy Bird, married name Bishop FRGS (15 October 1831 – 7 October 1904), was a nineteenth-century British explorer, writer, photographer, and naturalist. With Fanny Jane Butler she founded the John Bishop Memorial Hospital in Srinagar in today’s Kashmir. She was the first woman to be elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

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Boroughbridge, United Kingdom

Boroughbridge Hall. Isabella Bird (Mrs Bishop), explorer, missionary and author, was born here on 15 October 1831.

Hall Square, , Boroughbridge, United Kingdom where they was born (1831)