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Nugent was shot dead less than a year later. At home, Bird again found herself pursued, this time by Dr John Bishop, an Edinburgh surgeon in his thirties. She got interested in Japan through Colin Alexander McVean's account and asked him advise and convenience in February , then went travelling again, this time to Asia: Feeling that her earlier travels had been hopelessly dilettante, Bird studied medicine and resolved to travel as a missionary.
Despite being nearly 60 years of age, she set off for India.
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Arriving on the subcontinent in February , Bird visited missions in India , visited Ladakh on the borders of Tibet , and then travelled in Persia , Kurdistan , and Turkey. In India, the Maharajah of Kashmir gave her a piece of land on which to build a hospital with sixty beds and a dispensary for women; there she worked with Fanny Jane Butler to found the John Bishop Memorial Hospital in memory of her recently deceased husband who had left funds for this purpose in his will.
The following year, she joined a group of British soldiers travelling between Baghdad and Tehran. She remained with the unit's commanding officer during his survey work in the region, armed with her revolver and a medicine chest supplied — in possibly an early example of corporate sponsorship — by Henry Wellcome 's company in London. Featured in journals and magazines for decades, Bird was by now something of a household name.
I wondered why I loved singing and pottery and discovered my father was a potter and an uncle a singer! I don't live in Wisconsin. Amazon Inspire Digital Educational Resources. Bird was outspoken from an early age. Along the way, you'll learn through hands-on examples that help you dig deeper into your family's past. To ask other readers questions about Who Am I? After sailing to Melbourne and marrying Joseph Lewis in she frequently separated from him.
Two years later, she became the first woman allowed to join the Royal Geographical Society. Her final great journey took place in , when she travelled up the Yangtze and Han rivers in China and Korea , respectively.
Later still, she went to Morocco , where she travelled among the Berbers and had to use a ladder to mount her black stallion, a gift from the Sultan. A few months after returning from a trip to Morocco, Bird fell ill and died at her home on 16 Melville Street [13] , Edinburgh on 7 October She was buried with her family in Dean Cemetery in the west of the city. The grave lies in the small curved southern section, near the small path which divides it in two.
Caryl Churchill used Bird as a character in her play Top Girls Much of the dialogue written by Churchill comes from Bird's own writings. Bird was featured in Bedrock: Writers on the Wonders of Geology , edited by Lauret E. Moores , and Judith E. Moores Trinity University Press which looks at writing over the years and how it pays tribute to the Earth and its geological features.
Bird is also the main character of the manga Isabella Bird in Wonderland Fushigi no Kuni no Bird , a novelization of her travels to Japan; it received a bilingual Japanese-English edition beginning in The building of the clock tower on Tobermory, Mull harbour wall was funded by Bird in memory of her beloved sister Henrietta. It was designed by mountaineer and explorer Edward Whymper. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Boroughbridge , Yorkshire , England.