![]() ![]() ![]() Because of her father's ill health Bird's family moved again in 1834 to Tattenhall in Cheshire, a living presented to him by his cousin Dr John Bird Sumner, Bishop of Chester, where in the same year Bird's sister, Henrietta, was born. In 1832, Reverend Bird was appointed curate in Maidenhead. Bird moved several times during her childhood. The book is a compilation of letters, that Isabella Bird wrote to her sister, Henrietta. Her parents were Rev Edward Bird BA (1794-1858) and his second wife, Dora Lawson (1803-1866). A Ladys Life in the Rocky Mountains is a travel book, by Isabella Bird, describing her 1873 trip to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. She was the first woman to be elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.Bird was born on 15 October 1831 at Boroughbridge Hall, Yorkshire, the home of her maternal grandmother and her father's first curacy after taking orders in 1830. 3] With Fanny Jane Butler she founded the John Bishop Memorial hospital in Srinagar. Isabella Lucy Bird, married name Bishop (15 October 1831 - 7 October 1904), was a nineteenth-century English explorer, writer, photographer, and naturalist. ![]()
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