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{{Infobox person
| honorific_prefix = [[The Most Honourable]]
| name = The Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair
| honorific_suffix = [[Order of= the British Empire{{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GBE]]}}
| image = Lady Ishbel Aberdeen 1899 IIAV 15541 (cropped).TIFjpg
| caption = IshbelLady Hamilton-GordonAberdeen by W.J. Byrne & Co., 1899.
| birth_name = Isabel Maria Marjoribanks
| birth_date = 15 March 1857
| birth_place = [[London]], England
| death_date = {{death date and age|1939|4|18|1857|3|15|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Rubislaw, Aberdeen]], Scotland
| othername = Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon<br/>Isabel Aberdeen▼
| death_cause = [[Myocardial infarction|Heart attack]]
| occupation = Author, philanthropist▼
▲| othername = Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon<br>Isabel Aberdeen
| parents = [[Dudley Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth]] <br/> [[James Weir Hogg|Isabella Weir-Hogg]]▼
▲| occupation = Author, philanthropist
| signature = Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair Signature.jpg
▲| parents = [[Dudley Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth]] <br> [[James Weir Hogg|Isabella Weir-Hogg]]
| spouse = [[John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair]]
| children = [[George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair]] <br/> [[Marjorie Adeline Gordon|Marjorie Sinclair, Baroness Pentland]] <br/> [[Dudley Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair]] <br/> Lord Archibald Gordon
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'''Ishbel Maria Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair''', [[Order of the British Empire{{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GBE]]}} (''[[née]]'' '''Isabel Maria Marjoribanks'''; 15 March 1857 – 18 April 1939){{efn|later she used Ishbel, the Gaelic for Isabel<ref name=MBJournal4>Marjoribanks, Roger. "Ishbel Marjoribanks", [http://marjorib.awardspace.co.uk/JIssue4.html The Marjoribanks Journal Number 4], August 1996; accessed 22 May 2010.</ref>}} was a ScottishBritish authorwriter, philanthropist, and an advocate of womanwomen's interests. As the wife of [[John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair]], she was [[viceregal consort of Canada]] from 1893 to 1898 and of [[Ireland]] from 1906 to 1915.
 
==Early life==
Born in London as '''Isabel'''{{efn|later she used Ishbel, the Gaelic for Isabel<ref name=MBJournal4>Marjoribanks, Roger. "Ishbel Marjoribanks", [http://marjorib.awardspace.co.uk/JIssue4.html The Marjoribanks Journal Number 4], August 1996; accessed 22 May 2010.</ref>}} '''Maria Marjoribanks''', she was the third daughter of the [[Dudley Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth|1st Baron Tweedmouth]] and Isabella Weir-Hogg (daughter of Sir [[James Weir Hogg]]).<ref name=MBJournal4/>) A sometimes "anxious" child, she had enjoyed escaping to the mansion her father had built amidst the "rugged splendour of [[Glen Affric]]" in the [[Scottish Highlands]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Welfare |first1=Simon |title=Fortune's Many Houses |date=2021 |publisher=Atria Books |isbn=9781982128647 |page=12 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iQcWEAAAQBAJ&dq=ishbel+marjoribanks+marchioness+glen+affric&pg=PA325 |access-date=28 September 2022}}</ref> She received a well-rounded education in English, French, mathematics, history, and geography, and was such a good student that her teacher recommended she attend college. However, Lady Aberdeen’sAberdeen's father shared the widely held opinion that university was no place for a woman.<ref>Doris French Shackleton, ''Ishbel and the Empire: A Biography of Lady Aberdeen'' (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1988), 19, 27. {{ISBN|9781550020380}}</ref> Instead, her education continued at home at her parents’ social events, where she met the famous politicians of the day.<ref>Merna Forster, “Lady"Lady Aberdeen: A Lady of the Empire,”" ''100 Canadian Heroines: Famous and Forgotten Faces'', 23-2523–25 (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2004), 23. {{ISBN|9781550025149}}</ref> This experience helped prepare her for a lifetime of political involvement. Isabel became an evangelical at an early age, believing like many Victorians in a life dedicated to good works, as well as social and moral reform.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Saywell |editor1-first=John T. |title=The Canadian Journal of Lady Aberdeen, 1893–1898 |date=1960 |publisher=The Publications of the Champlain Society |page=14 |doi=10.3138/9781442618015 |isbn=978-1-4426-1801-5 }}</ref>
 
After a six-year acquaintance, she married John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, the [[John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair|7th Earl of Aberdeen]] (later the 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair), on 7 November 1877 in St. George's Church, St. George Street, Hanover Square, London. The couple had four surviving children: [[George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair|George]] (1879), [[Marjorie Adeline Gordon|Marjorie]] (1880), [[Dudley Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair|Dudley]] (1883), and Archibald (1884).<ref>Anne-Michelle Slater, “The"The Noble Patroness Lady Aberdeen,”" in ''Learning from the Lasses: Women of the Patrick Geddes Circle'', Walter Stephen (Edinburgh: Luath Press Limited, 2014), 166. {{ISBN|9781910021064}}</ref> Lady Aberdeen's daughter has written that "Ishbel interpreted the duty of wife as one who not only provided for her husband a serene background in private life, but as one who also thought and fought for him in all his affairs."<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Saywell |editor1-first=John T. |title=The Canadian Journal of Lady Aberdeen, 1893–1898 |date=1960 |publisher=The Publications of the Champlain Society |page=15 |doi=10.3138/9781442618015 |isbn=978-1-4426-1801-5 }}</ref>
 
==Social activism in England and Scotland==
Lord Aberdeen was a Liberal and a member of the [[House of Lords]], and Lady Aberdeen supported him by hosting social events. An intelligent and determined woman, she soon established her own political life as an activist. Because of political obligations, the family divided their time between London and their Scottish estate in [[Aberdeenshire]]. They called their home [[Haddo House]], and it was here that Lady Aberdeen began her involvement with social reforms. She organized a Household Club that held classes for servants to learn singing, carving, reading, and other activities. The Aberdeens often attended their servants’ evening socials and meetings, and in London society it was rumoured that they had even dined together. They also funded a local school and hospital – healthcarehospital—healthcare was a cause that Lady Aberdeen supported throughout her life.<ref>Slater, "The Noble Patroness Lady Aberdeen," 166.</ref>
 
Lady Aberdeen’sAberdeen's influence also extended beyond her country estate. She established the Onwards and Upward Association, which provided servant girls with postal courses on topics ranging from geography to literature to domestic science. This program spread from Aberdeenshire to include thousands of servants.<ref>Slater, "The Noble Patroness Lady Aberdeen," 167.</ref> Lady Aberdeen founded the Aberdeen Ladies' Union, an institution to help young women in Scotland.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://ottawa1.one/uk/eternal/rivni-prava-ta-mozhlyvosti-yak-naczionalna-rada-zhinok-v-ottavi-zminyla-stavlennya-do-slabkoyi-stati-2177 | title=«Рівні права та можливості». Як Національна рада жінок в Оттаві змінила ставлення до слабкої статі? - ottawa1.one | date=7 November 2022 }}</ref> In 1883 she became the first president of the Ladies’ Union of Aberdeen, an organization that focused on the well-being of young women living in cities. An Emigration Committee chose suitable women and sponsored them to move to the colonies, especially [[Canada]].<ref>Shackleton, ''Ishbel and the Empire'', 99.</ref> Lady Aberdeen was also the head of the Women’sWomen's Liberal Federation, which advocated for women’swomen's suffrage.<ref>Val McLeish, “Sunshine"Sunshine and sorrows: Canada, Ireland and Lady Aberdeen,”" in ''Colonial Lives Across the British Empire: Imperial careering in the long nineteenth century'', David Lambert and [[Alan Lester]] (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 261. {{ISBN|9780521612371}}</ref>
 
Her commitment to housing improvement and fascination with the work of [[Octavia Hill]] is recorded by her daughter Baroness Pentland who wrote in a 1952 biography of her mother: 'In February 1939 she presided at the showing (for the first time outside London) of a centenary exhibition illustrating the life of Hill's work which had been brought north and explained by [[Lupton family|Miss Anne Lupton]]'.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pentland |first1=Baroness |title= A Bonnie Fechter: The Illustrated Life of Ishbel Marjoribanks, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair |date=1952 |publisher=Batsford |page=231 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fHYKAQAAMAAJ&q=London+Housing+Centre++Anne+Lupton |access-date=29 September 2022|quote=[Ishbel] presided at the showing (for the first time outside London) of a centenary exhibition illustrating the life of Hill's work which had been brought north and explained by Miss Anne Lupton. Ishbel presided at its opening on March 2nd...}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Octavia Hill Exhibition To Visit Aberdeen |url=https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/searchbna/results?memberlastsubclass=none&searchhistorykey=0&keywords=octavia%20hill%20%20%20lady%20aberdeen%20lupton&from=1935&to=1939 |access-date=29 September 2022 |publisher=Aberdeen Press and Journal |date=9 February 1939 |quote=OCTAVIA HILL EXHIBITION TO VISIT ABERDEEN ...yesterday... Lady Aberdeen opened the proceedings. which were carried on... [Also – The Scotsman Midlothian, Scotland 8 Mar 1939 OCTAVIA HILL – Edinburgh Exhibition HOUSING PIONEER ...In many ways Miss Octavia Hill was far ahead of us, even to-day, said Miss A. M. Lupton, vice-chairman of the Housing Centre, London, when yesterday morning she outlined the career of Octavia...]}}</ref>
 
==Time in Canada==
[[File:THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE COUNTESS OF ABERDEEN, LL.D.jpg|thumb|Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness ofLady Aberdeen and Temair by [[William James Topley]], c. 1900.]]
In 1893, Lord Aberdeen was appointed the [[Governor General of Canada]], a post he would occupy until 1898. The Aberdeens were no strangers to the country, as they had visited several times before; during their cross-Canada tour of 1890 they had even purchased a homestead in [[British Columbia]].<ref>Shackleton, ''Ishbel and the Empire'', 103-4.</ref> On that same visit they crossed the prairies, and Lady Aberdeen was struck by the difficult and isolated lifestyle of pioneers. She subsequently founded the Aberdeen Association for Distribution of Good Literature to Settlers in the West, which sent settlers packages of books and magazines.<ref name="Forster, Lady Aberdeen, 24">Forster, “Lady"Lady Aberdeen,”" 24.</ref>
 
Lady Aberdeen was dedicated to her role as Governor General’sGeneral's wife ([[Viceregal consort of Canada]]). She hosted many popular social events, such as winter festivals and costume balls, and was more politically involved than her predecessors. She travelled extensively, attending events and collecting information for her husband.<ref name="Forster, Lady Aberdeen, 24"/> She regularly offered him advice, and in fact newspapers commented (sometimes critically) that it appeared she held the power in their relationship.<ref>Shackleton, ''Ishbel and the Empire'', 136.</ref>
 
In 1893, the year she arrived in Canada, Lady Aberdeen was named the first president of the [[International Council of Women]], an organization that campaigns for women’swomen's rights. Consequently, she organized the [[National Council of Women of Canada]] and traveledtravelled the country establishing local branches.<ref>Shackleton, Ishbel and the Empire, 152.</ref> One of the activists she worked with was [[Adelaide Hoodless]], who went on to found the [[Women's Institute]].<ref>{{cite web|first=Terry |last=Crowley|title=HUNTER, ADELAIDE SOPHIA|work=Dictionary of Canadian Biography|volume= 13|publisher= University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–|accessdateaccess-date= 27 December 27, 2016|url= http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/hunter_adelaide_sophia_13E.html}}</ref>
 
Lady Aberdeen was the first sponsor of the [[Women's Art Association of Canada]], founded in 1892.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/hist/cadeau/caser02e.shtml |title=Women's Art Association of Canada|publisher=Canadian Museum of History|accessdateaccess-date=5 July 2014-07-05}}</ref> Yet another of her endeavours was the May Court Club, an association that enabled well-off young women to do charitable work.<ref>Shackleton, ''Ishbel and the Empire'', 252.</ref> A key organization that she helped establish is the [[Victorian Order of Nurses]], which aimed to give women better training and a higher salary so they could provide services to rural and disadvantaged populations. Lady Aberdeen and the group’sgroup's supporters had to overcome resistance from the medical community before receiving the organization’sorganization's royal charter in 1898.<ref name="Forster, Lady Aberdeen, 24"/> That same year, Lord and Lady Aberdeen returned to England.
 
==Time in Ireland==
Lord Aberdeen belonged to the [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal Party]], and when it regained power in parliament in 1906 he was named the [[Lord Lieutenant of Ireland]] for the second time. He had previously been Lord Lieutenant, or viceroy, for approximately six months in 1886. True to her nature, Lady Aberdeen identified herself with the cause of the Irish people and contributed to Lord Aberdeen's success over the course of his six months in office.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Saywell |editor1-first=John T. |title=The Canadian Journal of Lady Aberdeen, 1893–1898 |date=2013 |publisher=The Publications of the Champlain Society |page=19 |doi=10.3138/9781442618015 |isbn=978-1-4426-1801-5 }}</ref> During that time, Lady Aberdeen had promoted Irish crafts and became chairman of the Association of Irish Industries.<ref>{{cite book |last=Corrigan |first=Vawn |date=2020 |title=Irish Tweed: History, Tradition, Fashion |publisher=O'Brien Press |url=http://www.obrien.ie/irish-aran |isbn=9781788490214 }}</ref>

Their second term in [[Ireland]] lasted from 1906 to 1915, and this time she focused on healthcare and social well-being. Lady Aberdeen was involved with medical organizations like the [[Women's National Health Association|Women’sWomen's National Health Association of Ireland]] that were dedicated to treating and preventing tuberculosis and improving children’schildren's health. Her name lives on in Lady Ishbel Avenue, part of the former [[Belvoir Park Hospital|Purdysburn Fever Hospital]] site in south Belfast.

In 1911 she served as the first president of the Housing and Town Planning Association of Ireland, advocating for better housing and public spaces to address the prevalent poverty.<ref>Slater, “The"The Noble Patroness Lady Aberdeen,”" 168, 170, 171, 176, 179.</ref> Lady Aberdeen's Cottages in [[Mullingar]] are named after her. Although she had been quite popular during her first stint in Ireland, she faced a different reception upon her return.

By 1906 nationalist sentiment had increased significantly in Ireland, and her ties to Britain were held against her. Furthermore, her determination to have her way meant that she was not always sensitive to the Irish perspective.<ref>McLeish, “Sunshine"Sunshine and sorrows,”" 277, 283.</ref>
 
==Later life==
[[File:Ishbel, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair - Ida Caroline Thoresen - ABDAG004711.jpeg|thumb|right|''Ishbel, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair'', by Ida Thoresen, 1935]]
Lord and Lady Aberdeen retired to their home in [[Scotland]], but continued to be involved in social causes. Together they wrote a memoir, ''We Twa'', that was published in 1925 to a positive reception and was followed by several expanded editions.<ref>Marjorie Pentland, ''A Bonnie Fechter: The life of Ishbel Marjoribanks'' (London: B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1952), 201, 202.</ref> ''The Canadian Journal of Lady Aberdeen, 1893-1898'', was edited by [[John Saywell]] and published by the Champlain Society in 1960, after her death.<ref>''The Man From Halifax: Sir John Thompson, Prime Minister'', by [[Peter Busby Waite]], Toronto 1985, [[University of Toronto]] Press, p. 527.<!-- ISBN needed --></ref> In 1931, Lady Aberdeen presented to the [[General Assembly of the Church of Scotland]] a petition of 336 women calling for women to be ordained to the ministry, diaconate and eldership of the Kirk.<ref>Pentland, ''A Bonnie Fechter'', 207.</ref> This resulted in a special commission, which recommended only that women should be ordained to the diaconate. It was not until 1968 that the Church of Scotland passed acts allowing women to become elders or enter the ministry.<ref>{{cite web|title=Acts of the General Assembly - Legislative acts: 1931 to 2015|url=http://www.churchofscotland.org.uk/about_us/church_law/acts|publisher=Church of Scotland|accessdate=19 August 2015}}</ref> She continued to serve as the president of the International Council of Women until 1936. She died of a heart attack on 18 April 1939 at Gordon House in [[Rubislaw, Aberdeen]].<ref>Pentland, ''A Bonnie Fechter'', 235.</ref><ref name="obit">{{Cite newspaper The Times |articlename=Lady Aberdeen and Temair |day_of_week=Wednesday |date=19 April 1939 |page_number=16 |issue=48283 |column= }}</ref>▼
Lord and Lady Aberdeen retired to their home in [[Scotland]], but continued to be involved in social causes. Together they wrote a memoir, ''We Twa'', that was published in 1925 to a positive reception and was followed by several expanded editions.<ref>Marjorie Pentland, ''A Bonnie Fechter: The life of Ishbel Marjoribanks'' (London: B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1952), 201, 202.</ref> ''The Canadian Journal of Lady Aberdeen, 1893–1898'', was edited by [[John Saywell]] and published by the Champlain Society in 1960, after her death.<ref>''The Man From Halifax: Sir John Thompson, Prime Minister'', by [[Peter Busby Waite]], Toronto 1985, [[University of Toronto]] Press, p. 527.<!-- ISBN needed --></ref>
 
▲Lord and Lady Aberdeen retired to their home in [[Scotland]], but continued to be involved in social causes. Together they wrote a memoir, ''We Twa'', that was published in 1925 to a positive reception and was followed by several expanded editions.<ref>Marjorie Pentland, ''A Bonnie Fechter: The life of Ishbel Marjoribanks'' (London: B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1952), 201, 202.</ref> ''The Canadian Journal of Lady Aberdeen, 1893-1898'', was edited by [[John Saywell]] and published by the Champlain Society in 1960, after her death.<ref>''The Man From Halifax: Sir John Thompson, Prime Minister'', by [[Peter Busby Waite]], Toronto 1985, [[University of Toronto]] Press, p. 527.<!-- ISBN needed --></ref> In 1931, Lady Aberdeen presented to the [[General Assembly of the Church of Scotland]] a petition of 336 women calling for women to be ordained to the ministry, diaconate and eldership of the Kirk.<ref>Pentland, ''A Bonnie Fechter'', 207.</ref> This resulted in a special commission, which recommended only that women should be ordained to the diaconate. It was not until 1968 that the Church of Scotland passed acts allowing women to become elders or enter the ministry.<ref>{{cite web|title=Acts of the General Assembly -– Legislative acts: 1931 to 2015|date=21 March 2011|url=http://www.churchofscotland.org.uk/about_us/church_law/acts|publisher=Church of Scotland|accessdateaccess-date=19 August 2015}}</ref> She continued to serve as the president of the International Council of Women until 1936. She died of a heart attack on 18 April 1939 at Gordon House in [[Rubislaw, Aberdeen]].<ref>Pentland, ''A Bonnie Fechter'', 235.</ref><ref name="obit">{{Cite newspaper The Times |articlenametitle=Lady Aberdeen and Temair |day_of_week=Wednesday |date=19 April 1939 |page_numberpage=16 |issue=48283 |column= }}</ref>
 
==Recognition==
[[File:CountessPortrait album of Aberdeen in Queenwho's Uwho robesat Topleythe International Congress of Women - Countess of Aberdeen.jpg|thumb|left|Lady Aberdeen was the first woman to receive an [[honorary degree]] in [[Canada]].<ref name = Undiscovered/> She is shown here in [[Queen's University]] robes,at photographedKingston|Queen's by [[William James TopleyUniversity]] robes.]]
In 1894, she received the Freedom of [[Limerick]]; she received the Freedom of Edinburgh in 1928 and was invested as[[Order aof the British Empire|Dame Grand Cross in the Order of the British Empire ]] ([[Order of the British Empire|GBE]]) in 1931.<ref name = Undiscovered>(2013) [http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/h/ishbelhamiltongordon.html Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon] Undiscovered Scotland, Retrieved 10 April 2013</ref>
 
The [[Lady Aberdeen Bridge|Lady-Aberdeen Bridge]], which is the first bridge upstream to cross the [[Gatineau riverRiver]], in [[Gatineau]], [[Quebec]], was namedrenamed in her honour. After falling through the ice at the confluence of the Gatineau and [[Ottawa River]]s, Lady Aberdeen was rescued by Gatineau locals. Out of gratitude she funded the construction of a church near the site of the accident and the Lady Aberdeen Bridge.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.toponymie.gouv.qc.ca/ct/ToposWeb/fiche.aspx?no_seq=107019|work=Commission de toponymie du Québec|language=Frenchfr|title=Pont Lady-Aberdeen|publisher=Government of Quebec|accessdateaccess-date=19 October 2011}}</ref>
 
Lady Aberdeen is credited with introducing the [[Golden Retriever]] to Canada and; her father, Sir Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth, a Scottish aristocrat, is best known as the originator of the breed.<ref>Baldwin, Lorna (7 August 2013) [https://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/golden-retriever-gathering/ Golden Retrievers Go ‘Home’ for Gathering in Scottish Highlands] Public Broadcasting System, Newshour; retrieved 4 July 2014.</ref>
 
[[Aberdeen Avenue (Hamilton, Ontario)|Aberdeen Avenue]] in [[Hamilton, Ontario]], [[Canada]], was named after Lord and Lady Aberdeen who lived on [[Bay Street (Hamilton)|Bay Street South]] between 1890 and 1898. They presided over the opening of the ''Hamilton Public Library'' on 16 September 1890.<ref name=HAMNAMES>{{cite book|title=Hamilton Street Names: An Illustrated Guide|first=Margaret|last=Houghton|publisher=James Lorimer & Co. Ltd.|year=2002|isbn=1-55028-773-7}}</ref> Aberdeen Avenue in Toronto is also named after them. Aberdeen Street in [[Kingston, Ontario]], is named for the couple; it is located near the [[Queen's University at Kingston|Queen's University]] campus. Her popularity in Canada led to her being given 18 elaborate tea sets by the Canadian government. This gift was nothing to do with her title or marriage and was purely because of her own work and impact.
 
Aberdeen Street in [[Kingston, Ontario]] is named for the couple; it is located near the [[Queen's University]] campus. Her popularity in Canada led to her being given 18 elaborate tea sets by the Canadian government. This gift was nothing to do with her title or marriage and was purely because of her own work and impact. She was the first woman to be made an honorary member of the [[British Medical Association]].<ref name=MBJournal4/>
 
The [[Ontario Heritage Trust]] erected a plaque for Lady Aberdeen 1857–1939 on the grounds of [[Rideau Hall]], 1 Sussex Drive, Ottawa. "Widely respected for her organizational skills and strong commitment to public service, Lady Aberdeen served as president of the International Council of Women from 1893 to 1939. During the Earl of Aberdeen's term as governor-general, she helped to form the National Council of Women of Canada." <ref>(2015) [http://www.heritagetrust.on.ca/en/index.php/plaques/lady-aberdeen-1857-1939 Plaque information -– Lady Aberdeen 1857-19381857–1938] Ontario Heritage Trust, an agency of the Canadian Ministry of Tourism, Culture & Sport, Retrieved 4 September 2015</ref> Lady Aberdeen was also named a [[Persons of National Historic Significance|National Historic Person]] with a plaque on Sussex Drive in Ottawa.<ref>{{cite web|title=Parks Canada -– Aberdeen, Lady (Ishbel Maria Marjoribanks) National Historic Person |url=http://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/dfhd/page_nhs_eng.aspx?id=1247|website=Parks Canada|accessdateaccess-date=17 August 2017}}</ref>
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==See also==
[[Robert Gordon University]] has a campus building on its Garthdee campus named after her.
* [[Elizabeth Burchinal]], authority on American folk dance especially for women and children.
 
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===Bibliography===
*G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, ''The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant'', new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910–1959; reprint in 6 volumes, [[Gloucester]]: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, p.&nbsp;18.
*G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, ''The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant'', new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910–1959; reprint in 6 volumes, [[Gloucester]]: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume XIII, page 209.
*Ibid, volume XIII, page 209.
*Ishbel Gordon, [[doi:10.3138/9781442618015|''The Canadian Journal of Lady Aberdeen, 1893–1898'']], edited by John T. Saywell, Publications of the Champlain Society, № 38 (1960), {{ISBN|978-1-4426-1801-5|}}.
*Peter W. Hammond, editor, ''The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda'' ([[Stroud, Gloucestershire]]: Sutton Publishing, 1998), p.&nbsp;5.
*Charles Mosley, editor, ''Burke's Peerage and Baronetage'', 106th edition'' (Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd., 1999), volume 1, p.&nbsp;11.
*Veronica Strong-Boag, ''Liberal Hearts and Coronets: The Lives and Times of Ishbel Marjoribanks Gordon and John Campbell Gordon, the Aberdeens'' (University of Toronto Press, 10 Mar.March 2015), {{ISBN|978-1442626027}}
 
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