Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair: Difference between revisions

Born in London as '''IshbelIsabel''' ({{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/>). 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’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 Aberdeen: A Lady of the Empire,” ''100 Canadian Heroines: Famous and Forgotten Faces'', 23-25 (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2004), 23. {{ISBN|9781550025149}}</ref> This experience helped prepare her for a lifetime of political involvement.