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Line 24: ==Early life== Born in London, Isabel Maria Marjoribanks 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 admist 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://www.google.com.au/books/edition/Fortune_s_Many_Houses/iQcWEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=ishbel+marjoribanks+marchioness+glen+affric&pg=PA325&printsec=frontcover \|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'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. 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 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>

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