Eliza Maria Gordon-Cumming
Eliza Maria, Lady Gordon-Cumming (née Campbell; 1795 - 21 April 1842) was a Scottish aristocrat, horticulturalist, palaeontologist and scientific illustrator. Lady Cumming collected and studied Devonian fish fossils from the Old Red Sandstone of Morayshire, Scotland. She amassed a large and well-known collection which she illustrated, along with her daughter Lady Anne Seymour. Lady Cumming worked with other palaeontologists and geologists of the time including Louis Agassiz, William Buckland and Roderick Murchison.
Eliza Maria Gordon-Cumming | |
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Portrait by Henry Raeburn, between 1815 and 1823 | |
| Born | Eliza Maria Campbell 1795 Inveraray, Scotland |
| Died | 21 April 1842 (aged 46–47) Altyre, near Inverness, Scotland |
| Spouse | Sir William Gordon-Cumming, 2nd Baronet |
| Children | 13 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Paleontology, scientific illustration |
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