Isabella Gilmore

Isabella Gilmore (née Morris; 1842–1923) was an English churchwoman who oversaw the revival of the Deaconess Order in the Anglican Communion. Isabella served actively in the poorest parishes in South London for almost two decades and she is remembered with a commemoration in the Calendar of saints in some parts of the Anglican Communion on 16 April. She was the sister of William Morris.

Isabella Gilmore
Gilmore in the 1880s
Deaconess
Born1842
London, England
Died1923 (aged 8081)
Venerated inAnglican Communion
Major shrineSouth transept of Southwark Cathedral
Feast16 April
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