Английская Википедия:Georgina Cowper-Temple, Lady Mount Temple

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Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox officeholder Georgina Elizabeth Cowper-Temple, Lady Mount Temple (née Tollemache; 1822 – 17 October 1901) was a British religious enthusiast, humanitarian, and animal welfare campaigner. She was the second wife of William Cowper-Temple, 1st Baron Mount Temple. Lady Mount Temple was active in the Temperance Movement and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and was a co-founder of the Plumage League.

Early life and family

Lady Mount Temple was born Georgina Elizabeth Tollemache on 8 November to Admiral John Richard Delap Tollemache and Lady Elizabeth Stratford. One source says she was probably born in 1821.[1] Her father, whose original surname was Halliday, assumed by royal license the surname and arms of his mother, Lady Jane Tollemache, who was the daughter and co-heiress of Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart.[2] Her mother was the daughter of John Stratford, 3rd Earl of Aldborough.[3] She was the sister of John Tollemache, 1st Baron Tollemache.[3] Lady Mount Temple was a close friend and distant cousin of Constance Lloyd, the wife of Oscar Wilde.[4]

Humanitarianism and animal welfare

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Bronze statue of Lady Mount Temple in Babbacombe

Lady Mount Temple was one of the leaders of the Torquay Anti-Vivisection Society.[4] She also co-founded the Plumage League.

She was active in the Band of Mercy, whose first president was her husband, and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.[4] Lady Mount Temple was also involved in the Temperance Movement.[4]

In 1903, a birdbath with a bronze statue of Lady Mount Temple, designed by Arthur George Walker, was erected in Babbacombe.[4][5] A horse trough near the Torre railway station is also dedicated to her.[4]

Personal life

On 22 November 1848, she married The Honourable William Cowper, son of the 5th Earl Cowper.[3] She and her husband had no natural children, but adopted a daughter named Juliet Latour Temple, in 1869.[6][3] In 1880, her husband was elevated to the peerage as Baron Mount Temple.

Lady Mount Temple was a friend of the writer John Ruskin, the poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and the suffragist Frances Power Cobbe.[3]

She lived at Babbacombe Cliff and also owned properties in Ireland.[4][3] She died in 1901.[4] After her death, part of her estate was bequeathed to the Church Army and to the Victoria Street Society of Protection of Animals from Vivisection.[3]

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