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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use New Zealand English Isabel Cargill (10 December 1864 – 17 April 1944) was a New Zealand businesswoman who established English-style tearooms in Rome, Italy, in the early 1890s.[1][2]

Biography

Cargill was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, on 10 December 1864.[3][4] She was the granddaughter of William Cargill, the founder of the city, and the fourth daughter of Edward Cargill and his wife, Dorothy Cargill (née Nesham).[5][6]

In the early 1890s she travelled to England and then, with her English friend Anna Maria Babington, to Italy. When they were unable to find a shop selling cups of tea in the city, the pair decided to open an English-style tearooms, which they called Babington's Tea Room.[7]

Cargill also wrote a column, "Letters from Rome" for the Otago Witness newspaper.[7]

In 1902, Cargill married an Italian artist, Giuseppe da Pozzo.[2] The couple had one daughter, Dorothy, who was born in 1904.[8][9]

Cargill died in Stra, Veneto, Italy, on 17 April 1944.[10][11]

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