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Catherine Ellis Tobin
Lady Tobin and Sir Thomas Tobin
Lady Tobin and Sir Thomas Tobin
BornCatherine Ellis
Died1903
OccupationWriter
NationalityIrish

Catherine Tobin (died 1903) was a Victorian era author and artist who travelled with her husband and wrote books around the experiences as well as a translator for a book on the area.[1]

Life

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Born Catherine Ellis, daughter of Lister Ellis of Crofthead, Cumberland she married Thomas Tobin on 12 September 1835. She had one son, Arthur Lionel Tobin who was born when they lived in Ballincollig, County Cork. He died as a young man, injured in battle. Though the family lived in a few houses in Cork their main residence was Oriel House. However Tobin and her husband shared an interest in travel and antiquities and spent considerable time in the middle and near east. She wrote a number of books due to this interest and travel as well as translating another. At home in Cork, Tobin was a patron of the South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital for many years.[2][3]

George Kelleher has suggested that while Thomas Tobin was an 'antiquarian and curio collector in the spirit of the Victorian age', his wife Catherine, 'was a far more considerable cultural figure'. Her work has served as the basis for a number of studies about the regions.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]

Originally from the UK, when her husband died, Tobin moved first to Albert House Mansion in London and then to Eastham House in Cheshire, where her brother in law James Aspinall Tobin lived. She died there on 23 April 1903.

Bibliography

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  • Shadows of the East, Or, Slight Sketches of Scenery, Persons, and Customs: From Observations During a Tour in 1853 and 1854, in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Turkey and Greece. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 1855.
  • The Land of Inheritance. Quaritch, London. 1863.
  • Illustration of Discoveries at Nineveh. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 1850. by Paul-Émile Botta (Trans.)
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Pictures from Tobin's 1855 book:

David Roberts views in 1839, published in The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia:

References

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  1. ^ Sir H. A. R. Gibb (1980). The Encyclopaedia of Islam. Brill Archive. pp. 68–. GGKEY:1FSD5PNQ2DE.
  2. ^ Penelope Tuson, 2014. "WESTERN WOMEN TRAVELLING EAST, 1716-1916". www.arcadian-library.com.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ "From palm oil to gunpowder: a Cork dynasty was born". The Irish Times.
  4. ^ "Gunpowder plot" (PDF). INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND NEWSLETTER.
  5. ^ Gottheil, Fred M (1979). "The Population of Palestine, circa 1875". Middle Eastern Studies. 15 (3): 310–321. doi:10.1080/00263207908700414. JSTOR 4282757.
  6. ^ Brian Stoddart (1 October 2012). A House In Damascus - Before The Fall. pp. 226–. ISBN 978-1-61417-356-4.
  7. ^ Churnjeet Mahn (15 April 2016). British Women's Travel to Greece, 1840–1914: Travels in the Palimpsest. Routledge. pp. 145–. ISBN 978-1-317-17128-7.
  8. ^ Ziba Rashidian (2 October 2014). Representing the Modern Animal in Culture. Palgrave Macmillan US. pp. 52–. ISBN 978-1-137-42865-3.
  9. ^ Ethnologia Balkanica. LIT Verlag Münster. pp. 193–. GGKEY:YSKSU07QZDQ.
  10. ^ Deborah Manley; Sahar Abdel-Hakim (3 January 2009). Traveling through Sinai: From the Fourth to the Twenty-first Century. American University of Cairo Press. pp. 30–. ISBN 978-1-61797-540-0.
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