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Isabella Mary Abbott (December 23, 1890 – November 26, 1955) was a Canadian artist and the mother of actor Christopher Plummer. Life. Abbott was born in Quebec City, the daughter of Marianne J. (Campbell) and Arthur Edward Abbott, and the granddaughter of Prime Minister Sir John Abbott.
Biography synopsis. Isabella Mary Abbott was the granddaughter of Sir John Abbott, third Prime Minister of Canada (1891-92). She came from a cultured and wealthy Senneville (Quebec) family.
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Abbott was born Isabella Kauakea Yau Yung Aiona in Hana, Maui, Territory of Hawaii, on June 20, 1919. Her Hawaiian name means "white rain of Hana" and she was known as "Izzy". Her father was ethnically Chinese while her mother was a Native Hawaiian. Her mother taught her about edible Hawaiian seaweedsand the value and diversity of Hawaii's native p...
In 1966 she became a research associate and taught as a lecturer at Hopkins. She compiled a book on marine algae of the Monterey peninsula, which later was expanded to include all of the California coast. She was awarded the Darbaker Prize by the Botanical Society of America in 1969. By 1972, Stanford Universitypromoted her directly to full profess...
Isabella Kauakea Aiona Abbott died at October 28, 2010 at the age of 91 at her home in Honolulu. Abbott's surviving family includes her daughter Annie Abbott Foerster, and a granddaughter, both residing in Hawaii. To preserve Abbott's legacy and career as a botanist, the University of Hawaii established a scholarship to support graduate research in...
Isabella A. Abbott (1947). Brackish-Water Algae from the Hawaiian Islands.Pacific Science.Isabella A. Abbott (1970). Yamadaella, a new genus in the Nemaliales (Rhodophyta).PhycologiaIsabella Aiona Abbott (1990). A taxonomic and nomenclatural assessment of the species of Liagora (Rhodophyta, Nemaliales) in the herbarium of Lamouroux.Born in New York on 27 July 1921, Mary Abbott boasts an impressive pedigree: a descendent of such luminaries as President John Adams and General Robert E. Lee, she is the daughter of Naval Commander and military adviser Henry Abbott and his wife, Elizabeth Grinnell, a poet and writer.
Mary Abbott. 1921 - 2019. We represented Mary Abbott for eighteen years until her death in 2019 at the age of 98. She was one of the last living members of the Abstract Expressionist movement and we were honored and privileged to work with her so closely. A major biography of the artist is now available on the "Publications Page" of this website.
Biography synopsis. Phyllis Campbell Abbott was the granddaughter of first Canadian-born Prime Minister Sir John Abbott (1891-92). She was likely the sister or cousin of Canadian artist Isabella Mary Abbott, though the connection is not confirmed.
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