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 edit
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]
References edit
- ^ Hutching, Sam; Taonga, New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu. "Babington's Tea Rooms, Rome". teara.govt.nz. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
- ^ a b "Isabel Cargill". HERITAGE POST. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
- ^ "Birth search: registration number 1864/18918". Births, deaths & marriages online. Department of Internal Affairs. Retrieved 13 February 2023.
- ^ "Birth". Otago Daily Times. No. 928. 12 December 1864. p. 4. Retrieved 13 February 2023.
- ^ "Personal items from London". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
- ^ "Death of Mr E. B. Cargill". Otago Daily Times. No. 12737. 10 August 1903. p. 6. Retrieved 13 February 2023.
- ^ a b Bishop, Catherine (2019). Women Mean Business: Colonial Businesswomen in New Zealand. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press. p. 287. ISBN 9781988531762.
- ^ "Signora da Pozzo". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
- ^ "Cosmopolis » Babingtons Tea Rooms in Rome". Retrieved 21 January 2023.
- ^ Comerford, Patrick. "Babington's in Rome is more to my taste than the new McDonalds near the Vatican". Retrieved 21 January 2023.
- ^ "Da Pozzo, Isabel – Padua, Italy – widow". Archives New Zealand. Retrieved 13 February 2023.
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