Eliza Maria Gordon-Cumming

Eliza Maria Gordon-Cumming
Portrait by Henry Raeburn, between 1815 and 1823
Born
Eliza Maria Campbell

1795 (1795)
Inveraray, Scotland
Died21 April 1842(1842-04-21) (aged 46–47)
Altyre, near Inverness, Scotland
SpouseSir William Gordon-Cumming, 2nd Baronet
Children13, including Roualeyn and Constance
Scientific career
FieldsPaleontology, scientific illustration

Eliza Maria, Lady Gordon-Cumming (née Campbell; 1795 – 21 April 1842) was a Scottish aristocrat, horticulturalist, palaeontologist and scientific illustrator. Lady Gordon-Cumming collected and studied Devonian fish fossils from the Old Red Sandstone of Morayshire, Scotland. She amassed a large and well-known collection which she illustrated, along with her daughter Lady Anne Seymour. Lady Gordon-Cumming worked with other palaeontologists and geologists of the time including Louis Agassiz, William Buckland and Roderick Murchison.

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