| Variations of Name | Hariot Georgina Rowan-Hamilton |
| Biography | Hariot Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava VA CI DBE was a British peeress, known for her success in the role of "diplomatic wife," and for leading an initiative to improve medical care for women in British India.
Lady Dufferin went with her husband to India in 1884 when he was appointed as the country's viceroy. Prior to her departure, she was asked by Queen Victoria to initiate a plan to improve the situation for women in India in illness and in child-bearing. She established a fund - the National Association for supplying Female Medical Aid to the Women of India (known as the Countess of Dufferin Fund).
When the Earl's term in India ended in 1888, they travelled back to their home at Clandeboye in Northern Ireland and her husband was elevated in the peerage as the Marquess of Dufferin and Ava that same year. |