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Isabella Mary Abbott (December 23, 1890 – November 26, 1955) was a Canadian artist and the mother of actor Christopher Plummer.
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.
He was the only child of John Orme Plummer (1894–1977), who sold stocks and other securities, and Isabella Mary Abbott, who worked as secretary to the Dean of Sciences at McGill University, and was the granddaughter of Canadian prime minister Sir John Abbott.
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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.Isabella Mary Abbott Plummer (December 23, 1890 – November 26, 1955) was a Canadian performer and the mom of actor Christopher Plummer. 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.
When Isabella Mary Abbott was born on 23 December 1890, in Senneville, Jacques-Cartier, Quebec, Canada, her father, Arthur Edward Abbott, was 27 and her mother, Mary Anne Jane Campbell, was 24. She married John Orme Plummer in 1929, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
He was the only child of Isabella Mary (Abbott), a secretary to the Dean of Sciences at McGill University, and John Orme Plummer, who sold securities and stocks. Christopher was a great-grandson of John Abbott, who was Canada's third Prime Minister (from 1891 to 1892), and a great-great-great-grandson of Presbyterian clergyman John Bethune.
