Scandal: Lady Aberdeen Takes Tea With Servants
Monday, 01 December 2008 00:00
Old News Report No. 7
Ottawa was scandalized when Lady Aberdeen took high tea with her servants.
The wife of Governor General (1893-98) Lord Aberdeen, Ishbel Maria Couts Marjoribanks, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair, was an aristocratic democrat, social reformer, and one of Canada's first feminists. She did not endear herself to the social establishment by her efforts to promote women's rights, democratic attitudes, religious and ethnic tolerance, and greater esteem and power for workers.