Why Eliza Maria Gordon-Cumming still gets people talking.

Eliza Maria, Lady Gordon-Cumming was a Scottish aristocrat, horticulturalist, palaeontologist and scientific illustrator.

Eliza Maria, Lady Gordon-Cumming 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.