Lady Evelyn Zainab
Cobbold (1867 – 1963)
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Lady Evelyn Murray Zainab Cobbold, daughter of the 7th Earl
of Dunmore, embraced Islam and in April 1933 performed the
Pilgrimage to Mecca at the age of 66, being probably the first
British woman convert to Islam to perform this rite. In 1934
she published an account of this in her book Pilgrimage
to Mecca (Murray, London)
Lineage and family
According to information on the
website www.william1.co.uk
which traces the descendants of William the Conqueror, she
was descended from this famous French Norman conqueror of
England. A genealogical table of her family starting with
her father Charles Adolphus Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore (1841–1907),
may be read here
on this website. From there we learn that in 1891
she married John Dupius Cobbold who died in 1929.
Note: One of
Lady Evelyn’s daughters, Pamela (d. 1932), married in
1919 Sir Charles Jocelyn Hambro (d. 1963) of the famous Hambro
banking dynasty. He was a director of the Bank of England
for many years and also served as Chief Executive of the SOE
(Special Operations Executive) during the Second World War.
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