Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming - (1837-1924), travel writer, was born on 26 May 1837 at Altyre, Moray, twelfth child and youngest daughter of Sir William Gordon Gordon-Cumming of Altyre and Gordonstown, second baronet (1787-1854), and his first wife, Eliza Maria. She was educated at home and at school in Fulham, Middlesex. In 1867 she was invited to spend a year with a married sister in India and this proved the start of twelve years of travel and a longer period of travel writing. She was well off and well connected, and 'her globe trotting took on the air of a series of rather far-flung social calls'. After a year in India with her sister and brother-in-law she spent Two Happy Years in Ceylon, where she knew the bishop of Colombo. She then found herself At Home in Fiji, the guest of its first governor. [snip] To read this Life of the Day complete with a picture of the subject, visit http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/lotw/2010-09-04 --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar