Margaret Penny

Margaret Penny
Margaret Penny
	Baffin Island
Born	Margaret Irvine; 12 December 1812
Died	11 June 1861
Nationality	Scottish
Known for	Northern pioneer

Margaret Penny née Irvine (12 December 1812 - 11 June 1891) was an explorer and pioneer who was the first Scottish woman[1] to go on an expedition to Baffin Island[2] in Nunavut, Canada.

Biography

IN 1857 Penny sailed with her husband, Captain William Penny (1809-1892), on an Arctic whaling voyage. There had been for some time a significant British whaling industry, but very few women ever experienced it directly, and those who did mostly sailed to the South Seas. [2] Penny sailed from Aberdeen on the whaling ship the Lady Franklin in August 1857, returning in August of the following year. On this voyage she was accompanied by her son and the Moravian missionary Mathias Warmow. [1] The ship was named after Jane Franklin, widow of the explorer John Franklin, who had disappeared in the Arctic.

In her voyage diary, Penny wrote about the lives of the Inuit people:

"Dec. 15th ... I was on shore in several of their edloos [igloos] ... can now crawl out & in as well as any Esquimaux & eat mactac [muktuk, the skin and blubber of a whale, rich in vitamin C] with pleasure."[3]

At the end of the voyage Penny's contribution to the expedition was recognised by the Aberdeen Arctic Company's shareholders, on her return from the Cumberland Inlet in the Lady Franklin. The presented her with a silver tea service, considered an appropriate gift for a lady who had entertained the Eskimo belles of Kekerten to tea on board the ship.[3] The tea service is now held by the City of Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum.[2]

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References

"Biography – PENNY, WILLIAM – Volume XII (1891-1900) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography". www.biographi.ca. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
The new biographical dictionary of Scottish women. Ewan, Elizabeth,. Edinburgh. ISBN 978-1-4744-3629-8. OCLC 1057237368.CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
Ross, W. Gillies (William Gillies), 1931- (1997). This distant and unsurveyed country : a woman's winter at Baffin Island, 1857-1858. Penny, William, 1809-1892., Penny, Margaret. Montreal [Qué.]: McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 978-0-7735-6692-7. OCLC 180704119.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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[:0-1] "Biography – PENNY, WILLIAM – Volume XII (1891-1900) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography". www.biographi.ca. Retrieved 2020-02-05.

[:1-2] The new biographical dictionary of Scottish women. Ewan, Elizabeth,. Edinburgh. ISBN 978-1-4744-3629-8. OCLC 1057237368.CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: others (link)

[:2-3] Ross, W. Gillies (William Gillies), 1931- (1997). This distant and unsurveyed country : a woman's winter at Baffin Island, 1857-1858. Penny, William, 1809-1892., Penny, Margaret. Montreal [Qué.]: McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 978-0-7735-6692-7. OCLC 180704119.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)