{{short description|Author and translator}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox writer | name = Catherine Ellis Tobin | image = File:Lady Tobin and Sir Thomas Tobin.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Lady Tobin and Sir Thomas Tobin | birth_name = Catherine Ellis | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = 1903 | death_place = | occupation = Writer | nationality = Irish | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | magnum_opus = | influences = | influenced = | website = | footnotes = }}'''Catherine Tobin''' (died 1903) was a Victorian era author and artist who travelled with her husband and wrote books around the experiences as well as a translator for a book on the area.<ref name="Gibb1980">{{cite book|author=Sir H. A. R. Gibb|title=The Encyclopaedia of Islam|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cJQ3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA68|year=1980|publisher=Brill Archive|pages=68–|id=GGKEY:1FSD5PNQ2DE}}</ref>
==Life== Born Catherine Ellis, daughter of Lister Ellis of Crofthead, Cumberland she married Thomas Tobin on 12 September 1835. She had one son, Arthur Lionel Tobin who was born when they lived in Ballincollig, County Cork. He died as a young man, injured in battle. Though the family lived in a few houses in Cork their main residence was Oriel House. However Tobin and her husband shared an interest in travel and antiquities and spent considerable time in the middle and near east. She wrote a number of books due to this interest and travel as well as translating another. At home in Cork, Tobin was a patron of the South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital for many years.<ref>{{cite web|title=Western Women Travelling East, 1716-1916 |first=Penelope |last=Tuson |date=2014 |url=http://www.arcadian-library.com/study-series-no-10.php |website=Arcadian Library |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150225081902/http://www.arcadian-library.com/study-series-no-10.php |archive-date=February 25, 2015 |url-status=dead |access-date=February 5, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=From palm oil to gunpowder: a Cork dynasty was born |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/from-palm-oil-to-gunpowder-a-cork-dynasty-was-born-1.1280042 |work=The Irish Times}}</ref>
George Kelleher has suggested that while Thomas Tobin was an "antiquarian and curio collector in the spirit of the Victorian age", his wife Catherine, "was a far more considerable cultural figure". Her work has served as the basis for a number of studies about the regions.<ref>{{cite web |title=Gunpowder plot |url=http://ihai.ie/wp-content/uploads/IHAInewsJul2006.pdf |publisher=Industrial Heritage Association of Ireland Newsletter}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|jstor = 4282757|title = The Population of Palestine, circa 1875|journal = Middle Eastern Studies|volume = 15|issue = 3|pages = 310–321|last1 = Gottheil|first1 = Fred M|year = 1979|doi = 10.1080/00263207908700414}}</ref><ref name="Stoddart2012">{{cite book|author=Brian Stoddart|title=A House In Damascus - Before The Fall|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gf0jBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT226|date=1 October 2012|isbn=978-1-61417-356-4|pages=226–}}</ref><ref name="Mahn2016">{{cite book|author=Churnjeet Mahn|title=British Women's Travel to Greece, 1840–1914: Travels in the Palimpsest|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aI0GDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA145|date=15 April 2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-17128-7|pages=145–}}</ref><ref name="Rashidian2014">{{cite book|author=Ziba Rashidian|title=Representing the Modern Animal in Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yH-oBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT52|date=2 October 2014|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan US|isbn=978-1-137-42865-3|pages=52–}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Ethnologia Balkanica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0ogSzrXJEfMC&pg=PA193|publisher=LIT Verlag Münster|pages=193–|id=GGKEY:YSKSU07QZDQ}}</ref><ref name="ManleyAbdel-Hakim2009">{{cite book|author1=Deborah Manley|author2=Sahar Abdel-Hakim|title=Traveling through Sinai: From the Fourth to the Twenty-first Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WRiWBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT30|date=3 January 2009|publisher=American University of Cairo Press|isbn=978-1-61797-540-0|pages=30–}}</ref>
Originally from the UK, when her husband died, Tobin moved first to Albert House Mansion in London and then to Eastham House in Cheshire, where her brother in law James Aspinall Tobin lived. She died there on 23 April 1903.
==Bibliography== * {{cite book|title=Shadows of the East, Or, Slight Sketches of Scenery, Persons, and Customs: From Observations During a Tour in 1853 and 1854, in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Turkey and Greece|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZI6BOwAACAAJ|year=1855|publisher=Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans}} * {{cite book|title=The Land of Inheritance|publisher=Quaritch, London |year=1863|url=https://archive.org/details/landofinheritanc00tobi}} * {{cite book|title=Illustration of Discoveries at Nineveh|url=https://archive.org/details/mbottasletterso01bottgoog/page/n9|year=1850|publisher=Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans}} by Paul-Émile Botta (Trans.)
==Gallery== Pictures from Tobin's 1855 book: <gallery> File:TOBIN(1855)_p215_DAMASCUS_GATE_-_JERUSALEM.jpg|Damascus Gate File:TOBIN(1855)_p223_CRYPT_OF_THE_HOLY_SEPULGHRE,_JERUSALEM.jpg|Chapel of Saint Helena, Jerusalem File:TOBIN(1855)_p261_MOUNT_TABOR.jpg|Mount Tabor File:TOBIN(1855)_p167_SHEIKH_ON_THE_DESERT.jpg|Sheikh of the desert File:TOBIN(1855)_p145_THE_CONVENT_MOUNT_SINANI.jpg|Saint Catherine's Monastery File:TOBIN(1855)_p153_INTERIOR_OF_THE_CONVENT_MOUNT_SINAI.jpg|Saint Catherine's Monastery File:TOBIN(1855) p285 RUINS OF EASTERN PORTICO OF BAALBEC.jpg|Baalbek </gallery> David Roberts views in 1839, published in ''The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia'': <gallery> File:Groups_of_figures_outside_the_Damascus_gate,_Jerusalem._Colo_Wellcome_V0049393.jpg|Damascus Gate File:Crypt_of_the_Holy_Sepulchre_Jerusalem_LCCN2002717468_(cropped).tif|Chapel of Saint Helena, Jerusalem File:David_Roberts_-_Mount_Tabor_from_the_Plain_of_Esdraelon_-_1927.114_-_Cleveland_Museum_of_Art.tif|Mount Tabor File:Roberts%26Haghe_Arabs_of_the_Tribe_of_the_Benisaid_Feby_17th_1839.jpg|Sheikh of the desert File:David_Roberts_-_Convent_of_St._Catherine_with_Mount_Horeb_-_1927.90_-_Cleveland_Museum_of_Art.jpg|Saint Catherine's Monastery File:Six-volume_‘The_Holy_Land’_by_David_Roberts.jpg|Saint Catherine's Monastery File:David Roberts - Ruins of the Eastern Portico of the Temple of Baalbec - 1927.82 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif|Baalbek </gallery>
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== External links == * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Catherine Tobin}}
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