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Rebecca Agatha Armour (25 October 1845 – 24 April 1891) was a Canadian teacher and novelist born in Fredericton, New Brunswick.〔''The Feminist Companion to Literature in English'', eds Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy (London: Batsford, 1990), p. 30.〕 ==Life== Armour was the eldest of the four daughters of a grocer, Joseph Armour (1798–1876),〔Find a Grave. (Retrieved 5 April 2015. )〕 and his wife Margaret Hazlett (died 1891). Both her parents had immigrated from Ireland, her father from Coleraine in Ulster. She had a Presbyterian upbringing. She graduated from the local Provincial Teachers' College, a normal school, and gained her teaching licence on 30 November 1863.〔 ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography'', 2003–15. Vol. XII: Armour, Rebecca Agatha (Thompson). (Retrieved 5 April 2015 ).〕 Armour taught in Fredericton for many years, but moved to a school in Lancaster (now part of Saint John), probably in May 1873, when her teaching licence was transferred there. She seems to have moved back in 1878 to Fredericton, where she married on 22 January 1885 the carriage maker John G. Thompson, also the child of Irish Presbyterians. They had no children. According to an unattributed comment in the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography'', Armour earned praise as "one of the best lady teachers in the service in New Brunswick." Armour died on 24 April 1891, within three weeks of the death of her mother, whose will, signed only days before in favour of Armour and her husband, was contested by one of her sisters. She was interred in the Old Burial Ground, Fredericton, where the headstone gives her year of birth as 1847.〔Find a Grave. (Retrieved 5 April 2015. )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rebecca Agatha Armour」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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