Kitty Kirkpatrick
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"Portrait of William and Catherine Aurora, children of Lieutenant-Colonel James Achilles Kirkpatrick", by George Chinnery, ca. 1805.
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| Born |
Noor un-Nissa, Sahib Begum 9 April 1802 Hyderabad, State of Hyderabad |
| Died | 2 March 1889 (aged 86) Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Other names | Katherine Aurora Kirkpatrick |
Katherine Aurora "Kitty" Kirkpatrick (9 April 1802 – 2 March 1889) was a British Anglo-Indian woman best known as a muse of the author Thomas Carlyle, and as an example of Eurasian children during the early years of British colonialism in India.
Kitty Kirkpatrick was born on 9 April, 1802, in Hyderabad in the State of Hyderabad, a large principality in the southern Indian Subcontinent under British paramountcy. Her father, James Achilles Kirkpatrick, was a British Resident in Hyderabad and a colonel in the British East India Company's army. Her mother, Khair-un-Nissa, was a Hyderabadi Shi'a Muslim noblewoman and a Sayyida, a lineal descendant of the Muslim prophet Muhammad, whose grandfather was the prime minister of Hyderabad. The two had met in the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad, and were married in a Muslim ceremony. James Kirkpatrick, a Christian, underwent some degree of conversion to Islam to be permitted to marry Khair-un-Nissa, but is not clear whether the marriage or the conversion were recognized as legal.
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