In 1923, pioneering explorer and writer Lady Dorothy Mills became the first Englishwoman to travel to Timbuktu.

della Valle. Her son Horace (or Horatio), Earl of Orford, put up the memorial and wrote the following inscription: To the memory of Catherine Lady Walpole, eldest daughter of John Shorter, Esqr. of ...

O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar. In all science, error ...