Isabel Meighen

Isabel Meighen
Born April 18, 1882
Granby, Quebec[1]
Died September 6, 1985 (aged 102)
Toronto, Ontario
Nationality Canadian
Other names Isabel J. Meighen
Known for Wife of Arthur Meighen

Isabel Meighen (née Jessie Isabel Cox; April 18, 1882 September 6, 1985) was the wife of Arthur Meighen, the ninth Prime Minister of Canada.

She was born in Granby, Quebec. She married Arthur Meighen in 1904, and they had two sons and one daughter:

  1. Theodore Roosevelt Meighen (1905–1979), whose son Michael Meighen is a Canadian senator, lawyer and cultural patron.
  2. Maxwell Charles Gordon Meighen (1908–1992)
  3. Lillian Meighen Wright (1910–1993)

Meighen died at the age of 102, and was interred next to her husband in the St. Marys Cemetery in the town of St. Marys, Ontario.

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Honorary titles
Preceded by
Laura Bond, Lady Borden
Spouse of the Prime Minister of Canada
1920–1921
Vacant
Title next held by
herself
Vacant
Title last held by
herself
Spouse of the Prime Minister of Canada
1926
Vacant
Title next held by
Jeanne Renault Saint-Laurent