Isabel Cargill (10 December 1864 – 17 April 1944) was a New Zealand businesswoman who established English-style tearooms in Rome, Italy, in the early 1890s.
[5][6] In the early 1890s she travelled to England and then, with her English friend Anna Maria Babington, to Italy.
When they were unable to find a shop selling cups of tea in the city, the pair decided to open an English-style tearooms, which they called Babington's Tea Room.
[7] Cargill also wrote a column, "Letters from Rome" for the Otago Witness newspaper.
[7] In 1902, Cargill married an Italian artist, Giuseppe da Pozzo.