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Catherine Cochrane (ca. 1710-1786)

James Boswell The people in Boswell's life - A-E - F-J - K-O - P-T - U-Z Ancestors FAQ Trivia Bibliography Biography News Multimedia Discussion forum About this site Guide to Abbreviations Other weblinks	Biography Catherine Cochrane. (ca. 1710-1786) (aka. Lady Galloway) Lady Galloway. Daughter of John Cochrane (1687-1720), 4th Earl of Dundonald, and Anne Murray (d. 1710). Married (1729) to Alexander Stewart, 6th Earl of Galloway. Life with James Boswell: Boswell met her at Galloway House on September 25, 1762, describing her as "a tall stately woman [who] in the last age was reckoned a beauty. [...] She is a High-Church woman in religion, a Jacobite in politics, and has a forbidding stiffness of manners that is very disagreeable. [...] She is very charitable and manages her family with much discretion." On September 26 she gave to Boswell a copy of Essays and Meditations by Dr. James Mackenzie. External links: Cochrane family tree - from Stirnet This article was last updated at January 31 2008 22:28:57 CET Other links of possible interest	Other biographies that refer to Catherine Cochrane: Galloway, John Stewart Stewart, Keith Stewart, Catherine Stewart, Alexander Stewart, Harriet
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Catherine Cochrane (ca. 1710-1786)

James Boswell The people in Boswell's life - A-E - F-J - K-O - P-T - U-Z Ancestors FAQ Trivia Bibliography Biography News Multimedia Discussion forum About this site Guide to Abbreviations Other weblinks

Biography

Catherine Cochrane. (ca. 1710-1786) (aka. Lady Galloway)

Lady Galloway. Daughter of John Cochrane (1687-1720), 4th Earl of Dundonald, and Anne Murray (d. 1710). Married (1729) to Alexander Stewart, 6th Earl of Galloway.

Life with James Boswell:

Boswell met her at Galloway House on September 25, 1762, describing her as "a tall stately woman [who] in the last age was reckoned a beauty. [...] She is a High-Church woman in religion, a Jacobite in politics, and has a forbidding stiffness of manners that is very disagreeable. [...] She is very charitable and manages her family with much discretion." On September 26 she gave to Boswell a copy of Essays and Meditations by Dr. James Mackenzie.

External links:

Cochrane family tree - from Stirnet

This article was last updated at January 31 2008 22:28:57 CET

Other links of possible interest

Other biographies that refer to Catherine Cochrane:

Galloway, John Stewart
Stewart, Keith
Stewart, Catherine
Stewart, Alexander
Stewart, Harriet

© 2004-2008 Thomas Frandzen. Read About this site for further info and disclaimer.

Please mail comments and corrections to webmaster@jamesboswell.info

This URL was last modified: June 01 2008 22:08:34.