Frances Floyer (1745-1798)

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Frances Floyer. (1745-1798)

Daughter of Charles Floyer (ca. 1713-1766), Governor of Madras (1747-1750), and Mary Berriman. Married (1770) to John Erskine. They had at least 9 children. Cousin of Norton Nicholls, her father being the brother of Nicholls' mother, Jane.

Life with James Boswell:

Boswell at some time briefly considered her as a possible candidate for marriage (letter to Temple of September 25, 1763). He had met her a few months earlier in London.

 

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Erskine, John Francis
Nicholls, Norton

 

 

 

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