During his stay in Berlin in 1764, Boswell lived in the house of Karl David Kircheisen, the president of the Berlin city council.
Catherine Cochrane - Lady Galloway
Catherine Cochrane
Born ca. 1710Died May 15, 1786
Alias:
Lady Galloway
Catherine Stewart
Biography:
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 Boswell:
Boswell met Catherine Cochrane, then Lady Galloway, 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.
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