James Boswell's uncle John was a member of a sect known as the Glasites.
Euphemia Erskine Boswell - Lady Auchinleck
Euphemia Erskine
Born 1718Died 1766 at Auchinleck
Alias:
Lady Auchinleck
Euphemia Boswell
Biography:
Daughter of Lt-Col John Erskine (1660-1737), Deputy Governor of Stirling Castle, and Euphemia Cochrane (1693-1720/1). Married (1738) to Alexander Boswell. Mother of James, John and (Thomas) David Boswell.
Her mother died when she was 2 years old, and her father was almost 60 when she was born. As a result, she was brought up by her grandmother (Mary Bruce (d. 1739), daughter of the 2nd Earl of Kincardine) and her aunt Anne Cochrane (d. 1779), Lady Preston, who was married to 4th Bart of Valleyfield.
According to descriptions by James and Alexander Boswell she was a pious, dutiful and loving women. She also suffered from some degree of hypochondria, as JB wrote in his sketch to Rosseau in 1765.
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