Frances Mackenzie - Lady Kenmure
Biography
Birth: ca. 1715
Death: 1796
Daughter of William Mackenzie (d. 1740), 5th Earl of Seaforth, and Mary Kennet (d. 1739), dau of Nicholas Kennet of Coxhow. Married (1744) to John Gordon, 8th Viscount Kenmure. She lived in France from her fourth to her eighteenth year, due to her father's role in the Jacobite Rising in 1719.
Also known as
- Lady Kenmure
Life with James Boswell
Boswell met her on September 16, 1762 at Kenmure. He admired her and her husband greatly, and thoroughly enjoyed his 2 night stay in their house.
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Frances Mackenzie is mentioned in:
- Journal of my Jaunt, Harvest 1762
