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Margaret Macdonald - daughter of the 9th Earl of Eglinton

Biography


Birth: n/a
Death: 1799

Daughter of Alexander Montgomerie, 9th Earl of Eglinton. Brother of the 10th and 11th Earls of Eglinton. Married Sir Alexander Macdonald (1711-1746), 7th Bart of Sleat in 1739. Mother of James Macdonald.

Also known as

  • Margaret Montgomerie

Life with James Boswell

Boswell met Lady Margaret a few times during his 1762-63 stay in London, at Lord Eglintons and at her own place. On January 18, 1763 he had a fairly intimate conversation with her, concerning her brother, Lord Eglinton

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Margaret Macdonald is mentioned in:

  • London Journal 1762-1763

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On his Grand Tour of Europe in 1764-1765, Boswell visited and befriended the famous philosophers Jean-Jacques Rosseau and François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), and back in Edinburgh he was a personal friend of David Hume.

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