Mary Erskine - wife of Alexander Webster
Biography
Birth: 1715
Death: 1766
Daughter of John Erskine and Euphemia Cochrane. Sister of Euphemia Erskine, Boswell's mother. Married (1737) to Alexander Webster. Mother of John and James Webster.
Also known as
- Mary Webster
Life with James Boswell
Boswell described her when, on October 27, 1762, he visited the Webster's, as "a woman of great humour, luxuriant and wild, so that she will give a loose to every sally of imagination; she has joined with this a mixture of Presbyterian cant and vulgarity that renders her quite a caricatura."
Mentioned in
Mary Erskine is mentioned in:
- Journal of my Jaunt, Harvest 1762
