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| NAME AUTHORITIES: NRA: Compton, Margaret (d 1830) nee Douglas-Maclean-Clephane, poet, wife of 2nd Marquess of Northampton LBT ID: LyNortha2 | B/BAP: 1793 DIED: 1830-04-02 |
| SOURCES: James C. Corson, Notes and Index to Grierson's Letters of Scott; thePeerage.com | |
The daughter of Major-General William Douglas-Maclean-Clephane; in 1815 she married
Spencer Compton, later second marquess of Northampton. She was a poet and friend of Walter
Scott. | |
REFERENCES TO Lady Margaret Compton [née Douglas-Maclean-Clephane]: Walter Scott to Marianne Clephane, 23 March 1817 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1:
¶ 2 Walter Scott to J. B. S. Morritt of Rokeby, 5 November 1818 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1:
¶ 3 Walter Scott to Marianne Clephane, 15 July 1819 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1:
¶ 3 | |
