The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart
Chapter 12: 1821-25
John Gibson Lockhart to John Lockhart senior, [January 1823]
“My dearest Father,—It
has pleased God to take our infant from us. The doctors despaired yesterday,
but were not so kind as to say so. She died, without apparently any pain, at
six this morning.
“Sophia bears
this affliction with her usual firmness and gentleness,—sensible that,
had it been deferred, every hour would have made it greater,—and thankful
for what is left. Her calmness is such that we do not fear any ill effect upon
her own state.
“Some of us will write to-morrow again. My dear
mother, Violet, and Johnny are
all well.—Yours most affectionately,
“J. G. L.
“Northumberland Street.”2
Elizabeth Lockhart [née Gibson] (d. 1834)
The daughter of Rev. John Gibson, minister of St. Cuthbert’s in Edinburgh; in 1793 she
became of the second wife of John Lockhart (1761-1842).
John Lockhart (1761-1842)
The son of William Lockhart of Birkhill; he was minister of Cambusnethan (1786) and the
College Church, Glasgow (1796). He was the father of John Gibson Lockhart.
John Hugh Lockhart (1821-1831)
The first child of John Gibson Lockhart and his wife Sophia, for whom Sir Walter Scott
wrote
Tales of a Grandfather (1828-1831).
Violet Lockhart [née Inglis] (d. 1825)
The niece and heir of James Somerville of Corehouse; she married William Lockhart of
Birkhill and was the grandmother of John Gibson Lockhart.
