Lady Anna Maria Donkin [née Elliot]

(1785-1855)

LBT ID: AnDonki1855	B/BAP: 1785 DIED: 1855-10-18
SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine (December 1855) 668
The daughter of Gilbert Elliott, first earl of Minto; in 1832 she became the second wife of General Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin. Sir Walter Scott admired her “good sense and good-humour” and she was said to have been a model for his Di Vernon.
REFERENCES TO Lady Anna Maria Donkin [née Elliot]: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VII 1826 Found 1: ¶ 21 Chapter X 1826 Found 1: ¶ 44