Euphemia Sinclair

(1770 fl.)

LBT ID: EuSincl1770
SOURCES: Robert Chambers, Traditions of Edinburgh (1825) 2:127-29
The granddaughter of Robert Sinclair of Longformacus; she kept a school for gentlewomen in Blackfriars' Wynd in Edinburgh. Among her pupils was Anne, the mother of Sir Walter Scott.
REFERENCES TO Euphemia Sinclair: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter II 1771-78 Found 1: ¶ 20