The daughter of Sir John Swinton (d. 1823) and sister of Jean Rutherford and Joan Keith of Ravelston. She was Sir Walter Scott's great-aunt and the subject of his My Aunt Margaret's Mirror.

REFERENCES TO Margaret Swinton:

Sir Walter Scott to Joanna Baillie, 10 February 1822 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)