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. | |