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Susanna Montgomerie, Countess of Eglinton

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In 1810 a John Crawfurd made a bogus claim to the titles and estates of the Crawfurds and Lindsays; to add some credibility he claimed that his forebear had been the eldest son and heir and had been forced to flee to Ireland after having murdered a man in a duel by firing before the signal. This duel
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a lady who for many years gave the laws of elegance to Scotland. She is in full vigour of mind, and not much impaired in form. She is only eighty-three. She was remarking that her marriage was in the year eight; and I told her my birth was in the year nine. 'Then,' says she, 'I am just old enough to
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Millar records that after the murder, by Mungo Campbell, of her son Alexander, tenth Earl of Eglintoun, in 1769, she retired from the position which she held in society. She had insisted that the Earl was always referred to as Lord Eglinton as a youth and he had formally led her down to dinner every
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Paterson records that "Susanna Countess of Eglintoun was amiable, accomplished and beautiful. A portrait of her ladyship when young was in the possession of the late Mr Sharpe. He had also a miniature of her in her 81st year, when she was a fine looking, stout old lady. Her blue eyes grew lighter in
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A contemporary newspaper report first recorded the incident as actually being a duel over a woman in which the Earl had been worsted. Indeed, when in London (from 1760 to 1763 at the least) he stayed in Queen Street, Mayfair and according to Boswell, he kept a mistress, a Ms. or Mrs. Brown, who, in
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A full-length portrait (97" by 53") of Susanna as Countess in her robes was painted by Allan Ramsay and was sold at the 1925 auction of the contents of Eglinton Castle. Allan was the eldest son of Allan Ramsay the poet, who had dedicated 'The Gentle Shepherd' to Susanna. This painting now hangs in
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dedicated a volume of poems to her. Several other publications of the period were inscribed to her, and to her Ramsay also dedicated the music of his first book of songs. At a later period he presented to the countess the original manuscript of his great pastoral poem, which she afterwards gave to
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Lady Susanna is also remembered for taming a number of rats at Auchans to come for food at her table when she tapped on the oak wall panel and opened a small door. These ten or twelve rats would leave when instructed to; she commented that she valued the gratitude they showed, something she had
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Susanna was a prolific letter writer if the 64 letters that have survived are any indication. She wrote in particular to her daughters, stepchildren, Lord Milton (the family Guardian appointed by her deceased husband), Andrew Fletcher of Salton and the Lord Justice Clerk.
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Dr. Robert Chambers recorded that "In her bed-rooms was hung a portrait of her sovereign de jure (in principle), the ill-starred Charles Edward, so situated as to be the first object which met her sight on awaking in the morning." Her husband had been a covert Jacobite.
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be your mother, and I will take you for my son.' She called Boswell the boy. 'Yes, Madam.' said I, 'we will send him to school.' 'He is already,' said she, 'in a good school;' and expressed her hope of his improvement. At last night came, and I was sorry to leave her.
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John Dunlop Esq. of Whitmuir Hall near Selkirk, who lived to sixty one years of age, was the onetime Factor to Susanna Montgomery at Auchans Castle. He may have lived at the now ruined Old Auchans and was held in high regard by William Aiton.
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Archibald William Alexander Montgomerie, 17th Earl of Eglinton and Winton named his first child for Susanna; Lady Susanna Montgomerie was born 19 October 1941 and became Lady Susanna Crawfurd, having married Mr David Dundas Crawford.
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on the estate as shown by her correspondence and the fact that she intervened in the 1749–50 labour unrest. The miners at this time claimed that they were forced to work a 14-hour day, six days a week in order to earn a living wage.
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The Countess Susanna would have been further devastated by the attitude of many of the estate tenants who had more sympathy for Mungo Campbell than for the earl, and saw his death as a punishment imposed by heaven, due to the
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She was beautiful and at 6-foot, unusually tall for those times. It is stated that, on her arrival with her father in Edinburgh around the time of the Union (1702), she was surrounded by wooers. One of these,
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General View of The Agriculture of the County of Ayr; observations on the means of its improvement; drawn up for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture, and Internal Improvements, with Beautiful
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She was married for 20 years and a widow at the age of 40, living for another 51 years. She brought to the family a way of walking in a stately fashion which became known as 'the Eglinton air'.
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To them their handsome mother transmitted a nobleness of mien, distinguished at the period as the "Eglinton air." She had seven stepchildren through the earl's two previous marriages.
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to try and sort things out, as a result of which several of the miners signed a 'disclamation' which they later tried to repudiate. The lawyer who dealt with the case stated that
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night. The murderer was tried before the high court of justiciary at Edinburgh, and condemned to death, but prevented a public execution by hanging himself in prison.
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A Lady Susanna Montgomerie was the daughter of General Archibald Montgomerie, 11th Earl of Eglinton and Frances Twysden. She died on 16 November 1805, unmarried.
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A Genealogical History of the family of Montgomery, comprising the lines of Eglinton and Braidstane in Scotland and Mount-Alexander and Grey-Abbey in Ireland.
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Her figure is majestic, her manner high bred, her reading extensive and her conversation elegant. She has been the admiration of the gay circles of life.
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misimprovements of his life and the still more irritating improvement of his estates, his changes of old customs, his interference with old tenants.
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Susanna retained her figure and complexion until her death, supposedly because she never used paint or cosmetics and daily washed her face with
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Mungo himself was also well liked in all the places that he had resided as an Excise officer, namely Stewarton, Saltcoats and Irvine.
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inside the walls of Cromwell's old Citadel fort at Ayr to increase her income. It seems to have been only moderately successful.
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penetration, superior wit and sound judgement ........ accompanied with the diviner charms of goodness and equality of mind.
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Around 1708 the elderly Sir John Eldon laid siege to Culzean Castle in a passionate and fruitless act known to locals as
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the outside facing side of the panel from the coach in which the 10th Earl travelled during the Mungo Campbell incident.
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he claimed had been over a matter of honour relating to the Lady Susanna Kennedy, with whom he was entirely smitten.
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She was very industrious and even established a distillery, later a brewery at the family's Burgh and Regality of
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it is probable a Lady of great Beauty of Address might prevail with some of the old Coalziers to sign any paper.
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Susanna never quite recovered from the sight of her dying son being carried into Eglinton Castle and wrote
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Notes on the Way Through Ayrshire and the Land of Burn, Wallace, Henry the Minstrel, and Covenant Martyrs
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Historical Memoirs of the family of Eglinton and Winton, together with relative notes and illustrations
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and drank it, recommending this treatment to others. Her eyes' colour, however, went from the blue of
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became well-known throughout Scotland, being composed by Hamilton of Bangour. Ramsay referred to her
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The Montgomerie family owned a number of coal mines or pits and Susanna was involved in the general
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Dowell's Ltd (1925). Catalogue of the Superior Furnishings within Eglinton Castle. 1 December 1925.
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It was traditional and practical for a dowager to move out of the family seat and dwell within a
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I shall endeavour to bear my suffering with as little trouble to my fellow creatures as possible.
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On 24 October 1769, near Ardrossan, travelling in his carriage and four servants following him,
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in her efforts to save Bonnie Prince Charlie whilst her husband was off fighting the Jacobites.
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A History of the Scottish Coal Industry - Volume 1: 1700–1815. A Social and Industrial History.
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and Hamilton of Bangour wrote flattering verse to Susanna, Lady Eglinton and her daughters. A
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to her loveliness were added the more valuable attractions of genius and great accomplishment.
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Lady Eglinton was celebrated for her beauty and height (6 feet), and for her patronage of the
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Lady Charlotte, who died suddenly of fever after having previously lost the use of her limbs.
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Mungo Campbell hanged himself and thereby cheated the hangman. He left the following note -
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Lady Grace married Cornet Byrne, a debaucher and gambler, in 1751 and died in the same year;
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Catalogue of the Superior Furnishings within Eglinton Castle. Dowell's Ltd. 1 December 1925
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A panel from the coach in which the 10th Earl travelled during the Mungo Campbell incident.
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at the Cross were said to be dumbfounded by their beauty as they stepped from their
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Fraser, William (1859). Memorials of the Montgomeries Earls of Eglinton. Edinburgh.
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Robert Campbell (Cummell) records that Quintin Crawfurd was Lady Susanna's factor.
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Lady Eleanor, who was frequently unwell and a special trip to the 'waters' at
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colour as she advanced in years." Her portrait still hangs in Culzean Castle.
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visited Lady Susanna, now the Dowager Countess, at her home, Auchans, near
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in 1690, Lady Eglinton was the daughter of Sir Archibald Kennedy, 1st
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met two men, one of whom was Mungo Campbell, an officer of excise at
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Video & commentary on Auchans House and Lady Susanna Montgomerie
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Lady Helen married Francis Stuart of Pittendriech in 1745;
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Lady Elizabeth married Sir John Cunningham of Caprington;
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Dying unmarried, the earl was succeeded by his brother,
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in 1780, aged 90. She signed herself as S. Eglintoune.
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Lady Margaret married Sir Alexander MacDonald in 1739;
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Ayrshire Monographs 27. Ayr Arch & Nat Hist Soc.
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Eglintoune castle as it was during Susanna's lifetime
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Index

Susanna Montgomery, Countess of Eglinton

Culzean Castle
Auchans Castle
Kilwinning
Noble family
Alexander Montgomerie, 9th Earl of Eglinton
More
Alexander, 10th Earl of Eglinton
Archibald, 11th Earl of Eglinton
1st Bt.
Alexander Montgomerie, 9th Earl of Eglinton
Auchans, Scotland
Culzean Castle
Baronet of Culzean
David Leslie, 1st Lord Newark


Scottish poets and writers of her day
Sir William Fraser
General David Leslie
Battle of Marston moor
Battle of Philiphaugh
Sir John Clerk
The Gentle Shepherd
Allan Ramsay
roundelay
Samuel Boyse
James Boswell
George II

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