Search the Women in Scottish History Database

friend of Enlightenment figures

daughter of Andrew Fletcher and Elizabeth Kinloch, Lord and Lady Milton, educated in Chelsea, married Captain John Wedderburn of Gosford, died following birth of daughter who later wrote MS history of family, surviving correspondence, much information available on her schooling

See Katherine Glover, Elite Women and Polite Society in Eighteenth-Century Scotland (Woodbridge, 2011), 176 and passim