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Agnes Elliot

Neé Dalrymple Murray Kynynmound
Dates 1731 - 1778
Additional date information 1731-78
Short biography

correspondent, member of London society

Biography

daughter of Hugh Dalrymple Murray Kynynmound, grew up partially at Newhailes House, eloped with Gilbert Eliot later baronet of Minto, became part of London society, surviving correspondence with her husband

see Katherine Glover, Elite Women and Polite Society in Eighteenth-Century Scotland (Woodbridge, 2011) 174-5 and passim

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