Fletcher, Elizabeth
From AngloScottish
Dates | 1742-45 | ||
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Location | London | ||
Vocation | Scholar | ||
Place of Birth | Scotland | ||
Marriage | John Wedderburn | ||
Issue | Elizabeth | ||
Place of birth | Source | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |
Daughter of Andrew Fletcher, Lord Milton (d.1766). Educated at Miss Aylesworth's school in Chelsea (1742-45). Played an important role in the circle of young men who were to become the intelligentsia of the Scottish Enlightenment. Died shortly after childbirth in 1758.