Fletcher, Elizabeth

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Dates 1742-45
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.