Lady Juliet Brewster [née Macpherson]

(1776 c.-1850)

LBT ID: JuBrews1850	B/BAP: 1776 DIED: 1850-01-27
SOURCES: DNB ["David Brewster"]; The Correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot (web)
The daughter of the poet and translator James Macpherson (1736-96)—one of his five illegitimate children; in 1810 she became the first wife of the natural philosopher David Brewster.
REFERENCES TO Lady Juliet Brewster [née Macpherson]: Sir Walter Scott to Maria Edgeworth, 4 February 1829 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 5 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter X 1826 Found 1: ¶ 48 Chapter V 1829 Chapter VII 1830-31 Found 1: ¶ 30 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 11: 1817-24 Found 1: ¶ 33