“Had I, like the rest, gone through the trouble of being presented at court, there would have been no plea for enjoying this retirement that I love and require.”
About Lady Nairne
16 August 1766–26 October 1845
Carolina Oliphant, later Lady Nairne, was born on 16 August 1766 at Gask House in Perthshire, into a family whose private memories were inseparable from one of Scotland’s most public historical wounds. She died on 26 October 1845, also at Gask, after a life of seventy-nine years in which she became one of the most…