Lady Nairne — a remark

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“My money is not yet exhausted, and I want you to tell me if you have any object to promote before it is all gone.”

A vivid example of her determination to use her remaining resources for others · Letter to Alicia Mason, 22 April 1845

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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…

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