See Margaret Lindsay

Margaret Lindsay

Margaret Lindsay was an American film actress. Her time as a Warner Bros. contract player during the 1930s was particularly productive...

 for the film actress of this name, and Marion Margaret Violet Lindsay

Marion Margaret Violet Lindsay

Violet Lindsay Manners, Duchess of Rutland was a British artist and noblewoman.-Family:She was the second daughter of Charles Hugh Lindsay and Emilia Anne Browne...

 for the 19th and 20th century artist sometimes called Margaret Lindsay.

Margaret Lindsay (c.1726 - 1782) was the brown-eyed eldest daughter of Sir Alexander Lindsay

Sir Alexander Lindsay of Evelix (1683-1762)

Sir Alexander Lindsay of Evelick was a Scottish nobleman from the Lindsay of Evelick family. He married into the Clan Murray by his marriage with Amelia Murray, daughter of David Murray, 5th Viscount Stormont and sister of William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield...

 of Evelick. She is notable as a member of the Clan Murray

Clan Murray

Clan Murray is a Highland Scottish clan. The Murrays were a great and powerful clan whose lands and cadet houses were scattered throughout Scotland.- Origins of the Clan :...

, largely pro-Jacobite in sympathies at this time (her mother Amelia's father and brother

David Murray, 6th Viscount of Stormont

David Murray, 6th Viscount of Stormont was a Scottish peer, succeeding to the Viscountcy of Stormont on his father David's death in 1731 and holding it until his own death. His mother was Marjory Scott, and among his brothers were the Earl of Mansfield and the Jacobite James Murray...

 both supported that cause), but also including pro-Hanoverians such as William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, SL, PC was a British barrister, politician and judge noted for his reform of English law. Born to Scottish nobility, he was educated in Perth, Scotland before moving to London at the age of 13 to take up a place at Westminster School...

. Through her father she was a member of the Clan Lindsay

Clan Lindsay

-Origins of the Clan:There is currently no known proven path pertaining to the origin of the Clan Lindsay. However, several possible theories have been advanced over the years. First is the theory proposed in 1769 by biographer/historian, Richard Rolt, in which he claimed that the Lindsays were...

 (the naval officer John Lindsay

John Lindsay (admiral)

Admiral Sir John Lindsay KB was a British naval officer of the 18th century, and the father of Dido Elizabeth Belle.-Family:...

 was her brother), which joined the '15 Jacobite rebellion, but not the '45. She became the second wife of the artist Allan Ramsay.

Life

She was taught drawing by Ramsay, and they eventually eloped together in 1752 and married in Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh

Edinburgh

Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...

 on 1 March that year, without her parents' consent. Her brother John

John Lindsay (admiral)

Admiral Sir John Lindsay KB was a British naval officer of the 18th century, and the father of Dido Elizabeth Belle.-Family:...

stayed loyal to her right up to his death, but her parents never forgave her for marrying lower than her station, even when Ramsay wrote to his new father-in-law to re-assure him that (despite his already having a daughter from his first marriage, as well as his two sisters, to support) he could well provide for Margaret, providing her with an annual sum of £100 that would rise "as my affairs increase, and I thank God, they are in a way of increasing". Nevertheless, he also wrote that he was fully aware that she was "entitled to much more than ever I shall have to bestow upon her", but reiterated that he had not married Margaret for her money but out of love.

Their marriage was a long and happy one, and produced 3 surviving children - Amelia (1755–1813), Charlotte (1758–1818?), and John (1768–1845).