in Ayrshire, Scotland
LADY REBECCA BOYD (actually LADY ERROLL)
This 1749 etching is of Rebecca, daughter of Alexander Lockhart of Craighouse, later Lord Covington.Lady Rebecca Boyd stands three quarter length, wearing a satin dress with tight pearl embroidered bodice and satin cloak, as Diana the Huntress. She carries a long spear and wears a crescent jewel and pearls in her hair, and is accompanied by her greyhound.
On 15 September 1749 she married James Lord Boyd, eldest son of the 4th Earl of Kilmarnock, who had been beheaded in 1745 for his part in the Jacobite uprising, and his title attainted.
Lord Boyd was then in the 21st Regiment of Foot in the army of King George II and consequently was able to inherit his father's estate, but not the title of Earl. In 1758 he inherited the title of 15th Earl of Erroll, and his wife died as Countess of Erroll on the 2nd May, 1761.
NB As the Boyd dignities had been forfeited by her late father-in-law before she married the future Earl of Erroll, she was never de jure Lady Boyd (although socially she may have been described as such, as the engraver's title to the picture suggests). She was Lady Erroll, or Rebecca Lady Erroll, for nearly three years before her premature death. Rebecca Lady Errol had an only daughter, Mary.
MARY QUEEN of SCOTS
Click here to see photographs taken of Mary Queen of Scots house at Jedburgh.
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