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Margaret Lindsay
Margaret Lindsay (born Margaret Kies; September 19, 1910 – May 9, 1981) was an American film actress. Her time as a Warner Bros. contract player during the 1930s was particularly productive. She was noted for her supporting work in successf ...
for the film actress of this name, and Marion Margaret Violet Lindsay
Marion Margaret Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland (''née'' Lindsay; 7 March 1856 – 22 December 1937) was a British artist and noblewoman. A granddaughter of the James Lindsay, 24th Earl of Crawford, 24th Earl of Crawford, she married Henry ...
for the 19th and 20th-century artist, sometimes called Margaret Lindsay.''
Margaret Lindsay (–1782) was a member of the Scottish Clan Murray
Clan Murray () is a Highland Scottish clan. The chief of the Clan Murray holds the title of Duke of Atholl. Their ancestors were the Morays of Bothwell who established the family in Scotland in the 12th century. In the 16th century, descendants ...
and the eldest daughter of Sir Alexander Lindsay of Evelick. She was a member of the Clan Lindsay
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The Lindsays were prominent in both England and Scotland from the late 11th century. The name most likely derives from the region of Lindsey in England (the ...
, which joined the '15 Jacobite rising. In 1752, she married the artist Allan Ramsay, later becoming the subject of several of his works.
Her marriage was a controversial one within her family. Their elopement on March 1, 1752, at Canongate Kirk
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, Edinburgh
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, made Lindsay Ramsay the artist's second wife, and the marriage did not have her parents' consent. Her parents never forgave her for marrying lower than her station, but her brother John
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stayed loyal to her right up to his death. Allan Ramsay wrote to his new father-in-law to reassure him that, despite already having a daughter from his first marriage and two sisters to support, he could provide Margaret with an annual sum of £100 that would rise "as my affairs increase, and I thank God, they are in a way of increasing." However, he was fully aware that she was "entitled to much more than ever I shall have to bestow upon her," and reiterated that he had not married Margaret for her money but out of love.
Their marriage was a long and happy one which produced three surviving children – Amelia (1755–1813), Charlotte (1758–1818), and John (1768–1845). Other children died as babies: twins Alexander and Amelia, born 1752, and another Alexander, born 1754.
Portrait
In 1758 Ramsay painted his wife's portrait, now known as ''The Artist's Wife: Margaret Lindsay of Evelick, c 1726 - 1782''. The painting is held in the National Galleries of Scotland, along with several preparatory sketches.
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