Elliot, Jean [Jane]
(1727–1805)
- Murray G. H. Pittock
Extract
Elliot, Jean [Jane] (1727–1805), poet, was born in April 1727 at Minto House, near Hawick, Roxburghshire, the third daughter of Sir Gilbert Elliot (bap. 1693, d. 1766), second baronet and (as lord justice clerk of Scotland) Lord Minto, and Helen (bap...