She had a short, but important life introducing many of the leading figures of the Scottish Enlightenment to people of influence.
She had spent three years at Miss Aylesworth's school in Chelsea, but it is reported that she would have learned singing and about music but nothing more academic.
[3] Each summer she would be invited to Inveraray Castle, as this was the family seat of her father's business fiend Lord Ilay.
[3] She married Captain John Wedderburn of Gosford but the marriage was short as he was posted to the West Indies.
She gave birth to a daughter and she died on 18 December 1758 having said "I have done my duty to my husband's honour, but my doing so has cost me my life".