Margaret Calderwood

[1] In 1735, the year that she married Thomas Calderwood of Polton,[1] she was painted by the leading Scottish portrait painter Allan Ramsay.

They described her journey from Scotland and through England to Rotterdam, Delft, the Hague, Haarlem, and Amsterdam, her meeting in Liège with her brother and on to Brussels.

Calderwood describes contemporary transport, food and water, fuel, money, agriculture, religion and education.

[1] In a memorable description of her journey through England, Calderwood admires the cows as the people lack what she calls "smartness" more than any other "folks.

[3] She is buried in the old Kirkyard at Lasswade with her husband, in the plot of her father-in-law, Sir William Calderwood, Lord Polton.

The grave of Margaret Calderwood, Old Kirkyard, Lasswade