Margaret Radclyffe Livingstone Eyre

Lady Margaret Radclyffe Livingstone Eyre (née Kennedy, 16 June 1800 – 3 September 1889), later incorrectly called the Countess of Newburgh, was a Scottish aristocrat and philanthropist.

Her parents were Margaret (born Erskine) and Archibald Kennedy, twelfth Earl of Cassillis.

[1] She married at her family seat of Culzean Castle in Scotland on 14 November 1817 to Thomas Radclyffe-Livingstone-Eyre.

[1] She sat for a portrait by Orazio de Manara which is now held by the National Trust at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire.

[2] By 1850 she had converted to the Catholic church and she worked with and was good friends with fellow aristocrats Lady Georgiana Fullerton and Cecil Chetwynd Kerr, Marchioness of Lothian.

Culzean Castle was her wedding venue
Our Lady and St Cuthbert Catholic Church in Maybole was opened in 1878 and it was funded by Eyre