Mary Monica Maxwell-Scott

Mary Monica Maxwell-Scott (2 October 1852 – 15 March 1920) was a Scottish author of historical novels and non-fiction and the great-granddaughter of the novelist Walter Scott.

She was born in Tunbridge Wells in Kent[1] as Mary Monica Hope Scott in 1852, the only surviving child of James Hope-Scott (1812-1873) and his wife Charlotte Harriet Jane née Lockhart (1827-1858), daughter of John Gibson Lockhart and grand-daughter of the noted Scottish novelist Sir Walter Scott.

Until her own children were born Mary Monica was the only living descendant of Sir Walter Scott.

Joseph Constable-Maxwell, third son of William, Lord Herries, following which the couple adopted the surname Maxwell-Scott.

Together, they were the parents of eight children, five of whom survived her, including: Maxwell-Scott died at 7 Egerton Terrace in London in 1920, aged 67.