Patricia Maxwell-Scott

Patricia Maxwell-Scott (3 April 1921 – 13 October 1998) was the Laird and Chatelaine of Abbotsford which she opened to the public, restored to its former glory, and ran for nearly five decades.

[2] Patricia Maxwell-Scott was born on 3 April 1921 in The Curragh, Dublin, the granddaughter of Mary Monica Maxwell-Scott and the elder daughter of Major-General Sir Walter Constable-Maxwell-Scott, 1st Baronet, and his first wife, Mairi, daughter of Lt-Col Stewart of Lunga.

When she was seven, her father married Marie-Louise, Madame des Sincay, daughter of Major John Logan of the US Cavalry.

[1] She inherited Abbotsford, near Galashiels, Roxburghshire upon her father's death in 1954,[3] and ran the house as a visitor attraction for the rest of her life.

In 1944, she married Sir (Harold Hugh) Christian Boulton, 4th Baronet, although they had no children and later separated.