Richard Alexander Oswald

Richard Alexander Oswald (17 February 1771 – 19 June 1841) was a Scottish Whig Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1832 to 1835.

His first wife was Louisa or Lucy Johnstone; the poet Robert Burns composed his verses, "O wat ye wha's in yon town?"

[1][7] The family estates passed to a cousin, James Oswald, in 1841.

[4] Thomas Spencer Lindsey married in 1818 Oswald's daughter Margaret Hester.

of Auchencruive"[9][10] Oswald's will shows that a beneficiary was a granddaughter Margaret Nina Lindsey.