Historical and genealogical account of the Clan Maclean

GENEALOGICAL ACCOUNT. 853
execution of his important official duties
obtained for him universal respect. He
died in the island of Grenada in the year
1803, much and deservedly regretted. The
issue of his marriage with the heiress of
Torloisk were three daughters ; viz.
1. Margaret, who, in the year 1815, married
Spencer Joshua Alwyne, the present
Marquess of Northampton. The Mar-
chioness died in the year 1830 j and were
my pen competent to the duty, this
record of her ladyship's race would be-
speak her praise in terms equal to her
virtues. Her early death was indeed
sincerely lamented, not alone by her
noble relatives and the friends of her
domestic privacy, but by that society in
which she moved, and which her lady-
ship's superior accomplishments were so
eminently calculated to adorn. As her
amiable disposition and gentle nature en-
deared her to immediate relations and
friends, so the benevolence of her heart
and the pre-eminent qualities of her mind
rendered her the beloved and esteemed
of all acquaintances. If the possession
of all those virtues which constitute an
inestimable character merits a lasting re-
cord, few women, in any station of life,
ever deserved a page in history to per-
a a