Author: Burges, Margaret
Biography:
BURGES, Margaret formerly FORDYCE, formerly LINDSAY (1753-1814: ODNB)
She was the second daughter of the fifth Earl of Balcarres, James Lindsay, and Anne (Dalrymple) Lindsay, and sister to Lady Anne Barnard and Elizabeth Scott Yorke (qq.v.). She was born at the family's Balcarres estate in Scotland on 14 Feb. 1753. On 26 June 1770 she married Alexander Fordyce of Roehampton, an eminent banker, and moved to London. His bankruptcy in 1772 ruined many investors and initially he fled from London before returning to assume his share of the debt. He died in 1789. On 1 Sept 1812 in St. George's, Hanover Square, London, she married James Bland Burges (q.v.), a childhood sweetheart; their youthful attachment is celebrated in Anne Barnard’s Auld Robin Gray. Her health was delicate, and she died after just two years of marriage at their home in Lower Brook Street, London, on 2 Dec. 1814. (ODNB 23 Oct. 2020 [under Alexander Fordyce and James Bland Burges]; ancestry.co.uk 23 July 2025) SR
Other Names:
- Lady Margaret Lindsay
- Lady Margaret Fordyce