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OBITUARY NOTICE. 



Lady John Scott Spottiswoode. By Miss Warrender. 



By the death, last March, of Lady John Scott Spottiswoode 

 of Spottiswoode, the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club has lost 

 not only one of its oldest and most venerated members, 

 but a link with a past of which in her own county she 

 was the last survivor. Born on Midsummer's Day, 1810, 

 she had known those who had been face to face with 

 the '45 ; she remembered well the wild excitement caused 

 by the victory of Waterloo, and she had talked with Sir 

 Walter Scott. 



On both sides she came of a loyal and ancient stock. 

 Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode is among the oldest territorial 

 families of Berwickshire, and to her last day Lady John 

 never forgave the ancestor who had affixed his seal to 

 the Ragman Roll ; while her mother's family, Wauchope of 

 Niddrie, is the oldest family in Mid-Lothian. Thus the 

 intense love for her own country, and especially for the 

 Borderland, with its legends and ballads, which was so great 

 in Lady John, seems almost to be her natural heritage. 



Most of her childhood and all its happiest days were 

 spent at Spottiswoode, which she loved passionately. The 

 periodical journeys to London, made in leisurely fashion 

 in the ponderous family coach, were looked on as seasons of 

 exile ; and she was never so happy as when wandering 

 pyej" the moors^ or ^shing in the buyus of Lammermujr, 



