Anne Erskine

Lady Anne Agnes Erskine (1739 – 5 October 1804) was a Scottish aristocrat and friend and trustee of Selina, Countess of Huntingdon. She became an important figure in the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion which was a group of churches which still survives.

Life Erskine was born in Edinburgh in 1739. the eldest child of Agnes and Henry David Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan (1710–1767). Her mother was the daughter of Sir James Stewart, 1st Baronet (1681–1727), of Goodtrees. Her brothers were David Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan, who founded the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland; Hon. Henry Erskine, a lawyer, and Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine, lord chancellor from 1806 to 1807. Her maternal uncle was Sir James Steuart, the Jacobite political economist.

She and her brothers were home schooled by their mother in religious household.

In June 1791 Selina identified four people who would look after her wealth and chapels after she died. Erskine was one of these and Erskine continued to live in their spacious home but she did not have the funds that the Countess had at her disposal to support her work. However the chapels continued and Erskine took over the recruitment of new ministers who were required despite some congregations moving away. Erskine was reliant on grants supplied by the Spa Fields Chapel committee. She died in 1804 in London and she was buried at Bunhill Fields. Her place as a Connexion truste was taken by the Reverend John Ford after her death but it converted to a trust shortly afterwards. but the Countess did not have one for many more years as she had requested that one should not be written.