Eliza Junor

Eliza Junor (c. 1804–20 April 1861) was a Scotswoman of mixed race, who was the daughter of a former slave owner, Hugh Junor, and a slave or former slave ("free coloured woman") whose name is not recorded.

Life Junor and her brother William were born in Demerara in the British colony of Guyana, where their father owned a timber estate with sixty enslaved people. Her father died in 1823 and bequeathed his estate in Essequibo to his legitimate son Colin; his widow remarried and named one of her sons Hugh Junor Browne in honour of her first husband.

Junor went to school in Fortrose and won prizes for penmanship. She later lived in Edinburgh and Brixton, London, where she worked as a governess. She never married but had one daughter, Emma McGregor, A song "Òran Eliza" was composed by Eilidh Mackenzie.