Margaret Calderwood

Margaret Steuart Calderwood ( Steuart, 1715–1774) was a Scottish diarist just after the Jacobite rising of 1745. She wrote of her journeys through England to Brussels, but this work was not published until the 19th century.

Family Margaret was the daughter of Sir James Steuart of Coltness, a Steuart baronet.

Marriage In 1735, the year that she married Thomas Calderwood of Polton,

Journal writer She came to notice when her brother had to go into exile as he was involved in the 1745 rebellion.

She is buried in the old Kirkyard at Lasswade with her husband, in the plot of her father-in-law, Sir William Calderwood, Lord Polton.

Wider circulation of her diaries Calderwood's diaries were published more widely in 1884; previously they had only been circulated via the Maitland Club in 1842.