Died 13 October 1998 | ||
 | ||
Patricia Maxwell-Scott (3 April 1921 - 13 October 1998) was the Laird and Chatelaine of Abbotsford which she opened to the public, restored to its former glory, and ran for nearly five decades. She was "Borders Man of the Year" in 1983, and the great-great-great-granddaughter of the novelist Sir Walter Scott.
Contents
Career
She inherited Abbotsford on her father's death in 1954, and ran the house as a visitor attraction for the rest of her life.
Early life
Patricia Maxwell-Scott was born on 3 April 1921 in The Curragh, Dublin, the daughter of Major General Sir Walter Joseph Constable Maxwell-Scott, 1st Baronet, and his first wife Mari, daughter of Lt-Col Stewart of Lunga. Her mother died when she was three, and when she was seven, her father married Marie-Louise, Madame des Sincay, daughter of Major John Logan of the US Cavalry. She was educated at the Convent Des Oiseaux, Westgate-on-Sea, Kent.
Personal life
In 1944, she married Sir (Harold Hugh) Christian Boulton, 4th Baronet, although they had no children and later separated; she retained her maiden name.
Her younger sister was Dame Jean Maxwell-Scott DCVO.