Lady (Caroline Lucy) Scott

Born Caroline Lucy Douglas on 16 February 1784, she was the second daughter of Archibald, 1st Baron Douglas. She later became Lady Scott and is remembered as an English novelist and religious writer, with a career that also included landscape painting.

Her published fiction includes A Marriage in High Life (1828), Trevelyan (1833), and The Old Grey Church (1856). Alongside her novels, she wrote religious works, especially for younger readers, which helped shape her reputation as a writer whose work mixed storytelling with moral and devotional interests.

She died in April 1857 at Petersham, Surrey. Though not widely known today, her life connects several strands of 19th-century culture at once: aristocratic family history, women's fiction, religious writing, and amateur art.