Jane Ferrier

Biographical Summary

Eldest daughter of James Ferrier, Writer of the Signet, and sister of the novelist Susan Ferrier. She married General Samuel Graham, Deputy Governor of Stirling Castle. Burns sent her some verse, 'To Miss Ferrier' along with a copy of his 'Elegy on Sir James Hunter Blair'. She was a celebrated beauty when Burns met her, as well as a clever artist. With Edward Blore, she made drawings of the carvings in Stirling Palace, which were engraved and published under the name of Lacunar Strevelinense (1817)

SOURCE: "Ferrier, Jane", The Burns Encyclopedia