Group Portrait of Margaret Fairlie, full-length, in a black dress, with her younger children, James Ogilvy, seated on a table beside her, holding a drumstick in his right hand, and Margaret Eliza, holding a doll, on a balcony beside a column, a landscape

Margaret Fairlie (d. 1845) was the daughter and co-heir of John Ogilvy of Murtle, Angus. She married William Fairlie (see lot 30) in 1798. They had three sons William, John (see lot 31) and James Ogilvy, and two daughters Agnes Maria and Margaret Eliza. After her husband's death in 1825, she moved from London to Scotland where she built Coodham House, near Symington, Ayrshire, between 1828 and 1831. James Ogilvy (1809-1870) who inherited Coodham from his mother, married firstly Anne Eliza, daughter of John Norman Macleod of Macleod, by whom he had a son and a daughter, and secondly, in 1845, Elizabeth Constance, daughter of William Houison Crauford of Craufordland, co. Ayr, and Braehead, Midlothian, by whom he had five sons and two daughters. Agnes Maria married her cousin James Fairlie of Holmes, in 1821, by whom she had nine sons and five daughters. Margaret Eliza (1811-1888), married first John Stuart Hay-Newton of Newton in 1829 and secondly Major Robert Duncan Fergusso