Frances Sara Fuller-Maitland

FULLER-MAITLAND, Frances Sara. b. near Reading, 20 June 1809; d. Edinburgh, 27 May 1877. Born into an aristocratic family, she married John Colquhoun, the son of Sir John Colquhoun, Bart, of Luss, Dunbartonshire (she is entered under ‘Colquhoun’ in JJ, Appendix II, p. 1557). Her husband had been an army officer, and later became a noted writer on field sports. The family lived in Edinburgh from 1855 onwards. Frances Sara is known for her substantial additions to the fragment by Henry Kirke White* that became ‘Oft in danger, oft in woe’*, written when she was a young woman. They were published in a book compiled by her mother, Bethia Fuller-Maitland, Hymns for Private Devotion: Selected and...