Mary Elizabeth Frederica Mackenzie
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Mary Elizabeth Frederica Mackenzie (1783 - 28 November 1862), eldest daughter and heiress of Francis Mackenzie, 1st Baron Seaforth. Married twice, first to Vice Admiral Sir Samuel Hood, second to James Alexander Stewart on 21 May 1817.
She was also known as Lady Hood Mackenzie or The Hooded Lassie. Responsible for introducing the first Evangelical Calvinist preachers to the Isle of Lewis. Painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence. She was also the subject of a prophecy by the Brahan Seer.
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- Seaforth's Lewis by Finlay Macleod
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- The Peerage
- Brahan Seer prophecy
