Barbara Mackay
Barbara MacKay,
Lady Reay ( – ) was a Scottish poet born in
Scourie. Her main collection of poems is a manuscript composed of ten mainly religious poems dedicated to the
Countess of Caithness. She also wrote on political matters: some of her best known works is a poem called ''Anagramme on his Ma[jes]ty'', intend to encourage Charles II to be a good king, and a
eulogy to
Lord Lovat. She was the daughter of
Ann Corbett of Arkboll, and
Hugh MacKay of Scourie and the second wife of
John MacKay, 2nd Lord Reay, with whom she had at least six children. Like her father and husband, Barbara MacKay was both a Royalist and a Presbyterian. Reverend James Fraser mentions that she was "admired for sharpness and eloquence [...] a great historian, a smart poet, and, for virtue and housekeeping, few or none her parallel".
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