Lady Margaret Brodie Stewart

Lady Margaret Brodie Stewart became Margaret Herschel (1810–1884) was a British botanical artist and hostess. While she was in South Africa she and her husband made dozens of botanical paintings of wild flowers which they brought back to Europe for study. Her husband was one of the leading scientists in Victorian Britain. Life Lady Margaret Brodie Stewart was born in 1810. Her father was Alexander Stewart DD, a Scottish Presbyterian minister and Gaelic scholar. She married her cousin John Herschel on 3 March 1829 in Edinburgh. Visit to South Africa