Richard Alexander Oswald

Oswald married twice. On 23 April 1793 in Edinburgh Parish, he married Louisa "Lucy" Johnstone. The poet Robert Burns composed his verses, "O wat ye wha's in yon town?" to her. Before death of consumption at Lisbon in 1797,^[8] they were the parents of:

• Richard Oswald (d. 1833), who married Lady Mary Kennedy, a daughter of Archibald Kennedy, 1st Marquess of Ailsa and Margaret Erskine of Dun.^[1][9]
• Margaret Hester Oswald (d. 1855), whom married Thomas Spencer Lindsey of Hollymount, County Mayo, in 1818.^[10]

After the death of his first wife, Oswald married Lady Lilias (née Montgomerie) MacQueen (d. 1845) in 1817. Lady Lilias, a daughter of Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton, was the widow of Robert Dundas MacQueen of Braxfield.^[11][12]

Oswald died on 19 June 1841, at the age of 70. As his son Richard predeceased him, the family estates passed to a cousin, James Oswald, in 1841.^[8] Margaret, who was described in an obituary as "the only daughter of the late Richard Alexander Oswald, Esq. of Auchencruive,"^[13][14] Oswald's will shows that a beneficiary was a granddaughter Margaret Nina Lindsey.^[15]

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Richard Oswald