Wednesday, November 14, 2018

John Everett Millais
1829-96
Nationality - British

The Martyr of the Solway
c.1871


Margaret Wilson was a young Scottish Covenanter from Wigtown in Scotland. She was executed by drowning for refusing to swear an oath declaring James VII (James II of England) as head of the church. She died along with Margaret McLachlan.

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