Life in Mexico
Excerpt
FRANCES CALDERON DE LA BARCA, born in Edinburgh, 1804, the
daughter of
William Inglis. After her father’s death she settled in
America, where she
married the Spanish diplomat, Don Angel Calderon de la Barca.
She
accompanied him on his various appointments to Mexico, Washington,
and
finally to Madrid, where she was created Marquesa de Calderon de la
Barca
by Alfonso XII and died in 1882.