biography
| name: |
Buchan, Elspeth
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née Simpson
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pronunciation:
[buhkn]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1738–91)
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| biography:
| Scottish religious, the wife of a potter. In 1784 she founded a fanatical sect in Irvine, the Buchanites, announcing herself to her 46 followers as the Woman of Revelations xii. |
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