Katharine Colquhoun (1787 – 1871) was a British novelist.
Katharine Deacon was born in 1787, the youngest daughter of James Deacon, a customs receiver-general at the port of London, and Frances Colyns Deacon. In 1810, she married James Colquhoun, a British diplomat who represented a number of German governments and islands in the West Indies. They had three sons and two daughters, including the diplomats Patrick Colquhoun and James Charles Henry Colquhoun. She published a single novel, a work of historical fiction about Maurice, Elector of Saxony and dedicated to Frederick Augustus II of Saxony. She died in 1871.
Bibliography Maurice, the Elector of Saxony: An Historical Romance of the Sixteenth Century. 3 vol. London: T. C. Newby, 1844.
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