Family
In 1825, Bannerman married Margaret Gordon, who was later identified as "Carlyle's first love" by her biographer, who tells of the young schoolmaster Thomas Carlyle, in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, "who was attracted by her intelligence and wit." Her family considered Carlyle as an unsuitable marriage prospect, and she eventually married Bannerman, a distant cousin. Lady Bannerman was born in Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island, a granddaughter of Walter Patterson who had been the Island's first governor.
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