Janet Brown Janet Brown Janet McLuckie Brown (14 December 192327 May 2011) was a Scottish actress, comedian and impressionist who gained considerable fame in the 1970s and 1980s for her impersonations of Margaret Thatcher. Brown was the wife of Peter Butterworth who was best known for his appearances in the "Carry on" films. Butterworth died in 1979 and Brown never remarried. Brown was born in Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, and educated at Rutherglen Academy. Beginning with Margaret Thatcher's election as the leader of the Conservative Party in 1975, Brown gained increasing prominence because of her realistic impression of the Tory politician. She performed as
Janet Beaton her second husband's murder by Bothwell and the other conspirators. The same sorcery perpetrated by Janet was allegedly used against Queen Mary which caused her to become enamoured of Earl Bothwell. At Dunbar Castle, Janet was one of the three attendants of Queen Mary following the latter's abduction by Bothwell. The other two women were Bothwell's widowed sister, Jean Hepburn, and Janet's younger sister Margaret. Janet Beaton died in January 1568/9. Margaret Bethune or Beaton, born about 1526, who married Arthur Forbes, 4th Laird of Rires in the parish of Kilconquhar and had two sons with him before his death