View source for Annotation:Lady Collingwood's Favorite

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|f_annotation='''LADY COLLINGWOOD'S FAVORITE.'''  Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Lady Collingwood's Favorite" was composed by Newcastle fiddler-composer [[biography:Abraham Mackintosh]]" and published in a small folio around 1805. Lady Collingwood was born Sarah Blacket, daughter of John Erasmus Blackett, a well-to-do merchant and four times mayor of Newcastle. She married in 16 June, 1791, in Newcastle to a naval officer Her husband, when named vice-admiral, was created Baron Collingwood of Caldburne and Hethpoole. Collingwood was second-in-command at the Battle of  Trafalgar and engaged the enemy first, taking full command on Nelson's death.  However, he lost many of the prize ships by neglecting Nelson's last order. Besides that action he blockaded Cadiz 1797-8, Brest 1799-1805 and Toulon 1808-10, and eventually died at sea. Mackintosh's next tune in the two-sheet issue was "[[21st of October The)]] or The Battle of Trafalgar".
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|f_printed_sources=Mackintosh ('''Three Favorite Tunes'''), c. 1805; p. 1. 
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