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|f_annotation='''MISS CHARLOTTE HOPE OF CRAIGIEHALL. ''' Scottish, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Miss Charlotte Hope of Craigiehall" was composed by Perthshire fiddler-composer [[biography:John Bowie]] and was printed in his '''Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances &c.''' (Edinburgh, c. 1789, p. 2), along with figures for a country dance. At the time Bowie published his collection the estate of Craigiehall (near Cramond, about six miles west of central Edinburgh) was in the possession of Charles Hope-Weir (1710–1791), second son of Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun. The manor Craigiehall was designed by Sir William Bruce, with input from James Smith, and completed in 1699. It replaced a former tower house | |f_annotation='''MISS CHARLOTTE HOPE OF CRAIGIEHALL. ''' Scottish, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Miss Charlotte Hope of Craigiehall" was composed by Perthshire fiddler-composer [[biography:John Bowie]] and was printed in his '''Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances &c.''' (Edinburgh, c. 1789, p. 2), along with figures for a country dance. At the time Bowie published his collection the estate of Craigiehall (near Cramond, about six miles west of central Edinburgh) was in the possession of Charles Hope-Weir (1710–1791), second son of Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun. The Hopes of Craigiehall were related to the Hopes of Hopetoun House, a neighboring estate. The manor Craigiehall was designed by Sir William Bruce, with input from James Smith, and completed in 1699. It replaced a former tower house [Helen] Charlotte Hope (1773-1801) was one of the children of Charles Hope-Weir's third marriage, to Helen Dunbar (d. 1794), daughter of George Dunbar. She was the first wife of John Knight (1765–1850) of Lea Castle, Wolverley, and of Simonsbath House, Exmoor, Somerset, an agricultural pioneer who commenced the reclamation of the barren moorland of the former royal forest of Exmoor. However, she predeceased him by a number of years, dying at the age of 28. | ||
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MISS CHARLOTTE HOPE OF CRAIGIEHALL. Scottish, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Miss Charlotte Hope of Craigiehall" was composed by Perthshire fiddler-composer biography:John Bowie and was printed in his Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances &c. (Edinburgh, c. 1789, p. 2), along with figures for a country dance. At the time Bowie published his collection the estate of Craigiehall (near Cramond, about six miles west of central Edinburgh) was in the possession of Charles Hope-Weir (1710–1791), second son of Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun. The Hopes of Craigiehall were related to the Hopes of Hopetoun House, a neighboring estate. The manor Craigiehall was designed by Sir William Bruce, with input from James Smith, and completed in 1699. It replaced a former tower house [Helen] Charlotte Hope (1773-1801) was one of the children of Charles Hope-Weir's third marriage, to Helen Dunbar (d. 1794), daughter of George Dunbar. She was the first wife of John Knight (1765–1850) of Lea Castle, Wolverley, and of Simonsbath House, Exmoor, Somerset, an agricultural pioneer who commenced the reclamation of the barren moorland of the former royal forest of Exmoor. However, she predeceased him by a number of years, dying at the age of 28.
