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|f_annotation='''LADY ERSKINE.''' Scottish, Reel. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Glen attributes the tune to "J. Walker," James Walker (1760-1840) of Dysart, a professional musician, who published a collection in 1797Which Lady Erskine the title relates to is not known, and there were several: Lady Frances Erskine and Lady Charlotte Erskine were wealthy patrons of the Scottish painter David Allan (1744-1796), who helped raise money to send the young artist to Rome to study.  
|f_annotation=[[File:Harrietstclair.jpg|500px|right|thumb|Harriet St Clair-Erskine, Countess of Rosslyn]]'''LADY ERSKINE.''' Scottish, Reel. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Lady Erskine" was composed by [[biography:James Walker]] (1771-1840) of Dysart, Fife, a professional musician and music teacher, who published his first collection in 1793-4Walker dedicated his second collection to Lady St Clair Erskine of Sinclair, the spouse of  Sir James St Clair-Erskine (Erskine), 2nd Earl of Rosslyn (1762-1837), to whom he had dedicated his first collection.  Lady Erskine was born Harriet Bouverie (1771-1810), daughter of Hon. Edward Bouverie, MP, and Harriot Spencer. She married in 1789 at age 18 and had six children before passing away at age 38.  
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She was a good friend of Lady Dalkeith, to whom Sir Walter Scott wrote soon after Lady Harriet's death, remarking, "Poor Lady Rosslyn is gone, with all the various talent and vivacity that rendered her society so delightful. I regret her loss the more, as she died without ever making up some unkindness she had towards me for these foolish politics.  It is another example of the great truth, that life is too shore for the indulgence of animosity."  Apparently, Lady Harriet had written to Scott taking offense to a song he had sung at a dinner for the acquitted Lord Melville; the song gave great offense to others of his friends as well.  Lady Rosslyn’s ire was indeed considerable. Lady Bessborough wrote in August, 1808, to Lord Granville Leveson-Gower:
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''We dine again at the Rosslyns….Lady Rosslyn really would be very pleasant if it were not for her party violence, which exceeds''
''everything I ever met with.  She will not admit any of Walter Scott’s Poetry into the house, and in shewing me his cottage''
''said ‘the Beast who us’d to live there and who I wish hanged’, and in passing Lord Melville’s park she leant back lest she''
''should be obliged to bow to Mr. R. Dundas (a politician) and said, ‘I believe nothing will kill the old Devil; he ought to''
''have been dead long ago’—‘and Damn’d,’ added Mr. Broughham.''
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The melody appears as "Lady Eshkin's reell" in the music manuscript collection of Spithope, Northumberland, musician John Robson [http://www.asaplive.com/archive/detail.asp?id=U0100800], dated February, 1874.  
The melody appears as "Lady Eshkin's reell" in the music manuscript collection of Spithope, Northumberland, musician John Robson [http://www.asaplive.com/archive/detail.asp?id=U0100800], dated February, 1874.  
|f_source_for_notated_version=Kenny Chaisson (b. 1947, Bear River, North-East Kings County, Prince Edward Island; now resident of Rollo Bay) [Perlman].
|f_source_for_notated_version=Kenny Chaisson (b. 1947, Bear River, North-East Kings County, Prince Edward Island; now resident of Rollo Bay) [Perlman].

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Harriet St Clair-Erskine, Countess of Rosslyn
LADY ERSKINE. Scottish, Reel. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Lady Erskine" was composed by biography:James Walker (1771-1840) of Dysart, Fife, a professional musician and music teacher, who published his first collection in 1793-4. Walker dedicated his second collection to Lady St Clair Erskine of Sinclair, the spouse of Sir James St Clair-Erskine (Erskine), 2nd Earl of Rosslyn (1762-1837), to whom he had dedicated his first collection. Lady Erskine was born Harriet Bouverie (1771-1810), daughter of Hon. Edward Bouverie, MP, and Harriot Spencer. She married in 1789 at age 18 and had six children before passing away at age 38.



She was a good friend of Lady Dalkeith, to whom Sir Walter Scott wrote soon after Lady Harriet's death, remarking, "Poor Lady Rosslyn is gone, with all the various talent and vivacity that rendered her society so delightful. I regret her loss the more, as she died without ever making up some unkindness she had towards me for these foolish politics. It is another example of the great truth, that life is too shore for the indulgence of animosity." Apparently, Lady Harriet had written to Scott taking offense to a song he had sung at a dinner for the acquitted Lord Melville; the song gave great offense to others of his friends as well. Lady Rosslyn’s ire was indeed considerable. Lady Bessborough wrote in August, 1808, to Lord Granville Leveson-Gower:

We dine again at the Rosslyns….Lady Rosslyn really would be very pleasant if it were not for her party violence, which exceeds everything I ever met with. She will not admit any of Walter Scott’s Poetry into the house, and in shewing me his cottage said ‘the Beast who us’d to live there and who I wish hanged’, and in passing Lord Melville’s park she leant back lest she should be obliged to bow to Mr. R. Dundas (a politician) and said, ‘I believe nothing will kill the old Devil; he ought to have been dead long ago’—‘and Damn’d,’ added Mr. Broughham.

The melody appears as "Lady Eshkin's reell" in the music manuscript collection of Spithope, Northumberland, musician John Robson [1], dated February, 1874.


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Kenny Chaisson (b. 1947, Bear River, North-East Kings County, Prince Edward Island; now resident of Rollo Bay) [Perlman].

Printed sources : - Cranford (Jerry Holland: The Second Collection), 2000; No. 44, p. 18. Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 2, 1895; p. 44. Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 104.

Recorded sources : - Jerry Holland - "Lively Steps" (1988).

See also listing at :
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index [2]



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