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|f_annotation='''MR. JOHN CAMPBELL ARDMORE'S STRATHSPEY'''. Scottish, Strathspey (cut time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Mr. John Campbell Ardmore's Strathspey" was composed by Islay fiddler-composer [[Alexander Mackay]] (born 1773) for John Campbell (1801-1861), the eldest boy of Archbald and Helen Campbell of Ardmore, Islay. In 1845 John was appointed Chamberlain to the Duke of Argyll and became known and feared as ''Factor Mór'', the Big Factor, who implemented the 8th Duke of Argyll’s policies in the Ross of Mull and Tiree for the next 25 years. | |f_annotation='''MR. JOHN CAMPBELL ARDMORE'S STRATHSPEY'''. Scottish, Strathspey (cut time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Mr. John Campbell Ardmore's Strathspey" was composed by Islay fiddler-composer [[Alexander Mackay]] (born 1773) for John Campbell (1801-1861), the eldest boy of Archbald and Helen Campbell of Ardmore, Islay. In 1845 John was appointed Chamberlain to the Duke of Argyll and became known and feared as ''Factor Mór'', the Big Factor, who implemented the 8th Duke of Argyll’s policies in the Ross of Mull and Tiree for the next 25 years. In 1845, he married Flora McNeill of Ellister, Islay. They had no children. | ||
After his appointment as Chamberlain to the Duke of Argyll, John Campbell and his wife took up residence at Ardfenaig, Mull, which had previously been the home to the Macleans of Killean. It was a substantial property. In the 1851 census, John Campbell is recorded at Ardfenaig, aged 50, as “Factor & Farmer of 1380 Acres 200 Acres Arable with 9 Servants”. | |||
The memories of many emigrants from Tiree to Canada or Australia in the 1840s and 1850s were bitter and were directed at John Campbell, the Duke of Argyll’s factor, not at the Duke himself, whose plan it was. This feeling was captured by Alex Dunedin (2019) in The Highland Clearances: Reading History and Dispossession3: | |||
The whole process was enforced by the threat of the dread summons of removal. The factors on several estates came to resemble petty tyrants who ruled the people with an iron hand. One of the most notorious was John Campbell, the Factor Mor (Big Factor), Chamberlain of the Duke | |||
2 Transcription by John Gibb. | |||
3 Dunedin, Alex (2019). The Highland Clearances: Reading History and Dispossession. Ragged University (https://www.raggeduniversity.co.uk) | |||
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of Argyll’s lands in Mull and Tiree. When he died in 1872, emigrant communities across the Atlantic celebrated in uninhibited style, as reported in the satirical poem, Lament for the Factor Mór | |||
When they heard in Canada that the beast had expired Bonfires were lit and banners attached to branches The people were cock-a-hoop with joy | |||
As they remember one another | |||
And they all got down on their knees and praised God that you had died. | |||
|f_printed_sources=Alexander Mackay ('''A Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Slow Tunes'''), Glasgow, c. 1822; p. 13. | |f_printed_sources=Alexander Mackay ('''A Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Slow Tunes'''), Glasgow, c. 1822; p. 13. | ||
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MR. JOHN CAMPBELL ARDMORE'S STRATHSPEY. Scottish, Strathspey (cut time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Mr. John Campbell Ardmore's Strathspey" was composed by Islay fiddler-composer Alexander Mackay (born 1773) for John Campbell (1801-1861), the eldest boy of Archbald and Helen Campbell of Ardmore, Islay. In 1845 John was appointed Chamberlain to the Duke of Argyll and became known and feared as Factor Mór, the Big Factor, who implemented the 8th Duke of Argyll’s policies in the Ross of Mull and Tiree for the next 25 years. In 1845, he married Flora McNeill of Ellister, Islay. They had no children. After his appointment as Chamberlain to the Duke of Argyll, John Campbell and his wife took up residence at Ardfenaig, Mull, which had previously been the home to the Macleans of Killean. It was a substantial property. In the 1851 census, John Campbell is recorded at Ardfenaig, aged 50, as “Factor & Farmer of 1380 Acres 200 Acres Arable with 9 Servants”.
The memories of many emigrants from Tiree to Canada or Australia in the 1840s and 1850s were bitter and were directed at John Campbell, the Duke of Argyll’s factor, not at the Duke himself, whose plan it was. This feeling was captured by Alex Dunedin (2019) in The Highland Clearances: Reading History and Dispossession3: The whole process was enforced by the threat of the dread summons of removal. The factors on several estates came to resemble petty tyrants who ruled the people with an iron hand. One of the most notorious was John Campbell, the Factor Mor (Big Factor), Chamberlain of the Duke 2 Transcription by John Gibb. 3 Dunedin, Alex (2019). The Highland Clearances: Reading History and Dispossession. Ragged University (https://www.raggeduniversity.co.uk)
3 of Argyll’s lands in Mull and Tiree. When he died in 1872, emigrant communities across the Atlantic celebrated in uninhibited style, as reported in the satirical poem, Lament for the Factor Mór When they heard in Canada that the beast had expired Bonfires were lit and banners attached to branches The people were cock-a-hoop with joy As they remember one another And they all got down on their knees and praised God that you had died.
