Annotation:Lady Jane Neville

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LADY JANE NEVILLE. AKA - "Lady Jane Nevill's Reel." Scottish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Athole, Marshall, Skye): AABB' (Kerr). Composed by William Marshall (1748-1833). According to Moyra Cowie (The Life and Times of William Marshall, 1999), Lady Jane Neville (1798-1856) was the daughter of Lady Louisa Gordon and Charles, Marquis Cornwallis; thus she was the grand-daughter of Alexander, the 4th Duke of Gordon, who employed Marshall as Steward of the Household. She married the Honorable Richard Griffin (1783-1858), 3rd Lord Braybrooke, Baron of Braybrooke, in 1819 and became Baroness Braybrooke in 1825 (when her husband succeeded to the title). Her mother-in-law reputedly had a great sense of humor and Cowie says she was a particular favorite of composer William Marshall's.

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Printed sources: Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 2; No. 119, p. 15. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 99. Marshall, Fiddlecase Edition, 1978; 1822 Collection, p. 40. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 162.

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