Talk:Abbey Craig (The)

Composed by Alexander Walker, born 1819 in Rhynie, Strathbogie, Aberdeenshire. Walker published his collection in 1866, while employed as a garderenr for Sir Charles Forbes at Castle Newe. Walker was evidently a man of some technical training and ingenuity, for he invented surveying instruments. He composed one tune ("Dr. Profeit's Strathspey") in conjuction with J. Scott Skinner ('The Strathspey King'). In 1870 Walker emmigrated to America, where he joined his brother, although he quickly seems to have disappeared from sight following a few letters home to local newspapers [Emmerson, Ranting Pipe and Tremblin String, 1971].

Abbey Craig is the name of a hill overlooking (and just to the north of) Stirling, Scotland, on which was erected the Wallace Monument. Craig, or crag, refers to a geologic formation, while the abbey refers to Cambuskenneth Abbey, about a kilometer distant.