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LADY FRANCIS SOMERSET'S (REEL). Scottish, Reel. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Composed c. 1795 by Duncan Macintyre, an expatriate Scottish dancing master practicing in London, who may have spent his last years in India and died around 1806. Lady Frances Elizabeth Somerset (3 April 1774 – 24 May 1841) was the second daughter of Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort (1744-1803) and his wife Elizabeth Boscawen, daughter of Hon. Edward Boscawen, Admiral of the Blue.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 193.

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