Annotation:Lady Hamilton Dalrymple
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LADY HAMILTON (OF) DALRYMPLE('S STRATHSPEY). AKA and see “Lady Dalrymple.” Scottish, Strathspey. G Minor (Gow, Kerr): G Dorian (Athole). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. An 18th century composition of Robert “Red Rob” Mackintosh (c. 1745-1807) (who undoubtedly acquired his nickname because of red hair), appearing in his Sixty eight new reels, strathspeys and quicksteps, also some slow pieces with variations for the violin and pianoforte, with a bass for the violoncello or harpsichord (Edinburgh, 1793, p. 7). The Gows republished it with a similar title in their Fourth Collection of 1800, but without composer credit. John Glen (1895, "Biographical Sketches", xii) remarks "It cannot be supposed that Nathaniel Gow lived on the best of terms with his brother musicians...The only instance in which any compositions by Robert Mackintosh appeared in the Gow publications are "Lady Hamilton Dalrymple" in the Fourth Collection (1800), p. 23; "Lady Wallace" and "Lady Charlotte Campbell's Reel's (medley) Reel and Strathspey" in the Second Repository (1802), pp. 14 & 31; and "Lady Betty Boyle" in the Third Repository (1806), p. 32, and in all cases excepting the last Mackintosh's name is suppressed." Lady Hamilton Dalrymple was the wife of Sir Hew Dalrymple-Hamilton (1746-1800), 3rd Baronet, of North Berwick, who assumed the name Hamilton in addition to his own upon assuming the Bargeny estate in 1796. Sir Hew was MP for East Lothian in several parliaments. He married Janet, 2nd daughter of William Duff, esq., and Elizabeth Dalrymple of Crombie. They had ten sons and four daughters, although only four sons and two daughters survived childhood.
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Printed sources: Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 96. Gow (Fourth Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels), 2nd ed., originally 1800; p. 23. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 3; No. 183, p. 21. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 194.
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