Annotation:Lady Charlotte Menzies
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LADY CHARLOTTE MENZIES. Scottish, Reel. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The tune appears in Malcolm MacDonald's 4th collection, a volume dedicated to the Countess of Breadalbane. Lady Charlotte Menzies (1775-1832) was the eldest daughter of John Murray, fourth Duke of Atholl and widow of Sir John Menzies of Castle Menzies, Perthshire, whom she married in 1797. He died three years later, and there was no issue from the first marriage. She married secondly vice-admiral Adam Drummond, 7th of Megginch (1771-1849).
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Printed sources: MacDonald (A Fourth Collection of Strathspey Reels), 1797; p. 4. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 220.
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