Annotation:Mr. F. Garden Junr. of Troup's Strathspey
X:1 T:Mr. F. Garden Junr. of Troup's Strathspey C:Robert Mackintosh M:C L:1/16 R:Strathspey B:Robert Mackintosh – “A Fourth Collection of New Strathspey Reels, also some Famous old Reels” (1804, p. 28) N:Dedicated to the Dutchess [sic] of Manchester N:Robert “Red Rob” Mackintosh (c. 1745-1808) was a Scottish violinist and N:composer active in Edinburgh at the end of the 18th century. Originally from N:Tullymet, near Pitlochry, Perthshire. He moved to London in the last decade N:of his life. Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G d2|BG3G3D B,3DGB3|E2AB cBAG FA3Dd3|BG3G3D B,3DG3D|Ec3Fd3 BG3G2:| d2|(gfga) gd3 ec3dG3|(gfga) g2f2 (ea3a3b)|g3agd3 ec3dB3|(cBAG) Fd3 BG3Gd3| (gfga g)d3 ec3dG3|(gfga) g3f e(a3Ta3f)|gb3ab3 ga3fg3|ea3fd3 ggg2 g2||
MR. F. GARDEN JUNR. OF TROUP'S STRATHSPEY. Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Mr. F. Garden Junr. of Troup's Strathspey" was composed by Edinburgh fiddler-composer biography:Robert Mackintosh (c. 1745-1808) for Francis Garden-Campbell (1793-1826), 7th of Troup, who would have been only aged about 11 when Mackintosh's Fourth Collection of New Strathspey Reels (1804) was published. There was a long succession of Garden (later Garden-Campbell) of Troup lairds, including a great-uncle, father, son and grandson of the 7th of Troup.
Troup House, near Pennan and Gardenstown in north Aberdeenshire (formerly Banffshire), was an estate and country house built in 1772 for the Garden family. Lewis's AS Topopgraphical Dictionary of Scotland ( p. 479) describes:
