Annotation:Colonel Grant of Grant's Strathspey
X:1 T:Colonel Grant of Grant's Strathspey C:Donald Grant M:C L:1/16 R:Strathspey B:Donald Grant – Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Jigs &c. (1820-21, p. 10) B:The volume was perhaps first issued c. 1790, from a penciled note in a copy. N:The collection was dedicated to Mrs. Col. Grant of Grant (“Sir James and N:Lady Grant of Grant”). S: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105813936 Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D F2|:D3FA3B {c}d3F E3F|D3FA3B d3ef3e|dcBA B3F d3FE3F|1 AA3 B3A {c}d4 (def2):|2 E2A,2TB,2A,2 {A,}D4D2|| B2|:A3D (GF).E.D B3EE2FG|A3DF3D d3ef3e|dcBA B3F d3FE3F|1AA3TB3A {c}d4 d2f2:|2 D3A,TB,3A, {A,}D4D2||
COLONEL GRANT OF GRANT'S STRATHSPEY. Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. "Colonel Grant of Grant's Strathspey" was composed by Elgin fiddler-composer biography:Donald Grant and published in his Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Jigs &c. (1820-21[1]). Grant dedicated his collection to Mrs. Colonel Grant of Castle Grant, Grantown on Spey, Morayshire, and wrote a number of tunes for the Grant family and relations. There have been several "Colonel Grants" to whom the tune title could refer. One was Colonel Francis William Grant (1778-1853) of Castle Grant, an M.P. from Elgin since 1807, who became in 1811 the acting head of his clan during the incurable lunacy of his brother Lewis Alexander Grant, 5th earl of Seafield. Known as "Colonel Grant," He married in 1811 to Mary Anne Dunn (1744-1840), only daughter of John Charles Dunn, a rich merchant in India, and they had (either five or eight) children. Beginning that same year (1811) he acted as Curator of the Grant Estates and those of the Seafield Earldom until he succeeded as Earl of Seafield in his own right in 1840. Alternatively, the title could refer to Sir James Grant of Grant (1738-1811), Baronet, who raised a regiment of fencibles called the Grant or Strathspey fencibles, of which he was appointed colonel. In 1794 he raised another corps, the 97th or Strathspey regiment, also being appointed colonel. Later he was appointed lord-lieutenant of Inverness-shire. He married, in 1793, Jean, only daughter of Alexander Duff, Esq., of Hatton, Aberdeenshire, and with her had three sons and three daughters.
- ↑ A penciled note in one of the copies of the volume suggests the collection was first printed c. 1790 and reprinted 1820-21.