Annotation:Right Honourable Earle of Bradalbines Strathspey (The)
X:1 % T:Right Hon. Earle of Bradalbines Strathspey, The M:C| L:1/8 R:Strathspey S:MacDonald – Collection of Strathspey Reels, vol.1 (c. 1788) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D E | D2 d>B A>GF>E | A>Bd>e feeE | D2 d>B A>GF>E | D>FE>G FD D :| |: g | f>dA>d F>dA>d | A>Bd>e f(eeg) | f>dA>d F>dA>F | D>FE>G FD D :|]
RIGHT HONOURABLE EARLE OF BRADALBINES STRATHSPEY, THE. AKA - "Honorable Earl of Breadalbine's Strathspey." Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Aird): AABB (MacDonald). Composed by biography:Malcolm MacDonald, the tune appears in his first collection (c. 1788), dedicated to Mrs. Baird of Newbyth. The title honors the fourth Earl of Breadalbane, James Campbell (1762–1834), a Lieutenant General in the British Army who raised a regiment in 1793, called the Breadalbane Fencibles, for the service of the Government during the Wars with France. Campbell was also a Liberal politician who sat in the House of Lords as a Scottish Representative Peer between 1784 and 1806. In 1806 he was created Baron Breadalbane, of Taymouth Castle in the County of Perth, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, which entitled him to an automatic seat in the House of Lords. According to The Great Historic Families of Scotland, "His attention was chiefly devoted to the improvement of his extensive estates, great portions of which he planted with trees fitted for the soil, and by his costly improvements he rendered the park at Taymouth one of the most extensive and beautiful in the kingdom."