Right Honourable Lady Saltoun's Reel
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T:Right Honorable Lady Saltoun’s Reel, The
C:William Christie (1778-1849)
N:Christie was a dancing master, fiddler
N:and composer from Cuminestown, Aberdeenshire.
N:Lady Saltoun was Catharine Thurlow, the spouse of Alexander Fraser, 17th Lord
N:Saltoun, (1785-1853), a career soldier who say honorable service in the Napoleonic
N:Wars and the First Opium War. She was the daughter of Lord Chancellor
N:Edward Thurlow, a Tory politician and lawyer who served under four Prime
N:Ministers. She married Saltoun in 1815 and died in 1826 without issue.
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L:1/8
R:Reel
B:Christie - Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Hornpipes,
B:Waltzes &c. (Edinburgh, 1820, p. 5)
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:Amin
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