“There is so much high talent, truth, and simplicity, that when I put it all together, it left the impression of sublimity on my mind.”
About Lady Nairne
16 August 1766–26 October 1845
Carolina Oliphant, later Lady Nairne, was born on 16 August 1766 at Gask House in Perthshire, into a family whose private memories were inseparable from one of Scotland’s most public historical wounds. She died on 26 October 1845, also at Gask, after a life of seventy-nine years in which she became one of the most…