“I wrote it merely because I liked the air so much, and I put these…” — Lady Nairne

“I wrote it merely because I liked the air so much, and I put these words to it, never fearing questions as to the authorship.”

A rare first-person explanation of how one of her best-known songs came into being · Letter recalling the origin of The Land o' the Leal

Lady Nairne

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…

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