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X:1 T:Lady Georgina Russell's Reel C:Marshall M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion B:Laybourn - Kohlers' Violin Repository Book 1 (1881, p. 60) K:Bb B,2-B,>(D FD)BF|GFGB c/c/c ~c2|B,2- B,>(D FD)BF|GFGA B/B/B ~G2:| dfdB egec|dfdB c/c/c ~c2|dfdB egec|FBAc B/B/~B2| dfdB egec|dfdB c/c/c ~c2|B,DCE DFEG|FBAc B/B/B ~B2!D.C.!!fine!||

Lady Georgiana Russell. Engraved on steel by H. T. Ryall after E. Landseer. 1840

LADY GEORGINA RUSSEL('S REEL). AKA - "Lady Georgina Russell's Reel." Scottish, Reel (cut time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Biography:William Marshall (1748-1833). Moyra Cowie (The Life and Times of William Marshall, 1999) identifies Lady Georgina (?-1867) as the eldest child and daughter of Lady Georgianna Gordon and John Russell, the 6th Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey. She was thus the grand-daughter of Marshall's employer, Alexander, the 4th Duke of Gordon, for whom Marshall worked as Steward of the Household. Georgina married Charles Romilly. Her portrait was engraved by H.T. Ryall (after E. Landseer), around 1840. She liked to ride to the hunt, according to this entry in the New Sporting Magazine for 1836: [Ampthill Park, 1835] "Lady Georgina Russell honoured the field this morning, and rode a beautiful thorough-bred chestnut." She married Charles Romilly in 1842.

Additional notes

Printed sources : - Cranford (Jerry Holland: The Second Collection), 2000; No. 59, p. 24. Laybourn (Köhlers' Violin Repository Book 1), 1881, p. 60. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 138. Marshall, Fiddlecase Edition, 1978; 1822 Collection, p. 2. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 293.

Recorded sources : - Rounder CD 7038, "Traditional Fiddle Music of Cape Breton, vol 2: The Rover's Return" (2002). Carl MacKenzie - "Highland Fiddle."

See also listing at :
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index [1]
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [2]

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