Annotation:Lieutenant Howard Douglas
X: 1 T: Lieutenant Howard Douglas M: 4/4 L: 1/16 R: strathspey K: Ddor d3c|:Ad3d3c Ad3de3|C3Ec3A G/F/E/D/ C3E|Dd3d3c Ad3de3|f3ad3e ddd2:|| efg2|ad3f3d agfe fd3|g3cec3 g3ceg3|ad3f3d agfe fd3|ca3g3e d3ef g2| ad3f3d agfe fd3|gc3ec3 g3ceg3|a3gec3 f3ede3|d3cAc3 dd2||
LIEUTENANT HOWARD DOUGLAS. Scottish, Strathspey. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The strathspey has been identified as one of Niel Gow's compositions, according to David Green and Phil Hresko, although Paul Cranford (1997) and others attribute it to Robert Mackintosh. There was a Lieutenant Howard Douglas, the son of Sir Charles Douglas who served at Quebec in 1776. In 1795 Douglas was the Officer in Charge of army personal on The Phyllis, a transport carrying immigrants, soldiers' dependents and some army officers and men. The ship was wrecked off the bleak coast of Labrador, and the survivors made a harrowing escape to land where they were marooned for a winter until rescued. Douglas later became General Sir Howard Douglas [1], 3rd Bart, a career officer and administrator who served as Governor of New Brunswick (1823–31), and, later in life, as a Member of Parliament.
