Colonel H.F. Campbell

 COLONEL H.F. CAMPBELL. Scottish, Strathspey. G Major. Standard tuning. AAB. The strathspey first appeared in A Collection of entirely original Strathspey Reels, Marches, Quick Steps &c. (1797), "by Ladies resident in a remote part of the Highlands of Scotland." J. Murdoch Henderson identified the ladies as 'the Misses White of Brockley'. The collection was edited by Nathaniel Gow and published in Edinburgh by Gow & Shepherd in 1801. Colonel H.F. Campbell was an officer with the 3rd Battalion of the First, or Grenedier Guards, who saw action in Spain and the Mediterranean during the Napoleonic Wars. He was also an M.P. for Cromarty and Narin at the end of the 18th century. Printed source: Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 2, 1895; p. 16.

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