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Lady Anne Barnard was born at Balcarres House, Fife, Scotland, on the 12th of December 1750; the eldest daughter of James Lindsay, 5th earl of Balcarres.
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Excerpt from Auld Robin Gray: A Ballad This circumstance, joined, perhaps, to a continuance of regard, which may be termed hereditary, induced Lady; Anne to distinguish the Editor by imparting to him the following interesting account of the origin of Auld Robin Gray, contained in a letter dated July, 1823, in which. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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This intelligent and entertaining account of the Cape has become a classic. Anne Barnard accompanied her husband who was sent to the Cape as Secretary to Lord Macartney in 1797. He was nominated to this position by the Secretary for War and the Colonies, Henry Dundas. In the absence of Lord Macartney's wife, Anne Barnard became the first lady of the Colony, a position she was well qualified to hold - for she was well connected at home, a friend of Dundas, Wildham, the Prince of Wales, and other well-known members of London society. Furthermore, she was well-educated, cultured, accomplished, with an observant eye, and a developed sense of the ridiculous. And she could write. Her letters to Dundas are full of acute observations, assessments of people, comments on situations, judgements on officials, kindly criticisms of her new Colonial friends and their way of life.
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Lady Anne Barnard was born at Balcarres House, Fife, Scotland, on the 12th of December 1750; the eldest daughter of James Lindsay, 5th earl of Balcarres.
Barnard obtained from Henry Dundas (1st Viscount Melville) an appointment for her husband Andrew Barnard as colonial secretary at the Cape of Good Hope. Thither the Barnards went in March 1797, Lady Anne remaining at the Cape until January 1802. A remarkable series of letters written by Lady Anne thence to Dundas, then secretary for war and the colonies, was published in 1901 under the title South Africa a Century Ago. In 1806, on the reconquest of the Cape by the British, Barnard was reappointed colonial secretary, but Lady Anne did not accompany him thither, where he died in 1807. The rest of her life was passed in London, where she died on the 6th of May 1825.
"Auld Robin Gray" was written by her in 1772, to music by the Rev. William Leeves (1748 - 1828), as he admitted in 1812. It was published anonymously in 1783, Lady Anne only acknowledging the authorship of the words two years before her death in a letter to Sir Walter Scott, who subsequently edited it for the Bannatyne Club with two continuations.
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Anne was beautiful and intelligent, developing her conversational skills in the Edinburgh salons of her grandmother Lady Dalrymple amongst the best minds in Scotland including the philosopher David Hume. Anne had numerous admirers, many of whom would have been happy to lay their worldly goods at her feet.
Barnard was married in 1793 to Andrew Barnard, a son of the bishop of Limerick.