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Alicia Ann Spottiswoode

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Alicia Ann Spottiswoode
Spottiswoode in 1839
Personal details
Birth nameAlicia Ann Spottiswoode
BirthLauder Juin 24, 1810
DiedLauder Mairch 12, 1900
Faimilie
FaitherJohn Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode
MitherHelen Wauchope
SpouseLord John Scott (en) Owerset  (Mairch 10, 1836 -  1860)
Eddication
Leids spokenInglis
Thrift
Thriftcomponeran sangwriter
Notable wirkAnnie Laurie
Q107100715 Owerset
IMDbnm0779461

Alicia Ann, Leddy John Scott, (née Alicia Ann Spottiswoode)[1] (24 Juin 1810 12 Mairch 1900)[1] wis a Scots sangwriter an componer kent chiefly for the tune, "Annie Laurie",[2] tae that the wirds o a 17t-century poet, William Douglas, war set.[3]

References

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  1. 1 2 "Alicia Anne Spottiswoode (Lady John Scott) 1810-1900", An Anthology of Scottish Women Poets, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 186–187, 1 August 1991, retrieved 27 Mairch 2025
  2. Charles Rogers (1882). The Scottish minstrel : the songs of Scotland subsequent to Burns. New York Public Library. Edinburgh : W.P. Nimmo.
  3. Douglas, David. Songs and Verses by Lady Jane Scott. Preface by Margaret Warrender (March 1904). pp. i–lxiv.