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BARNARD, LADY ANNE (1750–1825)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 409 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARNARD, See also:LADY See also:ANNE (1750–1825) , author of the ballad " Auld See also:Robin See also:Gray," the eldest daughter of See also:James See also:Lindsay, 5th See also:earl of Balcarres, was See also:born at Balcarres See also:House, See also:Fife, on the 12th of See also:December 1750. She was married in 1793 to See also:Andrew Barnard, a son of the See also:bishop of See also:Limerick, for whom she obtained from See also:Henry Dundas (1st See also:Viscount See also:Melville) an See also:appointment as colonial secretary at the Cape of See also:Good See also:Hope. Thither the Barnards went in See also:March 1797, Lady Anne remaining at the Cape' until See also:January 1802. A remarkable See also:series of letters written by Lady Anne thence to Dundas, then secretary for See also:war and the colonies, was published in 19o1 under the See also:title See also:South See also:Africa a See also:Century Ago. In 18o6, on the reconquest of the Cape by the See also:British, Barnard was reappointed colonial secretary, but Lady Anne did not accompany him thither, where he died in 1807. The See also:rest of her See also:life was passed in See also:London, where she died on the 6th of May 1825. " Auld Robin Gray " was written by her in 1772, to See also:music by the Rev. See also: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 See also:death in a See also:letter to See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Scott, who subsequently edited it for the See also:Bannatyne See also:Club with two continuations. See the memoir by W. H. See also:Wilkins, together with the See also:original See also:text of " Auld Robin Gray," prefixed to South Africa a Century Ago.

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