A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Barnard, Lady Anne

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BARNARD, LADY ANNE,

Daughter of James Lindsay, fifth earl of Balcarres, of Fifeshire, Scotland, was born December 8th. 1760; and married in 1793, to Sir Andrew Barnard, librarian to George the Third. She died without children in 1825. She wrote "Auld Robin Gray," one of the most perfect, tender, and affecting of all the ballads of humble life. The authorship of this song was unknown for a long time. Lady Anne Barnard wrote very little, and never anything equal in true pathos or poetry to this first ballad.