Memoirs of a Highland Lady by Elizabeth Grant

Author:Elizabeth Grant [Elizabeth Grant]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781847674906
Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 2009-06-10T16:00:00+00:00

1. One of the covenanted European servants of the East

India Company, not in military employment.

2. The pattern of tartan associated with a particular clan.

3. A trunk, fitted on to the roof of the carriage,

4. Sir William Miller (1755−1846) who was a judge from 1795 to 1840 and was to be called upon to persuade E.G. to break off her engagement the following year.

5. Sir Adam Gordon thus describes the musical skills of his love, Elizabeth (the name of Huntly’s bride):

Her gift creative,

New measures adds to every air she wakes;

Varying and gracing it with liquid sweetness,

Like the wild modulations of the lark;

(Halidon Hill, Act II,ii)

6. Willow or osier bands.

7. Charles Grant of Glenelg (1778−1866) was M.P. for Inverness 1811−18 and Inverness-shire 1818−35; the source of his patronage at home came partly from his spell as President of the Board of Trade, whilst he was so influential in Indian matters because, as President of the Board of Control 1830−34, he had to organise a new charter for the East India Company.

8. Assistant Chairman at the lower end of the table.

9. In his first novel, published 1825.

10. The catastrophe of 1755 (which for Voltaire proved God did not exist).

11. Margery, daughter of another East India Company Director, Simon Fraser; she married the eighteenth Lord Saltoun of Abernethy.

12. She was the wife of General Sir John Burgoyne, cousin to the Field Marshal of the same name (1782−1811), and herself a cousin on the Grant side.

13. This was another Thomas McKenzie w.s. (1793−1856) who was to be M.P. for Ross and Cromartyshire between 1837 and 1847.

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