Carolina Nairne, Baroness Nairne

Carolina Nairne, Baroness Nairne (born Aug. 16, 1766, Gask, Perth, Scot.—died Oct. 26, 1845, Gask) was a Scottish songwriter and laureate of Jacobitism, who wrote “Charlie Is My Darling,” “The Hundred Pipers,” “The Land o’ the Leal,” and “Will Ye No’ Come Back Again?” The daughter of a Jacobite laird, Laurence Oliphant, who was exiled (1745–63), she followed Robert Burns’s example of writing in the folk tradition. Her songs helped to create the myth that...