Birth of Carolina Oliphant (Lady Nairne), Poet and Author

Carolina Oliphant, later known as Lady Nairne, is born on August 16, 1766, in Gask, Perthshire, Scotland. A talented poet and songwriter, she becomes renowned for her Jacobite-themed songs, many of which express deep nostalgia and loyalty to the Stuart cause. Among her most famous works is Charlie Is My Darling, along with The Hundred Pipers and Will Ye No Come Back Again?. Writing often anonymously due to the constraints on women of her time, her songs became immensely popular — second only to those of Robert Burns in the canon of Scottish folk music.