Barnard, LADY ANNE, author of 'Auld Robin Gray,' was born in 1750, eldest daughter of James Lindsay, fifth Earl of Balcarres. In 1793 she married Andrew Barnard, a son of the Bishop of
Limerick, and colonial secretary to Lord Macartney at the Cape of Good Hope. There Lady Anne lived till 1807, when, losing her husband, she returned to London, her residence till her death on 6th May 1825. Her matchless lyric, named after the old Balcarres herd, was written as early as 1772 to sing to an ancient melody; but she first acknowledged its authorship in 1823 to Sir Walter Scott, who two years later edited it for the Bannatyne Club, with two continuations—poor, as such mostly are. See the Earl of Crawford's Lives of the Lindsays (1849).