Claribel

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 278

Claribel was the pen-name of Mrs Charlotte Alington Barnard (1830-69; married in 1854 to Charles Cary Barnard), who wrote a hundred songs and ballads, some of which, like 'Come back to Erin' and 'Won't you tell me why, Robin?' were wonderfully popular. She was buried at Dover.

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