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