Nairne, CAROLINA OLIPHANT, BARONESS, song-writer, was born 16th August 1766, at the 'auld house' of Gask in Perthshire, the third daughter of its Jacobite laird. In 1806 she married her second cousin, Major William Murray Nairne (1757-1830), who in 1824, by reversal of attainder, became the sixth Lord Nairne, and to whom she bore one son, William (1808-37). They settled at Edinburgh, and after her husband's death she lived for three years in Ireland, then for nine on the Continent, returning at last to the new house of Gask—the old one had been pulled down in 1801. Here she died, 27th October 1845. Her eighty-seven songs appeared first under the pseudonym 'Mrs Bogan of Bogan' or 'B.B.' in The Scottish Minstrel (1821-24), and posthumously as Lays from Strathearn. Not a few of them are mere Bowdlerisations of 'indelicate' favourites; but four at least live, and shall live, with the airs to which they are wedded—the exquisite 'Land o' the Leal' (c. 1798), and 'Caller Herrin', 'The Laird o' Cockpen,' and 'The Auld House.'
See Charles Rogers' Life and Songs of Lady Nairne (1869), and T. L. Kington Oliphant's Jacobite Lairds of Gask (Grampian Club, 1870).