Lord Rosslyn's Fancy
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
LORD ROSSLYN'S FANCY (J8x32) 3C (4C set) Button And Whitaker RSCDS Book 151- 8 1s+2s set, dance ½ RH across, set and dance ½ LH across
9-16 1s+2s+3s all set and cross RH, set and cross back RH
17-24 1s+2s dance Poussette. 213
25-32 1s dance Double Triangles
(MINICRIB. Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton, Deeside Caledonian Society, and his successors)
Keith Rose's Crib Diagrams
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Lord Rosslyn's Fancy is a Scottish Country Dance devised by Wilson in 1815 (and published by Button and Whitaker) and interpreted in RSCDS Book 15 in 1949.(Dance information copyright, reproduced here with the kind permission of George Williams)
Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn, PC, KC (1733-1805) was a Scottish lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1761 and 1780 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Loughborough. He served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain from 1793 to 1801.
At the bar Wedderburn was the most elegant speaker of his time, and, although his knowledge of the principles and precedents of law was deficient, his skill in marshalling facts and his clearness of diction were marvellous; on the bench his judgments were remarkable for their perspicuity, particularly in the appeal cases to the House of Lords. For cool and sustained declamation he stood unrivalled in parliament, and his readiness in debate was universally acknowledged.
His first wife died childless in 1781, and the following year he married Charlotte, youngest daughter of William, Viscount Courtenay.
Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl Of Rosslyn. Lord Chancellor (As Lord Loughborough)
Mather Brown (1761-1831), Oil On Canvas, c. 1791
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