HARDIE, Henrietta Erskine
- Born: 7 February 1806, Edinburgh Parish, Edinburgh, Scotland
- Marriage (1): COOK, George on 5 January 1826 in Edinburgh Parish, Edinburgh, Scotland 1
Research Notes:
HENRIETTA AND HENRY ERSKINE
It seems likely that, for some reason, perhaps a musical one, Henrietta was named after the HONOURABLE HENRY ERSKINE. He was the third son of Henry David, tenth earl of Buchan, by Agnes, daughter of Sir James Stewart of Coltness and Goodtrees, Baronet. He was born at Edinburgh, on the 1st of November, 1746 and he holds a distinguished place in the annals of the Scottish bar, to which he was called in the year 1768, and of which he was long the brightest ornament. He married Christina, the only daughter of George Fullarton, Esq., collector of the customs at Leith.
Mr Erskine's constitution began to give way under the pressure of disease, about the year 1812; and he, thereupon, retired from professional life, to his beautiful villa of Ammondell in West Lothian.
"Like most men of elegant and cultivated minds, Mr Erskine was an amateur in music, and himself no indifferent performer upon the violin. I think I scarcely ever entered the hall along with him that he did not take down his Cremona— a real one, I believe— which hung on the wall, and, seating himself in one of the wooden chairs, play some snatches of old English or Scottish airs; sometimes, 'Let's have a dance upon the heath' an air from the music in Macbeth, which he used to say was by Purcel, and not by Locke, to whom it has usually been ascribed – sometimes, 'The flowers of the forest' or 'Auld Robin Gray' – and sometimes the beautiful Pastorale from the eighth concerto of Corelli, for whose music he had an enthusiastic admiration."
from Electric Scotland:Significant Scots Honourable Henry Erskine
Henrietta married George COOK on 5 January 1826 in Edinburgh Parish, Edinburgh, Scotland.1 (George COOK was born about 1800.)
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