Personal Tragedies: Campbell and Tannahill
(17th May 1810)
On 17th May 1810, we find our hero, song-collector Alexander Campbell (whom I mentioned earlier in the week) back in his Highland home in Clianaig. His wife - a wealthy widow whose family disapproved of him - had left him; they simply couldn't get along. Poor old Sandy!
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| Robert Tannahill, 1774-1810 |
Not as bad as the fate of Paisley poet Robert Tannahill, though. A tortured soul, he committed suicide by drowning, the very same day. There's a commemorative stone just round the corner from the University of the West of Scotland.
You could say it wasn't a good day for traditional Scottish music!
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