History: Walter Drysdale and James Honeyman’s Lord Alexander Kennedy

Following on from yesterday’s ‘Choice Tune’, Lord Alexander Kennedy, and a letter from Walter Drysdale, we have his obituary and additional information about the tune’s composer, James Honeyman, and its subject.  The picture above is of the 42nd Regiment (The Black Watch) in 1852, while stationed at the Citadel in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Lord Alexander Kennedy was an officer in the regiment and James Honeyman a piper. It is likely Honeyman,…