I am intending writing a short piece on ‘Highland Folk Ways’,
the book published in 1961 which remains perhaps the best single-volume
introduction to the history of Scottish Gaelic culture in all its guises.
However, whilst I was
undertaking some background research regarding the book’s author, Dr I F Grant,
I discovered that at the time of the 1891 Census she was living in a particularly
interesting household:
The three year-old is found with her paternal grandparents,
Sir Patrick Grant and Frances Maria Grant, in the 'Chelsea Hospital' in London.
Sir Patrick was a Field Marshall and Governor of the Royal Hospital Chelsea until his death in 1895.
Dr Grant was to found the Highland Folk Museum
, and in 2008 her account of that work was published.
A more detailed biography may be read on Am Baile
but I thought it worth noting the little girl’s presence at an institution
which included many Highlanders & Islanders amongst its in-patients and
out-patients as demonstrated in this brief entry regarding Chelsea Pensioners found in Harris.
A slight diversion from my original intention, but one that
I thought worth sharing!
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