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KENNETH MACLEAY (1802-78)

William Ross

dated 1866

RCIN 920712

William Ross was Queen Victoria's piper and is depicted in full Highland dress of Royal Stewart tartan. Ross set up a successful bagpipe business in London which supplied pipes to all the Scottish regiments. An expert on pipe music, he published a collection of over four hundred tunes collected from Scottish and Irish pipers. Commissioned by Queen Victoria

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