Music in Scottish Castles and Country Houses

Music in Scottish Castles and Country Houses
Catalogued and surveyed by Dr Roger B. Williams MBE
Hon. Music Advisor to NTS



Dedicatees  –  All Collections

Search limited to letter 'H'

Tuesday 7th October 2025

Miss C. H. – ? Miss Charlotte Hamilton q.v.

La colombe retrouvée : for piano / Louis van Esch  > Fraser C11/2

Mrs Alexander Hall

La monaca : arietta / Michael Balfe  > Drum Dr 30/5

Miss Charlotte Hamilton – ? Charlotte 1772-1827, dau. Archibald Hamilton, 9th Duke

Six sonatas for the pianoforte or harpsichord. Set 2 [bc] : [bc] / Johann Baptist Vanhal  > Newhailes NH 74/4

Six sonatas for the pianoforte or harpsichord. Set 2 [vn] : [vn] / Johann Baptist Vanhal  > Newhailes NH 72/8

Duchess of Hamilton – Princess Marie Amelie of Baden 1817-1888, m. William Hamilton, 11th Duke

Mélange [from] Weber's Euranythe : for piano / Sigismond Thalberg  > Newhailes NH 64/4

Miss Hamilton – ? Anne (1766-1846), eldest dau. Archibald Hamilton, 9th Duke

Concerto In C Op. 38 : for piano &c / J B Cramer  > Fraser C19/5

The Misses Hammersley – prof. actress-singers

La calabrese : duet (Sop+Cont) / Vincenzo Gabussi  > Drum Dr 15/3

Augustus Barnard Hankey Esq. – 1824-1903, member of Peerage through mother Hon. Catherine Elizabeth de Blaquiere (1786-1870)

The eclipse (polka) : piano solo / Hermann Koenig  > Drum Dr 36/5

The eclipse (polka) : piano solo / Hermann Koenig  > Newhailes NH 66/7

J. C. Hankey Esq. – Joseph Chaplin Hankey 1754-1803, MP for Wareham

Six concertos for the harpsichord or pianoforte Op. 5 : [kbd] / Johann Samuel Schroeter  > Newhailes NH 50/1

Six concertos for the harpsichord or pianoforte Op. 5 : [vn2,va,bc] / Johann Samuel Schroeter  > Fraser B21/5

Lady Hardwick – Lady Elizabeth Yorke 1763-1858, dau. James Lindsay 5th Earl of Balcarres, m. 3rd Earl of Hardwicke

Lord Hardwick's March [and] Lady Hardwick's Waltz : for piano / Anon.  > Drum Dr 05/51

Lord Hardwick – Philip Yorke 1757-1834, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke

Lord Hardwick's March [and] Lady Hardwick's Waltz : for piano / Anon.  > Drum Dr 05/51

Countess of Harewood – ? Lady Louisa Thynne 1801-1859, m. Henry Lascelles, 3rd Earl of Harewood

We're a' noddin' [by William Hawes] : piano variations / Mrs Maria White, of Leeds   > Newhailes NH 62/11

The Misses Harrison

(Carafa's cavatina) 'Frà tante angoscie e palpiti' : harp & piano duet / W Henry Steil  > Newhailes NH 69/8

Maid of sorrow : dialogue & duet / John Clarke-Whitfeld  > Drum Dr 03/26

Lady Flora Hastings – 1806-1839, lady-in-waiting to Duchess of Kent q.v.

They bid me to the festive board : ballad / Miss Conroy  > Newhailes NH 41/26

Comtesse Hortanse de Hatzfeld – Maria Anna Hortensia von Hatzfeld née Zierotin 1750-1813, amateur (possibly prof.) singer

Trois sonates pour le clavecin ou le pianoforte Op. 8 / Leopold Kozeluch  > Fraser B08/1

The Misses Hawker

Ah! No, non sia : duet / Vincenzo Bellini  > Drum Dr 26/4

Miss C. Hay – Catherine Hay, harpist, older sister of Jane Fraser of Castle Fraser

Papà, the favourite canzonetta : for harp or piano / Jean Elouis  > Fraser C18/12

Lady Charlotte Hay – 1763-1800, dau. James Hay, 15th Earl of Erroll

Keyboard concerto no. 2 / Girolamo Stabilini  > Fraser B03/1

Three sonatas for the pianoforte or harpsichord Op. 1 / Natale Corri  > Fraser C02/7

Revd. Thos. Hayes – Praecentor of [Durham] Cathedral

Hymn for Sunday morning .. for the use of Durham Cathedral / John Friend  > Fraser E03/6

J. B. Heath Esqr. F.S.A. – Sardinian Consul General

Notturno for the pianoforte and flute / Michael Costa  > Drum Dr 23/24

Miss Heaton

Le rendezvous : piano variations / Henri Herz  > Fraser G15/6

Miss Heming

Cherubini's celebrated overture to Les Deux Journées : for piano duet / David Bruguier  > Fraser G14/11

Miss L. Heming

Cherubini's celebrated overture to Les Deux Journées : for piano duet / David Bruguier  > Fraser G14/11

Lady Arthur Hill – Georgiana Elizabeth d.1919, dau. Colonel John Balfour of Balbirnie

The lover's warning : duet / Hamilton Aidé  > Fraser L40/23

Lord Arthur Hill – 1844-1874, 5th Marquess of Downshire and Earl of Hillsborough

The lover's warning : duet / Hamilton Aidé  > Fraser L40/23

Lady Charlotte Hill – 1815-1861 dau. Arthur Hill, 3rd Marquess of Downshire and Earl of Hillsborough

Two duets for pianoforte / T Latour  > Fraser G09/11

Lady Mary Hill – 1817-1884 dau. Arthur Hill, 3rd Marquess of Downshire and Earl of Hillsborough

Two duets for pianoforte / T Latour  > Fraser G09/11

The Misses Hirst

Les trois bijoux : for piano / Charles Chaulieu  > Drum Dr 15/21

T. Hitchins Esq.

What's in a kiss : ballad / Jonathan Blewitt  > Fraser L04/22

Hon. Mrs Hobard – ? Albinia Hobart 1737/8-1816, m. Hon. George Hobart aftwds 3rd Earl of Buckinghamshire

Six songs with an accompanyment for the great or small harp, fortepiano or harpsichord / Giuseppe Millico  > Fraser L23/1

T. R. Hobbes

The Negro girl : song / William Carnaby  > Fraser C17/10

Mrs Hodges – of Hanwell?

Three sonatas [ie trios] for the pianoforte or harpsichord Op. 37 : [kbd] / Leopold Kozeluch  > Newhailes NH 53/8

Miss Hodges, of Hanwell

Overture to Martini's Henry the Fourth : for piano, harp & flute / Joseph Mazzinghi  > Newhailes NH 67/8

The Misses Holden

Wranitzky's Life let us cherish : piano duet / H Seine  > Fraser G09/5

Hon. Misses Hood

Auber's French scena from Le Concert à la Cour : for harp & piano / N-C Bochsa  > Newhailes NH 70/17

Earl of Hopetoun – James Hope-Johnstone 1741-1816, 3rd Earl

The Linlithgowshire Local Militia's March : for piano with bugle &c / Ninian Brodie  > Drum Dr 05/53

Miss Horsley

An original air with ten variations : for piano / J B Cramer  > Fraser C21/3

Miss P. Horton

Come unto these yellow sands : song with ATB chorus / Sydney Nelson  > Drum Dr 42/1

Capt. Houston of the Edinburgh Volunteers

The Grenadiers March for the Edinburgh Volunteers : for flute & piano / Henrietta Elizabeth Hunter  > Fraser C16/10

Lady Frances Howard

I'll return to the home of my mind : ballad / Emilie Souper  > Drum Dr 28/18

Lady Harriet Howard

Beloved Zillerthal / Emilie Souper  > Drum Dr 28/7

Mrs Hughes – Sister of composer 'Zeta'

The better land / Zeta (pseud.)  > Fraser G12/9

Miss Hume of Ninewells

Ave Sanctissima : duet / Zeta (pseud.)  > Fraser G12/5

Lady Hunter Blair – ? wife or widow of the 1st or 3rd Baronet

A collection of quadrilles and waltzes : for piano, violin &c / John Hall  > Newhailes NH 77/15

Mrs John Hunter – Anne Hunter née Home 1742-1821, poet and wife of celebrated Scottish surgeon and anatomist

Six original canzonettas for the voice. 1st set : with piano / Joseph Haydn  > Fraser C17/1

Mrs Hunter of Thurston

Murray's first set of galops : for piano / D Murray  > Drum Dr 27/12

Miss Maria Hyde

Six favourite Italian ariettas, one duet, and one hymn for four voices / Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari  > Fraser C21/6

51 works from all Collections inscribed to 46 dedicatees with surname beginning 'H'