Lord Loudon's March
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Lord Loudon's March", also known as "Lord Loudean's March" or "London March" is a<br> Scottish march in G Major. The parts are played AAB.<br> Lord Loudon was General John Campbell (5 May 1705 – 27 April 1782), 4th Earl of Loudoun,<br> who was a Scottish nobleman and army officer. In 1756, Loudoun was sent to North America as<br> Commander-in-Chief and Governor General of Virginia, where he was unpopular with many of<br> the colonial leaders. Despite his unpopularity the county of Loudoun, formed from Fairfax<br> in 1757, was named in his honor.<br> Three companies of Loudon's Highlanders fought for the British Government against the<br> Jacobites at the Battle of Culloden in April 1746, where they were victorious. <br> The melody appears in the 1768 (James) Gillespie Manuscript of Perth and in Preston's<br> Marches, Airs & Minuets (1804). The Scottish versions published by Bremner and Gillespie<br> appear to predate the later versions printed (and entered into manuscripts) as<br> "London March" a title that is probably a corruption of "Loudon's March".<br> It was printed in Bremner's A Collection of Airs and Marches (1761).<br>
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