Lady Grizel Baillie

Lady Grizel Baillie, née Hume, (25 December 1665 – 6 December 1746) was a Scottish gentlewoman and songwriter. Her accounting ledgers, in which she kept details about her household for more than 50 years, provide information about social life in Scotland in the eighteenth century.

For the 19th-century deaconess, see Grisell Baillie.

Lady Grizel Baillie
Engraving by G. J. Stodart
after Maria Verelst portrait, Mellerstain House
Born
Grizel Hume

25 December 1665
Redbraes Castle, Berwickshire
Died6 December 1746 (aged 80)
London
NationalityScottish
Occupationsongwriter
Notable workWere na my heart licht I wad die
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