"One of the most poignant tales concerning bearers of the Campbell name relates to Mary Campbell, fondly known as Highland Mary, and who was immortalised in verse by the great Scottish bard Robert Burns.
Born in 1763 Dunoon, on the west coast of Scotland, it was while working as a young lass on a farm near Tarbolton, in Burns’ native Ayrshire, that Mary is first thought to have met the bard.
Burns penned the famous poems The Highland Lassie O, Highland Mary and, after her untimely death from typhoid at the age of 23, To Mary in Heaven.
