Carolina Oliphant, Baroness Nairne (August 16, 1766–October
26, 1845) was a Scottish songwriter and song collector.
Carolina Oliphant was born in the auld hoose of Gask, Perthshire.
She was descended from an old family which had settled in Perthshire
in the 13th century, and could boast of kinship with the royal
race of Scotland. Her father, Laurence Oliphant, was one of the
foremost supporters of the Jacobite cause, and she was named Carolina
in memory of Prince Charles Edward Stuart. In the schoolroom she
was known as pretty Miss Car, and afterwards her striking beauty
and pleasing manners earned for her the name of the Flower of Strathearn.
In 1806 she married William Murray Nairne, who became the 5th Baron
Nairne in 1824. After her husband's death in 1830 Lady Nairne took
up her residence at Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow, Ireland, but she spent
much time abroad. She died at Gask on the 26 October 1845.