KENNETH MACLEAY (1802-78)
William Ross
dated 1866RCIN 920712
William Ross was Queen Victoria's piper and is depicted in full Highland dress of Royal Stewart tartan. Ross set up a successful bagpipe business in London which supplied pipes to all the Scottish regiments. An expert on pipe music, he published a collection of over four hundred tunes collected from Scottish and Irish pipers.
Commissioned by Queen Victoria