Lighter, thanks for the reminder. George Colman (the younger) 1762-1836 was the author of Jenny linkum feedle, Inkle and Yarico and The Quadrapeds of Quedlinburgh and many other successful dramas at his theatre in the Haymarket, London. According to the DNB; "While still at King's,[=King's College, Aberdeen] Colman completed his second play, Two to One, late in 1783. It reached the boards at the Little Haymarket on 21 June 1784 and achieved a respectable run of nineteen evenings."

This dates the tune of Peggy of Derby-O as being known in 1783 even if the words by Colman which Olson quotes under the title of The Dandy-O are not "one of his better efforts"!

Matthew Edwards