Jean, or Jane, Elliot, was a daughter of Sir Gilbert Elliot of Minto. Her version of 'The Flowers of the Forest' is her only surviving work. Written probably only as a private excercise, it was a reworking of an earlier song by Alison Rutherford, but Jean Elliot wrote her version about the Battle of Flodden, and as such it has caught the imagination of the nation.