<<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/3545/|Issue 3545>> quotes tunearch.org about Francis Peacock: who was appointed the “sole dancing master within the burgh (of Aberdeen) during his good behavior” and who was to take “7 shillings sterling monthly from each scholar, besides paying for the music.” He held the position from 1747 until his death in 1807 at the age of eighty-four.