King, William (1685–1763), college head and Jacobite sympathizer, was born at Stepney, Middlesex, on 5 March 1685 and baptized there six days later, the son of Peregrine King (1649–1714), a Church of England clergyman, and his wife, Margaret (c.1651–1692/3), daughter of ...
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King, William (1685–1763), college head and Jacobite sympathizer
Richard Sharp
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Lindsay, Colin, third earl of Balcarres (1652–1721), politician and Jacobite sympathizer
Paul Hopkins
Lindsay, Colin, third earl of Balcarres (1652–1721), politician and Jacobite sympathizer, was baptized at Kilconquhar, Fife, on 23 August 1652, the fourth and youngest (but second surviving) son of Alexander Lindsay, first earl of Balcarres (1618–1659), and his wife, Anna Mackenzie (c. 1621–1707)...
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MacDonald, Flora (1722–1790), Jacobite heroine
Hugh Douglas
MacDonald, Flora (1722–1790), Jacobite heroine, was born at Milton on the island of South Uist, Outer Hebrides, the third and last child of Ranald MacDonald (d. 1723), tacksman or leaseholder of Milton and Balivanich on South Uist, and his second wife, Marion (...
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Mackintosh [née Farquharson], Anne [nicknamed Colonel Anne], Lady Mackintosh (1723–1784), Jacobite campaigner
Eirwen E. C. Nicholson
Mackintosh [née Farquharson], Anne [nicknamed Colonel Anne], Lady Mackintosh (1723–1784), Jacobite campaigner, was the eldest daughter of John Farquharson of Invercauld, Braemar, Scotland, who had himself been (coercedly) ‘out’ in the 1715 rising (for which he was subsequently pardoned). In February 1741 ...
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Maule, James, fourth earl of Panmure (1658/9–1723), Jacobite sympathizer
Stuart Handley
Maule, James, fourth earl of Panmure (1658/9–1723), Jacobite sympathizer, was the fifth son of George Maule, second earl of Panmure (1619–1671), and his wife, Lady Jean Campbell (1624/5–1703), eldest daughter of John Campbell, first earl of Loudoun; Patrick Maule, first earl of Panmure...
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Shippen, William (bap. 1673, d. 1743), politician and Jacobite sympathizer
Stephen W. Baskerville
Shippen, William (bap. 1673, d. 1743), politician and Jacobite sympathizer, was baptized at Prestbury, Cheshire, on 30 July 1673, the second son of the parish priest, William Shippen. Educated first under Roger Dale at Stockport grammar school, on 16 July 1687, aged fourteen, he entered ...
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Watson, Robert (1746?–1838), revolutionary and adventurer
Malcolm Chase
Watson, Robert (1746