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Cluny MacPherson was born on 11 February 1706. He was the first-born son of Lachlan MacPherson of Nuide (1674-1746). His mother was Jean Cameron, a daughter of Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel. Cluny grew up to be a respected individual. His father-in-law, Lord Lovat, described him as "a thorrow good natur'd, even temper'd, honest gentleman". [2]
William Macpherson, who was killed at the Battle of Falkirk (1746), is the ancestor of the current Chief of Clan Macpherson. [2] His brother witnessed government "red coats" burning Macpherson of Cluny's house. [2] Duncan Macpherson of Cluny fought in the British Army during the American Revolutionary War. [2] Portrait of Cluny MacPherson ...
Pages in category "Clan Macpherson" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. ... Ewen MacPherson of Cluny; G. Gow (sept) J. James Macpherson; M.
MacPherson of Cluny's Regiment: Ewen MacPherson of Cluny: Cluny and his company deserted from Loudon's 64th Highlanders and joined the Jacobite army after Prestonpans: his regiment, raised in the area of Badenoch, fought at Clifton and was possibly 400 strong by the time of Falkirk. It was still en route to joining the main army when Culloden ...
Cluny MacPherson, Newfoundland medical doctor and inventor of the gas mask; Colin MacPherson, Scottish Roman Catholic Bishop of Argyll and the Isles from 1968 to 1990; Donald Macpherson (disambiguation), several people; Earle S. MacPherson, the Ford engineer who developed the MacPherson strut in the 1940s; Ewen MacPherson of Cluny, Scottish ...
Born in 1755 Macpherson was the illegitimate [citation needed] son of the Jacobite rebel and exile Ewen MacPherson of Cluny chief of the Clan Macpherson and grandson of Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel a Scottish highland chieftain and the 17th Chief of Clan Cameron. Given the unproductive lands of Gaskmore, Macpherson join the British Army in 1775 ...
His father was the Rev. Ewen Macpherson Pinsent (1930–2020), [2] curate of St Andrew's parish church, Kelso, Scottish Borders, and his mother, Jean Grizel, came from a distinguished military family. [3] [4] Through his own aristocratic and military family, [5] [6] Pinsent is directly descended from King Edward I and William the Conqueror. [7]
The 1886 novel Kidnapped by author Robert Louis Stevenson details the Macpherson chief Ewen MacPherson of Cluny in the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite rebellion. [121] "The Curse of Moy" is a poem by Mr. Morrit of Rokeby, included in Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.