The Fraser clan regiment, raised by Lord Lovat from Beauly and Strathglass, fought at Culloden under his son the Master of Lovat. The Frasers were positioned on the right of the Jacobite second line. After the defeat, the Master of Lovat survived and eventually obtained a pardon, going on to serve the British Crown with distinction. His father Lord Lovat was less fortunate — captured hiding on an island in Loch Morar, he was brought to London, tried before his peers, convicted of high treason and beheaded on Tower Hill in April 1747. Aged eighty, he was the last person publicly beheaded in Britain, and reportedly laughed at the crowd.
Fraser clan suffered significant casualties at Culloden
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