Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, was the most notorious political survivor of early eighteenth-century Scotland — a man who had betrayed every side in succession. In 1745, aged nearly eighty, he finally committed to the Jacobite cause, raising his Fraser clan from Beauly and Strathglass. The Fraser regiment under his son joined Charles's army. Lovat himself played a more cautious game, trying to maintain deniability. His clan's assembly involved suppressing pro-government sympathisers in the Beauly valley and pressing his tenants into service. Lovat was eventually captured hiding on an island in Loch Morar, tried for treason and executed on Tower Hill in April 1747 — the last person to be publicly beheaded in Britain.
Fraser of Lovat: c.800 Fraser clansmen; government supporters in Beauly area
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