Simon Fraser 11th Lord Lovat

Born: Abt 1667
Marriage (1): Margaret Grant in Dec 1716
Died: 1747 aged about 80

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1. Margaret Grant

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• Title. 11th Lord Lovat
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• General Comment. Lord Lovat

After the 9th Lord's death induced his cousin Amelia to elope with him but she soon returned to her mother. He gained the title of 11th Lord Lovat. He was educated King's College Aberdeen. In 1698 he then abducted Amelia's mother and forced her to go through a form of marriage with him, for which he was tried in absentia for high treason, outlawed and sentenced to death (his f, who was an accessory, was also found guilty of high treason). In 1700 sentence quashed. He was having initially conspired with the Jacobites he switched sides in the Rising to the Govt, to whom he presented Inverness Castle (of which he was apptd Governor 1716) and as a reward was granted his cousin Amelia's husb's forfeited life-rent of th in 1715. In 1721 unsuccessfully asserted his right to the Ldship of Lovat at elections of Scottish rep peers , 1722 and 1727. In 1730 finally acquired the title through the Court of Session judgement of. Circa 1737 despite his treachery towards them 22 years earlier was accepted into the the Jacobite circle that from planned Prince Charles Edward's landing in Scotland and this time stayed relatively true ('relatively' since as late as the last week before hi.3 On 14 March 1739 created /40 titular Lord Lovat of Beaulieu, Viscount of the Aird and Strathglass, Earl of Stratherrick and Abertarf, Marquess of Beaufort and Duke of Fraser by the titular James III. In September 1745 gathered his clansmen from late (following the Jacobite victory of Prestonpans) on. On 11 December 1745 arrested , escaped 2 Jan 1745/6, rearrested on Lake Morar, having fruitlessly urged Prince Charles Edward to continue the struggle even after the rout of Culloden.

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Lovat was arrested on an island in Loch Morar. He was conveyed in a litter to London, and after a trial of five days (with evidence given against him by the fellow Jacobite John Murray of Broughton) sentence of death was pronounced on 19 March 1747. He was executed by John Thrift on 9 April 1747, the last man to be beheaded in England. Coincidentally, a scaffold for spectators viewing the beheading collapsed, leaving 20 dead. Just before submitting his head to the block he repeated the line from Horace: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

After the execution the remaining honorable members of the family still alive from the war and prosecution fled to America and changed their last names to Lovett.

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Simon married Margaret Grant, daughter of Ludovic Grant and Unknown, in Dec 1716.

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