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5 unusual facts about Duncan Forbes


Duncan Forbes

Duncan Forbes, Lord Culloden (1685–1747), his son, Scottish politician and judge

Duncan Forbes of Culloden (1644–1704), Scottish politician and supporter of the House of Hanover

Duncan Forbes, Lord Culloden

A statue by Louis-François Roubiliac was raised to him in the parliament house at Edinburgh.

Soon after his return he married Mary, daughter of Hugh Rose, twelfth baron of Kilravock, near Culloden.

As lord advocate he had been engaged in 1728 in the prosecution of James Carnegie of Finhaven, who had been grossly insulted during one of the usual convivial parties at a funeral by a Mr. Bridgeton, and, trying to stab Bridgeton, had killed Lord Strathmore.



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