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3 unusual facts about Lord Lovat


Air Landing Regiment

The Ox & Bucks were reinforced half-an-hour after the landings by 7th Parachute Battalion, and linked up with the beach landing forces with the arrival of the Commandos under the command of Lord Lovat.

Lord Lovat

(Fraser was also created Duke of Fraser, Marquess of Beaufort, Earl of Stratherrick and Upper Tarf, Viscount of the Aird and Strathglass and Lord Lovat and Beaulieu in the Jacobite Peerage of Scotland by James Francis Edward Stuart (titular King James III of England and VIII of Scotland) in 1740.)

He was beheaded on 9 April 1747, aged 80, on Tower Hill in London, becoming the last man to die in this manner.


Carl Hans Lody

Lody was the first person since the Jacobite rebel Lord Lovat, who was beheaded there in 1747, to be executed in the Tower of London.

Charles Merritt

This and one from Lord Lovat's Number 4 Commando were the only two success signals sent in the entire operation.

Cornwall Shinty Club

In 1919 The Cornishman newspaper's West Cornwall News section related: 'Scotland is enthusiastic over the revival of shinty. The championship competition is to start this year, and entries are to be received up to November 1. Kingussie Club was the last winner of the cup. International contests may be arranged. Lord Lovat is re-elected chief' (CM24/9/1919 p5).

Hugh Mackay, 14th Lord Reay

With his first wife Tessa, (née the Honourable Annabel Terese Fraser), a daughter of Lord Lovat (she is now wife of Henry Keswick), he had two sons and one daughter.


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