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Occupation. Lawyer and politician. Duncan Forbes 5th of Culloden (10 November 1685 – 10 December 1747) was a Scottish lawyer and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1721 to 1737. As Lord President and senior Scottish legal officer, he played a major role in helping the government suppress the 1745 Jacobite Rising .
- Elizabeth Forbes, John Forbes (1710–1772)
- Hon. Mary Rose (c.1690–1717?)
- Culloden House
- Whig
Aug 24, 2022 · Duncan was born in 1685. Duncan Forbes ... He passed away in 1747. The younger brother of John Forbes, he succeeded his brother in 1735. He was educated at "Inverness Royal Academy; Marischal Coll. Aberdeen 1699; Edinburgh 1702; Leyden 1705; adv. 1709" [1] He married 21 Oct. 1708, Mary, daughter of Hugh Rose of Kilravock, Nairnshire. He served ...
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- November 10, 1685
- Mary (Rose) Forbes
- December 10, 1747
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Forty-five Rebellion. Duncan Forbes (born Nov. 10, 1685, near Inverness, Inverness-shire, Scot.—died Dec. 10, 1747, Edinburgh) was a Scottish statesman whose loyalty to the Hanoverian king George II of Great Britain contributed markedly to the defeat of the Jacobite rebellion of 1745–46. Trained in law, Forbes entered local politics and in ...
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In 1726 Forbes answered Dundas’s speech on Daniel Campbell’s petition for compensation for the destruction of his house in the malt tax riots: ‘He laid all the blame on the lords of session and the magistrates of Glasgow, and set forth the affair in quite a different light’. A fortnight later he moved successfully that anything over £ ...
Duncan Forbes 5th of Culloden was a Scottish lawyer and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1721 to 1737. As Lord President and senior Scottish legal officer, he played a major role in helping the government suppress the 1745 Jacobite Rising.
Duncan Forbes, Lord Culloden. Duncan Forbes, Lord Culloden, lived from 10 November 1685 to 10 December 1747. He was an important figure in the legal establishment of Scotland for a number of decades and a staunch opponent of the Jacobites in two uprisings. The wider picture in Scotland at the time is set out in our Historical Timeline.
Duncan Forbes was born on 10 November 1685, the second son of Duncan Forbes of Culloden and Bunchrew, near Inverness. He went to Edinburgh University to study law, but in 1705 proceeded to Leiden instead to study civil law and oriental languages, returning to Scotland in 1707.
