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About Farquhar MacRae, of Inverinate
Farquhar, son of Duncan XI was the last of the family who held Inverinate and acted as Chamberlain of Kintail. He was a very young man in 1745 when Bonnie Prince Charlie raised the last Jacobite Rebellion in the Highlands. Considering all that the people of Kintail had suffered at the hands of the supporters of the House of Hanover, both in 1715 and again in 1719, it is no matter for surprise that in 1745 they once more showed signs of strong Jacobite sympathies, and the army of the Prince was joined by a number of Macraes, not one of whom over again returned to Kintail. The Prince was defeated at the Battle of Culloden in April 1746, and in his wanderings after this battle he spent a day or two in Kintail. He passed one night in the house of Christopher Macrae and his wife Anne, Duncan Macrae, who lived at Malagan, in the Heights of Kintail. On one occasion young Farquhar Macrae was mistakes for the Prince himself, the authorities as to his identity, and so secured his release. He married Mary, daughter of Alexander Mackenzie, 8th Laird of Dochmaluag. Farquhar made some additions to the Rev. John Macrae’s Manuscript History of the Clan, but these additions were limited to the merest outline of his own family. One of his sons, Farquhar Junior was born on 30th March 1764. He was a Doctor of Medicine, and was appointed Medical Officer to Lord Macartney’s Embassy to China in 1792-1794. He was afterwards killed in a duel with a Major Blair in Demerara in 1802. He is said to have been “handsome and comely in personal appearance, and strong in proportion.” His portrait is represented as Colin Fitzgerald, the founder of the house of Seaforth in Benjamin West’s celebrated deer hunt painting in Brahan Castle. The artist accidentally saw him one day in Hyde Park, and, being struck by his appearance asked him if he would sit as a model for the founder of the House of Seaforth, which he readily consented to do. Farquhar Junior was not only a native of the ancestral country of the Seaforths, but was also closely related to that family, and it is a remarkable fact that he should have struck the artist, to whom he was a perfect stranger, as a suitable representative for the hero of the painting.
Anne, granddaughter of Farquhar X who married Captain Horne and resided with him in France. She was the first person to bring tea to Kintail. The caddy in which the tea was brought is now in the possession of Mrs. Mackenzie, of Abbotsford Park, Edinburgh, the great granddaughter of Mrs. Horne’s brother, Farquhar of Inverinate.
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Farquhar MacRae, of Inverinate's Timeline
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March 19, 1725
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Kintail, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland, United Kingdom
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May 10, 1756
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Demerara
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June 8, 1757
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July 16, 1758
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August 23, 1759
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November 3, 1760
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June 26, 1762
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Scotland (United Kingdom)
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March 30, 1764
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October 2, 1765
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