Sir John Maclean of Morven, 4th Baronet, 20th Clan Chief of Clan Maclean

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He was born in 1670. He became chief at the death of his father, Sir Allan Maclean, 3rd Baronet, in 1674, when he was four years old. Lauchlan Maclean, 2nd Laird of Brolas, and Lachlan Maclean, 3rd Laird of Torloisk were assigned as his legal guardians. In 1691 Castle Duart was under siege by Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, and Maclean was forced to surrender it.

He commanded the right wing of the Jacobite army at Battle of Killiecrankie, and held out in the island of Kernburgh until 1692, when he made his peace with William III of England. He afterwards went to France and remained at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye until the Act of Indemnity 1703, when he returned to Scotland. He joined John Erskine, 6th Earl of Mar in the Battle of Sheriffmuir, and after retired to Gordon Castle where he died in March 1716.

Birth: Circa 1670

 Duart Castle, Isle of Mull, Argyllshire, Scotland Title:	20th Chief of Clan MacLean From 1674 To 1716 Military Service:	Commanded the right wing of the Jacobite army at Battle of Killiecrankie July 27 1689

 Killiecrankie, Scotland Move:	Lost Castle Duart to Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll 1691

Biographical Summary

"Sir John Maclean, Baronet [S 1631] of Morven, only surviving son and heir; succeeded to the Baronetcy in 1674; fought (with his clan) on behalf of the House of Stuart, at the battle of Killiecrankie (1689), and at that Sheriffmuir in the rising of 1715. He married in or before 1704, Mary, daughter of Sir Æneas Macpherson of Invereshie. She died before him. He died in or before 1719."

SOURCE: Complete baronetage; Cokayne, George E. (George Edward); 1900; Vol. II; page 394

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