Clans For and Against the Bonnie Prince
Posted on 6th February 2021
On August 19, 1745, Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, raised his Standard at Glenfinnan in the Scottish Highlands and declared his intention to restore the Stuart Dynasty and to make Scotland happy. Brandy was then distributed among the 700 or so clansmen who had gathered.
But despite the attendance of clans such as the MacDonald’s and the Cameron’s many were not present and though some would reluctantly join the rebellion later, and others with more enthusiasm, with the Protestant Lowlands unified against him and the Highlands divided there would be more Scots in arms against the Bonnie Prince than for him. The list below contains the details:
For the Bonnie Prince:
Boyd Cameron Chisholm
Davidson Drummond Farquharson
Fraser Hay Livingstone
MacBean MacColl MacDonald
MacDuff MacFee MacGillivray
MacGregor MacInnes MacKinnon
MacKintosh MacIntyre MacIver
MacLachlan MacLaren MacLean
MacNeil MacNaughten MacPherson
Menzie Morrison Ogilvy
Oliphant Robertson Stewart
Against:
Campbell Cathcart Colville
Cunningham Grant Gunn
Kerr MacKay Munro
Ross Semphill Sinclair
Sutherland
Fought on both sides:
Murray
Forbes
Keith
MacKenzie
MacLeod
MacTavish
MacMillan
Maxwell
Ramsey
Elphinstone
Wemyss
Neutral throughout:
MacQuarrie
MacDougall
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