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3i8 COMPLETE PEERAGE ATHOLL to join the Rising in Aug. 17 15 for the restoration of the House of Stuart, and was consequently attainted, 17 Feb. 17 15/6, of high treason, but he escaped to Britanny. On i Feb. 1716/7, he was cr., by the titular King James III, Duke of Rannoch, Marquess of Blair, Earl of Glen Tilt, Viscount Glenshie, and Lord Strathbran [S.], with rem. to heirs male. Since his death the Jacobite titles have remained united with the Dukedom of Atholl. Returning to Scotland with the Spanish force, he was defeated at the battle ofGlenshiel, 18 June 17 19. He again escaped, though ^^2000 was offered for his capture, and in Oct. 1734 " had been long a prisoner for debt " at Paris. (") After 26 years he accompanied the Chevalier St. George to Scotland, on whose behalf he unfurled the Royal Standard at Glenfinnan, 19 Aug. I745,() but after the battle of Culloden he surrendered himself, 27 Apr. 1746, and was committed to the Tower of London (on 21 June), being then very ill. There he d. unm., 9 July 1746, in his 58th year, of a stoppage of urine, and was bur. in the Chapel of the Tower.] DUKEDOM [S.] IL MARQUESSATE [S.] III. EARLDOM [S.] XXX. 2, 3, 4 or 9. James (Murray), Duke OF Atholl, 6?c. [S.], 3rd, but 2nd surv., s. by ist wife, who, according to the Act of Pari, of 1715, sue. to his 1724. father's honours and estate. He was ^.28 Sep. 1690, at Edinburgh. In 17 12 he was Captain and Lieut. Col. of a Grenadier company in the ist Reg. of Foot Guards, and afterwards Lieut. Col. of the ist or Royal Scots Reg. of Foot. M.P. (Whig) for co. Perth, 1715-24. In 1733 he obtained an Act of Pari, that the attainder of his br. should extend only to that br. and his issue, and not to any other the heirs male of his father. Lord Privy Seal June 1733 to 6 Apr. 1763. Elected a Rep. Peer [S.] 1733 and (again) 1734. P.C. 31 Jan. 1733/4- K.T. 11 Feb. 1733/4. In 1736, in accordance with the same Act of Pari, of 171 5 (notwithstanding that his elder br. was still alive), he sue. his cousin James (Stanley), loth Earl of Derby, both in the Sovereignty of the Isle of Man as well as in the Peerage of England as LORD STRANGE, a Barony cr. by writ 7 Mar. 1627/8. As Lord Strange he was sum. to Pari. 14 Mar. 1736/7, sitting both as an English Baron and as a Scotch Rep. Peer for 4 years, till the gen. election of 1 74 1. On 9 July 1746, by the death of his elder br. s.p., he became the de facto as well us parliamentary h. male of his father. He accompanied the Duke of Cumberland to Scotland in 1746. Keeper of the Great (») See N y Q., 4th Ser., vol. x, p. 161. C") " Tottering with age and infirmities, and supported by an attendant on each side, [he] was, as highest in rank, appointed to unfurl the banner ; it was of red silk with a white space in the centre, on which, some weeks afterwards, the celebrated motto " Tandem Triumphans " was inscribed. . . . Tullibardine, after a little pause, read aloud the manifesto of the old Chevalier, and the commission of Regency granted to Prince Charles. " See Earl Stanhope's eloquent account of The Forty Five.