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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.
He was born on 10 November 1685, in Culloden House near Inverness, he was the son of Duncan Forbes (1644-1704) and his wife Mary Innes (ca 1650–1716). He was a very eminent lawyer, Lord President, i.e. the president of the Court of Session, at the time of the ’45 and very much anti Jacobite. He was an active patriot, working for the country, not for the Stuart dynasty. It was sheer coincidence that the final battle of the ’45 should have been fought right by his property. He died on 10 Dec 1747 age 62.
The artwork is an interpretation of John Hamilton Gaylor.
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