Major-General John Graham of Claverhouse, 1st Viscount Dundee was a Scottish army officer. A Tory and Episcopalian, he was responsible for policing southwest Scotland to suppress religious unrest and
Portrait by the circle of Sir Peter Lely, c. 1675
c. 1675 portrait of Dundee
Conventicle field meeting held by Presbyterian dissidents; Claverhouse was employed in their suppression
Drumclog, 1 June 1679; Claverhouse was unexpectedly defeated by a Covenanter force
Bonnie Dundee
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Bonnie Dundee is the title of a poem and a song written by Walter Scott in 1825 in honour of John Graham, 7th Laird of Claverhouse, who was created 1st Viscount Dundee in November 1688, then in 1689 l
John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee
…Battle of Killiecrankie, where he died. The rising was unsuccessful, but Claverhouse posthumously was made a Jacobite hero, acquiring the soubriquet "Bonnie Dundee". The Graham family was descended from Robert III of Scotland through his second daughter Princess Mary. John Graham was the elder son of Sir William…
John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee, 1648 - 1689 (nicknamed "Bonnie Dundee"). Miniature by David Paton, made between 1660 and 1695. Displayed by the National Galleries of Scotland.