William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock
William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock, was a Scottish peer who joined the 1745 Jacobite Rising, was captured at Culloden and subsequently executed for treason on Tower Hill.
William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock ca 1746
Kilmarnock's restored family home, Dean Castle; gutted by fire in 1735 and left derelict until 1908
Kilmarnock's political patron, the 3rd Duke of Argyll
Execution of the Earl of Kilmarnock and Lord Balmerino
The Jacobite rising of 1745 was an attempt by Charles Edward Stuart to regain the British throne for his father, James Francis Edward Stuart. It took place during the War of the Austrian Succession, when the bulk of the British Army was fighting in mainland Europe, and proved to be the last in a series of revolts that began in March 1689, with major outbreaks in 1715 and 1719.
An Incident in the Rebellion of 1745, David Morier
James Francis Edward Stuart, the 'Old Pretender,' or 'Chevalier de St George' portrait from 1748
Cardinal Fleury, chief minister of France 1723 to 1743; he viewed the Jacobites as an ineffective weapon for dealing with British power
Welsh Tory Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn (1692–1749); his sky-blue waistcoat was a Jacobite symbol
