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	Culture Hebrides - Island holidays in the Gaelic Heartland of Scotland
		The picture Knox gives of Seaforth's style of life in Lewis is simply astounding; the plentitude he had to hand, both on sea and on land, contrasts in bitter irony with the poverty of many of his fellow-islanders.
		Seaforth is best remembered in Lewis for his actions, seven years after Knox's visit, when he dragooned so many of its young people into his regiment (Saighdearan MhicChoinnich Bodhar/ the Soldiers of Deaf Mackenzie), the 78th Highanders, to fight in the Napoleonic Wars.
		Seaforth's principal residence is at Brahan Castle, near Dingwall; but he resides here with his family two or three months every summer, where he enjoys more than Asiatic luxury, in the simple produce of his forests, his heaths, and his shores.
	www.culturehebrides.com /heritage/seaforth (3876 words)

	Scottish Military Historical Society - Regulars
		The regiment as at present constituted was formed by the amalgamation in 1881 of the old 78th or Seaforth's Highlanders, later the 72nd Highlanders (Duke of Albany's Own), and the 78th or Ross-shire Buffs.
		The old 78th was raised in 1778 by the Earl of Seaforth and was designated "Seaforth's Highlanders" and numbered the 78th Regiment.
		In 1994 the regiment was amalgamated with the Gordon Highlanders.
	www.btinternet.com /~james.mckay/seaforth.htm (1084 words)

	Eglinton
		The Earl of Nithsdale, the chief of the powerful Border house of Maxwell, was to have suffered along with Viscount Kenmure, but escaped from the Tower through the agency of his heroic wife.
		The gallant Seaforth, 'High Lord of Kintail,' chief of the powerful clan of the Mackenzies, was exiled and forfeited for his share in 'the Fifteen.' The titles and estates, however, were recovered, but the former became extinct on the death of the last Earl of Seaforth in very painful circumstances in 1815.
		Sir Gideon Scott of Highchester, one of them, was jealous of the Earl of Tweeddale, who had married her aunt, and expressed his belief that the Earl entertained sinister designs, which made him bent on wresting the infant Countess and her sister from the guardianship of their mother.
	fp.ayrshireroots.plus.com /Genealogy/Historical/eglinton.htm (1248 words)

	Murchison family Dornie Manuscript (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		After the flight of Seaforth to France, he left all his affairs in the hands of Colonel Donald Murchison who, consequently, acted as his Factor in Ross-shire and was always on the alert in the Highland passes to defend the Earl of Seaforth's estates from the Government troops.
		The Earl of Seaforth was wounded in the knee from a musket ball and the Highlanders seeing no chance of a successful issue in consequence of MacKenzie being badly wounded, and he himself giving no ecouragement, dispersed during the night among the mountains and the spaniards on the following day surrendered prisoners of war.
		After Seaforth was restored, he used to glve the old woman a boll of meal yearly for her loyalty to his cause.
	members.aol.com /spegler919/dorniema.htm (3463 words)

	History of the Clan Mackenzie, Clan Mackenzie Society of Scotland and the UK Web Site
		Examining records that suggest a descent from the Earls of Ross indicate that such a descent existed through Margaret, the wife of Kenneth A'Blair Mackenzie VIII Baron of Kintail, she was the daughter of John IV Lord of the Isles and Earl of Ross.
		The 5th Earl raised an army of 3000 men in 1715 for the Jacobite Pretender, and had to flee to France, returning in 1719 to be severely wounded at Glenshiel.
		Although their influence was now waning, Kenneth 6th Earl, was made Viscount Fortrose and Baron Ardelve, and Irish Peerage in 1766, and had the title of Earl of Seaforth restored in 1771.
	www.clan-mackenzie.org.uk /clan/history.html (1375 words)

	Seaforth Highlanders
		Seaforth Highlanders military uniform art prints of the Seaforth Highlanders by Richard Simkin, Haswell Miller and Harry Payne, published by Cranston Fine Arts, the military print company.
		The Seaforth Highlanders-Regimental District No.72-consists of the 72
		The "Mackenzies", the family name of the Earl, were also known as the "Caber Feidhs", the Gallic name of the stag's antler, which belong to the Seaforth arms; and the present nickname of the "Macraes" also dates from this time, for the name "was general in the regiment".
	www.regimental-art.com /seaforths.htm (5238 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In 1777 Kenneth MacKenzie, Earl of Seaforth, raised a regiment which was called the first seven years of it's existens The 78th Regiment of (Highland) Foot.
		By coincidence that was the same number as The 72nd Regiment of (Highland) Foot raised in 1777 by Kenneth MacKenzie, Earl of Seaforth, in Scotland.
		In De Glind (near Achterveld) The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada stopped and 'jumped' to the Dutch capital Amsterdam (50 km west of Achterveld) which was liberated in April 1945.
	www.seaforth.nl /history.htm (1894 words)

	I1019: Kenneth MACKENZIE (V Earl Seaforth) ( - ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The advantage of Crawfurd is that he was a living contemporary of this man, and is therefore more likely to be correct.] Kenneth, the present Earl; is married with Mary, only Daughter and Heir of Nicolas Kennet of Coxhow, Esq; of the County of Northumberland.
		William, fifth Earl of Seaforth, the eldest son, engaged in the rebellion 1715, for which he was attainted by act of Parliament, and his estates in England and Scotland forfeited to the crown.
		By letters-patent dated 12th July 1726, King George I. was pleased to discharge him from imprisonment or the execution of his person on his attainder, and King George II.
	www.macleodgenealogy.com /ACMS/D0037/I1019.html (256 words)

	thePeerage.com - Person Page 2588
		He was the son of Thomas Erskine, 14th Earl of Mar and Janet Douglas.
		She was the daughter of Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll and Elizabeth Stuart.
		She was the daughter of Francis Hay, 9th Earl of Erroll and Elizabeth Douglas.
	www.thepeerage.com /p2588.htm (1234 words)

	SEAFORTH, EARL OF - Online Information article about SEAFORTH, EARL OF
		March 1611, was created earl of Seaforth in 1623.
		1651), who became the 2nd earl in 1633.
		George was alternately a royalist and a covenanter between 1636 and 1646, and was afterwardsin See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SCY_SHA/SEAFORTH_EARL_OF.html (519 words)

	A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS
		Although the Earl of Seaforth raised the Seaforth Highlanders in 1778 as the 78th Regiment (
		The 2nd Battalion of the Seaforth Highlanders was raised in 1793 as the 78th Highland Regiment of Foot and augmented by a second battalion, known as the Ross-shire Buffs, in 1794.
		After the war, the strength of the Regular Army was reduced with most line regiments, including The Seaforth Highlanders, becoming a single regular battalion regiment again with the amalgamation of the 1st and 2nd Battalions in 1948.
	www.cabarfeidh.com /SEAFORTH_HISTORY.htm (991 words)

	CMS Clan MacKenzie Society
		Kintail’s brother Sir Roderick MacKenzie, the "Tutor of Kintail," was progenitor of the present Chief of the clan, the Earl of Cromartie.
		On December 3rd, 1623, Kintail’s son Colin was raised to the dignity of Earl of Seaforth.
		A number of famous regiments have been raised from the MacKenzie clan, including the Highland Light Infantry (raised in 1777), the Seaforth Highlanders (raised in 1778), and the second battalion of the Seaforth Highlanders, known as the Ross-shire Buffs (raised in 1793).
	www.clanmackenzie.com (405 words)

	mysteries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The story of the Doom begins in 1660, when the Earl of Seaforth travelled from Brahan Castle, his home, to Paris, leaving behind his wife, Isabella, a woman reputedly as ugly as she was violent and uncouth.
		Some accounts say she had hi hanged their in Brahan Castle, and others that she had him charged before the authorities with practising witchcraft and that as a result he was burned to death in a barrel of tar.
		Seaforth’s estates were inherited by his daughter Mary Elizabeth Frederica.
	www.mysteries.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /2,12.htm (935 words)

	Dornie Manuscript
		The Earl, on the appearance of this force, crossed into Ross-shire, whence he escaped into France, and Campbell, being abandoned by his men after he had formed them in order of battle, was taken prisoner while standing in a charging posture.
		The Earl of Seaforth was wounded in the knee from a musket ball and the Highlanders seeing no chance of a successful issue in consequence of MacKenzie being badly wounded, and he himself giving no encouragement, dispersed during the night among the mountains and the Spaniards on the following day surrendered prisoners of war.
		He was a major in one of Earl William of Seaforth's three regiments A.D. 1715 and was at the Battle of Sheriffmuir where he fought gallantly defending his master's cause.
	www.clanmacrae.org /documents/dornie.htm (3421 words)

	Seaforth Highlanders History with pictures of McKenzie tartan
		They became the 1st Battalion Seaforth Highlanders in the Army Reforms of 1881, amalgamating with the 78th Highlanders which had also been raised by the "MacKenzie of Seaforth" family.
		The Seaforth Highlanders had a territorial district that included the counties of Ross and Cromarty, Sutherland, Caithness, the Orkney Islands and Moray.
		After the 1881 Reforms regular Battalions of the Seaforth Highlanders fought in Egypt, the Sudan, South Africa and the North West Frontier of India.
	www.qohldrs.co.uk /html/seaforth_history.htm (475 words)

	100-101, Ross; Moravia, in the vernacular Moray - Blaeu Atlas of Scotland, 1654 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Above is the High Coast which Ptolemy mentions, now apparently Tarbat [it belongs to Lord John Makenzie, a relation of the Earl of Seaforth].
		To Alexander was born an only daughter, who transferred all her right to Robert Duke of Albany: in irritation that Donald of the Isles, in the reign of James III, styled himself King of the Isles and Earl of Ross, marauding far and wide against his country with sword and fire.
		Across the Grampian mountain, which as if in sequence through consecutive ridges with many twists pushes its spine as far as this, the Vacomagi formerly had their home at the gulf of Varar; there now is Moray, in Latin Moravia, notable for its fruitfulness, beauty, and supply of fruit-bearing trees.
	www.nls.uk /digitallibrary/map/early/blaeu/965.html (1001 words)

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		In 1715, when the Earl of Mar declared war on England and lost, his followers were also banished from the political situation of the times.
		With the help of the Earl of Seaforth, who was also grandfather to the Earl of Mar, James Stuart was going to take the crown.
		What is the relationship of William to the Earl of Mar? This may be lost to antiquity.
	www.marrs-family.com /will1700.html (625 words)

	thePeerage.com - Person Page 10979
		He was the son of Sir William Douglas-Hamilton, 1st Earl of Selkirk and Anne Hamilton, 3rd Duchess of Hamilton.
		Basil Hamilton, son of Sir William Douglas-Hamilton, 1st Earl of Selkirk and Anne Hamilton, 3rd Duchess of Hamilton, in 1691.
		She married Dunbar Douglas, 4th Earl of Selkirk, son of Basil Hamilton and Isabella Mackenzie, on 3 December 1758.
	www.thepeerage.com /p10979.htm (1209 words)

	Eilean Donan Castle - The Internet Guide to Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Colin Fitzgerald, son of the Earl of Desmond, was appointed its constable after the battle of Largs.
		In the 14th century it was in the hands of Randolph, Earl of Moray, who, in 1331, adorned its walls with the heads of 50 victims, as a warning to the inhabitants of the district.
		Mackenzie, Earl of Seaforth, when it was battered and ruined by three English men-of-war.
	www.castles.org /Chatelaine/EDC/edc-mgr.htm (787 words)

	The Glengarry Branch of the MacDonalds
		On 27th August 1715, Glengarry was one of the chiefs who attended the pretended grand hunting match at Braemar, appointed by the Earl of Mar, previous to the breaking out of the rebellion of that year.
		As his estate was very much mortgaged and encumbered, his son was compelled to dispose of it, and to emigrate to Australia, with his family and clan.
		The estate was purchased by the Marquis of Huntly from the chief, and in 1840 it was sold to Lord Ward (Earl of Dudley, Feb. 13, 1860,) for £91,000.
	www.macdonald.com /glengry.html (1281 words)

	Tune Histories
		The Earl, who was advanced in life and in great pecuniary difficulties, was advised by Campbell to execute a bond of entail, 7th October 1672, conveying the earldom and estates to Glenurchy, failing issue male of his own body.
		This hill forms the crest of the family of Seaforth, but is often mistaken for a volcanic mountain, being heraldically termed a mountain inflamed, and is accompanied by the motto, " Luceo non uro," i.e.
		He was in the Earl of Seaforth's establishment, and on one occasion going through Glen Shiel with his lordship, he played for the first time this piece of music, as if the Earl should say through the emphatic notes of the musician, S' learn fern an Gleann, S' learn few na thann, andc.
	www.piobaireachd.com /library/tunehistories/angusmackay.htm (7787 words)

	Seaforth Highlanders of Canada Warrant Officer's and Sergeant's Mess 78th Annual Burns Dinner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Since childhood I have known that Ross-shire was our own family's ancestral home, just as it is that of the Seaforth Highlanders, first raised for Colonial service by the Earl of Seaforth in 1778.
		These names are forever etched in the institutional memory of the Seaforth Highlanders and in that of our grateful province and nation, as is the name of Ortona, with brutal hand-to-hand warfare and its bitter Christmas shared with the Loyal Edmonton Regiment.
		And we know that storied Regiments like the Seaforths will ALWAYS remain true to traditions of hard training and professional service, whether alone, or as part of a global coalition, whether in traditional roles, or in response to unconventional 21st Century military demands.
	www.ltgov.bc.ca /whatsnew/sp/sp_jan25_2002.htm (1440 words)

	Clan Donald - Selected Historical Articles
		Montrose was fighting for the royal cause against the Covenanters, who ruled Scotland, with the Earl of Argyll, later Marquis, supporting the Covenanters.
		However, the Earl of Antrim, had promised men to help the King and Montrose, and sent 1,500 Irish and Scots MacDonalds, with other clans, i.e.
		After attacking the lands of Clan Campbell in December, 1644, Montrose and his army were heading north east up to Lochaber, and the Great Glen, planning to meet and battle with a Covenanters army under the Earl of Seaforth.
	www.highlandconnection.org /clandonaldhistory.html (2305 words)

	A Legend of Montrose - Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		he Legend of Montrose was written chiefly with a view to place before the reader the melancholy fate of John Lord Kilpont, eldest son of William Earl of Airth and Menteith, and the singular circumstances attending the birth and history of James Stewart of Ardvoirlich, by whose hand the unfortunate nobleman fell.
		Meanwhile Young James Stewart of Ardvoirlich grew up to manhood uncommonly tall, strong, and active, with such power in the grasp of his hand in particular, as could force the blood from beneath the nails of the persons who contended with him in this feat of strength.
		His temper was moody, fierce, and irascible; yet he must have had some ostensible good qualities, as he was greatly beloved by Lord Kilpont, the eldest son of the Earl of Airth and Menteith.
	www.worldwideschool.com /library/books/lit/historical/ALegendofMontrose/Chap1.html (2085 words)

	Scotland on Sunday (Edinburgh, Scotland) : Gallery walk: Kenneth Mackenzie, First Earl of Seaforth at Home in Naples, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Start / S / Scotland on Sunday (Edinburgh, Scotland) / May 23, 2004 / Gallery walk: Kenneth Mackenzie, First Earl of Seaforth at Home in Naples, 1771.
		Along with its companion painting, it shows the apartments in Naples occupied in the 1770s by Lord Fortrose, later the Earl of Seaforth.
		It was previously thought that these were the rooms of Fortrose's friend, William Hamilton, British Consul in Naples, whose writings on antiquity were illustrated by Fabris.
	static.highbeam.com /s/scotlandonsundayedinburghscotland/may232004/gallerywalkkennethmackenziefirstearlofseaforthatho/index.html (261 words)

	William (V Earl Of Seaforth) MACKENZIE / Mary KENET (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The late Earl of Crawford and Balcarres wrote to the (author) an interesting letter on the subject of this claim to the Dukedom of Montrose, dated September 1865, signed Lindsay:
		In reply to the argument, the claimant adduced evidence to prove that the Act of Rescissory took no effect whatsoever on any of the grants struck by it and least of all on the Dukedom of Montrose.
		The Committee ruled the grant was for the term of life only, and that the petitioner, James, (24th) Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, has not established any title to the Dukedom of Montrose created in 1488.
	famtree.munchkinsworld.com /d0000/f0000050.html (343 words)

	Mackenzies Highland Inn, Aviemore, Inverness-shire
		William, 5th Earl, was fortified as a jacobite in 1715, and raised the old Seaforth Highlanders in 1778.
		His cousin and eventual successor, Francis Humberstone - MacKenzie was recreated Lord Seaforth in1797, and at his death in 1815 his daughter Mary, Lady Stuart MacKenzie of Seaforth, became Caberfeidh and Chief of the Clan.
		Her grandson, James Stewert MacKensie, Lord Seaforth of Brahan in 1921, was the last Chief to hold a peerage, but his heir of line, The Lady of Seaforth still holds sway at their castle of Brahan.
	www.smoothhound.co.uk /hotels/mackenzies.html (656 words)

	mackenzie clan - direct from scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The original Kenneth lived in the 13th Century and was descended from a younger son of Gilleoin of the Aird, from whom can also be traced the once powerful Earls of Ross.
		A number of famous army regiments have been raised from the MacKenzie clan, including the Highland Light Infantry (raised in 1777), the Seaforth Highlanders (raised in 1778), and the second battalion of the Seaforth Highlanders, known as the Ross-shire Buffs (raised in 1793).
		The island portion, consisting of as much of the island of Lewis as lies north of a line drawn from Loch Resort to Loch Seaforth, is bounded on the W., N. and E. by the Atlantic, and S. by Harris, the southern part of Lewis.
	www.scotsheritage.co.uk /mackenzie_clan.htm (710 words)

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