Clans of Inverness & the Aird
Inverness (Highland)
Capital of the Highlands, Fraser of Lovat, Mackintosh of Moy.
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Walk Inverness in 1745Enter →
The old castle above the River Ness, the market cross and the seven-arched bridge — on the eve of Culloden.
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Walk Urquhart Castle in 1509Enter →
The great castle guarding the Great Glen, newly granted to the Grants of Freuchie, whole above Loch Ness.
Families seated in Inverness & the Aird
Historic ties to Inverness & the Aird
Families with historic but not core ground here.
Champions made here
Famous bearers whose lives or work root in Inverness & the Aird.
- Sir Hugh RoseThe Berlin-born British officer who distinguished himself with the Egyptian army in Syria, served as senior British commissioner to the French in the Crimea, broke the central-Indian arm of the 1857 rebellion in eight months, and finished as Commander-in-Chief in India and in Ireland.
- Bonnie Prince CharlieThe Stuart prince who landed in Moidart in July 1745 with seven men and within ten weeks had taken Edinburgh, beaten a government army at Prestonpans, and marched a Highland army to within a hundred and twenty-seven miles of London.