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Fans of C.J. Sansom must read this Saltire Society Literary Awards Scottish First Book of the Year – a great non-fiction adventure about Scotland’s most notorious clan chief.
Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, was the last of the great Scottish chiefs – and the last nobleman executed for treason. Determined to seek his fortune with the exiled Jacobite king in France, Fraser acted as a spy for both the Stuarts and the Hanoverians; claimed to be both Protestant and Roman Catholic.
In July 1745, Bonnie Prince Charlie launched his last attempt to seize back the throne, supported by Fraser and his clans. They were defeated at Culloden. Fraser was found hiding in a tree.
This swashbuckling spy story recreates an extraordinary period of history in its retelling of Fraser’s life. He is surely one of Scotland’s most notorious and romantic figures, a cunning and ambitious soldier who died a martyr for his country and an independent Scotland.
- Sales Rank: #399832 in Books
- Published on: 2013-03-28
- Released on: 2013-08-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.70" h x 1.20" w x 5.20" l, .70 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 288 pages
Review
‘Sarah Fraser tells the story of the “Old Fox” with notable panache … Makes delightful bedside reading for a posterity spared from having to live with him’ Max Hastings, Sunday Times
‘Superb … akin to a John Buchan adventure story’ Mail on Sunday
‘In this colourful, entertaining biography, Sarah Fraser does not attempt to excuse Lord Lovat’s personal faults or political chicanery but, rather, [presents] him amply in a complex historical context’ The Times
‘Sarah Fraser deserves to be acclaimed as a notable biographer … This is a brave and meaty book tells this remarkable tale with admirable patience, industry and understanding’ Spectator
‘A vivid and fascinating biography of a quirky aristocrat’ Evening Standard
‘Irresistibly romantic biography’ Sunday Telegraph
‘Rich and readable … Fraser’s is a shrewd, balanced account told with a keen eye for detail’ Independent on Sunday
About the Author
Sarah Fraser was born in 1960 and, until recently, was married to Kit Fraser, one of the Lovat-Fraser clan. She has a PhD in obscene Gaelic poetry and is a regular contributor to Scottish radio and newspapers on Gaelic issues. She has four children and still lives in the Highlands of Scotland. This is her first book.
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37 of 39 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent, evocative and historically detailed!
By John Fraser
This book starts out with an introduction to the life of the Scottish Highlands in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, providing the stage setting for the remarkable exploits and life of Simon Fraser, the last member of the British House of Lords to be beheaded on Tower Hill. The author portrays a young man raised to the sound of Gaelic poetry, bagpipes, and the legends of the Clan Fraser. His father was a possible heir to the Barony of Lovat, but of a junior line. Only when the senior line died out without a male heir did Simon's father inherit the Barony. The men of the Clan Fraser fell into line behind Simon and his father, following ancient Highland custom.
A MacKenzie lord, allied with the Atholl Murrays, then conspired to use every trick in the Scottish legal system to subordinate the Frasers to the MacKenzies. Simon rallied the Frasers to resist, eventually resulting in the MacKenzie candidate (and husband of the female heir of the senior line) being jailed while a gibbet was built outside his jail cell at Castle Dounie - the Fraser stronghold. The MacKenzie candidate resigned his claims to the Fraser clan and its lands. Simon became Chief of the Frasers and Lord Lovat when his father died soon thereafter.
The author, who is married to a Lovat Fraser, tells the ensuing tale in a way that evokes the dangers, the loyalties, and the many ways that Scotland's legal system was subject to corruption in the early 18th century. Simon was eventually outlawed in Scotland and fled to the Jacobite court in France, where he met King James and Louis XIV, and tried to win back his claims to a Highland estate by planning and promoting a Jacobite invasion of Scotland. Simon was jailed by order of King Louis.
The tale of how the Fraser subchiefs sent a loyal chief to rescue Simon, how Simon led the Frasers in capturing Inverness and supporting Hanover against a Jacobite invasion, and how eventually Simon won back the favor of King George I, is a tale of espionage, double-dealing, derring-do, and a very accurate portrait of the conspirators in both London and St. Germain-en-Laye.
After describing the failed, early Jacobite rebellions, the author weaves a tale of Clan Fraser recovery, largely through Simon's masterful use of favoritism, corruption, and a judicial appeal to the British House of Lords that was a plain and gross breach of the 1707 Treaty of Union. From 1719 to 1745, Simon did everything he could to restore the Clan Fraser.
The author invokes the color, the traditions, and the plain hard facts of Scottish Highland life in the 18th century. Without excessive sentiment, the acts leading to the destruction of Clan Fraser - and the complete frustration of all the hopes of Simon Fraser - are all laid out with historical accuracy and contemporary details. The author suggests that Simon supported the Jacobite rebellion of 1745 because the Hanoverian government had withdrawn its financial and political support, and that Simon gambled all and lost. The sad story of how Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, sent his oldest son and his Clan into the 1745 rebellion and destruction, and how Simon was eventually executed after a trial in the House of Lords, is well and truly told.
John A. Fraser, III
January 8, 2013
28 of 30 people found the following review helpful.
[ A Must Read]
By karin morgan
A look into Scotland's politics at the time.A great insight into Scottish life, and how Simon Fraser saved his clan. Also how the Scottish had to navigate British rule. A great read, anyone interested in Scottish history before and after the 1745 uprising should read it. Once I started reading, could not put down. Coming from an American History buff
25 of 27 people found the following review helpful.
Accessible and Gripping.
By Kate Barber
I bought this book after reading Max Hasting's favourable review in the Sunday Times. The Last Highlander book is a must read for those interested in Scottish History, the Jacobite cause and Bonnie Prince Charlie. But Sarah Fraser's book is also suitable for those interested in good historical biographies and colourful characters. Fraser uses the life of Lord Lovat as a prism, to then shine a light upon the politics, wars and culture of the 17th and 18th centuries. Lord Lovat is a classic rogue. We may not always approve of his behaviour, but we always enjoy his company. There is a great set piece opening, with Lovat heading to his execution, but such is the author's talent - and Lord Lovat's dramatic life - that we are still gripped by what will happen next.
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