George Lockhart of Carnwath 1689-1727

A Study in Jacobitism

by Daniel Szechi

ISBN: 9781862321328
Imprint: John Donald
Publication Date: Jun 2002
Format: Paperback
Price: £20.00
Stock Status: in stock

This is the first book-length analysis of the Jacobite mind and it challenges the prevailing stereotypes about the kind of man who became a Jacobite. It is also the first detailed history of the Jacobite movement in the period between the ’15 and the ’45.

Daniel Szechi rectifies this anomaly by an in-depth analysis of the attitudes, beliefs and assumptions - the mentalite - of one of the most active Jacobites of the early eighteenth century: George Lockhart of Carnwath, an almost stereotypical eighteenth-century Scottish man; a Commissioner for Midlothian in the Scottish Parliment; a member of the Commission charged with negotiating the treaty of Union; M.P. for Midlothian at Westminister; an improving landlord; an accomplished writer and pamphleteer. But most important of all, he was a committed, passionate Jacobite.    

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