Sir Stuart Threipland (1716-1805), physician-in-chief to Prince Charles Edward Stuart during the Jacobite uprising of 1745.
Stuart Threipland (1716-1805), the son of Sir David Threipland, second baronet of Fingask Castle, was an ardent Jacobite. He obtained the Edinburgh MD degree in 1742, was admitted a fellow of the Edinburgh College of Physicians in 1744 and was elected its President in 1766. He accompanied "Bonnie" Prince Charles Edward Stuart during the Jacobite uprising of 1745 and went into exile shortly after the battle of Culloden in April 1746. He returned to Edinburgh under an Act of Indemnity in 1747. While he succeeded to the baronetcy after the death of his father in 1746, he was not technically allowed to use this title during his lifetime because his father's title and ancestral estates had been confiscated after the Battle of Sheriffmuir in 1715. He practised in Edinburgh for the rest of his life and outlived all of the other great Jacobite figures involved in the 1745 uprising.
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Section of Anatomy, School of Biomedical and Clinical Laboratory Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Hugh Robson Building, George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK. M.Kaufman@ed.ac.uk
Prince Charles Edward Stuart
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