Blair Collection > Celtic monthly > Volume 6, 1898

THE CELTIC MONTHLY.
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ment." Another writes that " they were the
most resolute and best armed of any that com-
posed tlie army." Another that the " regiment
was reckoned the best the Earl of JMar had."
Robert Shaw was taken prisoner at Preston,
and died at Newgate, and one of his letters
from prison I have the good fortune to possess.
John, the youngest son, was a jironiinent Writer
in Inverness, and the confidential adviser of the
Mackintosh family. His son William, styled of
Craigtield, was possessor of considerable lands in
Strathnairn, whose descendants in the male line
are extinct.
IX. — Angus yhaw, second son of Alexander
Shaw, succeeded his fathei-. Warned by the
fixte of his elder In-other, in 1715, and lielpt'il
by the wit of his wife, Angus did not
take a part in the rising of 1745, and was
thereby enabled to befriend many of his kin.
He was at liis house in Wester Leys the day of
the battle of Culloden, and thus unaware of the
Prince's hurried call at Tordarroch House, lost
the opportunity of ministering to tiie Prince's
wants on his flight to the West, a matter of
regret to himself and to his descendants, even
to this day. The steep and narrow bridge near
Tordairoch, over which the Prince then rode,
still stands, a photo-reproduction of which is
here given. Angus married Anne Dallas of
Cantray, and of their numerous descendants Mr.
Mackintosh Mackintosh gives a full account.
His eldest son.
M.WIIAI.I,, KDSS SIIIRE-SK.VT OF ClIAKLES F. H. .SH.WV.
X. — Alexander, commonly known in his late
years as " Governor Shaw," from having held
the post of Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of
Man from 1790 to 1804, succeeded. Governor
Shaw had a distinguished military career, chiefly
in America, and notwithstanding his early
leaving the North was very clannish and popular
with his numerous connections in the Highlands.
He married first, Charlotte Stewart of Inver-
ness, and secondly, Anne Elizabeth Blanckley.
He had issue by both marriages. Governor
Shaw died at Bath in ISll. He was succeeded
by his .son,
XI. — John Shaw, who also had a distinguished
military career, chiefly in India, and died a
Major-General in 1835. His portrait is here
given. He married Anne Nesbitt, and was
succeeded by his eldest son,
XII. — John Andrew, born in 1797, who, after
many years' service in India, succeeded in 1842
to the estate of Newhall, in the combined
counties of Ross and Cromarty, through his
paternal grandmother adding the name and
quartering the arms of Mackenzie to his own.
Dying without issue, he was succeeded by his
nephew,
XIII. — Charles Forbes Hoilson Shaw, eldest
son of Alexander Nesbitt Shaw, second son of
John 11th hereof, the present representative of
the old Shaws of Tordarroch and Clan Ay, and