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GENEALOGICAL ACCOUNT OF THE SHAWS. 99
foot in 1756, and in 1776 was senior lieutenant and
adjutant of the fourth battalion of that regiment.
He served in America in the War of 1754 60 with
the French, and during part of his service was aide-de-
camp to General Prevost. At the capture of Quebec
in 1759 he was severely wounded. After the close of
the American War of Independence he quitted the
army, and returned to live for a short time on his
inheritance. 1 In 1790 (26th November) he was
appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Man,
and held this post until about 1804, when he resigned
it in favour of Lord Henry Murray, a brother of the
Duke of Athole, then titular sovereign of the island.
During his tenure of the Lieutenant-Governorship,
Alexander was Commandant of the Manx Fencibles.
He was the last Shaw actually " of Tordarroch," for
on the entail of the Mackintosh estates by Sir iEneas
Mackintosh, the wadset under which he and his
predecessors had held the lands for two centuries and
a half was redeemed, and Tordarroch returned into the
direct possession of the family of Mackintosh. He
also disposed of Wester Leys to Fraser of Culduthel,
and with the proceeds purchased a company for his
eldest son, who, however, died very shortly afterwards.
1 He is mentioned by the Rev. Lacblan Shaw in the History of Moray
(1775), p. 124. — "Above Inverarnie, on the side of Nairn, is Tordaroch,
the seat of Alexander Shaw, an ancient branch of the Shaws of Rothi-
murcus. This family's heritage is Wester Leys in the Parish of Croy, but
they hold Tordaroch in lease of Macintosh, and have resided in it above
two hundred years."
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foot in 1756, and in 1776 was senior lieutenant and
adjutant of the fourth battalion of that regiment.
He served in America in the War of 1754 60 with
the French, and during part of his service was aide-de-
camp to General Prevost. At the capture of Quebec
in 1759 he was severely wounded. After the close of
the American War of Independence he quitted the
army, and returned to live for a short time on his
inheritance. 1 In 1790 (26th November) he was
appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Man,
and held this post until about 1804, when he resigned
it in favour of Lord Henry Murray, a brother of the
Duke of Athole, then titular sovereign of the island.
During his tenure of the Lieutenant-Governorship,
Alexander was Commandant of the Manx Fencibles.
He was the last Shaw actually " of Tordarroch," for
on the entail of the Mackintosh estates by Sir iEneas
Mackintosh, the wadset under which he and his
predecessors had held the lands for two centuries and
a half was redeemed, and Tordarroch returned into the
direct possession of the family of Mackintosh. He
also disposed of Wester Leys to Fraser of Culduthel,
and with the proceeds purchased a company for his
eldest son, who, however, died very shortly afterwards.
1 He is mentioned by the Rev. Lacblan Shaw in the History of Moray
(1775), p. 124. — "Above Inverarnie, on the side of Nairn, is Tordaroch,
the seat of Alexander Shaw, an ancient branch of the Shaws of Rothi-
murcus. This family's heritage is Wester Leys in the Parish of Croy, but
they hold Tordaroch in lease of Macintosh, and have resided in it above
two hundred years."
g2
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