Lord George Murray

Lord George was a very important person in the 1745 Jacobite rising. He was in charge of Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobite army.

• He was seen as a good leader and he won many battles (including Prestonpans) before the Jacobites were beaten at Culloden.

• He was a very proud man and not very easy to get along with.

• Bonnie Prince Charlie didn't like him that much but he knew that he needed him.

• Lord George had fought in a Jacobite rising before. In 1715 he had tried to help Charlie's father, James Francis get the crown back. That rising failed as well.

• He was defeated at the Battle of Glenshiel in 1719 and fled to France.

• Lord George helped make one of the biggest decisions of the 1745 rising. He talked Charlie into going back to Scotland rather than attacking London.

• After the failure of the rising, Murray escaped to France and later died in Holland aged 66.

Source: BBC - Around Scotland - Jacobites