Lieutenant-General Charles Schaw Cathcart, 9th Lord Cathcart, KT (21 March 1721 – 14 August 1776) was a British soldier and diplomat. He was also chief of the Clan Cathcart.

Biography

The son of Charles Cathcart, 8th Lord Cathcart, and Marion Shaw, he was born on 21 March 1721. Opposed to the restoration of the

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, he became an aide-de-camp to the Duke of Cumberland and during the Battle of Fontenoy in 1745, was shot in the face. Joshua Reynolds' portrait (1753–55) shows the black silk patch he used to cover the scar on his cheek. This seemingly earned him the soubriquet 'Patch Cathcart'. The following year at the Battle of Culloden, again acting as ADC to Cumberland, Cathcart was once more wounded in battle. Charles was the last Lord Cathcart to inherit the family estate of Sundrum. Upon inheriting his mother's estates in Greenock he sold Sundrum to James Murray of Broughton in 1758. Through his mother he also inherited Schawpark near

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at Gartmorn. The house dated from 1700. A small group of cottages on the estate were involved in the "manufacture of

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s when visited by Bishop

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in 1760. In 1763 he was created a Knight of the Order of the Thistle. In August 1768 he arrived as the ambassador at St Petersburg and was he was well received by Catherine the Great. He served, poorly, at the Russian court until 1772. On his return to Britain he was elected

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in 1773. In 1775 he commissioned

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to remodel Schawpark, but he did not live to see completion of the works. He died on 14 August 1776.

Personal life and children

Collot-Falconet, Mary Cathcart (cropped)

On 24 July 1753 he married Jean Hamilton (1722–1771), daughter of Captain Lord Archibald Hamilton and

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. They had nine children: * Jane (20 May 1754 – 5 December 1790), first wife of the

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(17 September 1755 – 16 June 1843) * Mary (1 March 1757 – 26 June 1792), a celebrated beauty, who married

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* Louisa (1 June 1758 – 11 July 1843), married first,

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(1727–1796); married second, The Hon.

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* Charles (28 December 1759 – 10 June 1788) * John (23 April 1761 – 00 January 1762) * Archibald (25 July 1764 – 10 October 1841) * son(7 June 1768; stillborn) * Catherine Charlotte (8 July 1770 – 20 October 1794), died unmarried

Ranks

He held the following ranks: * Captain, 1742 *

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, 1750 *

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, 1758 * Lieutenant-General, 1760

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