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Charles Schaw Cathcart, 9th Lord Cathcart, KT (21 March 1721 – 14 August 1776) was a

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officer and diplomat. He was also chief of the Clan Cathcart.

Biography

The son of

Charles Cathcart, 8th Lord Cathcart Charles Cathcart, 8th Lord Cathcart (1686 – 20 December 1740) was a British Army officer and peer. Family He was the second son of Alan Cathcart, 7th Lord Cathcart by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair. Hi ...

, 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

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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

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, 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

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. In August 1768 he arrived as the ambassador at St Petersburg and was he was well received by

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. 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

On 24 July 1753 he married Jean Hamilton (1722–1771), daughter of Captain Lord Archibald Hamilton and Lady Jane Hamilton. They had nine children: # Jane (20 May 1754 – 5 December 1790), the first wife of John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl, he was her second cousin once removed through the Hamilton. # William Cathcart, 1st Earl Cathcart (17 September 1755 – 16 June 1843) # Mary Cathcart (1 March 1757 – 26 June 1792), a celebrated beauty, who married

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

David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield, 7th Viscount of Stormont, (9 October 1727 – 1 September 1796) known as The Viscount of Stormont from 1748 to 1793, was a British diplomat and politician. He succeeded to both the Earl of Mansfield, Mansfiel ...

(1727–1796); married second, The Hon.

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Charles Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English language, English and French language, French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic, Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''* ...

(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: *

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, 1742 *

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, 1750 * Major-General, 1758 *

, 1760

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cathcart, Charles Cathcart, 9th Lord 1721 births 1776 deaths Nobility from South Ayrshire Lords of Parliament Knights of the Thistle Diplomatic peers Rectors of the University of Glasgow British Army personnel of the Jacobite rising of 1745 British Army lieutenant generals Lancashire Fusiliers officers British Army personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession Members of the Privy Council of Great Britain Ambassadors of Great Britain to Russia Lords High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland Scottish representative peers