See also:MACDONNELL (or See also:MACDONELL), ALESTAIR (i.e. See also:Alexander) RUADH (c. 1725-1761)
, See also:chief of Glengarry, a Scottish Jacobite who has been identified by See also:Andrew See also:Lang as the See also:secret See also:agent " See also:Pickle," who acted as a See also:spy on See also:Prince See also:Charles See also:Edward after 1750
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The See also:family were a See also:branch of the See also:clan See also:Macdonald, but spelt their name See also:Macdonnell or See also:Macdonell
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His See also:father was See also:John, 12th chief of Glengarry, a violent and brutal See also:man, who is said to have starred his first wife, Alestair's See also:mother, to See also:death on an See also:island in the See also:Hebrides
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Alestair ran away to See also:France while a See also:mere boy in 1738, and there entered the Royal Scots, a See also:regiment in the See also:French service
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In 1743 he commanded a See also:company in it, and in 1744 was sent to See also:Scotland as a Jacobite agent
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In See also:January 1745 he was sent back with messages, and was in France when Prince Charles Edward landed in Scotland
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See also:Late in 1745 he was captured at See also:sea while bringing a picquet of the Royal Scots to help the prince
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He remained a prisoner in the See also:Tower for twenty-two months, and when released went abroad
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In 1744 his father had made a See also:transfer to him of the family estates, which were ruined
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Alestair, who still affected to be a Jacobite, lived for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in See also:great poverty
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In 1749 he was in
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See also:London, and there is See also:good See also:reason to believe that he then offered his services as a spy to the See also:British See also:government, with which he communicated under the name of Pickle
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His See also:information enabled British ministers to keep a See also:close See also:watch on the prince and on the Jacobite conspiracies
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Though he was denounced by a Mrs See also:Cameron, whose See also:husband he betrayed to death in 1752, he never lost the confidence of the Jacobite leaders
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On the death of his father, in 1754, he succeeded to the estates, and proved himself a greedy See also:land-See also:lord
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He died on the 23rd of See also:December 1761
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See Andrew Lang, Pickle the Spy (1897) and The Companions of Pickle (1898)
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