James Maule, 4th Earl of Panmure
James Maule, 4th Earl of Panmure (c. 1658 – 11 April 1723) was a Scottish peer.
Biography
Born in
William Douglas, Duke of Hamilton. He was responsible for commissioning Alexander Edward to reconstruct Brechin Castle between approximately 1696 and 1709,[1] and he also expanded the family seat of Panmure House
.
Lord Panmure was a Privy Councillor to
Mercat Cross at Brechin in 1715, he proclaimed James Francis Edward Stuart, son of James VII and known as the "Old Pretender", as King James VIII.[2] Panmure went on to fight at the Battle of Sheriffmuir in November of the same year. He was captured but escaped, with his younger brother Henry, via Arbroath
to the Continent the following year. This resulted in the forfeiture of the Panmure title and estates. Maule was honoured by the Old Pretender and followed him to Avignon (1716) and then Rome (1717).
He died of pleurisy in Paris, still in exile having twice refused the opportunity of reconciliation with the British government.
He is mentioned in Robert Burns' poem "The Battle of Sherramuir".
References
- ^ Colvin, Howard (1978) A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, James Murray, pp. 282–3
- ^ M'Bain, James M. (1897). Eminent Arbroathians Being Sketches Historical, Genealogical, and Biographical, 1178–1894. Brodie and Salmond. p. 442.
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