Tour Scotland photograph of the Donald MacLaren of MacLaren Memorial, in Balquhidder Churchyard, Scotland. Chief of Clan Labhran. Born 22nd July 1910, died 8th June 1966. In the 18th century the Clan MacLaren supported the Jacobite House of Stuart and fought at the Battle of Sherrifmuir in 1715. The clan also fought in the 1745 to 1746 Jacobite Uprisings at the Battle of Prestonpans and the Battle of Falkirk in 1746. They also fought at the Battle of Culloden in the Appin regiment under Lord George Murray. After the battle the clan chief at that time, an earlier, Donald MacLaren remained a fugitive until the amnesty of 1757.
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