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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. The See also:family were a See also:branch of the See also:clan See also:Macdonald, but spelt their name Macdonnell or Macdonell. 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. 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. In 1743 he commanded a See also:company in it, and in 1744 was sent to See also:Scotland as a Jacobite agent. In See also:January 1745 he was sent back with messages, and was in France when Prince Charles Edward landed in Scotland. See also:Late in 1745 he was captured at See also:sea while bringing a picquet of the Royal Scots to help the prince. He remained a prisoner in the See also:Tower for twenty-two months, and when released went abroad. In 1744 his father had made a See also:transfer to him of the family estates, which were ruined. 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. In 1749 he was in. 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. His See also:information enabled British ministers to keep a See also:close See also:watch on the prince and on the Jacobite conspiracies. 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. On the death of his father, in 1754, he succeeded to the estates, and proved himself a greedy See also:land-See also:lord. He died on the 23rd of See also:December 1761.
See Andrew Lang, Pickle the Spy (1897) and The Companions of Pickle (1898).
End of Article: MACDONNELL (or MACDONELL), ALESTAIR (i.e. Alexander) RUADH (c. 1725-1761)
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