engraved portrait illustration of James Radclyffe 3rd Earl of Derwentwater 1691-1715 was an English Jacobite, executed for treason. His death is remembered in an English traditional ballad, "Lord Allenwater" Engraved by Samuel Freeman (1773-1857) From a painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723)
Steel engraved portrait illustration of James Radclyffe 3rd Earl of Derwentwater 1691-1715 was an English Jacobite, executed for treason. His death is remembered in an English traditional ballad, "Lord Allenwater" Engraved by Samuel Freeman (1773-1857) From a painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723) in “Illustrious Englishment” Ed. G. Cunningham. Published A Fullerton Glasgow 1837He was brought up at the exile court of St Germain as a companion to the young prince, James Francis Edward Stuart (the 'Old Pretender'), and remained there at the wish of Queen Mary of Modena, until his father's death. He succeeded to the family titles and estates in Northumberland on the death of his father in 1705. Derwentwater was beheaded on Tower Hill on 24 February 1716. On the scaffold he expressed regret at having pleaded guilty, and declared his devotion to his Roman Catholic religion and to James III.
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