Laurence Oliphant (Jacobite)

Laurence Oliphant (1691–1767) was a Jacobite army officer[1] who belonged to a branch settled at Findo Gask in Perthshire, Scotland.

Oliphant senior served as Governor of Perth during the advance to Derby and both were present at the battles of Falkirk and Culloden.

[2] The Laird of Gask and his son were among the Jacobites who regrouped at Ruthven Barracks after the defeat at Culloden.

After the remnant of the Jacobite army dispersed, they went into hiding in the Angus Glens for seven months before taking ship from Arbroath for Amsterdam on 5 November 1746, and from there to Sweden.

He returned to Scotland in 1763 and spent the last years of his life quietly on his Gask estate.