After the Jacobite defeat at Culloden in April 1746 he went into exile in France but was able to return to Scotland under the Indemnity Act 1747.

His father had been an active supporter of the 1715 Jacobite Rising, during which he had been captured by the government army but had escaped and gone into hiding.

[3] When Prince Charles Edward Stuart raised his standard at Glenfinnan on 19 August 1745, he and his brother David joined his army.

[4] He was with the Jacobite army as they marched south as far as Derby, remaining with them on the retreat north into Scotland, and he was present at the Battle of Culloden.

On one occasion they hid in a cave in Badenoch, where Threipland cared for another Jacobite fugitive and doctor Archibald Cameron of Locheil, who was later captured and hanged at Tyburn for his part in the rising.

[3] When his father died in 1746 he became de jure the third baronet of Fingask but was technically unable to use the title during his lifetime.

In later years he spent his summers at his villa at Moredun, south of Edinburgh and the winter months at his apartment in Horse Wynd, off the Canongate.

[5] When Stuart Threipland died in 1805, Patrick, the eldest of their six children, inherited the baronetcy, and the title was formally restored in 1826 by Act of Parliament.

[6] In addition to the drugs, there were compartments for mortar and pestle, scales with weights, scissors, forceps, spatula, suturing needles, paper, and pens.