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10th Chief of the Clan Stewart of Appin
Duncan Stewart was 10th Chief of the Clan Stewart of Appin and 6th of Ardsheal. He was the eldest surviving son of Charles Stewart, 5th of Ardsheal, the Jacobite leader of the Clan regiment at the Battle of Culloden, 16 April 1746, during the Jacobite Rising of 1745 and Isabel Haldane of Lanrick daughter of John Haldane 2nd of Lanrick. He had two older brothers, Alexander born 1735 who died as a child by 1745 and John. John was born 31 January 1734. On 27 June 1750, he put forward a claim for his father's forfeited estate on the grounds that his parents' marriage contract contained a clause for securing it upon the heirs but the action was dismissed 30th of that same month. He afterwards commanded the Duke of Albany East Indiaman and made out his Will on 11 December 1768 by the terms of which he gave all of his “estate and effects” to his brother John. He died at Bencoolen, in 1769. It is he rather than his brother who was known to Boswell.
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