| Name |
Robert McGREGOR |
| Alias/AKA |
Rob Roy33 |
| Birth Date |
bef Mar 7, 167134 |
| Birth Place |
Glengyle, Stirlingshire, Scotland |
| Birth Memo |
from date of baptism |
| Baptism Date |
Mar 7, 167134 |
| Baptism Place |
Glengyle, Stirlingshire, Scotland |
| Death Date |
Dec 8, 1734 |
| Death Place |
Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland |
| Father |
Donald McGREGOR |
| Mother |
Margaret CAMPBELL |
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| Notes for Robert McGREGOR |
GROLIER ENCYCLOPEDIA:
Rob Roy, actually Robert MacGregor, b. 1671, d. Dec. 28, 1734, was a Highland freebooter known as the Scottish Robin Hood. Nominally a cattle dealer, he became a cattle thief who sold his neighbors protection against other rustlers. When the protection business failed, Rob Roy was accused of fraud and declared an outlaw. After his principal creditor, James Graham, 1st duke of Montrose, seized his lands, Rob Roy warred with the duke until 1722, when Rob Roy was forced to surrender. Later imprisoned, he was finally pardoned in 1727. His memory has been perpetuated and romanticized by Sir Walter Scott in the novel Rob Roy (1818).
Charles H. Haws
Bibliography: Frewin, L. R., Legends of Rob Roy (1954).33
Since the Clan MacGregor was outlawed Rob Roy added the name Campbell and lived for a while under the protection of the Duke of Montrose, as a cattle dealer in lowland Scotland. Having been cheated by a partner of his money he turned to banditry getting help from the Duke of Argyll also. Rob was a Jacobite but possibly played a double role reporting back to the King's troops.35 |
| Research Notes |
| DEATH: His date of death is also given as Dec 28, 1734.33 |
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