FARQUHAR, ROBERT [SSNE 500]

Surname

FARQUHAR

First name

ROBERT

Title/rank

OFFICER, LAIRD OF MAUNIE

Nationality

SCOT

Region

ABERDEEN

Social status

NOBILITY

Text source

Robert Farquhar was from Aberdeen. He was a Scottish officer in the Danish-Norwegian army in 1626. He served as paymaster in Colonel Donald Mackay's [SSNE 93] regiment. He had a close relationship with the Colonel as Farquhar had been foster father to Mackay's son John, who subsequently became the 2nd Lord Reay. He must have returned to Aberdeen after King Christian IV signed the treaty of Lubeck with the Habsburg Emperor. In the 1630s Farquhar was a merchant burgess in Aberdeen. He later obtained some property and became Farquhar of Maunie

T. Riis, Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot (Odense, 1988), II, p.130 ; J. Mackay, 'Mackay's Regiment' in Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, VIII, 1879, p.188; I. Grimble, Chief of Mackay, (London, 1965), p.135; Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), pp.36, 38.

Service record

DENMARK-NORWAY, MACKAY'S REGIMENT

Arrived 1626-01-01, as OFFICER

Departed 1626-12-31, as OFFICER

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY