John Colquhoun of Luss, Argyll, Scotland d. Apr 1479 Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland: NH genealogy

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Name	John Colquhoun
Birth	of Luss, Argyll, Scotland [1, 2]
Gender	Male
Alternate death	Between 21 Oct 1478 and 14 Jun 1479 [2]
Death	Apr 1479	Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland [1, 3, 4]
Person ID	I27352	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
Last Modified	7 Sep 2020

Father	Malcolm Colquhoun, b. of Luss, Argyll, Scotland d. Bef 1439
Family ID	F16331	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1 (Unknown) Boyd

Children

1. Humphrey Colquhoun, b. of Luss, Argyll, Scotland

d. Abt 19 Aug 1493

Family ID F16330 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 22 Mar 2020

Notes

Comptroller of the Exchequer, 1460-69. Sheriff of Dumbartonshire, 1471. Great Chamberlain, 1474. Governor of the castle of Dunbarton from 1477 to his death.

A member of the Scottish parliament in Oct 1466, Oct 1467, 1469, 1471, 1476, and 1478.

“Colquhoun of Luss” says that he was “killed at the siege of Dunbar”, but provides no date. The famous Siege of Dunbar was of course in 1338. The siege referred to here was the first armed conflict in the struggle between James III of Scotland and his brother Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany, when the king laid siege to Dunbar Castle in, according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, April 1479. Volume 4 of Patrick Fraser Tytler’s History of Scotland (1831) agrees on the year, and notes that during the siege, “the cannon mounted on the ramparts of the castle appear to have been well served and pointed—a single ball at one moment striking dead three of the bravest knights in the army, Sir John Colquhoun of Luss, Sir Adam Wallace of Craigie, and Sir James Schaw of Sauchie.”

[S3858] James Colquhoun, "Colquhoun of Luss." Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica Volume II, new series, 1877, p. 533.
[S3859] The Chiefs of Colquhoun and Their Country by William Fraser. Edinburgh, 1869.
[S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing.
[S3860] History of Scotland by Patrick Fraser Tytler. Volume 4. Edinburgh: William Tait, 1831., year only.
[S800] The Scots Peerage, Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of That Kingdom. Ed. James Balfour Paul. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1904-1914.