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Scottish Jacobite

For other uses, see Flora MacDonald (disambiguation).

Flora MacDonald^[a] (1722 – 5 March 1790) is best known for helping Charles Edward Stuart evade government troops after the Battle of Culloden in April 1746.

Her family had generally backed the government during the 1745 Rising, and MacDonald later claimed to have assisted Charles out of sympathy for his situation.

Arrested and held in the Tower of London, she was released under a general amnesty in June 1747.

She later married Allan MacDonald and the couple emigrated to North Carolina in 1773.

As President of this Scottish Society I greatly desire that you and all your kith and kin should feel with us in Canada the common life-ties which bind us.

As President of this Scottish Society I greatly desire that you and all your kith and kin should feel with us in Canada the common life-ties which bind us.

Geoffrey Stevens and Flora MacDonald's book, Flora!: A Woman in a Man's World, is one of the best political books published in in Canada.

Flora MacDonald was Canada's first female external affairs minister (under Joe Clark) and the first woman to run for the leadership of a major federal party.

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Both of them were first cousins of the celebrated Scotch beauty, Flora MacDonald, the plain narrative of whose life touches all hearts.

Their support for the British government during the American War of Independence meant the loss of their American estates and they returned to Scotland, where she died in 1790.

Early life

Flora MacDonald was born in 1722 at Milton on South Uist in the Outer Hebrides, third and last child of Ranald MacDonald (d.

1723) and his second wife, Marion. Her father was a member of the minor g