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Second of the seven recorded sons of William Garden Blaikie, minister of Pilrig Free Church, and Margaret Catherine Biggar, Walter Biggar Blaikie was educated at Edinburgh Academy and Edinburgh University.
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Jacobite army was composed. A ny such account, which must be largely compiled from the newspaper reports of the day, cannot pretend to absolute accuracy. It can, however, indicate generally, or with a certain approach to completeness, when and where and in what numbers the various bodies of his adherents joined Prince Charles Edward. In an Additional Note, an endeavour has been made to form an estimate of the troops employed on both sides at critical periods of the campaign, and of the numbers engaged in the several battles. Some original documents showing the tension between the Prince and his principal lieutenant, which had much influence on the conduct of the Expedition, are printed in an appendix. While the Itinerary is not a history of the Adventure of 1745, care has been taken to make it approximately an index of authorities for such a history, and no statement of importance is made without reference to the original source from which it is derived. There has indeed been occasional difficulty in reconciling the various contemporary narratives, more especially during the Princess wanderings after Culloden. Frequently statements are made, partly from what the narrator has picked up and partly from personal knowledge, but so blended as to make it difficult to distinguish the one from the other. In this part of the Itinerary care has been taken to follow as far as possible the statements of those only who at the time were present with the Prince, and to differentiate mere hearsay from actual knowledge. There are discrepancies even among the stories of eye Home infonns us that the Prince, from the begmning to the end of his wanderings, never told the people whom he left whither he was going, nor those to whom he came whence he had come (H.H. 250 n,), and his friends, with characteristic Highland courtesy, seem not to have asked him. A conspicuous instance of (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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Second of the seven recorded sons of William Garden Blaikie, minister of Pilrig Free Church, and Margaret Catherine Biggar, Walter Biggar Blaikie was educated at Edinburgh Academy and Edinburgh University.
In 1879, he became involved in the printing business which became T and A Constable of Edinburgh. He would work with the firm for almost fifty years, and for many years he ran lieutenant He became one of the leading scholars of the Jacobite period, especially of the life of Bonnie Prince Charlie.
In 1897 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposers being John George Bartholomew, Sir John Murray, Frederick Bailey and Hugh Robert Mill.
He served as Vice President of the Society 1924 to 1927. He is buried in the family plot in the north-east corner of the north extension to Street Cuthberts Churchyard in Edinburgh.
He is the last named on a badly eroded stone. This ran to 1076 printed items in 756 volumes, 42 manuscripts, 3 charters and around 400 engravings.
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