Lot 243
A MID 18TH CENTURY MOURNING RING
Scottish Works of Art & Whisky
Auction: Lots 1 - 412 | 20 August 2024 at 10am
Description
the facetted rock-crystal encasing braided hair detail, the band of scalloped outline with black enamel detail reading Dr Pat K Haldane: OB 23.JAN 1761
Dimensions
Ring size: J
Footnote
Dr. Patrick Haldane was baptised at Kilmadock 30th March 1712. He was born into a staunch Jacobite family and, while his sympathies are not well recorded, his father and brother's service within some of the most iconic Jacobite regiments is well known.
His father, John Haldane of Gleneagles was born c.1674, he served in both 1715 and 1745, in the ’45 serving under William Boyd 4th Earl of Kilmarnock’s Cavalry. After the defeat at Culloden and his escape to the continent however he is listed as having served in the Life Guards, suggesting he additionally served under Lord Elcho or Lord Balmerio’s prestigious regiments.
He would be exiled for nearly 20 years, surviving his two sons dying in 1765.
Patrick's, only and elder brother Alexander was born in 1704 and in the ’45 served as a Captain under his father. Again, some confusion surrounds exactly which regiment/s he served as he is also mentioned as serving in the Regiment Royal Ecossais, or the Jacobite Royal Scots. He died unmarried in 1764.
Patrick Haldane however seems to have concentrated on education rather than actively taking part in the Jacobite risings, his feelings and sympathies unknown. It seems unlikely with such staunch father and brother he did not feel similar leanings. By 1731 he was apprenticed to George Murray, Chirurgeon Apothecary in Edinburgh.
He was admitted to the University of Leiden in October 1737, to study medicine and he received his M.D. at St Andrews, 1758. In the St Andrews Records he is stated to have studied at Edinburgh, Leyden, and Paris, and that he had graduated at Rheims. This obvious thirst for education and movement around Europe through the time of the ‘45 may have meant his focus was taken from the plight of home.
He died unmarried at Murrayshall, Scone in 1761.