John Farquharson (Jesuit)

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John Farquharson (Scottish Gaelic: Maighstir Iain,^[1] an-tAthair Iain Mac Fhearchair) (19 April 1699 – 13 October 1782), was a member of the Scottish nobility and son of the Chief of Clan Farquharson. After studying at the Scots College, Douai and being ordained as a Roman Catholic priest of the Society of Jesus, Farquharson returned to Scotland. While living in a mountain cave in Glen Cannich, he served as an outlawed "heather priest"^[2] to Clan Chisholm and Clan Fraser of Lovat in The Aird and Strathglass between 1729 and 1753, during the era of the Penal Laws and the Jacobite rising of 1745. Fr Farquharson was also an early folklorist and Celticist and a poet in the Scottish Gaelic language. He remains a folk hero of Lochaber and Strathglass.^[3][4]