John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee
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Major-General John Graham of Claverhouse, 1st Viscount Dundee was a Scottish army officer. A Tory and Episcopalian, he was responsible for policing southwest Scotland to suppress religious unrest and rebellion of Covenanters during the late 17th century.
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c. 1675 portrait of Dundee
Conventicle field meeting held by Presbyterian dissidents; Claverhouse was employed in their suppression
The murder of Archbishop James Sharp on 3 May 1679.
Drumclog, 1 June 1679; Claverhouse was unexpectedly defeated by a Covenanter force
Prison in Greyfriars Kirkyard, where captured Covenanters were held after Bothwell Bridge
Dudhope Castle, home of Viscount Dundee.![The current postern of Edinburgh Castle dating from around 1735, near where Dundee conferred with Gordon in March 1689 at the previously existing postern.[24]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Old_West_Sally_Port%2C_Edinburgh_Castle.JPG/500px-Old_West_Sally_Port%2C_Edinburgh_Castle.JPG)
The current postern of Edinburgh Castle dating from around 1735, near where Dundee conferred with Gordon in March 1689 at the previously existing postern.[24]Politicians born in the 1640s 6
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Major-General John Graham of Claverhouse, 1st Viscount Dundee was a Scottish army officer. A Tory and Episcopalian, he was responsible for policing southwest Scotland to suppress religious unrest and rebellion of Covenanters during the late 17th century. His allegedly brutal conduct during this period led him to be nicknamed "Bluidy Clavers".
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