Lancelot Cuthbert

Brother to the lord of Castlehill. Some confusion arises from the use of the name Colbert (as Cuthbert becomes in France), and possibly from the distinction between his rank in France and in the Jacobite Army. The Muster Roll gives his rank as Major (p. 61, under the names Cuthbert and Colbert), and so does Prisoners of the '45, (vol. 2, pp. 142-43, under the name Cuthbert). Under the name Colbert, however, Prisoners identifies him as a Colonel (vol. 2, pp 118-19). Colbert is said to have been held at the Marshalsea, with Cuthbert at New Gaol, where he would have been with John Gray. The Jacobite Officers database treats Colbert/Cuthbert as one person, and identifies him as both Major and Colonel. Anne Leith (a relative) calls him Colonel Cuthbert, and states that he was first Captain and then (by 1749) Lieutenant-Colonel in Lord John Drummond's (p. 1289).