David Fotheringham

Merchant in Dundee. McLynn identifies him as David Fotheringham of Powrie (The Road Not Taken, p. 277), but NA SP 36/93/2/35 (a list of "notable rebels not yet attainted") mentions a "David Futhringham or Fothringham Uncle to Pourie." The 1746 "List of Persons Concerned in the Rebellion" suggests that Fotheringham "was very active" as Governor, and "managed in a Tyrannical manner" (p. 212). According to Jean E. McCann, "[i]n Angus under the authority of Lord Ogilvy and David Fotheringham, rebel governor of Dundee, extortion of money in lieu of service commonly took place, often by officers and sergeants of the Ogilvy Regiment." Among others, "town governors [...] were largely responsible for the finance, supply, and movement of men and baggage, for the entire rebel army" ("The Organisation of the Jacobite Army," pp. 176, 198). Fotheringham escaped to Bergen in May of 1746, but he and other Jacobites later found refuge in Gothenburg, Sweden (Behre, "Jacobite Refugees to Gothenburg after Culloden," p. 64).