Francis Edward Joseph Strickland

One of the Seven Men of Moidart who set out from France with Charles Edward Stuart. Son to Robert Strickland of Catterick, Yorkshire, James II and VII's Vice Chamberlain. Godson to James Francis Edward Stuart, although only three years his junior. Among other services to the Stuart household, he was later appointed tutor to Henry Benedict Stuart and a chaperone to Charles Edward Stuart. By 1745, Strickland had fallen out of favour with James Francis Edward Stuart and was dismissed from service. His experience in Scotland in the 1715 rising, however, recommended him to Charles Edward Stuart for involvement in the '45, in spite of James Francis Edward Stuart's warnings about Strickland's character. Although he was persistently ill, Strickland was active providing for Charles's household and recruiting support for the rising. This entry is entirely indebted to Ian D. Hodkinson, "In the Shadow of the Stuart Pretenders: The Life of Francis Strickland 'Man of Moidart' (and Westmorland?)," Northern History 57 (2020): pp. 77-100, which provides much new information and corrects many errors in previous scholarship.