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st perthshire bride 's kirk , by blair castle , 27 july 1689 killiecrankie , perthshire episcopalian glen ogilvie , near glamis , angus james graham , 2nd viscount dundee bonnie dundee , bluidy clavers 200px scottish major-general , viscount dundee sir william graham , lady madeline carnegie 21 july 1648 lady jean cochrane 1st viscount dundee.jpg john graham , 1st viscount dundee
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john graham , 1st viscount dundee

john graham of claverhouse , 1st viscount dundee -lrb- c. 21 july 1648 -- 27 july 1689 -rrb- , known as the 7th laird of claverhouse until raised to the viscountcy in 1688 , was a scottish soldier and nobleman , a tory and an episcopalian .
claverhouse was responsible for policing south-west scotland during and after the religious unrest and rebellion of the 1670s and 80s .
after his death , presbyterian historians dubbed him `` bluidy clavers '' .
contemporary evidence for the fairness of this soubriquet in the covenanting tradition is mixed .
tales of the covenanters and covenanter monuments hold claverhouse directly responsible for the deaths of adherents of that movement .
however , claverhouse 's own letters frequently recommended lenient treatment of covenanters , and in 1684 he married into a prominent covenanter family .
later , as a general in the scottish army , claverhouse remained loyal to king james vii of scotland after the revolution of 1688 .
he rallied those highland clans loyal to the jacobite cause and , although he lost his life in the battle , led them to victory at killiecrankie .
this first jacobite rising was unsuccessful , but claverhouse became a jacobite hero , acquiring his second soubriquet `` bonnie dundee '' .
