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INNES, Lewis RC Priest, Principal of Scots College Paris, Reverend Mr
(1651-1738) |
INNES, Lewis RC Priest, Principal of Scots College Paris, Reverend Mr 1Another name for Lewis was INNES, Louis.4 General Notes: Father Lewis Innes was born in Walkerdales in the Enzie in 1651, the son of James Innes, 1st of Drumgask and his wife, Jane Robertson, daughter of Robert Robertson, Provost of Aberdeen. Lewis Innes studied at Scots College in Paris and in 1682, became principal of that establishment until 1713 when he was appointed "Lord Almoner", ie confidential Secretary to the Chevalier. He already had been Lord Almoner to Mary of Modena, the consort of James VII. One of the Jacobite Privy Council of Five and for a few months in 1690 had been Secretary of State for Scotland. He died in Paris on 22.1.1738. |
1 e-books, The Innes Brothers and the Scots College, Paris.
2 Internet Site, Notes on Rathven Parish Jacobites from "Jacobites of Aberdeenshire and Banffshire in the Rising of 1715 at http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/sheena_charles/1715.htm.
3 e-books, "Lewis Innes" Dictionary of National Biography by Thompson Cooper.
4 Internet Site, Electric Scotland: Innes.
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