Scotland Magazine section Scotland Characters

The last bandit

Ian R.Mitchell looks at the tale of Ewan Macphee, Scotland's last true outlaw

Scotland’s most famous outlaw is undoubtedly Rob Roy MacGregor. Rob has inspired countless books since Walter Scott’s novel Rob Roy and, a decade ago, was the subject of a successful Hollywood film. But who knows that a century after Rob Roy’s death in the 1730s, there existed an equally colourful ...

By Ian R Mitchell from Issue 39 published on 23/06/2008