Today was our tour of the Tower of London.\u00c2\u00a0 This is an interesting tour, because our family (Clan Maxwell) has a family member who was imprisoned in the Tower.<\/p>\n
William, Fifth Earl of Nithsdale and grandson of the third earl, still supported the British Crown during the Jacobite Uprising, and fought \u00c2\u00a0to restore the previously deposed House of Stuart.\u00c2\u00a0 He was also a Roman Catholic, as was most of the Maxwell Clan, and was often persecuted by local Presbyterians.\u00c2\u00a0 He was taken prisoner at the Battle of Preston, and imprisoned in the Tower of London.<\/p>\n
With the help of his wife, he escaped, fled to Rome, and died a pauper in 1744.\u00c2\u00a0 Pictures of his last official residence is HERE<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Note that we also took a hop-on, hop-off bus this day, so you’ll see some pictures of general London variety too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today was our tour of the Tower of London.\u00c2\u00a0 This is an interesting tour, because our family (Clan Maxwell) has a family member who was imprisoned in the Tower. William, Fifth Earl of Nithsdale and grandson of the third earl, still supported the British Crown during the Jacobite Uprising, and fought \u00c2\u00a0to restore the previously […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t