"He entered the army as ensign in the 88th Regiment, Connaught Rangers, 3d June 1795, saw much service in the West and East Indies and South America, and commanded the first battalion of his regiment at Vittoria and Pyrenees, Orthes and Toulouse, and went to Canada in 1814. In 1815 he received the gold clasps for Vittoria and Orthes, with silver medal and clasps for the Pyrenees, Niville, Nive; in June 1854 he attained the rank of Lieutenant-General, and on the 11th February 1857 obtained the colonelcy of his own regiment.

      "A great grandson of Simon, Lord Lovat, and grandson of Cluny of the '45, the lamented General's sympathies were strongly with the brave Highlanders of Scotland, and since 1819 a resident near Stirling, he always spoke of the Highlands as his home. Quiet and unobtrusive in his manners, those who knew him most liked him best; his noble qualities endeared him to every acquaintance. A good man who died full of years and honours. His remains were removed to the Highlands for interment in the burial-place of the Breakachy family in the Old St Columba's Churchyard, Kingussie (Third Row, Railed Enclosure), of which he was the last descendant."*

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