Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Lockhart, Philip
LOCKHART, PHILIP (1690?–1715), Jacobite, brother of George Lockhart [q. v.], author of ‘Memoirs of Scotland,’ and younger son of Sir George Lockhart of Carnwath [q. v.], by Philadelphia, daughter of the fourth Lord Wharton, was born about 1690. At the rebellion in 1715 he commanded a troop raised by his brother's interest and forming the fifth under Viscount Kenmure, whom he joined at Biggar. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Preston on 13 Nov., and having been previously a half-pay officer in Lord Mark Ker's regiment, he was on the 28th condemned to death by a court-martial as a deserter, the sentence being carried out on 2 Dec. His brother states that when about to be shot he declined tying a napkin over his face, and ‘having with great elevation recommended himself to God, he cocked his hat, and calling on them to do their last, he looked death and his murderers in the face, and received the shots that put an end to his days’ (Lockhart Papers, i. 497). Patten, who describes him as ‘a young gentleman of comely appearance and very handsome,’ substantially corroborates Lockhart's statement (History of the Rebellion, 2nd edit. p. 53). A print of him has been published.
[Lockhart Papers; Patten's History of the Rebellion; Noble's Continuation of Granger, iii. 463.]