John Graham of Claverhouse was a career soldier whose early manhood was spent overseas in the service of William of Orange He was then sent to Scotland by Charles II to deal with the Covenanters rebels who terrorised south-west Scotland with smuggled Dutch muskets When Charles's brother James was deposed and William called in, John - the 'Bonnie Dundee' of legend - raised the Highlands for the Stuart cause and lost his life at the battle of Killiecrankie