NAM.1998-08-7-1

‘The Honble Lt Coll Charles Cathcart’. Line engraving by Guilliemus (William) Sharp, after George Romney, published 1 January 1791. Half-length portrait of The Honourable Lieutenant Colonel Charles Cathcart (1759-1788) in the uniform of the 98th Regiment of Foot. Cathcart was the son of the 9th Lord Cathcart and served as a volunteer with the British Army in America in 1776. He was captured by a French privateer en route to Ireland to join the 77th Foot. After his release in 1780 Cathcart went on to serve with the 98th Regiment of Foot in India. Cathcart later became the Member of Parliament for Clackmannanshire in Scotland from 1784 to 1788. In 1788, Cathcart was despatched to China as a trade envoy but he died en route, on board the HMS Vestal. He was buried in West Java.