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Lieutenant-Colonel John Blackadder (14 September 1664 – 31 August 1729) was a Scottish soldier who served with the Cameronian Regiment during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The fifth son of dissenting minister John Blackadder, he was a devout Calvinist, and joined the Cameronians – a predominantly religious regiment – as a volunteer cadet when they were raised in 1689 to fight for King William III. He soldiered with the regiment through the campaign in Flanders, where he was court-martialled and later pardoned for killing an officer in a duel, and then during the War of the Spanish Succession. He was wounded at the Battle of Blenheim, and twice wounded at the siege of Lille; after the Battle of Malplaquet he was promoted to lieutenant-colonel, and took command of the regiment. He resigned his commission two years later, and retired to Edinburgh. In later life he focused his work on ecclesiastical matters, becoming a member of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. During the First Jacobite Rising in 1715 he was appointed colonel of a regiment raised in Glasgow to guard the city, and after the war made deputy-governor of Stirling Castle. ==Early years== John Blackadder〔The family name is variously spelt "Blackadder" and "Blackader". The ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' and the earlier ''Dictionary of National Biography'' (1885) use "Blackadder" for the whole family, with "Blackader" as a variant spelling. Crichton's 1824 edition of the ''Diaries'' uses "Blackader", as does Crichton's 1867 regimental history.〕 was born in September 1664 at Glencairn in Dumfriesshire, the fifth son of John Blackadder and Janet Haining.〔Henderson (2004)〕 His father was a Presbyterian minister who had been removed from his parish in 1662, forbidden to preach, and briefly imprisoned before retiring to Glencairn.〔Grosart (2004)〕 John's brothers included William, the eldest son, later a doctor and conspirator with William of Orange,〔Handley (2004)〕 and Adam, the second son, who wrote a history of the covenanting movement.〔Du Toit (2004)〕 Shortly after Blackadder's birth, his father began preaching illegally at conventicles in the countryside. A warrant was issued for his arrest in 1666,〔 and the family home was raided by soldiers of the local bishop, after which point the family dispersed to live separately.〔 Blackadder spent some time with his father during this period, from whom he received a basic classical education, and attended humanities classes at the University of Edinburgh in the 1680s. However, he did not formally matriculate as a student.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Blackadder (soldier)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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