Thomas Collingwood (Jacobite)

Thomas Collingwood (1715–1781) was one of the few Northumbrians who gave active support to the Roman Catholic Charles Stuart ("Bonny Prince Charlie") in the 1745 rising against King George II of Great Britain. Although arrested and charged with treason, Collingwood avoided punishment, because at trial he was acquitted on a technicality.

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