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Rob Roy (1671–1734)

Scottish Highland Jacobite outlaw. After losing his estates, he lived by cattle theft and extortion. Captured, he was sentenced to transportation but pardoned in 1727. He is a central character in Walter Scott's historical novel Rob Roy (1817). A film of Rob Roy was made in 1995, starring Liam Neeson.
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