John Sutherland, 16th Earl of Sutherland (bap. 1661, d. 1733) was an army officer and politician who fought the Jacobites during the Jacobite Rising, which earned him the Order of the Thistle and a large pension from George I.
Reference:
Henry Paton, ‘Sutherland , John, sixteenth earl of Sutherland (bap. 1661, d. 1733)’, rev. Jonathan Spain, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11066 [accessed 18 Aug 2011]).
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