Quentin MacLachan Compson

Submitted by ekp23@cornell.edu on Sun, 2018-05-20 23:00
Text: 
"Appendix: Compson"
Character Key: 
Quentin Compson I
Display Name: 
Quentin MacLachan Compson
Sort Name: 
Compson, Quentin MacLachan
Parent: 
Father of Quentin MacLachan Compson
Mother of Quentin MacLachan Compson
AKA: 
Quentin I
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Upper Class
Rank: 
Secondary
Vitality: 
Dead
Family: 
Compson
Family (new): 
CompsonsInAC
First Mentioned: 
Scotland in "Appendix: Compson" (Location)
Home: 
Scotland in "Appendix: Compson" (Location)
Date of Birth: 
Thursday, January 1, 1699 to Thursday, December 31, 1699
Origin: 
Scotland
Biography: 

Quentin MacLachan Compson, or Quentin I, is the "son of a Glasgow printer, orphaned and raised by his mother's people" (326) in the Perth Highlands. He is driven from Culloden Moor, presumably as a result of the rebel Jacobites' last battle against the Hanovarian government of Britain, which occurred at that site in 1746, and flees across the Atlantic to Carolina. In 1779, at age eighty, he flees from the American Revolutionary War to Kentucky with his grandson. His entry in the "Appendix" is marked by repeated references to his tartan, which accompanies him through every stage of his migration.

Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 
Date of Death: 
Monday, January 1, 1781 to Monday, December 31, 1781

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