MACLEAN, GUSTAV [SSNE 6093]

Surname

MACLEAN

First name

GUSTAV, GUSTAF ADOLF

Title/rank

COUNT

Nationality

SWEDISH

Region

GOTHENBURG

Text source

Gustaf Adolf Maclean was born in Sweden on 7 January 1693 or 1697. He became a corpral with the Bohus län dragoons on 25 January 1710, but was commissioned to lieutenant soon after. Maclean was taken prisoner at Tönnigen in May 1713, but released soon after. He served as a captain in the Västgota cavalry in 1716 and was recorded as a colonel in 1748, the year he left service. He died in on 27 January 1779. He married Elizabeth Maria Gronberg. Portraits of both him and his wife hang at Brunnrby Manor, Östergötland

Swedish Riksarkiv, Militära chefer i svenska arméen och deras skrivelser; A. Lewenhaupt, Karl XII:s Officerare Biografiska anteckningar (2 vols., Stockholm, 1920), II, p.432. With thanks to Nigel Alington for updates.

Service record

SWEDEN, BOHUSLÄN DRAGOONS, VÄSTGOTA CAVALRY

Arrived 1710-01-25, as NCO

Departed 1748-12-31, as COLONEL

Capacity MILITARY, purpose OFFICER