9 juin 1822 - At 80 he became a captain.

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At eighty years of age, Patrick was persuaded by his friend Sir Walter Scott to act as Captain in an honour guard welcoming King George IV on the first visit by a British monarch to Scotland in 200 years.

Sir Walter Scott said that Patrick was a most suitable choice to greet the King upon his arrival at Edinburgh because Patrick had been “in six battles and thirty times under fire”.

His death is commemorated in the piping song “Cumha Chaiptein MacDhughaill (Lament for Captain MacDougall). Patrick of Dunollie died in 1825.