William was born in 1752. He is the son of William Sutherland and Janet Grant. It is known that William served as an Ensign (lowest rank of officer) in the 2nd Sutherland Fencible Regiment during his military career.
Later in life William appears to be working as a clerk at the Lochrin Distillery in Edinburgh. He was clearly in some financial difficulty because his son James applied to Elizabeth, Countess (future Duchess-Countess) of Sutherland to grant him a pension, which she did. It has been suggested she paid this because when she was an infant and her trustees were fighting to secure the Earldom (and the huge estates accompanying the title) on her behalf, William was the one person who arguably had a better claim than she did.
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