Editing Rob Roy MacGregor (section)

==In popular culture==
[[File:Rob Roy (Culter).jpg|thumb|upright|left|''Rob Roy on the Rock'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.robroyontherock.com|title=Rob Roy Statue – Rob Roy On The Rock|website=robroyontherock.com}}</ref> a statue located on the spot where Rob Roy leapt across the Culter Burn, [[Peterculter]], [[Aberdeen]], while on the run from Montrose's men]]
A fictionalised account of his life, ''The Highland Rogue'', was published in 1723.<ref>''English Short-Title Catalogue'' T109114. Earlier attributions to [[Daniel Defoe]] are not accepted today on stylistic grounds; see ''The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature'' II 902 and [[John Robert Moore]], ''A Checklist of the Writings of Daniel Defoe''. 2nd edition. [Hamden, Connecticut]: Archon Books, 1971.</ref><ref>''[http://www.nls.uk/collections/rarebooks/acquisitions/singlebook.cfm/idfind/943 The Highland rogue: or, the memorable actions of the celebrated Robert Mac-gregor, commonly called Rob-Roy]''. nls.uk. Retrieved 10 March 2018.</ref> Rob Roy became a legend in his own lifetime and [[George I of Great Britain|George I]] was moved to issue a pardon for his crimes just as he was about to be transported to the colonies. The publication of ''[[Rob Roy (novel)|Rob Roy]]'' by [[Sir Walter Scott]] in 1817 further added to his fame and fleshed out his biography. [[Hector Berlioz]] was inspired by the book to compose an [[Overtures by Hector Berlioz#Rob Roy|overture]]. [[William Wordsworth]] wrote a poem called "Rob Roy's Grave" during a visit to Scotland;<ref>{{cite book |last=Wordsworth |first=William |chapter=Rob Roy's Grave |title=Parnassus: An Anthology of Poetry |editor=Emerson, Ralph Waldo |year=1880 |chapter-url=https://www.bartleby.com/371/437.html |via=Bartleby.com |access-date=16 July 2018}}; [https://archive.org/stream/parnassus00emerrich#page/274/mode/2up via Internet Archive]</ref> the 1803 tour was documented by his sister [[Dorothy Wordsworth|Dorothy]] in ''[[Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland]]'' and the editor of the book changed the place of burial to the present location.

Adaptations of his story have also been told in film, including the silent film ''[[Rob Roy (1922 film)|Rob Roy]]'' (1922), the [[Walt Disney Productions]] film ''[[Rob Roy: The Highland Rogue]]'' (1953) and the 1995 film ''[[Rob Roy (1995 film)|Rob Roy]]'' directed by [[Michael Caton-Jones]] (starring [[Liam Neeson]] as the title character and shot entirely on location in the Scottish Highlands). The 1995 ''Rob Roy'' film was also novelized in that year by Donald McFarlan (based on the screenplay by Alan Sharp) and adapted to a Nova abridged audiobook read by British actor [[Brian Cox (actor)|Brian Cox]], who also appeared in the film.

In 1894, a bartender at the [[Waldorf Hotel (New York City, 1893)|Waldorf Hotel]] in New York City created the [[Rob Roy (cocktail)|Rob Roy cocktail]] in honour of the premiere of ''[[Rob Roy (operetta)|Rob Roy]]'', an operetta by composer [[Reginald De Koven]] and lyricist [[Harry B. Smith]] loosely based upon Robert Roy MacGregor.<ref>{{cite book|last=Andrews|first=Sudhir|title=Textbook of Food & Beverage Management|year=2008|publisher=[[Tata McGraw-Hill]]|isbn=978-0070655737|page=248}}</ref>

In 2017, a new statue of Rob Roy was commissioned to be installed in Peterculter, Aberdeen. The sculptor appointed was David J. Mitchell, a graduate of Grays School of Art in Aberdeen.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rob Roy Statue|url=https://www.robroyontherock.com/|access-date=2020-06-23|website=Rob Roy On The Rock|language=en-GB}}</ref> The statue was publicly unveiled at a ceremony on the bridge on 16 September 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.robroyontherock.com|title=Rob Roy Statue – Rob Roy On The Rock|website=robroyontherock.com}}</ref>
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