!BIOGRAPHY: Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie, Baronet, THE BARONAGE
OF SCOTLAND, Edinburgh, 1798, p. 382.
III. John Macleod of Muiravenside, Esq., advocate, son of John of
Contilich, married, 1st, Elisabeth, daughter of captain Alexander
Straiton, by whom he had a son, and a daughter.
He married, 2dly, ____, daughter of _____ Hume merchant in Glasgow,
by whom he hath no issue.
ARMS. The same with Macleod of that ilk, with a proper mark of
cadency.
CHIEF SEAT. At Muiravenside in the county of ______.
!SOURCE: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon and Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS--
THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, Section II, Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod
Society, 1968, pp. 73, 88.
Was born in 1688, and studied law in Edinburgh, where he afterwards
practised as an advocate at the Scottish Bar. For some years he was
MacLeod''s "doer" in Edinburgh. In 1724 he purchased the estate of
Muiravonside in East Stirlingshire, and, on 10th April 1731, he
registered Arms in the Lyon Court in Edinburgh as "fourth but only
surviving son" of his father, John MacLeod. John MacLeod of Muiravoside
was a Jacobite and is best remembered for his part, with other
MacLeods, in the abduction of Lady Grange, he being one of the principal
instruments in that extraordinary affair. He married, as his first wife,
Elizabeth, daughter of Captain Alexander Straiton, late of Lord
Strathnaver''s Regiment, with issue, and, as his second wife, Helen Home,
without issue.