!SOURCE: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon, and Alick Morrison, MACLEOD CHIEFS
OF HARRIS AND DUNVEGAN, Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society, 1969, p.
30.
Roderick, who was born at Dunvegan, Skye, and became an apprentice to
Hugh Baillie, sheriff-clerk of Ross in 1713. Eight years later, at the age
of twenty-one, he went to London, where he entered the Six Clerks
Office as ''agent''. On 20th February, he was appointed by Norman MacLeod
of MacLeod his ''man of business with power of Attorney''. Roderick
married a Miss Robinson, London, with issue: William Martin.