!SOURCE: "The Morrisons of Skinidin", THE CLAN MACLEOD MAGAZINE, II,
No. 17 (1952), pp. 63-66.
Studied medicine, and spent his life as doctor in Larkhall, Lanarkshire.
He retired to Edinburgh in 1931, where after some years of well-earned
leisure he died in June 1940 at the age of seventy-nine years. Dr.
Morrison was a skilful performer and judge of pipe music. He came into
possession of a very old manuscript of MacCrimmon tunes, which he
presented to the nation and is now deposited in the Nations Library in
Edinburgh. He was a Gaelic and an English poet of no mean order, and
after his death a volume of his compositions, under the editorial care of
the late Rev. Neil Ross, D.D., of Laggan, was published. The daughters of
this family were: (1) Mary Stewart, who married the Rev. Donald
MacFarlane who, in 1893, was the principal founder of the Free
Presbyterian Church of Scotland; (2) Jane; (3) Jessie; (4) Marion; (5)
Flora Margaret MacLeod. These four daughters died unmarried.
!SOURCE: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon and Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS:
THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, Section III, "MacLeod Cadet Families",
Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society, 1970, p. 232.
Alexander Campbell, a Gaelic bard who studied medicine and spent his
life as a doctor in Larkhall, Lanarkshire. He retired to Edinburgh in 1931
and died in June 1940, aged 79 years.
No. 17 (1952), pp. 63-66.
Studied medicine, and spent his life as doctor in Larkhall, Lanarkshire.
He retired to Edinburgh in 1931, where after some years of well-earned
leisure he died in June 1940 at the age of seventy-nine years. Dr.
Morrison was a skilful performer and judge of pipe music. He came into
possession of a very old manuscript of MacCrimmon tunes, which he
presented to the nation and is now deposited in the Nations Library in
Edinburgh. He was a Gaelic and an English poet of no mean order, and
after his death a volume of his compositions, under the editorial care of
the late Rev. Neil Ross, D.D., of Laggan, was published. The daughters of
this family were: (1) Mary Stewart, who married the Rev. Donald
MacFarlane who, in 1893, was the principal founder of the Free
Presbyterian Church of Scotland; (2) Jane; (3) Jessie; (4) Marion; (5)
Flora Margaret MacLeod. These four daughters died unmarried.
!SOURCE: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon and Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS:
THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, Section III, "MacLeod Cadet Families",
Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society, 1970, p. 232.
Alexander Campbell, a Gaelic bard who studied medicine and spent his
life as a doctor in Larkhall, Lanarkshire. He retired to Edinburgh in 1931
and died in June 1940, aged 79 years.
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