!SOURCE: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon and Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS:
THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, Section III, "Cadet Families", Edinburgh, The
Clan MacLeod Society, 1970, pp. 151-152.
Lauchlan Charles (Sir), ...was born on 12th April 1848, and as a young
man entered the office of THE SCOTSMAN, Edinburgh, where he gained his
first newspaer experience. After serving for a period on the staff of the
THE TIMES, London, he went to Melbourne, Australia, where he joined the
staff of THE ARGUS in 1870. Ten years later he became Manager, and
retained the post for nearly forty years, spending about half a century in
furthering the interests of the paper. Mr. MacKinnon was knighted in
1916. He was compelled in 1919, through illness, to hand over the
control of THE ARGUS to others, and retire to England, where at Downes,
Crediton, Kent, he died in 1925. He married, as his first wife, Bessie,
daughter of William Learmonth of Ettrick, Victoria, with issue. He
married, as his second wife, Emily Grace Bundock, the niece and adopted
daughter of his cousin, Lauchlan MacKinnon, one of the original founders
of THE ARGUS, with issue.