!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, pp. 71, 74-75.
Bannatyne William MacLeod was born in 1790, and brought up at
Luskintyre, Harris, where Gaelic was the every-day language of the
people. He was a proficient Gaelic speaker, and, being interested in the
history of his race, he gathered much traditional information about the
MacLeods and about his own family, which he embodied in the Manuscript
which bears his name [This is the BANNATYNE MANUSCRIPT, which is now
in the Muniment Room in Dunvegan Castle. It is in Dr. MacLeod''s
handwriting, and seems to have been compiled about 1830.] He was
educated in Stornoway in Lewis, and afterwards studied medicine at the
University of Edinburgh. After finishing his medical course, he entered
the Indian Medical Service, as Assistant Surgeon in 1815, in Bengal. He
was appointed Surgeon in 1826, and Superintending Surgeon in 1847, and
afterwards Inspector-General of Army Hospitals in Bengal. For his
valuable services, he was made a Companion of the Bath (C.B.) in 1850.
Dr. MacLeod married, on 4th July 1828, at Vellore, Louisa (who died in
1848), daughter of Henry Taylor of West Ilsley, Berks, with issue.
Dr. Bannatyne William MacLeod died, in Simla, India, on 3rd October
1856, and was succeeded in the representation of the MacLeods of
Glendale by his only son.