!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, p. 294.
Kenneth, born on 1st December 1809, died unmarried in 1869. At the
age of 15 he went to India, with his fare paid out and one golden guinea
in his pocket given him by Mrs. MacDonald of Waternish. After a years''
work, he took the river boat down to Calcutta. On the way he went
ashore and visited a place where an auction of the contents of a sugar
factory was in progress. With his precious guinea, he bought a copper
boiler, which he sold in Calcutta for £30. He now returned to the
derelict sugar factory and bought it for very little. This set him on the
ladder to making a fortune in India. Thereafter, he returned to Skye and
endeavoured to buy the tack of Gesto but MacLeod of MacLeod was not
prepared to sell it. Kenneth now bought Orbost, Edinbane, Skirinish,
Greshornishy, Tote and Skeabost and much of Portree. he set and
endowed Edinbane Hospital for the people of Skye.