!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. 278.
Norman... succeeded his brother as 6th of Totardar, was born on 14th
February 1800 at St. Kilda and took to a seafaring life: while still a
young man, he became the Captain of an East Indiaman. During the first
Chinese War. Captain MacLeod was employed in the auxiliary service for
the transportation of troops to the East. At the capture of Chusan, he
fell in with his cousin, Captain, afterwards Lt.-Col., Norman MacLean,
who presented him with one fo the silk banners, which he had captured
from the Chinese. Captain MacLeod brought the banner home, and in due
course, presented it to MacLeod of MacLeod, who placed it in Dunvegan
Castle. After retiring from sea, Captain Norman MacLeod held an
appointment in the Board of Trade at Liverpool. He died at Edinburgh on
the 30th March 1877. By his wife, Frances, daughter of Donald
MacDonald of Clanranald, Captain Norman had issue.