!SOURCE: George Crawfurd, Esq., THE PEERAGE OF SCOTLAND, CONTAINING
AN HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL ACCOUNT OF THE NOBILITY OF THAT
KINGDOM, Edinburgh, 1716, p. 273.
!BIOGRAPHY: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon, and Alick Morrison, MACLEOD
CHIEFS OF HARRIS AND DUNVEGAN, Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society,
1969, pp. 27-28. Alick Morrison, THE CHIEFS OF CLAN MACLEOD, East
Kilbride, Scotland, 1986.
Norman was a minor when his brother, Roderick, died, and like him was
delicate. Before he died, Roderick, according to Martin Martin, [THE CLAN
MACLEOD MAGAZINE, 1950, No. 15, 472.] ''declared Mr. Alexr. McLeod [Son
of Sir Norman MacLeod of Berneray. He was an advocate in Edinburgh.]
sole Tutor to his brother & administrator of his affairs & ordered Sir
Donald [This was Sir Donald MacDonald, 4th Baronet of Sleat.] to assist
him''. While Mary MacLeod, the bardess, is silent regarding Roderick''s
personal qualities, she praises Norman, for whom she seems to have had
much warmer feeling than towards his late brother. [Carmichael Watson:
GAELIC SONGS OF MARY MACLEOD )1934), pp. 53-71.] Norman married
(marr. contr., dated 22nd September 1703) Anne, daughter of Hugh, 11th
Lord Lovat, by Lady Amelia Murray, daughter of John, 1st Marquis of
Atholl, with issue....
Chief Norman may have lived occasionally at Dunvegan Castle before his
marriage, but, after that event, he and his wife lived with his
mother-in-law, Lady Lovat, near Perth, for there are receipts in the
Muniment Room at Dunvegan, which show that he paid Lady Lovat for his
own and his wife''s board and lodging. He died in the autumn of 1706, and
was buried in the MacLeod burial-place in the Chapel Yard at Inverness.
He was succeeded by his son.