!BIOGRAPHY: BURKE''S LANDED GENTRY, Eighteenth Edition, Vol. II, London,
1969, pp. 417, 418.
Minister of Laggan, m. Agnes, dau. of John Balmain, of Tobermory, and
had, with other issue, an eldest son, The Rev. Donald MacLeod.
!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, p. 47, 50.
John was born on 11th December 1805, and was educated at his father''s
school at Fort William, and attended Aberdeen University for two years
between 1819-23. [Records of King''s College, Aberdeen University List
1819-23, supplied by W. S. Angus, Esq.] Like his father before him he
was Headmaster of the Garrison School, Fort William, until he was
ordained to the parish of Ballachulish on 2nd April 1847. Charles, Duke
of Richmond, presented him to the parish of Laggan, Inverness-shire. He
was admitted on 30th January 1851, and ministered there until his death
at Laggan on 8th April 1869, aged 63 years. [From GLIMPSES OF CHURCH
AND SOCIAL LIFE IN THE HIGHLANDS IN OLDEN TIMES, by Alexander
Macpherson, p. 245.] Alexander Macpherson writes of him, "A faithful
and most estimable clergyman, he was universally esteemed through the
district. In quiet, unassuming, practical usefulness, Mr. MacLeod was the
beau ideal of a parish minister." [Ibid.]
While he was schoolmaster at Fort William, he married on 5th October
1838, Agnes (who died on 3rd May 1885), daughter of John Balmain, Esq.,
Fishery Officer at Tobermory, with issue.
The Reverend John MacLeod, who died on 8th April 1869, was succeeded
in the representation of the family of Suardal by his eldest son, Donald.