!SOURCE: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon, THE MACLEODS: THE GENEALOGY OF A
CLAN, Section III, "Cadet Families", Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society,
1970, p. 150.
Roderick William Keir... entered the Royal Navy, and, while a
midshipman on board the frigate BELVIDERA, he was struck by falling
rigging in an action with the Americans in the North Atlantic in 1812,
and died soon afterwards at Killigray.