!BIOGRAPHY: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon and Alick Morrison, THE
MACLEODS--THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, Section II, Edinburgh, The Clan
MacLeod Society, 1968, p. 6.
William…was born on 19th July 1812, and educated at Trinity College,
Cambridge. He became a barrister, inner Temple, in 1837, and
afterwards went to India, where he was appointed Master of Equity in
the Supreme Court, Calcutta, editor of the QUARTERLY REVIEW
(1849-1859), legal adviser in the India Office (1874-9), and secretary
to the Judicial Department of the India Office (1879-82). He was an
eminent legal author. He died on 20th April 1893. He married Diana
Johnstone, with issue: three sons and five daughters.