!BIOGRAPHY: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon, and Alick Morrison, MACLEOD
CHIEFS OF HARRIS AND DUNVEGAN, Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society,
1969, p. 27. Alick Morrison, THE CHIEFS OF CLAN MACLEOD, East Kilbride,
Scotland, 1986.
Roderick, usually spoken of as Ruaraidh Og by his contemporaries, was
educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he was when his father
died. From childhood he was delicate, and as a youth developed
consumption. The damp climate of Skye did not suit him, and he made his
home at Fortrose on the east coast, where the climate was drier and
more bracing than at Dunvegan. A sick man, during his short tenure of
the chiefship, he was compelled to give the management of Dunvegan
over to people, who, if the bards correctly report matters, abandoned the
Gaelic traditional mode of life, and transformed the old Castle into a
''fashionable English establishment''. Martin, [Author of A DESCRIPTION
OF THE WESTERN ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND (1703).] who was his tutor,
speaks highly of Roderick and writes that he was the ''kindest friend I
had on earth''. [THE CLAN MACLEOD MAGAZINE, 1950, No. 15, p. 472.]
Roderick married (marr. contr., dated 8th February 1694) lady Isabella,
daughter of Kenneth, 3rd Earl of Seaforth, with issue, an only daughter,
Anne, who married Donald MacLeod of the MacLeods of Berneray, with
issue. Martin martin, who attended Roderick in his last illness, states in
a letter [THE CLAN MACLEOD MAGAZINE, 1950, No. 15, p. 472.] to John
MacKenzie of Delvine that ''a consumption brought him low as a skeleton
of Guhilk he died the 24 Instant (24th June)''. He was buried, on 11th July
1699, at Fortrose, and was laid in the grave of his great-grandfather, Sir
Roderick Mor MacLeod, who died in 1626. He was succeeded by his
brother.
!MARRIAGE: George Crawfurd, Esq., THE PEERAGE OF SCOTLAND,
Edinburgh, 1716, p. 438.
!MARRIAGE: Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie, Baronet, THE PEERAGE OF
SCOTLAND, Vol. II, Edinburgh, 1813, p. 483.
CHIEFS OF HARRIS AND DUNVEGAN, Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society,
1969, p. 27. Alick Morrison, THE CHIEFS OF CLAN MACLEOD, East Kilbride,
Scotland, 1986.
Roderick, usually spoken of as Ruaraidh Og by his contemporaries, was
educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he was when his father
died. From childhood he was delicate, and as a youth developed
consumption. The damp climate of Skye did not suit him, and he made his
home at Fortrose on the east coast, where the climate was drier and
more bracing than at Dunvegan. A sick man, during his short tenure of
the chiefship, he was compelled to give the management of Dunvegan
over to people, who, if the bards correctly report matters, abandoned the
Gaelic traditional mode of life, and transformed the old Castle into a
''fashionable English establishment''. Martin, [Author of A DESCRIPTION
OF THE WESTERN ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND (1703).] who was his tutor,
speaks highly of Roderick and writes that he was the ''kindest friend I
had on earth''. [THE CLAN MACLEOD MAGAZINE, 1950, No. 15, p. 472.]
Roderick married (marr. contr., dated 8th February 1694) lady Isabella,
daughter of Kenneth, 3rd Earl of Seaforth, with issue, an only daughter,
Anne, who married Donald MacLeod of the MacLeods of Berneray, with
issue. Martin martin, who attended Roderick in his last illness, states in
a letter [THE CLAN MACLEOD MAGAZINE, 1950, No. 15, p. 472.] to John
MacKenzie of Delvine that ''a consumption brought him low as a skeleton
of Guhilk he died the 24 Instant (24th June)''. He was buried, on 11th July
1699, at Fortrose, and was laid in the grave of his great-grandfather, Sir
Roderick Mor MacLeod, who died in 1626. He was succeeded by his
brother.
!MARRIAGE: George Crawfurd, Esq., THE PEERAGE OF SCOTLAND,
Edinburgh, 1716, p. 438.
!MARRIAGE: Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie, Baronet, THE PEERAGE OF
SCOTLAND, Vol. II, Edinburgh, 1813, p. 483.
- 1674 - Birth -
- 11 JUL 1699 - Burial -
- 24 JUN 1699 - Death - ; Fortrose
- Nobility Title - XIX Chief
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PARENT (M) John Iain_Breac MacLeod | |||
Birth | 1637 | ||
Death | 1693 | ||
Marriage | to Florence MacDonald | ||
Father | John Iain Mor MacLeod | ||
Mother | Hon. Sibylla MacKenzie | ||
PARENT (F) Florence MacDonald | |||
Birth | |||
Death | |||
Marriage | to John Iain_Breac MacLeod | ||
Father | ? | ||
Mother | ? | ||
CHILDREN | |||
F | Julia MacLeod | ||
Birth | |||
Death | |||
Marriage | to Sir Alan MacLean | ||
M | William MacLeod | ||
Birth | |||
Death | |||
F | Isabel MacLeod | ||
Birth | |||
Death | |||
Marriage | to Robert Stewart | ||
F | Janet MacLeod | ||
Birth | |||
Death | |||
Marriage | to Sir_James Campbell | ||
F | Margaret MacLeod | ||
Birth | |||
Death | |||
Marriage | 1697 | to Dr. Donald Morrison | |
M | Roderick Ruairidh_Og MacLeod | ||
Birth | 1674 | ||
Death | 24 JUN 1699 | Fortrose | |
Marriage | 8 FEB 1694 | to Lady Isabella MacKenzie | |
M | Norman MacLeod | ||
Birth | 1685 | ||
Death | 1706 | ||
Marriage | 22 SEP 1703 | to Anne Fraser |
PARENT (M) Roderick Ruairidh_Og MacLeod | |||
Birth | 1674 | ||
Death | 24 JUN 1699 | Fortrose | |
Marriage | 8 FEB 1694 | to Lady Isabella MacKenzie | |
Father | John Iain_Breac MacLeod | ||
Mother | Florence MacDonald | ||
PARENT (F) Lady Isabella MacKenzie | |||
Birth | |||
Death | |||
Marriage | 8 FEB 1694 | to Roderick Ruairidh_Og MacLeod | |
Marriage | to Sir Duncan Campbell | ||
Father | Kenneth MacKenzie | ||
Mother | Isabel MacKenzie | ||
CHILDREN | |||
F | Anne MacLeod | ||
Birth | |||
Death |