Roderick Ruairidh_Og MacLeod
b: 1674
d: 24 JUN 1699
Biography
!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.
Facts
  • 1674 - Birth -
  • 11 JUL 1699 - Burial -
  • 24 JUN 1699 - Death - ; Fortrose
  • Nobility Title - XIX Chief
Ancestors
   
John Iain Mor MacLeod
1595 - SEP 1649
 
   
  
  
 
  
 
  
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Family Group Sheet - Child
PARENT (M) John Iain_Breac MacLeod
Birth1637
Death1693
Marriageto Florence MacDonald
FatherJohn Iain Mor MacLeod
MotherHon. Sibylla MacKenzie
PARENT (F) Florence MacDonald
Birth
Death
Marriageto John Iain_Breac MacLeod
Father?
Mother?
CHILDREN
FJulia MacLeod
Birth
Death
Marriageto Sir Alan MacLean
MWilliam MacLeod
Birth
Death
FIsabel MacLeod
Birth
Death
Marriageto Robert Stewart
FJanet MacLeod
Birth
Death
Marriageto Sir_James Campbell
FMargaret MacLeod
Birth
Death
Marriage1697to Dr. Donald Morrison
MRoderick Ruairidh_Og MacLeod
Birth1674
Death24 JUN 1699Fortrose
Marriage8 FEB 1694to Lady Isabella MacKenzie
MNorman MacLeod
Birth1685
Death1706
Marriage22 SEP 1703to Anne Fraser
Family Group Sheet - Spouse
PARENT (M) Roderick Ruairidh_Og MacLeod
Birth1674
Death24 JUN 1699 Fortrose
Marriage8 FEB 1694to Lady Isabella MacKenzie
FatherJohn Iain_Breac MacLeod
MotherFlorence MacDonald
PARENT (F) Lady Isabella MacKenzie
Birth
Death
Marriage8 FEB 1694to Roderick Ruairidh_Og MacLeod
Marriageto Sir Duncan Campbell
FatherKenneth MacKenzie
MotherIsabel MacKenzie
CHILDREN
FAnne MacLeod
Birth
Death
Descendancy Chart