Rev. John MACLEOD

Father: John MACLEOD
Mother: Miss BEATON

Family 1: Janet CAMPBELL

Family 2: Anne MACDONALD
  1. Anne MACLEOD
  2. Catherine MACLEOD
  3. Donald MACLEOD
  4. William MACLEOD 
                                                                        _Neil MACLEOD _
                                      _Norman Tarmod MacNeill MACLEOD _|_______________
                 _Alexander MACLEOD _|
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 _John MACLEOD _|
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|--Rev. John MACLEOD 
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|_Miss BEATON __|
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Notes

!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, pp. 226-227, 228. John, born in 1757, minister of Benbecula 1773 to1779 and of Harris from 1779 to 1806. Thereafter he transferred to Kilmodan and Dundonald. He was educated in Aberdeen, where he was enrolled as a native of Skye (i.e. Skiensis in Latin). His Alma Mater later granted him the degree of D.D. in 1795. He was Chaplain to the Long Island Battalion of The Inverness Volunteers. He was a man of considerable attainments and wrote a master account of the parish of Harris in the Old Statistical Account, Volume X, No. 28, in 1794. He was compelled to take action against John Lane Buchanan, missionary in Harris, for scandalous conduct unworthy of a clergyman. Buchanan retaliated by publishing a 'scandalous book' (vide Captain Thomas) which, while it contains information of some value on the history of Harris, is vitiated by Buchanan's virulence against those who justly testified against him in a properly constituted ecclesiastical court. Buchanan is particularly hostile to Rev. Dr. John MacLeod, whom he compares unfavourably with a preceding minister, Rev. Aulay MacAulay (1713-51). Rev. Dr. John MacLeod married (1) Janet, daughter of Donald Campbell of Scalpay, without issue. He married (2) Anne MacDonald from Harris, with issue. Rev. John MacLeod, D.D., died at Dundonald on 6th February 1841.

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