William Kelty MACLEOD (VI of Luskintyre)

Father: Alexander MACLEOD
Mother: Agnes Duncan KELTY

Family 1: Mary BIRD
  1. William Kelty MACLEOD
  2. Agnes MACLEOD
  3. Annie Maria MACLEOD
Family 2: Emily THOMPSON
  1. Archibald Alister MACLEOD
  2. Lieut.-Colonel Kenneth Kelty MACLEOD
  3. Mary MACLEOD 
                                                                    _William MACLEOD ____
                                               _Alexander MACLEOD _|_Margaret MACKENZIE _
                       _William MACLEOD ______|
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                      |                       |_Margaret MORRISON _|_____________________
 _Alexander MACLEOD __|
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|--William Kelty MACLEOD 
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|                      _Dr. Andrew KELTY _____|
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|_Agnes Duncan KELTY _|
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!MENTION: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon and Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS--THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, Section II, Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society, 1968, pp. 40, 48, 50. Was born, on 28th December 1827, in Drogheda, Ireland, when the 61st Regiment was stationed there. He went with his parents to Ceylon in 1828, and did not return to England until 1840. He was an exceedingly bright boy and was one of the first to enter Wellington College. He passed 1st to Sandhurst, and was commissioned to the 74th Highlanders (later the 2nd Battalion of the Highland Light Infantry). In the 74th Regiment he had as brother officers -- Norman Magnus MacLeod (afterewards 26th Chief of the MacLeods) and Sir Claude MacDonald. He commanded the 74th in India, when it was highly praised for its efficiency adn good behaviour. In 1872, he commanded the Regiment in Malta. At the same time the Black Watch, commanded by his brother, John Cheetham, was stationed on the island. Major-General William K. MacLeod held several high administrative posts, including command of the troops in Malaya. He retired from the army as Lieut.-General, and was appointed Colonel of the Highland Light Infantry. He died in 1903 at his home in Upper Norwood, London. He married, in 1851, as his first wife, Mary Bird (who died in 1866), with issue. Lieut.-General William Kelty MacLeod died in 1903, and was succeeded in the representation of the family of Luskintyre by his only son of his first marriage.

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