_Donald MACLEOD __________
_Lieut._Donald MACLEOD _|_Anne MacDonald CAMPBELL _
_Donald MACLEOD _|
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_Rev._John MACLEOD _|
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|--Rev. Donald MACLEOD
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|_Agnes BALMAIN _____|
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!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, p. 50-51, 53. Donald was born on 21st July 1839, at Fort William, Inverness-shire, and was educated at Laggan School and King's College, Aberdeen, where he graduated M.A., in March 1858. He was licensed at the age of twenty-one on 27th November 1861, by the Presbytery of Abertarff, and was ordained missionary at Fort Augustus. He was called to Dornoch Cathedral on 14th August 1863, where he was appointed by popular election (the patron, the Duke of Sutherland, having delegated to the people themselves the choice of their own minister). While at Dornoch, he acted as Secretary to his cousin, Dr. Norman MacLeod of Barony, on his tour of visitation round the Highland parishes. On 1st February 1866, he was translated to Greyfriars, Dumfries; on 15th November 1868, to the First Charge, Montrose; on 16th June 1871, to the new charge of St. Mark's, Dundee; on 3rd May 1877, to Jedburgh. On 17th May 1881, he was called to Crown Court Church, London, which, after a period of great fame and prosperity under Dr. Cumming, had shrunk to 25 communicants. With the advent of Dr. MacLeod its fortunes revived, and within three years it was possible to proceed with the erection of a new Church in the West End, which was built and equipped at a cost of £30,000. St. Columba's became the rallying point of a large body of London Scots who desired to worship in a church which maintained an organic connection with the Church of Scotland; and during the next twenty years Dr. MacLeod ministered to a large congregation which was perhpas more representative of all ranks, political parties, and of all division of Presbyterianism than any that can be named on the Scottish side of the Border. He played a brilliant part in the religious life of London. It was said of his preaching tha tone could not help but listen and could not listen unmoved. His warm friendship and kindly help gladdened many Scots hearts. As Dr. Fleming, his successor, said, ""Had it not been for Dr. Donald MacLeod there never would have been a St. Columba's, and Crown Court itself would have ceased to exist." He became the first Chaplain of the London Scottish Regiment, for which he received the Volunteer Decoration after 21 years service. The London Scottish held their first Church Parade in St. Columba's on 1st May 1887. This was the beginning of the annual services and close association of that famous regiment with St. Columba's. Dr. MacLeod received the Doctorate of Divinity from Aberdeen University in 1887. He retired in 1901, and took up residence in Edinburgh, where he died on 17th December 1911. Dr. Donald MacLeod spent his years of retirement working for the restoration of Iona Cathedral (the ancient Abbey Church) with the 8th Duke of Argyll. When the Duke died, he left the Cathedral to the Church of Scotland and a committee was formed with Dr. MacLeod as Convenor. He went up and down the country raising large sums of money for the restoration of the Cathedral which was opened for public worship on 15th July 1904. It was said on his memoral tablet, that "Through his zeal and devotion, the Abbey Church of Iona was rescued from ruin and rebuilt." Funds were raised by his friends (headed by the Dowager Duchess of Argyll) for a permanent memorial to him on Iona, and the Caretaker's house was restored in his memory. Above the door is an inscription in Gaelic, "BU SHOLAS DHA A SHAOTHAIR OIR B'E I RUN A CHRIDHE," which may be translated thus: "His was a labour of love, for Iona possessed his heart." Dr. Donald MacLeod as summoned several times to Balmoral to preach before Queen Victoria. He married on 24th July 1866, as his first wife, Minnie d'Esterre (who died 28th August 1898), daughter of William d'Esterre Roberts, Esq., Glenacre, Inellan (whose father was Richard Roberts of Ardmore, County Cork), [Burke's LANDED GENTRY OF IRELAND.], and Christina McCall Browne of Langfine, with issue. The Reverend Donald MacLeod married, on 1st April 1907, as his second wife, Caroline, daughter of John Potter, Shipowner, London, and his wife Caroline, daughter of the Reverend William Manuel, D.D., without issue. (Mrs. MacLeod married as her second husband the Reverend James Fergusson, minister of Corstorphine Old Parish Church.) Dr. MacLeod died in Edinburgh on the 17th December 1911, and was buried in Corstorphine Churchyard. King George V was represented at the funeral by His Chaplain-in-Ordinary. Dr. MacLeod was succeeded in the representation of the family of Suardal by his son, Norman.