Rev._John MACLEOD (IV of Suardal)

• BIRTH: 11 DEC 1805
• DEATH: 8 APR 1869

• REFERENCE: SUARDAL

• MARRIAGE: 5 OCT 1838

1. Rev. Donald MACLEOD
2. John Balmain MACLEOD
3. Cameron MACLEOD
4. Cameron MACLEOD
5. Agnes MACLEOD
6. Mary MACLEOD
7. Jane Balmain MACLEOD
8. Jamesina MACLEOD
9. Christina Cameron MACLEOD
10. Jessie MacPherson MACLEOD
11. Duncina Cameron MACLEOD

                                                                       _Donald Og MACLEOD _
                                            _Donald MACLEOD __________|_Mary MACKENZIE ____
                   _Lieut._Donald MACLEOD _|
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 _Donald MACLEOD _|
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|--Rev._John MACLEOD 
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|_Mary CAMERON ___|
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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, p. 47, 50. John was born on 11th December 1805, and was educated at his father's school at Fort William, and attended Aberdeen University for two years between 1819-23. [Records of King's College, Aberdeen University List 1819-23, supplied by W. S. Angus, Esq.] Like his father before him he was Headmaster of the Garrison School, Fort William, until he was ordained to the parish of Ballachulish on 2nd April 1847. Charles, Duke of Richmond, presented him to the parish of Laggan, Inverness-shire. He was admitted on 30th January 1851, and ministered there until his death at Laggan on 8th April 1869, aged 63 years. [From GLIMPSES OF CHURCH AND SOCIAL LIFE IN THE HIGHLANDS IN OLDEN TIMES, by Alexander Macpherson, p. 245.] Alexander Macpherson writes of him, "A faithful and most estimable clergyman, he was universally esteemed through the district. In quiet, unassuming, practical usefulness, Mr. MacLeod was the beau ideal of a parish minister." [Ibid.] While he was schoolmaster at Fort William, he married on 5th October 1838, Agnes (who died on 3rd May 1885), daughter of John Balmain, Esq., Fishery Officer at Tobermory, with issue. The Reverend John MacLeod, who died on 8th April 1869, was succeeded in the representation of the family of Suardal by his eldest son, Donald.