_Sir_Roderick Ruairidh_Mor MACLEOD _
_Sir_Roderick MACLEOD _|_Isabel MACDONALD __________________
_John MACLEOD _____|
| | _Lauchlan Og MACKINNON _____________
| |_Mary MACKINNON _______|____________________________________
_Donald MACLEOD ____|
| | _Donald MACLEOD ____________________
| | _Alexander MACLEOD ____|_Janet MACDONALD ___________________
| |_Janet MACLEOD ____|
| | _Rev. Angus MACQUEEN _______________
| |_Mary MACQUEEN ________|____________________________________
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|--John MACLEOD
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| _Sir_Roderick Ruairidh_Mor MACLEOD _
| _Sir Norman MACLEOD ___|_Isabel MACDONALD __________________
| _John MACLEOD _____|
| | | _John MACKENZIE ____________________
| | |_Margaret MACKENZIE ___|_Isabel MACKENZIE __________________
|_Christina MACLEOD _|
| _Sir_Roderick MACKENZIE ____________
| _Kenneth MACKENZIE ____|____________________________________
|_Isabel MACKENZIE _|
| _Walter ROSS _______________________
|_Janet ROSS ___________|____________________________________
!BIOGRAPHY: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon and Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS--THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, Section II, Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society, 1968, pp. 8-9. John was educated for the medical profession. James Boswell, who, with Dr. Johnson, paid a visti to Talisker in the autumn of 1773, wrote that 'Talisker, having been bred to physic, had a tincture of scholarship in his conversation, which pleased Dr. Johnson'. During the 1745 Jacobite Rising, John of Talisker was a Captain in the MacLeod Independent Companies, and was heartily detested by the people of Skye and the Isles for his cruel treatment of those who had befriended Prince Charles Stuart, and had helped him to escape in 1746. It was he who was sent by General John Campbell to arrest Flora MacDonald at her home in Armadale, Sleat, for the part she played in the Prince's escape. In 1747, he left Talisker and joined the Scots Brigade in Holland. He served with much distinction in that country and Germany, and rose to be a Lieut.-Colonel in 1766. Soon afterwards he returned to Talisker, of which MacLeod of MacLeod had given him a tack, dated 15th September 1757, for thirty-eight years. At Talisker, Colonel MacLeod entertained many distinguished guests. We have already state that he had Dr. Johnson and James Boswell as his guests in 1773. In the previous year, Thomas Pennant, the Rev. John Lightfoot and the Rev. John Stuart of Killin stated at Talisker, where they were received 'with the utmost hopitality'. John Knox, the traveller, was at Talisker in 1786. Colonel MacLeod met Knox and his companions on the shore, and conducted them, 'through a small but rich valley, to the seat of plenty, hospitality and good nature'. Knox says that MacLeod was 'extremely corpulent'. He married, in 1744, as his first wife, Mary, daughter of Hector MacLean, 13th of the MacLeans of Coll, with issue, a son, who was born in 1745, and died young. Colonel MacLeod married, as his second wife, Christina, daughter of John MacKay, merchant, Inverness, without issue. He died on 14th July 1798, and was succeeded by his brother.