Sir Alexander Macdonald, 7th Baronet
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Sir Alexander Macdonald | |
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_Sir_Alexander_Macdonald_of_Sleat,_7th_Baronet.jpg) Portrait from The Clan Donald, by A. and A. Macdonald, published in 1900. | |
| Born | 1711 |
| Died | 23 November 1746 (aged 34–35) Berneray, Outer Hebrides, Scotland |
| Spouse(s) |
Anne, Lady Ogilvy
(m. 1733; died 1735)Lady Margaret Montgomerie
(m. 1739; died 1746) |
| Children | Sir James Macdonald, 8th Baronet Alexander Macdonald, 1st Baron Macdonald Sir Archibald Macdonald, 1st Baronet |
| Parent(s) | Sir James Macdonald, 6th Baronet Janet MacLeod |
| Relatives | Alexander Macdonald, 2nd Baron Macdonald (grandson) Godfrey Macdonald, 3rd Baron Macdonald (grandson) Sir James Macdonald, 2nd Baronet (grandson) |
Sir Alexander Macdonald, 7th Baronet, 14th Chief of Sleat (1711 – 23 November 1746) was a Scottish Chief of Clan Macdonald of Sleat.[1]
Macdonald was born in 1711. He was the son of Sir James Macdonald, 6th Baronet and the former Janet Macleod. From his mother's first marriage to John Macleod, 2nd of Talisker (a grandson of Sir Roderick MacLeod, 15th Chief of Clan MacLeod), he had an elder half-brother, Donald MacLeod, 3rd of Talisker. From his parents' marriage, his siblings included Margaret Macdonald (wife of Sir Robert Douglas, 6th Baronet) and Janet Macdonald (wife of Sir Alexander Mackenzie, 5th Baronet).[2]
His paternal grandparents were Sir Donald Macdonald, 3rd Baronet and Lady Mary Douglas (a daughter of the 8th Earl of Morton and Anne Villiers). His maternal grandparents were Alasdair MacLeod, 2nd of Grishornish and Margaret MacQueen.[2]
Career
Upon the death of his father in 1723, he succeeded as the 7th Baronet Macdonald, of Sleat, in the Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire, created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia in 1625. In 1745, despite being expected to support the Jacobite cause during the rising of that year, he backed the Government, almost the only person in the district to do so.[3] The Jacobite historian Melville Henry Massue assessed that it was the defection of Macdonald and MacLeod of MacLeod that largely contributed the failure of the rebellion.[4]
