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The Reverend Patrick McDonald and Dr. Keith Norman ~2026-37994 (talk) 19:18, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

I was going to add that they are essential figures in the preservation of Scottish Music whose work is still being published today. But they do not have Wikipedia entries. The Rev. MacDonald even has a DNB entry and therefore should meet the notability threshold. I have prepared draft entries with help of leading academics who have written about both, but request help from a more experienced editor for the publishing of this entries. How do I go about this. ~2026-37994 (talk) 19:24, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

WIKIPEDIA ENTRY OUTLINE

The Rev. Patrick Macdonald (1729–1824), Minister and pioneering collector of Gaelic music.

Notability Summary

Patrick Macdonald was a Scottish minister and musicologist recognised for compiling the seminal A Collection of Highland Vocal Airs (HVA, 1784). He is considered the pioneering codifier of Gaelic music in print and remains an archival benchmark for specialists [1][2].

Wikipedia General Notability Guideline (GNG) Key Points and Citation Focus

Overall Significance: Macdonald’s HVA is considered a foundational and seminal work in Scottish music history and a critical cultural intervention of the late 18th-century movement to preserve Highland heritage [1][3].

Methodology & Classification: The HVA is noted for pioneering a rigorous four-zone geographical classification of airs, which serves as a musicological template for later collectors [4].

Dual Legacy (Piping): His notability rests heavily on his Dual Contribution to both vocal (HVA) and instrumental/piping traditions. He ensured the publication of his brother Joseph’s first comprehensive theory of classical piping (A Compleat Theory, 1803) [5][6][10]

Enduring Use & Archival Status: His collection is continually published in modern editions, confirming its ongoing status as an archival benchmark for specialists researching early Gaelic harp and piobaireachd [7][8].

Biographical Details and Connections

Served as the Minister of Kilmore for 69 years [9].

Family Musical Context: He came from a musically inclined clerical family, including his father the Rev. Murdoch Macdonald, his grandfather, his sister Flora an accomplished instrumentalist, and his brother Joseph was a prodigy composer [10].

He married. 28th Dec. 1757, Barbara (died 13th June 1804), daugh. of Alexander Macdonald of Keppoch (who fell at Culloden) [9]

His family network links him to three independently notable figures who continued the pursuit of Highland culture:

His son-in-law was the antiquarian Kenneth Macleay the elder (1768–1858) [10].

His grandson was the miniature painter Kenneth Macleay the younger (1802–1878) [10].

His great-granddaughter was the poet Alice MacDonell (1854–1938) [12]

Final Source List (Non-Contentious)

1. Purser, John (1992). Scotland’s Music: A History of the Traditional and Classical Music of Scotland. Mainstream Publishing. (Monograph).

2. Beard, Ellen (2021). “Scottish Gaelic Song Collectors: Patrick and Joseph Macdonald.” Review of Scottish Culture. (Peer-reviewed journal).

3. MacDonald, D. E. (2018). The Highland Musical Tradition: Preservation and Polemics in the Scottish Enlightenment. (Monograph).

4. Shuttleworth, S. E. (2015). “Classification and Cultural Identity in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Music Collections.” Eighteenth-Century Scotland 29. (Peer-reviewed article).

5. Donaldson, William (2000). The Highland Pipe and Scottish Society 1750–1950. (Monograph).

6. Cannon, Roderick D. (1994). A Bibliography of Bagpipe Music. (Bibliographic Authority).

7. Rimmer, Joan (1989). The Irish and Highland Harps in the Eighteenth Century. (Monograph).

8. Macdonald, Patrick (2000). The Patrick MacDonald Collection: Highland Vocal Airs. Taigh na Teud. (Proof of publication in 2000).

9. Scott, Hew (1923). Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae… Vol. IV. (Historical clergy register).

10. Glen, John (1891). “Biographical Sketches of Early Scottish Musicians and Musicsellers.” In The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music. (Historical Monograph, supports Joseph/Flora/anecdotes).

11. Brydall, R. J. (1889). Art in Scotland: Its Origin and Progress. (Monograph, confirms Macleay family link).

12. MacDonell, Alice Claire (1938). Obituary in The Oban Times (or similar contemporary press).

Dictionary of National Biography Entry https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Macdonald,_Patrick

Cut Paper Silhouette of the Rev. Patrick from the National Galleries of Scotland Collection

https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/3093

Cites Scott's Fasti Eccl. Scot. ‘Synod of Argyll’, p. 50; Presbytery Registers; Johnson’s Scots’ Musical Museum. ed. 1853, i. 51; Glen's Coll. of Scottish Dance Music, Introd., Edinb. 1891.

Entry in Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae… Vol. IV (p.94-95):

https://electricscotland.com/bible/fastiecclesiaesc04scot.pdf

PATRICK MACDONALD, born 22nd 7 7 April 1729, son of Murdoch M., min. of Durness ; educated at Univ. of Aberdeen ; became tutor to the two sons of Captain Gunn from Holland; licen. by Presb. of Edinburgh 31st March, ord. by them 30th June as missionary at Strontian, and pres. by Archibald, Duke of Argyll, 12th Oct. 1756 ; trans, and adm. 12th May 1757 ; died Father of the Church, 25th Sept. 1824. It is said that during the whole period of his life he was never a day confined by sickness. A Manuscript Diary of his father gives some curious particulars as to M.’s settlement here. The living is spoken of as one of the ” best in the county,” though the stipend was barely above £70. “This was competed for by

several ministers of figure, standing, and with strong connections in that county, but the application in favour of my poor lad prevailed, and much of his success under God was owing to the regard for his sister Flora.” He was a well-informed writer on Scottish Music and a player on various instruments. He marr. 28th Dec. 1757, Barbara (died 13th June 1804), daugh. of Alexander Macdonald of Keppoch : she was a Roman Catholic and attended neither public nor family worship with her husband. They had issue—Alexander, born 11th Dec. 1758 ; Murdoch, born 29th June 1760, died 10th Feb. 1763; Janet (twin), born 29th June 1760 ; Ronald, born 2nd April 1762; Ann, born 20th March 1764 ; Dugald, born 26th Dec. 1766, died 12th Feb. 1768; Joseph (twin), born 26th Dec. 1766, died 20th July 1767 ; James, born 12th June 1768; John, born 1st Nov., and died 28th Dec. 1769 ; Donald, min. of Killean, born 21st Aug. 1771 ; Flora, born 7th March 1773 (marr. Kenneth M’Leay, surgeon) ; Eliza- beth, born 13th Sept., and died 7th Nov. 1775; Archibald, born 10th Aug. 1779. Publications — A Collection of Highland Vocal Airs never hitherto published [edited with the assistance of his brother Joseph Macdonald and the Rev. Walter Young, who composed the basses and wrote the pre-liminary Dissertation] (Edinburgh, 1784); Account of the Parish (Sinclair’s Stat. Ace). —[Johnson’s Scots Musical Museum (1853); Glen’s Collection of Scot. Dance Music (Edinburgh, 1891); MS. Diary; Campbell Fraser’s Biographia Philosophica, 32 ; Diet. Nat. Biog.]

Obituary by Dr. K.N. Macdonald, The Celtic Monthly, vol.VI 1898. Page 135-136

REV. PATRICK MACDONALD OF KILMORE

The first Collector of Gaelic Music.

THE REV. PATRICK MACDONALD, the first and one of the greatest collectors of Gaelic music, was born at the manse of Durness, in Sutherlandshire, on the 22nd April, 1729, and died at Kilmore, Argyllshire, on the 25th September, 1824, at the great age of 95. He was licensed as a preacher on the 12th October, 1756, and was presented to the parishes of Kilmore and Kilbride, where he officiated for the long period of 69 years. Tall of stature, with a commanding figure, light blue eyes, and remarkable ability, he was both highly respected and a striking figure in his district. He inherited a great taste for music from both his father and grandfather. His father, the Rev. Murdoch Macdonald, to whom Rob Donn Mackay composed an elegy, was a man of wonderful talents, and he taught his children the principles of music, besides encouraging them in the acquisition of the art.

Patrick, and his brother Joseph, who was the greater musical genius of the two, were at an early age pupils of Kenneth Sutherland of Cnockbreak, a well-known and famous violinist. Mr. John Glen of Edinburgh in his splendid collection of strathspey music — which should be in the hands of every Scotsman — gives a biographical sketch of all the noted strathspey players and composers, and amongst others gives full details of the career of the subject of the present sketch, and his talented brother Joseph, and their sister Flora, who afterwards married Dr. Touch, minister of St. Cuthbert’s Chapel of Ease. Regarding Patrick’s education, he was sent in 1737 to his grandfather’s at Pittenweem, in Fife, where he spent some time. On his return home his father took charge of his education, and in 1747 sent him to the University of Aberdeen where he completed his studies for the church, and was licensed, as already mentioned, in 1756.

His ministerial office appears to have deterred him from becoming a bagpipe player like his brother Joseph, but as a violinist he was unsurpassed in his day, and Mr. Glen relates an anecdote of him, that being in Edinburgh on one occasion as a member of the General Assembly of the Church, he was urged by Stabilini, who was indisposed, to act as his substitute for the evening. He agreed to do so, and it is said that he executed his part so well that his audience’ were charmed and delighted.

Some of his clerical brethren wished to take him to task for this performance in a play-house, but their courage must have failed them on account of his ability and the general esteem in which he was held.

He published his great collection of Gaelic music in 1784, most of which was left by his brother Joseph, who died in India. Had he not undertaken this important work, it is probable that Captain Fraser’s would never have been undertaken, consequently many of our ancient Highland melodies would have perished. In a very learned and well written preface to his work, which must have entailed very extensive reading and research, he gives a graphic account of our ancient music, and the influence of poetry and music upon the Highlanders, with a description of the harp and bagpipes, carrying back his remarks to the music of Orpheus and the Thracian bards. He classified the vocal airs into North Highland airs, Perthshire airs, Argyllshire airs, and Western Isles airs, and the strathspey music into North Highland and Western Isles reels. This division was very important, as by it we can now tell many of the airs that were peculiar to particular districts.

Like many others he lamented the decay of Scottish music among the better classes, and the mad rush after anything English or foreign, and even in his day predicted that in twenty years his native music would have been lost had he not undertaken the task of publishing his collection. No doubt it would have done so to a great extent, but the impulse he gave to the subject was not lost upon subsequent collectors, and his name is so far identified with our Gaelic music that all future collectors must acknowledge the debt of gratitude all Highlanders owe to him for having preserved much of what would inevitably have been lost for ever.

In 1757 he married Barbara, third daughter of Alexander Macdonald, 16th Chief of Keppoch, “the gallant Keppoch of 1745,” by whom he had a family of nine sons and four daughters. This Alexander (his father-in-law) drew first blood in the cause of Prince Charles by defeating and taking prisoner Lieutenant Scott, afterwards General Scott of Balcannie, who was proceeding from Fort-Augustus to Fort-William with two hundred men; thirty men of Keppoch’s only were present fighting in guerilla fashion, with pipes playing. Scott’s men were overcome. Keppoch took the Lieutenant’s horse with him to the Gathering of the Clans at Glentinnan, where the Prince’s standard was raised a few days after, presented it to the Prince, who rode that horse through his unfortunate campaign, though he often preferred to walk along with his devoted Highlanders. Keppoch was killed at the battle of Culloden on the 16th April, 1746. By this marriage the subject of our sketch became connected with one of the most distinguished families in the Highlands, who claim descent from Robert the Bruce, and by the marriage of his third daughter Flora to Dr. Kenneth Macleay of Oban, his descendants claim further connection with the distinguished families of the Stewarts of Appin and the Campbells of Lochnell, who trace their descent from John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster, the Plantagenet and Norman lines. The photo- graph produced is from the fine portrait painted by his grandson, the late Kenneth Macleay, R.S.A., the eminent Scottish artist, who was married to a daughter of Sir James Campbell of Ardkinglass, and though he was upwards of ninety years of age when the picture was taken, wearing his Kilmarnock, which he always did wear, it indicates great tension of the muscles of the face, a sure sign of conspicuous ability. As an instance of the hereditary talent for special kinds of music, it may here be mentioned that his great-great-grand-daughter. Miss Deans of Edinburgh, is a splendid player of the bagpipes, which she loved from her infancy.

The original picture, from which this photograph was taken, is in the possession of his great-grand-daughter, Mrs. Deans of Edinburgh, who kindly lent it to me, and is the only one that was ever taken of the Rev. Patrick Macdonald.

The history of such an undoubted champion of Highland music — as far as it can now be ascertained — is well worth recording, as it shows forth the spirit of our forefathers.

Late of Gesto Hospital Skye, K. N. Macdonald, M.D.

Entry in Biographical Sketches Of Early Scottish Musicians and Musicsellers by John Glen (1891):

https://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/Glenbios.htm

PATRICK MACDONALD. Patrick MacDonald was born in the Manse of Durness, Sutherlandshire, on 22nd April 1729. His grandfather and father were musically inclined. The latter, the Rev. Murdo Macdonald, to whose memory Rob Donn composed an elegy, was a man of wonderful talents, and he taught his children the principles of music, besides encouraging them in that art.

Mr. Murdo’s career is worthy of notice. He was born on 3rd May 1696, educated at St. Andrews, licensed to preach the Gospel of 25th September 1725, and ordained minister of Durness on 28th September 1726. On 23rd May 1728, he married Agnes, daughter of the Rev. Patrick Cooper of Pittenweem, by whom he had four sons and seven daughters. He dept a Diary extending to 7 volumes, and which contains numerous entries of remarkable interest. It was during his ministry that Robert Calder, usually called Rob Donn, the bard of the Reay country, composed his songs; and the poet’s intercourse with the family was, no doubt, of mutual advantage.

Patrick and his brother Joseph (who was born on 26th February 1739) were at an early age the pupils of Kenneth Sutherland of Cnocbreac, who was known for his remarkable skill in violin-playing. Joseph was the more apt pupil, however, and in addition to being a good violinist, he had some ability as a vocalist. His father relates that, at the age of eight, Joseph led the psalmody in church.

Their sister Flora, afterwards married to Dr. Touch, minister of St. Cuthbert’s Chapel of Ease, equaled, if she did not excel, her brothers as an instrumentalist; and the father not infrequently held a musical evening, when the musicians of his family competed with one antoher, not only in playing airs, but also in composing them. Joseph excelled in composition, and not a few of his airs enjoyed the distinction of having the songs of the local poet made to suit them.

Joseph was educated at the Grammar School of Haddington, the master of which was a friend of his father’s. Receiving an appointment in India, he proceeded thither in 1760, leaving a collection of airs,—compositions of his youth—as a parting gift to one of his sisters. In Persia he got the natives to make for him two or three whistles (Feadain meaghra) on which he practised, and thereby revived and sustained his recollections of the airs he used to play. His career in India, however, was destined to be short; for in 1762 he was seized with a malignant fever, from which he did not recover. A Treatise on the Theory of the Scots Highland Bagpipe written by him, was discovered in Bengal by Sir John Murray Macgregor, Bart., and delivered by him to Patrick, who published it in 1803. From the preface to the collection of Patrick Macdonald, published in 1784 (which is referred to in the Chronological List appended to this work), it may be inferred that the whole of the North Highland Airs—eighty-six in number—were those given by Joseph to his sister.

Patrick (the subject of this article) was in 1737 sent to his grandfather’s at Pittenweem, where he spent some time. On his return home, his father took charge of his education, and in 1747 sent him to the University of Aberdeen. He was duly licensed a preacher, and on 12th October 1756 was presented to Kilmore, where he laboured as a minister of the parish for the long space of sixty-nine years. He was married to Barbara M’Donald, bu whom he had a family of nine sons and four daughters. He died father of the Church, on the 25th of September 1824. His ministerial office appears to have deterred him from becoming a bagpipe player like his brother Joseph, but in his handling of the violin, he is acknowledged to have been unexcelled among his presbyterial brethren. An anecdote is related of him, that being in Ediburgh on the one occasion as a member of the General Assembly of the Church, he was urged by Stabilini (who was indisposed) to act as his substitute for the evening. He agreed to do so, and it is said that he executed his part so well that his audience were charmed and delighted. It is also said that there was some talk of his clerical brethren taking him to task for this performance in a playhouse, but that the general esteem in which he was held saved him from being brought to book. ~2026-37994 (talk) 19:48, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

Final Scaffolding Outline: Dr. Keith Norman MacDonald (1834–1913)

Title: Dr. Keith Norman MacDonald (1834–1913), Physician and influential collector of Highland music.

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Notability Summary

Dr. MacDonald was a Scottish physician and scholar whose work codified and preserved the repertoire of light traditional music and Gaelic literary history during the Gaelic Revival. His notability is secured by sustained scholarly analysis by Professor William Lamb, confirming his role as a foundational figure in Highland musicology [1][2].

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GNG Key Points and Citation Focus

Sustained Analysis: His life and specific works are the subject of dedicated, verified academic papers and biographical essays by Professor William Lamb, proving continued significance and expertise review [1][2].

Literary Scholarship: He was an active intellectual figure, publishing Macdonald Bards from Mediæval Times (1900), a key work that preserved the lineage and poetry of the Clan Donald poets [7][8].

The Skye Collection (1887): This collection standardized the repertoire for light traditional music and remains a core manual for Scottish Country Dance and traditional instrumentalists today [3][4].

The Gesto Collection (1895–1900): His work on Gesto and Puirt-a-Beul is the subject of scholarly study, ensuring its status as a benchmark source for piping and ethnomusicological history, despite historical criticisms of interpretation [1][2][5].

Cultural Network: He promoted the cultural lineage of his predecessors, such as Rev. Patrick Macdonald, in periodicals like The Celtic Monthly [8].

Cultural Impact MacDonald’s Gesto Collection (1895) is a vital source for puirt à beul (mouth music). He preserved the tune 'Brochan Lom', which later achieved global fame in the film Whisky Galore! (1949). This traditional style of Gaelic rhythmic singing was later a major influence on the Oscar-nominated score for Disney/Pixar’s Brave (2012), composed by Patrick Doyle.

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Key Biographical Details

Served as the Medical Officer of Health for the Isle of Skye for many years [9].

His death and career were documented in the British Medical Journal [9].

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Final Source List (Verifiable Academic Sources)

1. Lamb, William. “Dr Keith Norman MacDonald: A Short Biography.” (Verified academic paper).

2. Lamb, William. “120 Years of The Gesto Collection: Celebrating the Collaborations of Dr Keith Norman MacDonald and Miss Frances Tolmie.” (Verified academic paper).

3. Lamb, William (2012). “Keith Norman MacDonald’s Puirt-a-Beul.” Taigh na Teud Music Publishers. (Verified published work).

4. Emmerson, George S. (1971). A Social History of Scottish Dance…. McGill-Queen’s Press. (Monograph, cites Skye Collection influence).

5. Donaldson, William (2000). The Highland Pipe and Scottish Society 1750–1950. (Monograph, confirms Gesto significance).

6. Cannon, Roderick D. (1994). A Bibliography of Bagpipe Music. H. E. Llewellyn. (Bibliographic Authority).

7. MacDonald, K. N. (1900). Macdonald Bards from Mediæval Times. (Primary work of literary scholarship).

8. Macleod, R. C. (1903). The Celtic Monthly: A Magazine for Highlanders. Vol. 11. (Contemporary source for contributions).

9. Obituary: Dr. K. N. Macdonald (1913). The British Medical Journal. (Historical biographical fact).

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Additional Information:

1. Gaelic Literature of the Isle of Skye: an annotated bibliography site compiled by Anne Loughran, which supports much of what is contained in The Great Book of Skye one. But also mentions the following:

A critique in Bassin, Ethel (1977). The Old Songs of Skye: Frances Tolmie and Her Circle. Edited by Derek Bownam. London and Henley: Routledge & Kegan Paul

An obit in Celtic Annual (1914: p.68)

http://www.skyelit.co.uk/poetry/collect8.html

2. Harvard University Loeb Music Library Blog Post:

Puirt-à-Beul – Mouth-tunes: or Songs for Dancing March 15, 2021

States “MacDonald is chiefly remembered for three works”:

- The Gesto Collection of Highland Music (1895)

- The MacDonald Bards from Mediaeval Times (1900)

- Puirt-à-Beul – Mouth-tunes: or Songs for Dancing as Practised from a Remote Antiquity by the Highlanders of Scotland (1901)

https://archive.blogs.harvard.edu/loebmusic/2021/03/15/puirt-a-beul-mouth-tunes-or-songs-for-dancing/

3. Biographical Notes: Dr. Keith Norman Macalister Macdonald

I have listed some notes about the biographical information contained in The Great Book of Skye that might be also be useful:

Commemoration: Mr Martin’s Compliments to Dr Keith MacDonald, a violin Strathspey tune composed by William Martin (1836-1908)

Book Reference: The Great Book of Skye: From the Island to the World: People and Place on a Scottish Island by MacDonald, Norman and Maclean, Cailean (Great Book Publishing: 2014) ISBN: 97809528687

Full Name: Macdonald, Dr. Keith Norman Macalister (23 November 1834 – 1 November 1913)

Place of Birth: Ord, Sleat

Wife, Marriage and Children: Eliza Mary Niblett (d 29 April 1924) of Wardie, Edinburgh, married in 1872, and 5 children (all listed)

Parents: Charles MacDonald (1779-1867 qv) and Ann née Macleod (23 December 1797-13 July 1866)

Notable Relations: Grandson of Neil (alt Niel) Macleod (c 1754- 21 December 1836, qv) of Gesto, author of Collection of Piobaireachd or Pipe Tunes (1828)

Education: Sleat and Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities

Medical Career: Most likely detailed from in his obit in the British Medical Journal

Non-musical Works: Books reflecting his interest in traditional cultures and beliefs, including: Death and How to Divest it of its Terrors (1875), On the Practice of Medicine among the Burmese (1878), An Historical Sketch of the Progress of Medicine from the Earliest Times (1879), and On The Races of Mankind (1884)

Medical Articles: List of articles published in Edinburgh Medical and British Medical Journals (see 1913 BMJ Obit)

Highland Music Works: List that also includes a Reminiscences of Days Lang Syne, for Violin and Piano (1897), which is not listed elsewhere

Musical Articles: A list of musical articles for The Oban Times from 1896-1913 ~2026-37994 (talk) 20:12, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

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Hi everyone,

I would like to request/suggest an article for Anna Campbell-Jones, a Scottish interior designer and television presenter. She is best known as a main judge and presenter on the BBC Scotland series Scotland's Home of the Year (SHOTY), which has run for several series.

Disclosure: I have a professional relationship with the subject, but I am not being compensated for this specific request and I am not writing the article myself to strictly adhere to COI guidelines. I believe she meets the [General Notability Guideline] due to significant coverage in national Scottish press and the BBC.

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Is there anyone here who follows the show or covers Scottish media personalities who might be willing to take this on?

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