Son of Norman MacLeod of Drynoch (d. 1748), also known as Tormod Mor, and his wife, a Miss Rose. Married Penelope MacKinnon, with whom he had two children, Norman, who died young, and Penelope, who married the Rev. Kenneth Macaulay, Minister of Cawdor.

Captain MacLeod of Balmeanach has variously been identified as either a John or a Roderick MacLeod, with the possibility that the two are in fact the same person referred to by two different names.

In all probability, the Captain MacLeod encountered by Boswell and Johnson at the top of Rattachan was the son of Donald MacLeod of Balmeanac (ca. 1688-1756).

According to The Brave Sons of Skye, Roderick MacLeod was born in 1728, and, on February 6, 1757, joined the Scots Brigade in Holland as ensign. On January 3, 1763, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant. On March 9, 1774, he became a captain, and in February 1783 his name appears in the Dutch War Office Records with the rank of Major. He retired from the Scots Brigade in 1787. About 1780, Major MacLeod married Miss Campbell, Ardnamurchan , with issue, several sons (all of whom were doctors, and died young) and a daughter, Margaret, who married MacLean of Ostal, in Skye, whose son was the Reverend Roderick MacLean, minister of South Uist.1

According to another source, Roderick returned to Skye to become tacksman of Balmeanach in 1788. When the tack of Balmeanach expired in 1811, Major Roderick MacLeod, who was then eighty-three years of age, took up residence at Vatten, in the parish of Duirinish, where he died, according to the SCOTS MAGAZINE, on October 31, 1814, aged eighty-six years. He was the last of the family to occupy Balmeanach.2

• 1See The Brave Sons of Skye (1899) by Lieut-Col. John MacInnes, VD.
• 2http://www.macleodgenealogy.com/ACMS/D0089/I2670.html

Gaelic poet, who was also Innkeeper at Anoch near Glenmoriston at least during the 1770s and 1780s.1

According to a footnote in an edition of Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides published in 1860, "Macqueen was a gentleman of the old Highland stamp, who considered himself a public benefactor by condescending to keep a change-house. He was married to a laird's daughter, and could both read Latin and write Celtic poetry. He was famous in the glen for his ready wit and his talent at telling a story or rehearsing a legend. Still he kept a sharp eye on the main chance; and he grumbled because his farm was too dear. He paid twenty pounds of rent; and he told Johnson that he kept one hundred sheep, as many goats, twelve milch cows, and twenty-eight beeves, ready for the drover. He had also a coonsiderable range of hill-ground, capable of grazing from fifty to sixty cattle in summer; and it was generally let to the low-country farmes about Inverness and Nainshire. In addition to the land he had the advantage of the inn - not great, perhaps, yet the road through Glenmoriston was the main artery of communication with the West Highlands and islands, and the inn at Anoch was a drovestance oor resting-place for the cattle going south from Skye. [...] He lived at Anoch fifteen years after his entertainment of the olla Sassenach, or jolly Englishman, as he used to call Johnson. He then removed to Dalcataig, another farm in the neighbourhood, and survived till past ninety. His pretty daughter, who made tea for the travellers, became Mrs. Mackintosh, wife of a watchmaker in Morayshire, and died without issue."2

• 1Anoch was located on what is today the Achlain grounds between the A887 and the River Moriston.
• 2This edition was edited and annotated by Robert Carruthers of Inverness, published by Routledge, Warne and Routledge

Military officer. Son of a Physician in London of the same name.

According to a 19th century volume of correspondence between Mrs. Grant of Laggan and her friends, Leitch "was sent very early into the army, full of romantic prejudices, which led him into boundless profusion and endless errors. With great purity of heart, and uprightness of intention, he very early dissipated his patrimonty, and soon after was so much in debt as to be obliged to sell his commission, about the period when this letter was written [1775, ed.]."1

• 1In Letter from the Mountains; Being the correspondence with her friends between the years 1773 and 1803, of Mrs. Grant of Laggan (1845), in a footnote to a letter from Mrs. Grant to Nancy Ourry, dated August 10, 1775.

British military officer, the son of Louis Ourry (1682-1771), a Huguenot refugee from Blois, and his wife Anne Louise Beauvais. He was married and had at least one child, Anne (ca. 1750-aft. 1819), who married James Furzer of the Royal Marines (d. 1799) in 1794. One of Ourry's brothers was Paul Henry Ourry (1719-1783), who served as Member of Parliament for Plympton Earle from 1763 to 1775.

As a Captain in the British Army, Ourry spent several years in America, serving in the 60th Regiment of Foot ("The Royal American") from 1756 to 1765. From 1760 to 1764 he was even commander of Fort Bedford, an important logistic link between Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and Fort Pitt (located in present day Pittsburgh), where Ourry was charged with the duty of paying the troops on the frontier, contracting for provisions and supplies, hiring or impressing wagons, teams packhorses and their drivers, and keeping accounts of the King's money spent in all these transactions.

After some years in London, in 1772 he Ourry purchased a company in the 15th Regiment of Foot, and he became stationed at Fort Augustus in Scotland until 1774. In the fall of 1774, Ourry went with the regiment to Ireland and stayed with it until 1777, when it was ordered to America. Ourry sold his commission, purchasing instead the Majority at the Fort at Kinsale. He died there in 1779, having also become Commissary for Prisoners of War.

The primary biographical source for information about Ourry is Donald Cornu's 1952 article "Captain Lewis Ourry, Royal American Regiment of Foot", published in Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, vol 19 no. 3.

Captain in the 7th Regiment of Foot in the American War and promoted to Major while there ca. 1776. Newmarsh was married to Mary Trapaud (d. 1791), with whom he had at least two children. One, Alexander Newmarsh, was a Captain in the 17th Regiment of Foot who died at Santo Domingo in 1796. The other, John Ludovez Newmarsh, lived until at least 1825 and was party to a prolonged series of court disputes concerning the property of his late father-in-law (d. 1796) and his second wife (d. 1798).

Born in Dublin, the son of a Huguenot refugee family. Married at least twice, to Elizabeth Wade (d. 1774) and to Anna Campbell (d. 1798). He also had a daughter from a previous relationship. She married Timothy Newmarsh, probably sometime around 1770. Trapaud's younger brother was General Cyrus Trapaud (1715-1801). 

A military officer, Trapaud was Deputy Governor of Fort Augustus at the southern end of Loch Ness from sometime between 1746 and 1753 until his death in 1796.1 He had previously been Aid-de-Camp to Major-General Henry Ponsonby (1685-1745) at the battle of Fontenoy, when the general was killed by his side. He was afterwards Aid-de-Camp to General John Huske (ca. 1692-1761) at the battle of Culloden, when he was himself wounded.

According to a stone erected on the Kilcumein burial ground by his widow, Anna, Alexander Trapaud was "a brave Officer, Pious Christian and Faithful Friend, who served his king and Country for 63 years."

• 1The actual Governors of Fort George and Fort Augustus during Trapaud's tenure were Sir Charles Howard (1752-1765) and Studholme Hodgson (1765-1798), but as that office was largely sinecure, Trapaud,as Deputy Governor, was the de facto governor and principal authority of the fort for most of his time there.

English peer, politician and courtier who served as a Lord of the Bedchamber to King George III in 1769.

Herbert was the son of Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke (1693-1743) and Mary FitzWilliam. In 1756 he married Lady Elizabeth Spencer (1737-1831), a daughter of the Duke of Marlborough, with whom he had two children. He is also known to have had several mistresses, one of whom bore him a child who was given the remarkable name Augustus Retnuh Reebkomp.

He was educated at Eton College, and was styled Lord Herbert until he succeeded to his father's earldom in 1749. He became a Lieutenant-General in the Army, later Colonel of the 1st Regiment of Dragoons. He became an authority on breaking cavalry horses and in 1755 built an indoor Riding School at Wilton House.

As his London townhouse, Herbert purchased 40 Queen Anne St, Marylebone which he used for entertaining during the "London season". In 1760 he was sent with his regiment to Germany to take part in the Seven Years' War as a Major-General in command of the Cavalry Brigade in Germany until the following year. In 1761 he wrote the British Army's manual on riding, Military Equitation: or A Method of Breaking Horses, and Teaching Soldiers to Ride, which had already reached a 4th edition by 1793, and his methods were adopted throughout the British cavalry.

Sometime Collector of Excise in Inverness (abt. 1773). Formerly of Ayr.

Daughter of Charles Hutchinson, who was governor of St. Helena from 1746 to 1764. On July 8, 1763, she married the distinguished soldier, later to become MP, Sir Eyre Coote.