Alexander Mackenzie of Park House in Inverness was born in Gairloch in 1838. The son of a crofter and fisherman, he became a prolific author who founded the Celtic Magazine and the Scottish Highlander as well as writing several excellent family histories and other works. He died in 1898.

Now available on CD-ROM, this eBook contains high quality images of an original copy of Mackenzie's classic work examining the various septs of the Macleod family, as originally published in Inverness in 1889. As with all our eBooks, the text is fully searchable to a very high degree of accuracy in Adobe Acrobat/Reader.

Of interest to Macleods / McLeods and their kin the world over, the chapters commence with a study of the origins of Clan Macleod. Then follow over 180 pages containing biographical notes relating to the eponymous Leod and subsequent Clan Chiefs and their offspring up until the end of the 19th century. This is followed by over 250 pages of genealogies : examined are the Macleods of Skye and Dunvegan including their cadet families in Gesto, the Netherlands, Meidle, Glendale, Luskentyre, Drynoch, Talisker, Bernera, Muiravonside, Hamer, Greshornish, Ulinish, Dalvey and Orbost ; the Macleods of Lewis and Raasay along with their cadet families in Rigg, Eyre, Assynt, Geanies and Cadboll ; Clan Mcleod of Morven, and others including many members of the Clan who sought their fortune overseas.