Landowner, sportsman and soldier, Alasdair Ranaldson Macdonell epitomised the image of the Highland clan chieftain. In this first full biography, Brian D Osborne has researched the man's character and examines his life against the background of major change in post-Culloden Scottish society. Contradictory, confused and controversial, Macdonell had a high public profile and a aggressive, extravagant nature. He ambaced the new - the conversion of clan chiefs from pate...
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