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Alexander “Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair” MacDonald

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Alexander “Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair” MacDonald

Birth
Death
1770 (aged 71–72)
Burial
Arisaig, Highland, Scotland Add to Map
Plot
unknown plot in the old Roman Catholic cemetery at Arisaig.
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Alexander MacDonald; year of birth approximate
Gaelic: Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair (lit. Alexander, son of the Reverend Alexander)

Scottish poet, lexicographer, political writer and memoirist, respected as perhaps the finest Gaelic language poet of the 18th century.
He served as a Jacobite military officer and Gaelic tutor to Prince Charles Edward Stuart.
Alexander MacDonald; year of birth approximate
Gaelic: Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair (lit. Alexander, son of the Reverend Alexander)

Scottish poet, lexicographer, political writer and memoirist, respected as perhaps the finest Gaelic language poet of the 18th century.
He served as a Jacobite military officer and Gaelic tutor to Prince Charles Edward Stuart.


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