Donald Maclean, 1st Laird of Brolas

Donald MacLean, 1st Laird of Brolas (c. 1600 – after 1655), was a Scottish Laird of Clan MacLean who fought in the battle of Battle of Inverkeithing. He was the first Laird of Brolas.[1]

Donald MacLean, 1st Laird of Brolas
Born	c. 1600
Died	after 1655
Title	Laird of Brolas
Successor	Lauchlan Maclean, 2nd Laird of Brolas, son
Children	Lauchlan Maclean, 2nd Laird of Brolas
Parent(s)	Hector Og Maclean, 15th Clan Chief
Relatives	John Hans Makeléer, brother Donald Maclean of Brolas, great-grandson

Early years

His father was Hector Og Maclean, 15th Clan Chief and his mother was a daughter of Sir Archibald Acheson, 1st Baronet.[1][2] Donald was the first son of Hector's second marriage.[1] His brother was John Hans Makeléer.[3]

Marriage and children

He married Florence Maclean, the daughter of John Garbh Maclean, 7th Laird of Coll and had the following children:

• Lauchlan Maclean, 2nd Laird of Brolas, who was the Member of Parliament for Argyllshire. His descendant, Sir Allan Maclean, 6th Baronet, became the Clan Chief when the previous chief died without an heir.[2][3][4][5]
• Mor Maclean of Brolas[4]
• Hector Og Maclean of Brolas, who married Janet, daughter of MacNeil of Barra. He had a son, John Maclean of Brolas who married Finovia of Garmony. John Maclean of Brolas then had as his son, Donald Maclean of Brolas who married and had Sir Hector Maclean, 7th Baronet. Donald married a second time and had Sir Fitzroy Jeffreys Grafton Maclean, 8th Baronet.[3][4]

Ancestors

Donald Maclean, 1st Laird of Brolas's ancestors in three generations

Donald Maclean, 1st Laird of Brolas	Father: Hector Og Maclean, 15th Clan Chief	Paternal Grandfather: Sir Lachlan Mor Maclean	Paternal Great-Grandfather: Eachuinn Og Maclean
			Paternal Great-grandmother: Janet, daughter of Archibald Campbell, 4th Earl of Argyll
		Paternal Grandmother: Margaret Cunningham of Glencairn	Paternal Great-Grandfather: William Cunningham, 6th Earl of Glencairn
			Paternal Great-Grandmother: Janet, daughter of Sir John Gordon of Lochinvar
	Mother: Isabella Acheson of Gosford	Maternal Grandfather: Sir Archibald Acheson, 1st Baronet	Maternal Great-Grandfather: Captain Patrick Acheson
			Maternal Great-Grandmother:
		Maternal Grandmother: Agnes Vernor or Margaret Hamilton	Maternal Great-grandfather:
			Maternal Great-Grandmother:

References

1. MacLean, John Patterson (1889). A History of the Clan MacLean from Its First Settlement at Duard Castle, in the Isle of Mull, to the Present Period: Including a Genealogical Account of Some of the Principal Families Together with Their Heraldry, Legends, Superstitions, Etc. R. Clarke & Company. p. 224. On the death of Sir Hector MacLean, the title of baronet devolved upon Allan MacLean of Brolass. Sir Allan MacLean, 4th Laird of Brolas, and a descendant of Donald, first laird, who was the first son of the second marriage of Hector Og, fifteenth chief of MacLean, and from his father acquired the lands in Brolass, Mull. Donald was at the battle of Inverkeithing with his chief, who was killed, and then became the tutor of Sir Allan, the nineteenth chieftain. Donald was married to Florence, daughter of John Garbh, seventh laird of Coll, by whom he had three sons, Lachlan, who succeeded him, Hector Mor and Hector Og, who married Janet, daughter of MacNeil of Barra. He left two sons, Donald, who died young, and John, married to Florence, daughter of Allan MacLean of Gormony, whose issue was Donald, a merchant in Glasgow, and Hector, a merchant in Jamaica.
2. "MacLean". Retrieved 26 August 2007. Sir Lachlan’s elder son, still another Hector Og, married a daughter of the eleventh chief of Kintail, and their son Lachlan was the first baronet of Duart. By a second marriage, with a daughter of Sir Archibald Acheson of Gosford, he had another son, Donald of Brolas, whose son Lauchlan became M.P. for Argyllshire, and whose descendants were to inherit the chiefship as sixth and successive baronets.
3. Scotland's Historic Heraldry. Boydell Press. ISBN 1-84383-261-5. A particularly interesting Scoto-Swedish family (Chart 20.4), whose members remained in touch with their Highland cousins, is that of MacLean or Macklier. ... By his second wife, Isabella, daughter of Sir Archibald Acheson, he had two further sons, Donald, 1st of Brolas (died after 1655), whose ...
4. Genealogical Collections Concerning Families in Scotland. 1900. He married first the 2d daughter of Colin Mackenzie of Kintail, predecessor of the present Earl of Seaforth, by whom he had Eachin Mor his eldest Son, who succeeded him, and Lauchlan, who also succeeded him. He married again a daughter of Atcheson of Gosefoord, by whom he had Donald, of whom Brolos is descended and John Duidh.
5. "Sir Lachlan Hector Charles Maclean, Bt, CVO, DL". Clan Maclean. Archived from the original on 22 April 2010. Retrieved 2 March 2009. Sir Lachlan Maclean was born on the 25th of August in 1942. As the 28th hereditary chief of the Clan Maclean, he has worked to enhance the revival of world-wide clan kinship that the Internet Age has fostered. The work of both Sir Lachlan and his late wife, Lady Mary Maclean, was recognized when Duart castle was awarded the Caledonian MacBrayne Award for Excellence in Tourism in 2008. Their accomplishment made Duart Castle, the ancestral home of the Clan Maclean, accessible to the families it once protected.