Hello: I have been off this list for a couple of weeks as I was in Bristol checking out my Mothers side and also inspecting the progress on the S.S. Great Britain for Sandra Beckett. Returned with a nasty cold. Many Thanks Linda for this obituary on Mary MacLeod, wife of Dr Alexander MacLeod. I have attached a short write-up of how her husband died. He is still very highly regarded in the Hebrides and there is a statue to him in North Uist. This Dr Alexander MacLeod would be an Uncle of Dr Alexander Arbuckle and Captain Norman Arbuckle. Dr MacLeod was a younger brother of Flora (MacLeod) Arbuckle. I am almost sure there was a John Campbell MacLeod and a brother maybe Murdoch MacLeod in Australia and I would like to hear from anyone reseaching any MacLeod names as I do have 2 books, so far, on the MacLeod name. Thanks to Everyone Lorraine Ottawa, Canada Excerpt from The MacLeod's of Rigg ALEXANDER MACLEOD (DR), so well and popularly known in the Western Isles as "AN DOITAR BAN". He was for many years chamberlain for Lord MacDonald in Skye and North Uist and afterwards for Clanranald in South Uist and Benbecula and was probably the most popular man who ever acted in that capacity in the Highlands. He is still affectionately remembered by many of the oldest people in the Long Island and there are many evidences of his good work yet to be seen in the Outer Hebrides. His attainments as a scholar are said to have been very high and as a medical man his skill was highly appreciated. He was always at the service of the people, generally without fee or reward of any kind except the pleasure he derived from doing good. It is therefore not surprising that he gained the affection and confidence of the population, in all his professional and business relations with them, in a manner not attained by any other factor in modern times. Neither trouble nor distance dettered him from giving the poorest of the people the benefit of his skill, whenever and wherever within his reach they might be required, until he lost his life, while engaged in this work of mercy, at Loch Hourn, on the mainland, when he fell over a precipice returning from visiting a poor shepherd's family during a dark night in that wild and rocky region. He married Mary, daughter of Kenneth Campbell of Strond, Harris, (by his wife, Anne, daughter of Donald MacLeod, The Trojan (29 children) of Bernera, by his third wife, Margaret MacLeod.