Alexander Ranaldson Macdonell

Alexander Ranaldson MacDonell of Glengarry
Portrait of MacDonell of Glengarry in 1812 by Henry Raeburn.
Born(1773-09-15)15 September 1773
Died17 January 1828(1828-01-17) (aged 54)
NationalityScottish
Alma materUniversity College, Oxford
Known for15th chief of Clan MacDonell of Glengarry

Colonel Alexander Ranaldson MacDonell of Glengarry (15 September 1773 – 17 January 1828), sometimes called by the Gaelic version of his name, Alastair or Alasdair, was clan chief of Clan MacDonell of Glengarry. As was customary for a laird (landed proprietor in Scotland), MacDonell was often called Glengarry after his principal estate.

Glengarry's haughty and flamboyant personality, as expressed in his character and behaviour, gave Walter Scott the model for the wild Highland clan chieftain Fergus Mac-Ivor in the pioneering 1810 historical novel Waverley. Glengarry was the fifth Lord MacDonell in the Jacobite peerage.[1]

  1. ^ Marquis de Ruvigny et Raineval, The Jacobite peerage, baronetage, knightage, and grants of honour, extracted, by permission, from the Stuart papers now in possession of his Majesty the King at Windsor Castle, and supplemented by biographical and genealogical notes (2003 reprint), p. 88