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 MACDONALD. 195 MACDONALD, or MACDONNELL. No les* than four persons of tin's name were raised to the Peerage (3 as Barons and one as a Baroness) in 1716 by the titular King James III.( a ) the designation of whose peerages [MACDONALD ?] have not been ascertained. These were (1) PeNKLOPK Macdonald, da. of Col. Mackenzie, Gov. of Tangier, widow of Alan Macdonald, of Clanranald, who, having joined the rising of 1715 on behalf of the Stuart dynasty, was slain s.p. at SheriQuiuir (2) Ranald Mac- donald, of Clanranald (br. to Alan aboveuamed) who d. unm. at St. Germains in 1725 (3) Alistair Macdonald, or Macdonnell, of Glengarry, bearer of the Royal standard at Killiecrankie, who d. 1724, being ancestor of the present race of Macdonnell, of Glengarry, and (4) Slit Donald Macdonald, 2d Bart. [S.], of Slate, attainted 1718, whose only a., Donald, d. unm. in 1720. MACDONALD OF EARNSCLIFFE. Bavony. l. IU.me Svsax-Agnes Macdonald, widow of the Rt. I 1S91 H " n - SlR JolIN Alexander Macdonald, G.C.B., Prime Minister of L ' the Dominion of Canada, was in consideration of her late husband's services it. (within three mouths of his death), 14 Aug. 1891, BARONESS MACDONALD OF EARNSCLIFFE, in the Province of Outario and Dominion of Canada. He was 1st s. of Hugh Macdonald, of Kingston iu Canada west, was b. 1815 ; ed. at the Grammar School at Kingston afsd. ; was Barrister, 183b' ; Queen's Counsel, 1S46 ; Attorney Gen., 1854-02, 1S04-G7, and Prime Minister of Canada, 1867-73, and 1875-01, being the first Premier of the United Provinces. P.C., 1879. He was K.C.B. I Civil Extra), 18(37, and G.C.B. 1SS4 ; Knight Grand Cross of Isabella the Catholic of Spain ; D.C.L. (Oxford), 21 June 1S65 ; LL.D. Queen's Univ., Canada, 4c. He la, firstly Isabella, da. of Alexander Clark, of Daluavert, co. Inverness. He m. secondly, 3 Sep. 1867, the aboveuamed Susan Agnes, who was da. of T. J. Bernard, a member of the Privy Council of Jamaica, lie d. s.p., (i June 1891, in hi* 87th year, at Ottawa, Canada, and vas bur. at Kingston. His widow, the suojurc Baroness, living 1S93. MACDONALD OF SLATE. Barony. 1. Sir Alexander M acdonald,('') Bail( c ) [S.], of Slate, 1 1 77G m " U! ^kye, co. Inverness, 3d s. of Sir Alexander Macdonald, 7th Bart.( b ) fS/J by his second wife, Margaret, da. of Alexander (Montgomery), 9th Earl ok Eclinton [S.], was b. about 1745 ; was sometime (1761-(ili), an officer in the Coldstream Guards ; sue. his elder br. James (who d. unm. at Rome, aged 24), 26 July 1766 as 9th BaronetP) [8.J, and was cr. 17 July 1776, BARON MACDONALD OF SLATE, co. Antrim [!.](<*) He m. 3 May 176S, at St. Giles in the fields, Elizabeth Diana, 1st da. of (whose issue in 1813 became coheir to) Godfrey BosvILK, of Guuthwaite, co. York, by Diana, da. of Sir (") See vol. i, p. 59, note " b," mb "Albemarle," for a list of "Jacobite Peerages." (•>) This family descend from Hugh Macdonald, an illegit. br. of John, Earl of Koss [S.] (who d. 149S), thro' Donald Macdonald of Slate, who claimed to be " Lord of the hies," and who was attainted and executed iu 1537. See vol, iv, p. 324, note "c." sub "Isles." («) The second Baronet is said to have been attainted iu 1716, and it is not very elear how the forfeiture of the dignity (thereby presumably occasioned), is explained away. It is, however, recognised, as existing, in the docquet of the creation of the peerage in 1776. ( a ) " Slate, co. Antrim " is uon existant, the place alluded to being Slate or Sleat in Scotland, Such fictions were not (infrequently used when Scotchmen were (after the union with Scotland) raised to the peerage ; e.g., a Barony of Kilbryde, co. Cavan, and an Earldom called Fife in Ireland, conferred (1735 and 1759), on William Duff, &e. Similar instances are also to be found in England as " Mansfield, co Middlesc^' 1792 ; &c. O 2