Hector Maclean
| Hector Maclean | |||||||||
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| Born | 1818 | ||||||||
| Died | 1893 | ||||||||
| Residence | Ballygrant, Islay, Scotland | ||||||||
| Occupation | educator | ||||||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
House Notes
MacClean in 4th, 5th list
proposed 1867.01.15
Notes From Elsewhere
Detail of inscription in Gaelic and English "IN MEMORY OF HECTOR MACLEAN A NATIVE OF ISLAY AND A DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR ESPECIALLY EMINENT IN CELTIC LITERATURE AND ANTHROPOLOGY BORN 1818 DIED 1893"
Hector MacLean is nearly six feet in height, and carries with ease the weight of seventy-one summers. He lives at Ballygrant, Islay.
Hector MacLean, who was later to become schoolmaster at Ballygrant on Islay, and a co-collector with John Francis Campbell when the two searched the Highlands and Islands for the old folktales of Gaeldom.
Hector was a man with a brilliant intellect, suffocating in the pedantic atmosphere of the classroom and teaching dull children. Campbell's request that he take some time off his work to travel around the Highlands and Islands was like a breath of fresh air. Not only was MacLean a fine Gaelic scholar, but he knew exactly what Campbell was looking for: the genuine folktale which reflected the ancient past of the Gael. -
Publications
External Publications
Hector MacLean wrote most of the 'History of Iain Òg Ìle'.
House Publications
On the Kimmerian and Atlantean Races 1872
