The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-08

pointed regent of Scotland in the minority
of Malcolm ", and under his guardian
ship of young Malcolm, then in his elev-
enth year, made a tour of Scotland
and in every district was proclaimed and
received as heir to the crown. David
died in 1853, and Earl Duncan performed
the ceremony of placing the youthful
Malcolm on the inaugural chair, or sacred
stone of Scone, at his coronation. Dun
cans second son,
60 Shaw Gaelic, Seach) Macduff, at his
fathers death, in 1854, became the fifth
Earl of Fife. Shaw, having accompanied
his father and the prince in their tour Of
Scotland, became a great favorite of Mall
colin ". In 1154 he is said to have had
command of the army of Malcolm, and,
for his assistance in quelling an insurrec-
ton among the inhabitants Of Moray, in
1161, the king made him governor of lnver-
ness and presented him with the lands of
Petty and Breachly and the forest Of
Strathearn.
From the high position of his father, he
was styled by the Gaelic-speaking popula-
ton Mac-an Toi-sich (son of the chief, or
foremosD, which became the surname Of
the family. His son,
% Duncan Mac Intosh, became governor
of the castle of Inverness, and was slain
in 1877, at the battle of Torvain, when Tor
phin, SON of Harold, the powerful Earl of
Orkney and Caithness, made a raid into
Inverness. His eight sons and nine grand
sons continued to reside at the castle,
which they defended on numerous occa-
sions from the marauding bands of the
west. Some of them added considera bly,
to the possessions of the family, which
soon took firm root in the north. One OF
these grandscns was the father OF
90 Angus Mac Intosh, sixth chief of the
Clan Mac Intosh. The war cry of the clan
is Loeb ma Macidhr' Qich Moy, the lake
of threa tening, a small lake near the seat
of the chief in Inverness-shire).
I'D Angus Mac Intosh, sixth chief of the
Clan Mac Intosh, married, in 1912, Eva,
the daughter and heiress of Fitzpatrick,
the son of Dugall Dali, who was son OF
Gilli-Chattan, and. by her, acquired the
lands and station of leader of Clan Chat
tan, one of the most powerful of the High
land clans. The badge of Clan Chattan
was Lus nan Craim-sheag ma Bra-oi-laig
(the red whortleberry).
Angus was a chief of great activity and
a stanch supporter of King Robert Bruce,
with whom he took part in the famous
battle of Bannockburn, in 1914.
d2) Ian John Mac Intosh.
Oh Gilchrist Mac Intosh, sometimes call
ed Gilchrist Mac Ian (Gilchrist, son OF Ian,
from which springs the name of John-son)
dD Shaw Nor Great Mac Intosh, or
Macintosh, whose pedigree is given in
ancient manuscripts as Shaw Mac Gill
christ, Mac Ian, Mac Angus. Mac Farqu-
har, etc. (Mac being the Gaelic for son
orr. Was leader of the victorious Thirty
at the North inch of Perth, Sept. 3, 1895,
before King Robert III, his queen, and the
Scottish nobility, which Sir Walter Scott
so graphically describes in his Fair Maid
Of Perth" and with less establishment IN
his "Tales of Grandfather Shaw DIED
about 1905. His son,
d0 Seumas (James), chief of Clan Mack
intosh. was killed at the memorable battle
of Harlan, which was fought on the eve
of the feast of st. James the Apostle, July
%. 14l1. 1.-THE Highlanders left 800 men dead
on the field Of battle, including the chlets
Maclean and Macintosh" IL was the mai
contest between the Cet and Teuton lot
Scottish independence, and made at me
time an inconceivable impression on the
national mind, and is indelibly fixed IN the
music and poetry of Scotland.
There was not, sim King Kenneth's days
Sic strange intestine cruel strife,
In Scotlande seen, as ilk man says,
Where monte likele lost their lie
Whilk made divorce tween man ana wire
And monte children fatherless,
Whilk In this relm has been fun rite;
Lord help these landsl Our wrangs re-
dressv'
16) Allister Ciar Macintosh, son OF seu-
mas, obtained the estate OF Rothiemurchus