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Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair
Politician
1698 – 1770
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Who was Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair?
Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair was a Scottish poet, lexicographer, political writer and memoirist, respected as perhaps the finest Gaelic language poet of the 18th century. He served as a Jacobite military officer and Gaelic tutor to Prince Charles Edward Stuart.
He is also known in English as Alexander MacDonald and as "The Clanranald Bard" or "The Great Bard".
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- Born
- 1698
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Education
- University of Glasgow
- University of Edinburgh
- Lived in
- Lochaber
- Died
- 1770
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on July 23, 2013
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