General Roderick Macneil, 21st of Barra

"The 21st chief, General Roderick MacNeil was in economic ruin and had to sell the Island of Barra in 1838. Roderick had no children of his own and the chiefship then passed to a cousin whose line had emigrated to the New World." Source: https://clanmacneil.org/

Biographical Summary

"General Roderick Macneil, 21st of Barra was the son of Roderick Macneil and Jean Cameron. He married Isabella Brownlow, daughter of Lt.-Col. Charles Brownlow, on 20 June 1818. He died on 22 October 1863, when the chiefship devolved upon his kinsman in Canada: without male issue...

...He was Justice of the Peace (J.P.). He was Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.) Inverness-shire. He was Companion, Distinguished Service Order (D.S.O.). He was General 78th Hldrs, commander centre div Madras Army, lost the estate of Barra through failure of the kelp industry and improvidence of his father in 1838."

SOURCE: The Peerage, Darryl Lundy