Kenneth MacRae

He re- ceived a Commission in the old 78th, afterwards the 72nd Highlanders, which was raised by the Earl of Seaforth in 1778. He afterwards served in the 76th Foot, in which regiment he was promoted Major in 1795, and Lieutenant-Colonel in 1804. He served with his regiment in India with much distinction. In one of his dispatches from India, dated 26th December, 1804, and giving an account of the capture of Deig, General Lake says —" I myself feel under the greatest obligation to Lieutenant-Colonel Macrae, to whose conduct on this occasion I attribute the ultimate success of the attack" (on Deig, on the 23rd December, 1804). Colonel Kenneth also took a prominent part in the siege and capture of Bhurtpore in the following year. Among the casualties at the siege at Bhurtpore, there was a Lieutenant D. Macrae of the 76th killed, and a Lieutenant J. Macrae of the same regiment wounded, on the 21st January, 1805. Colonel Kenneth Macrae was afterwards Paymaster - General of Jamaica, where he died about 1814. He married a Miss Mackay in Jamaica, but left no issue.