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MacLeod and tradition
Oral tradition and Gaelic scholars who have preserved these traditions from the Hebrides also reference the most disastrous war fought between the MacLeods and MacDonalds of Skye, culminating in the Battle of Coire Na Creiche, " when Donald Gorm Mor who handfasted a year and a day with Margaret MacLeod, a sister of Rory Mor of Dunvegan, expelled his mistress so ignominiously from Duntulm.
According to Clan MacLeod tradition, Leod inherited some of his lands from a foster father, who was a sheriff of the Hebridean island of Skye ; other lands he inherited from his father-in-law, who was also a lord on Skye.

MacLeod and also
MacLeod also appeared as the villain on TV shows of the late 1950s and early 1960s, including Edwards's private-eye series, Peter Gunn.
His son Alexander MacLeod is also a writer, whose debut short story collection Light Lifting was a Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist in 2010.
MacLeod and Mees believe the word means something like " supernatural sending ", and that this points to a connection to the Ragnhild Tregagás charm, where a valkyrie is also " sent forth ".
Singer Re Styles ( born Shirley Marie MacLeod ) ( vocals ) and ex-Santana percussionist Mingo Lewis were also fixtures for much of the band's early history.
* Gavin MacLeod as Captain Merrill Stubing, " Your Captain "; also playing Capt.
MacLeod was also involved in the establishment of the Ontario Human Rights Commission in 1961.
Directed by Brian G. Hutton, who also directed the 1968 World War II adventure film Where Eagles Dare, the film stars Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O ' Connor and Donald Sutherland, with secondary roles played by Harry Dean Stanton, Gavin MacLeod, and Stuart Margolin.
Brian MacLeod replaced Federico Gil Sola for the second album, and Kurt Herr left during the making of Between Two Words, to be replaced by Jeff Trott for their third album, Ten Women, which also charted in 1987.
William Sharp ( 12 September 1855 – 12 December 1905 ) was a Scottish writer, of poetry and literary biography in particular, who from 1893 wrote also as Fiona MacLeod, a pseudonym kept almost secret during his lifetime.
McCarty was the youngest and longest surviving member of the research team responsible for this feat ( known as the Avery-MacLeod-McCarty experiment ), which also included Oswald T. Avery and Colin MacLeod ; he died on January 2, 2005, from congestive heart failure.
Significant numbers of men from Clan Elphinstone, Clan Forbes, Clan Keith, Clan MacIntyre, Clan MacKenzie, Clan MacLean, Clan MacLeod of MacLeod, Clan MacLeod of Lewis, Clan MacTavish, Clan MacMillan, Clan Maxwell, Clan Ramsay, Clan Wemyss and a few members of the Clan Innes also joined the Jacobite army.
" MacLeod also reassured the reader that he, for one, never thought that Scotland were invincible, and claimed to be perfectly at peace with himself.
Hurlstone was also a successful portrait painter, one of his best heads being that of Richard, seventh earl of Cavan, exhibited at the Society of British Artists in 1833, and again, together with that of General Sir John MacLeod, at the National Portrait Exhibition of 1868.
When Cold Case premiered, the show's similarities to Cold Squad ( including but not limited to a tough female cop with dirty blonde hair leading a team investigating cold cases ) led Cold Squad creators Julia Keatley and Matt MacLeod to retain an intellectual property attorney to look into the situation ( CTV also aired Cold Case as well ).
It is also the fictional birthplace of Connor and Duncan MacLeod from the Highlander franchise.
LPP leader A. A. MacLeod lost his downtown Toronto seat of Bellwoods in this election and three other LPP candidates were also defeated.
During the war, MacLeod was one of many university-based scientists and physicians who advised the Federal government on medical matters “ when asked .” In 1941, he had been appointed Chairman of the Department of Microbiology at New York University ( NYU ) School of Medicine, and also worked as a consultant to the U. S. Secretary of War.
He usually fights with the sword that belonged to Connor MacLeod but also carries a boomerang he is quite skilled with.
When Duncan MacLeod meets him in 1995, Methos had not taken a head for roughly 200 years ; however, his sword skills were not diminished, although he admitted to be a little rusty, and later on also admitting he lacked the fire / passion to continue fighting at all.
" MacLeod also advises Richie to get used to her loss, because it " won't be the last time it happens to you.

MacLeod and states
Meanwhile, Edgar MacLeod, former president of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, states that " while the cost of the registry had become an embarrassment, the program works and provides a valuable service.
However, David J. MacLeod states that the Osiris legend is very different from the resurrection of Jesus in that " Osiris did not rise ; he ruled in the abode of the dead.
In the eleventh episode, " Family Tree ", Duncan's father and Chieftain of Clan MacLeod, Ian MacLeod, states that the newborn Duncan was a foundling given to his wife Mary to replace the stillborn son she had delivered, and raised to be his successor.

MacLeod and Leod
In 1861, the titles held by Anne's ancestors were revived when she was raised to the Peerage of the United Kingdom in her own right as Baroness MacLeod, of Castle Leod in the County of Cromartie, Baroness Castlehaven, of Castlehaven in the County of Cromartie, Viscountess Tarbat, of Tarbat in the County of Cromartie, and Countess of Cromartie.
Leod ( Scottish Gaelic: Leòd ; Old Norse: Ljótr ) ( c. 1200 – 1280 ) is considered the eponymous ancestor and founder of Clan MacLeod and Clan MacLeod of Lewis.
Clan chief: John Ruaridh Grant Mackenzie, 5th Earl of Cromartie ( 1861 ), Viscount Tarbat of Tarbat, Baron Castlehaven, Baron MacLeod of Castle Leod, Chief of Clan Mackenzie.

MacLeod and was
Operation Petticoat proved to be a breakout role for MacLeod, and he was soon cast in another Edwards comedy, High Time, with Bing Crosby.
Before that, in two separate experiments, Frederick Griffith and Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty had shown that DNA led to the transformation of one strain of Streptococcus pneumoniae to another that was more virulent.
It was named after the large Scottish sword by its inventor, Norman A. MacLeod.
MacLeod came up with a design, the T-48 that was broadly similar to the final M18A1, although it lacked a number of the design details that made the M18A1 effective.
MacLeod applied for a patent for the mine on 18 January 1956 and was granted it in February 1961.
The patent was later the source of a civil court case between MacLeod, the Army, and Aerojet who proceeded to develop the design further.
Princess Margaret was portrayed by Lucy Cohu in the Channel 4 TV drama The Queen's Sister ( 2005 ), by Trulie MacLeod in the TV drama The Women of Windsor ( 1992 ), and by Hannah Wiltshire in the TV drama Bertie and Elizabeth ; she is portrayed silently in the second series première of Ashes to Ashes ( 2009, set in 1982 ) and subsequently complains off-camera about one of the principal characters.
In a 1997 episode of the TV show Highlander: The Series, the 1950 return was adapted with the characters Duncan MacLeod ( Adrian Paul ), Hugh Fitzcairn ( Roger Daltrey ) and Amanda Darieux ( Elizabeth Gracen ) stealing the stone for various reasons.
At 18, Margaretha answered an advertisement in a Dutch newspaper placed by Dutch Colonial Army Captain Rudolf MacLeod ( 1 March 1856 – 9 January 1928 ) who was living in the then Dutch East Indies ( now Indonesia ) and was looking for a wife.
He was the son of Captain John Brienen MacLeod ( a descendant of the Gesto branch of the MacLeods of Skye ) and Dina Louisa Baroness Sweerts de Landas.
At first, Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll, was set to fill the power vacuum and enforce royal authority, but he met with limited success in a struggle with his brother-in-law, Torquil MacLeod of Lewis.
In September 1507, Torquil MacLeod was besieged at Stornoway Castle on Lewis.
Donald Dubh was captured and kept in prison for the rest of life, and Torquil MacLeod died in exile in 1511.
Avery was one of the first molecular biologists and a pioneer in immunochemistry, but he is best known for his discovery in 1944, with his co-workers Colin MacLeod and Maclyn McCarty, that DNA is the material of which genes and chromosomes are made.
Following his At Last the 1948 Show, Feldman was given his own series on the BBC called Marty ( 1968 ); it featured Brooke-Taylor, John Junkin and Roland MacLeod, with Cleese as one of the writers.
When MacLeod was ten his family moved to a farm in Dunvegan, Inverness County on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island.
As of 2006 the hardest climb was graded E11: Rhapsody on Dumbarton Rock, climbed by Dave MacLeod, featured French 8c + climbing with the potential of a 20-metre fall onto a small wire.
In January 2009 the route was climbed by Dave MacLeod of Dumbarton fame, who downgraded the route to an E9 6c.
In 1944 identification of the transforming factor was published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine by Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty of The Rockefeller Hospital.
He was cast in the role that would bring him to the most prominence to date, that of Duncan MacLeod in the syndicated television series Highlander: The Series, in 1992.
* Gavin MacLeod as the Lieutenant ( The film was MacLeod's first screen credit.
It is known that the island was ruled by the MacLeods from 1518 when Calum Garbh, younger son of the MacLeod Chief of Lewis was granted title.

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