Person Macdonald; John (1759 - 1831) Macdonald John 1759 - 1831 British Male Flodigarry, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire, Scotland 30 October 1759 His residence, Southernhay Place, Exeter, Devon 16 August 1831 Burial: Exeter Cathedral, Devon

Engineer Education: Portree grammar school; High School, Edinburgh Career: Indian cadetship to the Bombay Infantry, East India Company (1780); Ensign, Bengal Engineers (1783) and was sent to Bencoolen (now Benkulu), Sumatra, where he worked as a military and civil engineer (until 1796); made maps, charts and magnetic observations; made a major in Lord MacDonald's Regiment of the Isles (1799); retired on half pay from the service of the East India Company (1800); appointed Commandant of the Royal Edinburgh Volunteers (1800); lieutenant-colonel of the Royal Clan Alpine Fencible Infantry, served with the infantry in Ireland until it was disbanded (1800-1801); field officer of the Cinque Ports Volunteers (1803-1806) Son of Allan Macdonald of Kingsburgh and his wife Flora Macdonald (the Jacobite); married 1. Mrs Boyle, 2. Frances Chambers daughter of Sir Robert Chambers, Chief Justice of Bengal Fellow 15/05/1800 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc 1830-1831 No 7 p 83 References: Audrey Deacon, 'A Scotsman in Exeter' in the Devon Historian, April 2003 (gives alternative place of death: Summerlands, Exeter) International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 30 Oct 1759 - 16 Aug 1831 NA3036 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/39249273 ed6eca67-8f37-4005-a1cf-747c9c16c3ae