Sir John Maclean, 4th Baronet

Sir John Maclean, 4th Baronet of Duart and Morvern (1670–1716) was the 20th Clan Chief of Clan Maclean from 1674 to 1716. He was the 16th and last Laird of Duart, when in 1691 he lost Castle Duart to Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll.

Biography He was born in 1670. He became chief at the death of his father, Sir Allan Maclean, 3rd Baronet, in 1674, when he was four years old. Lauchlan Maclean, 2nd Laird of Brolas, and Lachlan Maclean, 3rd Laird of Torloisk were assigned as his legal guardians. In 1691 Castle Duart was under siege by Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, and Maclean was forced to surrender it.

He commanded the right wing of the Jacobite army at Battle of Killiecrankie, and held out in Cairnburgh Castle, which straddles Cairn na Burgh Mòr and Cairn na Burgh Beag. In 1692 he made his peace with William III of England. He afterwards went to France and remained at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye until the Act of Indemnity 1703, when he returned to Scotland. He joined John Erskine, 6th Earl of Mar in the Battle of Sheriffmuir, and after retired to Gordon Castle where he died in March 1716.

Ancestors +Sir John Maclean, 4th Baronet's ancestors in three generations Sir John Maclean, 4th Baronet Father:Sir Allan Maclean, 3rd Baronet Paternal Grandfather:Sir Lachlan Maclean, 1st Baronet Paternal Great-Grandfather:Hector Mor Maclean Paternal Great-grandmother: Paternal Grandmother:Mary MacLeod Paternal Great-Grandfather:Sir Roderick MacLeod Paternal Great-Grandmother: Mother:Juliana MacLeod of MacLeod Maternal Grandfather: Maternal Great-Grandfather: Maternal Great-Grandmother: Maternal Grandmother: Maternal Great-grandfather: Maternal Great-Grandmother: