Hector made greater progress in letters than any other man in the country in which he lived during that period.
That he was well adapted for an emergency is illustrated in the art he exhibited in appeasing the wrath of Ailean nan Sop.
In 1561 a feud broke out between the families of Duart and Coll on account of the former insisting on the latter following him in all his private quarrels, like the other gentlemen of the clan.
He was succeeded by his eldest son, Hector Roy Maclean, 5th Laird of Coll.
[1] Hector was first married to Meve, daughter of Alexander MacDonald, 5th of Dunnyveg, by whom he had: Hector was married a second time, to Finovola, daughter of Godfrey MacAllister of Loup, by whom he had two sons: This article incorporates text from A history of the clan Mac Lean from its first settlement at Duard Castle, in the Isle of Mull, to the present period: including a genealogical account of some of the principal families together with their heraldry, legends, superstitions, etc, by John Patterson MacLean, a publication from 1889, now in the public domain in the United States.