[1][2] He succeed to his father's estate of Cadboll in Ross-shire, north west of Tain, when he six, and his trustees purchased Invergordon Castle for him around 1780.
[2] Macleod was a Captain in the Sutherland Fencibles (1793) and a Major in the Ross Militia of 1803.
He was Lord Lieutenant of Cromarty from 1794 until 1833,[1] and, a staunch Tory,[3] he sat as the Member of Parliament (M.P.)
Their children were Roderick, Macleod' heir and successor, Sophia, and Elizabeth Letitia.
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