In 1691 Castle Duart was under siege by Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, and Maclean was forced to surrender it.

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.

[4] He married Mary, daughter of Sir Aeneas Macpherson of Invereshie and had: 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, by John Patterson MacLean, a publication from 1889, now in the public domain in the United States.

This article incorporates text from The Jacobite peerage, baronetage, knightage and grants of honour, by Melville Henry Massue Ruvigny et Raineval (marquis de), a publication from 1904, now in the public domain in the United States.