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The Ardgour branch of the Macleans, which held its lands directly from the Lord of the Isles, is descended from Donald, another son of Lachlan, third laird of Dowart. The estate of Ardgour, which is in Argyleshire, had previously belonged to a different tribe (the Macmasters), but it was conferred upon Donald, either by Alexander, Earl of Ross, or by his son and successor, John. In 1463, Ewen or Eugene, son of Donald, held the office of seneschal of the household to the latter earl; and in 1493, Lachlan Macewen Maclean was laird of Ardgour. Alexander Maclean, Esq, the 16th laird of Ardgour, is the 14th from father to son. The 17th laird was his daughter, Riona, and the title then passed to a nephew, Robin Torrie, who has since taken the name Maclean of Ardgour.

Died:
Reputedly died of a heart attack whilst cutting wood.

Alexander married Hon Muriel Annette Burns on 5 Sep 1918 in The Hague, Holland. Muriel (daughter of Sir James Cleland (4th Bt, 3rd Baron Inverclyde) Burns and Charlotte Mary Emily (of Machermore) Nugent-Dunbar) was born in 1893; died on 29 Jan 1969; was buried in Ardgour, Argyllshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Catriona Louise (17th Laird, The Maid of Ardgour) Maclean was born on 27 Aug 1919 in Perth, Scotland; died on 16 Mar 1988 in Airds, Appin, Argyll, Scotland; was buried in Ardgour, Argyll, Scotland.
2. Anne (of Ardgour) Maclean was born on 2 Jun 1921; died on 1 May 1981 in England.
3. Margaret Beryl (of Ardgour) Maclean was born on 20 Jul 1923; died on 28 Mar 1998 in Tor-Na-Dee Hospice, Aberdeen, Scotland.
4. Heather Joan (of Ardgour) Maclean was born on 22 Jan 1926 in Ardgour, Argyllshire, Scotland; died on 7 Jan 1985 in Balmaclellan, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland; was buried on 12 Jan 1985 in Balmaclellan, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland.
5. Elizabeth Muriel Phillipa (of Ardgour) Maclean was born on 10 Jun 1927; died on 28 Nov 2009 in Cantsford, Nairnshire, Scotland.

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Bengal Civil Service

Alexander married Selina Phillipa Dicken on 29 Apr 1875. Selina (daughter of William Stephens Dicken and Catherine Lamb Popham) died on 22 Mar 1919. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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In 1845, just as in Ireland so also in the Highlands, the potato crop was struck by blight. The damage, though widespread, was not complete, and everyone relaxed until in 1846 blight struck again, and the whole potato crop was left rotting in the fields. All the consequences of famine then quickly followed. Scurvy and typhus, diseases of malnutrition, killed hundreds. The famine-stricken population, weakened and listless, fell victim to cholera outbreaks, and only help from outside could relieve the situation.

Private charity might provide some help, and so might the state, but, in the first instance, the sufferers looked to the chiefs for protection as generations of experience had taught them to do. Some landowners responded with admirable sense of obligation. MacLeod of Dunvegan bought in food for his people, some eight thousand of them, and permanently damaged the fortunes of his family by so doing. MacLean of Ardgour provided food, and introduced new crops into the area - peas, cabbages and carrots - to replace the potatoes. Sir James Matheson on Lewis spent ?329,000 on improving his lands, hoping to provide a more secure future for his people.

Others did nothing. Gordon of Cluny, owner of the Uists and Barra, was later reported as 'most negligent'. On Skye on the estates of Baillie of Dochfour, 'fertile land (was) lying waste - peoplewas seen a starving.' In Knoydart, around Arisaig, Lord Cranstoun showed total indifference to the situation, leaving attempts at relief to a tenant, MacDonald of Glenaladale, and to the parish priest, Father MacIntosh.

Alexander married Helen Jane Hamilton-Dalrymple on 14 Feb 1833. Helen (daughter of Major General Sir John (5th Bt of North Berwick) Dalrymple and Charlotte Warrender) died in 1882. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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William Stephens Dicken was in the Department of the Inspector-General, Indian Medical Service; Bengal Medical Service 1829-61; service in Oudh and at Lucknow as Chief Medical Officer with the Nepalese Contingent; He served as Surgeon in the Bengal Medical Service from 1829-1861 and was involved in the recapture of Gorakhpur and the final siege and capture of Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny, 1857-1858.

(Research):Wm. Stephens Dicken, 9, son of Perry Dicken, clerk, Tiverton, Aug. 15, 1814 '97 Dec. 26, 1818.

William + Catherine Lamb Popham. Catherine (daughter of Captain Joseph Leborne Popham, RN and Philippa Wallis) was born in 1811; was christened in Sithey, nr Helston, Cornwall, England; died in 1903. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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(Research):Is this her father?
1833, Feb. 20. At Falmouth, aged 63, Capt. Joseph Lamb Popham, R.N. father of the present High Sheriff of Cornwall. He was a half-brother of the late Rear-Adm. Sir Home Popham, K.C.B. He was made a Lieut. 1794, Commander 1797, and posted 1800. He married July 17, 1801, Miss Wallis, of Trevarno, near Helston. ("G.M.," 284.)

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LIEUT-COLONEL MACLEAN. November 24th, at Ardgour, N.B., aged 90, Alexander Maclean, Esq., of Ardgour.? He was formerly a lieutenant in 2nd battalion of the Royals, which he entered in 1780, but afterwards exchanged into the 63rd Foot. He subsequently became captain and major in the 8th Light Dragoons, and was for many years lieutenant-colonel of the 3rd Argyll militia. In 1795, he married a daughter of the 2nd Earl of Hopetoun, by whom he had two daughters and twelve sons; no less than seven of the latter embraced the military profession. The Gentleman's Magazine states that Colonel Maclean was "guardian to the present Marquis of Dalhousie;" but this can scarcely have been the case, as his lordship was already of age long before the death of his father, the late earl, in 1838.

Died:
? November 24th, at Ardgour, N.B.
See obituary in notes

Alexander married Lady Margaret Hope on 10 Jul 1793. Margaret (daughter of John (2nd Earl of Hopetoun) Hope and Elizabeth (of Leven) Leslie) was born on 24 Jun 1772 in South Queensferry, West Lothian, Scotland; died on 16 Sep 1831. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The Peerage shows Margaret as daughter of fathers first wife Anne Ogilvy.-Ed.

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He was given the name of John Hamilton-Dalrymple at birth.
He gained the rank of Cornet in 1785 in the service of the 28th Light Dragoons, the rank of Lieutenant in 1797, Captain in 1800.
He was also Captain in 1803 in the service of the 73rd Regiment of Foot, Captain in 1803 in the service of the 42nd Regiment of Foot.
He gained the rank of Major in 1805 in the service of the 64th Regmnet of Foot and Lieutenant-Colonel in 1805 in the service of the 10th Regiment of Foot and in 1806 in the 22nd Regiment of Foot
He was Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Haddington Burghs between 1805 and 1806.
He gained the rank of Brevet Colonel in 1813. and Major-General in 1819.
He succeeded to the title of 5th Baronet Dalrymple, of North Berwick, co. Haddington [N.S., 1698] on 23 February 1834.

John married Charlotte Warrender on 30 Jul 1806. Charlotte (daughter of Lt.-Col. Sir Patrick (3rd Bt of Lochend) Warrender and Helen Blair) died on 14 Apr 1871. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Vicar of Witheridge, Co Devon, Rector of Ponrhill
BA Oxford, 1790

Perry Dickbn, 9, son of Perry Dicken, of Tiverton, Devon, Attended Blundell's School Jan. 19, 1778 '97 June 29, 1786

Rev. Perry Dicken (son of Perry Dicken of Tiverton, co. Devon, by Mary his wife, only dau. of William Penleaze of London) ; born at Tiverton 3 September I 768, bapt. at St. Peter's, Tiverton, 3 July 1770;
of Balliol College, Oxford, matriculated 24 October 1 7 86, aged 18, B.A. 1790, and M.A. of Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1816 ;
Vicar of Witheridge and Rector of Ponghill, CO. Devon ; died at Witheridge, aged 63, 6 January, bur. there 14 January 1832.

for 40 years Vicar of Witheridge, near Tiverton
also Rector of Blundeirs and after of Balliol

(Research):Who is this? William Dicken, 9, son of Perry Dicken, of Tiverton, Devon, Attended Blundell's School July 2, 1781 '97 June 30, 1785.

Old Blundell's (School), ?Arthur Fisher - 1904 -
Dr. Dicken's father, the Rev. Perry Dicken (also of Blundell's and after of Balliol), was for 4o years Vicar of Witheridge, near Tiverton, and married Mary, the daughter of Henry Venn, of Payhembury, in 1792. Dr. Dicken's family, when it removed ...

Perry married Mary Venn on 15 Nov 1792. Mary (daughter of Henry Venn and Mary Cooke) was born on 14 Apr 1770; died on 25 Mar 1841. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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'Mary, dau. of Henry Venn of Payhembury, CO. Devon, by Mary Cooke his wife, of Tiverton ;
born 14 April, bapt. at Payhembury 21 April 1770;
marr. at Tiverton 15 November 1792; died at Tiverton 26 March, bur at St. George's, Tiverton, 2 April 1841 .

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The son of Joseph Popham, consul at Tetuan from 1728, and his second wife Catherine Lamb. He was half brother of the celebrated naval commander Sir Home Riggs Popham. Born in Falmouth, one of twenty-one children, in 1794 he was made a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy and promoted Captain in 1797. On 17th July 1801 he married Phillippa Wallis, of Trevarno, near Helston in Cornwall by whom he had six children. His eldest son, Christopher Wallace Popham of Antron Lodge, was High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1833. His youngest daughter, Catherine Lamb Popham, married William Stephens Dicken, Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals, Bengal.

(Research):Leyborne, Lyborne or Lamb?

Joseph married Philippa Wallis on 17th Jun 1801 in St Martin in the Fields, London, England. Philippa (daughter of Christopher Wallis and Philippa Roberts) was born in 1780; died in 1853. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Only child and heiress of her father

Popham (Trevarno, co. Cornwall; as borne by Christopher Wallis Popham, of Trevarno, esq. high sheriff of Cornwall in 1833, son, by Phillippa his wife, only dau. and heiress of Christopher Wallis, esq. of Joseph Lamb Popham, esq. Captain R.N. youngest brother of the late gallant Admiral, Sir Home Popham).