Giving The Devil His Due: Malcolm McLaurin, Chamberlain of Tiree, and the Creation of a Crofting Island Lewis Donald had a reputation as

Donald had a reputation as a raconteur and his memoir is full of humorous anecdotes

often from humble backgrounds

Each chapter is so evocatively written that I came away from my reading with scents and sights still vivid in my mind

for example today’s tourist literature promoting Skye’s ‘Fairy Bridge’

Publisher: Western Isles Lieutenancy

Giving The Devil His Due: Malcolm McLaurin, Chamberlain of Tiree, and the Creation of a Crofting Island Lewis Donald had a reputation asCrofting was introduced to the Inner Hebridean island of Tiree in the first decade of the nineteenth century. Central to its introduction was Malcolm McLaurin, a native of Ardchattan and a former student of medicine, who was appointed to Tiree as Chamberlain or factor by the 5th Duke of Argyll in 1801. This book is both a detailed biography of McLaurin and a close study of the background to, and the implementation of, what was no less than a tenurial