Charles Fraser-Mackintosh

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Charles Fraser-Mackintosh

Scottish Gaelic language in Victorian
Britain.

Fraser-Mackintosh was the son of Alexander Fraser, of Dochnalurg,

J.P. for Inverness-shire.[3]

As a lawyer, he had access to many rare manuscripts and documents, and these formed the basis for his own published works on Scottish history.

An Comunn Gaidhealach, the national Gaelic Society, serving from 1896 to 1898.[8]

It is thought that Fraser-Mackintosh rendered legal assistance to

Mairi Mhòr nan Oran when she was accused of theft from her employer in 1872. He appears to have recruited to her cause by John Murdoch and to have earned her enduring gratitude and affection.[9] He is one of the land rights campaigners mentioned in her celebrated poem Nuair a chaidh na ceithir ùr oirre.[10]
Fraser-Mackintosh was elected
Irish Land League and came to be seen as "discontented and disaffected."[12] Later he changed his mind and was returned as the MP for Inverness-shire for the Crofter's Party in 1885.[13] He was returned unopposed in 1886, but opposing home rule for Ireland,[14] he joined the Liberal Unionist Party, and lost the support of the local Highland Land League. The League backed Liberal Party candidate Donald MacGregor at the 1892 election, who unseated Fraser-Mackintosh.[13] He was then the only Gaelic-speaking member of the Commons and became known as the 'Member for the Highlands'.[1] One of five members of the Napier Commission, set up in 1883, to investigate the crofters' situation; he was the driving force behind the establishment of the Crofters' Commission and for promoting the use of Gaelic in Highland schools. His efforts led to the establishment of a Free Library in Inverness in 1883.[5]

Fraser-Mackintosh died at the age of 72 and is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.

Fraser-Mackintosh married Eveline May Holland of Brooklands, Streatham in 1876. His widow left his personal library of over 5000 books and journals to Inverness Burgh library in 1921.[5]

Publications

  • Dunachton, past and present (1866)
  • Letters of Two Centuries (1890)
  • The Last Macdonalds of Isla (1895)
  • An account of the confederation of clan Chattan (1898)
  • Antiquarian notes (1897)

References

  1. ^ a b "Search Results". Am Baile. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
  2. ^ a b Debretts Guide to the House of Commons 1886
  3. ^ a b The Celtic Magazine: A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk-lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad. A. & W. Mackenzie. 1884. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
  4. ^ "Drummondville Stratherrick Road Inverness" (PDF). Retrieved 25 April 2017.
  5. ^ a b c d Am Baile Highland History and Culture
  6. ^ a b Antiquarian Notes : a Series of Papers Regarding Families and Places in the Highlands. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
  7. ^ Gaelic Society of Inverness Archived 6 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ Programme,Am Mòd Nàiseanta Rìoghail 2017, Loch Abar(Inverness : An Comunn Gáidhealach. 2017) p210
  9. ^ Ewan A. Cameron, The Life and Times of Fraser-Mackintosh Crofter MP,(Aberdeen:University of Aberdeen,2000),50-51.
  10. ^ Dòmhnall Eachan Meek,Mairi Mhòr nan Oran,(Dùn Eideann :Comann Litreachas Gàidhlig na h-Alba, 1998),186-189
  11. ISBN 0-900178-26-4
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  12. ^ Cameron, Ewen A. Poverty, Protest and Politics: Perceptions of the Scottish Highlands in the 1880s (PDF). p. 226. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
  13. ^
    ISBN 0-900178-27-2
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  14. ^ Cameron, Ewen A. Poverty, Protest and Politics: Perceptions of the Scottish Highlands in the 1880s (PDF). p. 235. Retrieved 13 July 2017.

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1874–1885 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
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 Member of Parliament for Inverness-shire
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