His Barra inheritance was complex. In 1838 the 41st clan chief, General Roderick MacNeil, facing bankruptcy, had sold Barra to a Colonel Gordon of Cluny, together with the family's crumbling ...

American by birth, Macneil inherited the chieftainship of Clan MacNeil, one of Scotland's oldest, in 1970. Through his position, he managed a 9,000-acre crofting estate on the Scottish Isle of Barra ...