IAIN MacNeil, who has died aged 80, was an eminent American law school professor who taught US president Barack Obama, but was better known in Scotland as the 46th Chief of Clan MacNeil.

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 ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. For centuries the MacNeil clan based on the Hebridean island of Barra have proudly claimed to be descendants of Ireland's "greatest" King ...

But research into Colonel Roderick MacNeil, last chief of Clan MacNeil, has revealed the desperate moves of the man who evicted his tenants and embarked on what is believed to be Scotland's only ...

Ian Macneil was best-known in Scotland as The Macneil of Barra, 46th Chief of the Clan Macneil, who famously granted most of his island to the Scottish nation, effectively to the islanders ...

Clan chief Ian MacNeil was active in the Barra community Ian MacNeil, 80, the 46th chief of the Clan MacNeil of Barra, had been suffering from lymphoma. Last night Angus MacNeil, the Western Isles ...

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 ...

Rory MacNeil, chief of Clan MacNeil of Barra, said locals had worked with the environment for hundreds of years. The Scottish government said there has been consultation about the proposed SAC and ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. For centuries the MacNeil clan based on the Hebridean island of Barra have proudly claimed to be descendants of Ireland's "greatest" King ...