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Allan campbell mclean biography

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Allan Campbell MacLean

Tha 90 bliadhna bho rugadh Ailean Caimpbeul Mac'illeathain, ùghdar a thug beò do chloinn saoghal dìomhair le tachartasan iongantach agus sin le sgeulachdan stèidhichte anns an Eilean Sgitheanach, far an d'rinn e a dhachaidh airson iomadach bliadhna. Bha clann eolach air tro leabhraichean mar The Hill of the Red Fox agus Master of Morgana ach bha e cuideachd a' sgriobhadh do dh'inabhaich. Tha am program seo a'toirt iomradh air an duine agus a bheatha mar sgriobhadair agus cuideachd
mar fhear le uidh mhor ann am polataigs.

Author Allan Campbell MacLean who was born 90 years ago brought Highland mystery and historical adventure to children far wide having made his home for many years on the island of Skye. Known by children for titles such as The Hill of the Red Fox and the Master of Morgana he also wrote for adults. This programme explores his life as a writer ,a political activist and his relationship with his adopted Highland home.

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Allan Maclean of Torloisk

British Army general

Allan Maclean of Torloisk (1725–1798) was a Jacobite who became a British Army general. He was born on the Isle of Mull, Scotland. He is best known for leading the 84th Regiment of Foot (Royal Highland Emigrants) in the Battle of Quebec.

Early life

Allan was the third son of Donald Maclean, 5th Laird of Torloisk and Mary (Campbell) Maclean, daughter of Archibald Campbell of Sunderland.[3] His other siblings were Hector, Lachlan,[4] Archibald, Mary, Anna, Alicia, Christiana, Betty, and Elizabeth.[5] His family, though titled, was quite poor, the Maclean of Torloisk's property valued at £671 6s.[6] Maclaine begun his military training with the clan as a 17-year-old lieutenant in the Scots Brigade of the Royal Dutch Republic after a brief service as an adjutant.

Jacobite rising and after

Participating in the Jacobite rising of 1746, and fighting at the Siege of Fort William and Battle of Culloden with the Maclachlans and Macleans battalion, he spent the next four years

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Allan Campbell McLean

British writer

Allan Campbell McLean (18 November 1922 – 27 October 1989)[1] was a British writer and political activist.

Biography

McLean was born on Walney Island, Barrow-in-Furness,[2] then in Lancashire, and educated at Barrow-in-Furness Technical School.[1] His father, a sheet-metal worker on the Clyde who had moved south to find work, was latterly a foreman at the Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering shipyards in Barrow.[1][2]

McLean served in the Royal Air Force in the Mediterranean and North Africa during World War Two, later writing about his experiences of time spent in a military prison in his 1968 novel The Glasshouse.[2] After the war he moved with his wife Mog to the Isle of Skye and turned his hand to writing.[2] In addition to his published novels he also earned a living as a journalist, and in the 1970s wrote a column for the short-lived publication 7 Days, where he was vocal in his opposition to Scottish devolution and support for prison reform, agita

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