Allan MacDonald

(“Don Alano”). Perhaps not a student of College; born in Western Isles, c. 1696; at Scots College, Rome, 1715 to 1721; arrived in Madrid, 1727/28, and left for Douai, 1st July 1728; ordained a priest in Scotland between 1736 and 1743; accompanied Bonnie Prince Charlie while in Britain, 1745-46, as his confessor and as chaplain to Clanranald men; imprisoned on a ship in the Thames, then at Tilbury and in Southwark New Gaol, and later banished; was in Paris and, from 1747, in Rome; returned to Scotland, 1765/68, and worked in Traquair for a time; for last years of his life, lived in retirement in Edinburgh, where he died, 17th May 1781. (Cf. The Innes Review, vol. XV (1964), p. 142; vol. XVII (1966), p. 140).