MacLean, Donald (Headmaster, Boroughmuir Secondary School) (1881-1961)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1881 - 1961
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Letters to Sorley MacLean and a copy of a letter concerning Sorley MacLean., 1946-56.
Item
Identifier: MS.29501, ff. 23, 76, 96
Papers of Donald Maclean, relating to his life in Lewis, and of his daughter, Hope Maclean, relating to her service with the Women's Royal Naval Service during the Second World War.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14604/1-5
Scope and Contents
Personal papers of Donald Maclean and of his daughter, Hope Maclean. Originally from Lewis, Donald graduated from the University of Aberdeen in 1902, and moved to Edinburgh around 1904 where he took up a teaching post at Boroughmuir High School, becoming Headmaster in 1921. Donald married Margaret Macleod, also from Lewis, in 1913. Their eldest child Muriel Hope Duncan Maclean, known as Hope, was born in 1914. Donald's papers consist of scripts, including one in Gaelic, for talks...
Dates:
1941-2007.
Scripts for two talks delivered by Donald Maclean., 1946, undated
File
Identifier: Acc.14604/1
Scope and Contents
Scripts for two talks delivered by Donald Maclean, one in Gaelic about his experience of learning and speaking the language, dated 8 February 1946, the second, ‘Some aspects of life in a Highland Village a century ago’, undated but from around the same date.
Dates:
1946, undated