Hector MacLean of Dowart

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Hector MacLean, Lord of Dowart (c1560-c1630); aka Hector MacLean of Dowart; aka Hector MacLean of Duart aka Hector Og Maclean was a Scottish Lord of the Clan MacLean.

Contents 1 Birth 2 Other Macleans of Dowart 3 Other Hector MacLeans of Dowart 4 The four branches of the MacLean clan

[edit] Birth

Hector was most likely the son of Lachlan Mor MacLean, Lord of Dowart (c1535-1598) and Margaret Cunningham of Glensairen. He married Isabella Atcheson of Gosford. Isabella was the daughter of Archibald Atcheson of Gosford. Together they had the following children:

• John Hans MacLean, Iain Dubh Baronet (1604-1666) who moved to Sweden and took the name John Hans Makeléer and married Anna Gubbertz (c1595-1653)
• Donald MacLean, 1st Laird of Brolas who married Florence MacLean who was his cousin
• Isabelle MacLean.

Hector may have had a daughter: Katherine MacLean (1590-?) who married Sir John of Dunollie (c1585-1634), Seventeenth chief of the clan and the son of Duncan (16th) of Dunollie in 1610.

[edit] Other Macleans of Dowart

• Lachlan Maclean of Dowart, called Lachlan Mor, was chief of the Macleans in 1678.

[edit] Other Hector MacLeans of Dowart

• 17th Clan Chief, Sir Hector MacLean of Duart

[edit] The four branches of the MacLean clan

• MacLeans of Dowart
• MacLeans of Lochbuy
• MacLeans of Coll
• MacLeans of Ardgour