Alasdair Mhaighstir Alasdair

Alasdair Mhaighstir Alasdair

1960 – 1770

Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair (lit. Alexander, son of the Reverend Alexander) (c. 1698–1770) was a Scottish poet, lexicographer, political writer and memoirist, respected as perhaps the finest Gaelic language poet of the 18th century. He served as a Jacobite military officer and Gaelic tutor to Prince Charles Edward Stuart.
He is also known in English as Alexander MacDonald and as "The Clanranald Bard" or "The Great Bard".