What it means that there is no longer a Macleod
of Macleod can only be fully understood by those who know Dunvegan and its castle, one of the most romantic as it is one of the oldest (the oldest, I risk contradiction in saying, in normal occupation) in the British Isles. Readers of Boswell almost know it from his description (so much better than Johnson's own) of the sage's stay at the castle in the course of the tour to the Hebrides. Sir Reginald Macleod was an impressive and picturesque figure, worthy in all respects of the great traditions he inherited. He was 82 when in 1929 he succeeded a still longer-lived brother, and with him the direct male line is now extinct, though his daughter, Mrs. Hubert Walter, has taken the name Macleod to keep it alive. But she has two daughters 0,nd no sons.
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