This was only a temporary victory as John MacDonald, the fourth and final Lord of the Isles, was to overplay his hand in a dangerous plot with the powerful Douglas clan to aid the King of England ...

LORD MACDONALD ON CROFTERS. Share full article. June 1, 1885. ... who at home is generally known as the "Lord of the Isles," from his ownership of most of the North Scotland islands, was at the ...