John Monsey Collyer

Name: Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
Author: John Monsey Collyer

Dictionary of National Biography… (1893)

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“Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900”, published in 1893, is a work by John Monsey Collyer. It explores elements such as Macdonald, Keppoch and Maclntyre.

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John Monsey Collyer, Dictionary of National Biography… (1893)

“ The father, a man of great physical strength and endurance, belonged to a cadet branch of the family of Clanranald, and maintained the spiritual direction of his wide mountain parish long after his deposition from his living as a nonjuror in 1697. The poet was intended by his father for holy orders, and by his chief, Allan Macdonald (d 1715) , twelfth of Clanranald, for the law, and, apparently with the assistance of the latter, attended several terms at Glasgow University. ”

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John Monsey Collyer, Dictionary of National Biography… (1893)

“ MACDONALD, JOHN (1620?–1716?) , known in the highlands as Ian Lom, Gaelic poet and warrior, born about 1620, was a descendant of Ian Aluinn, a chief of the Keppoch branch of Macdonalds, who was deposed by the clan about 1497. As a youth he excelled in gnomic sayings and colloquial witticisms, which have always appealed to his countrymen, and took part in verbal combats with professional bards. ”

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John Monsey Collyer, Dictionary of National Biography… (1893)

“ For the habits and haunts of the deer and the blackcock the poet had the eye of a painter and the feeling of a sportsman. In 'Coire-cheathaich' his command of mellifluous assonance is associated with the same insight into nature. The picture of the redbreast, for instance, rejoicing 'le mdran uinich,' 'with bustling self-importance,' is admirable.
During his life as a forester MacIntyre travelled through the highlands seeking subscribers to the first edition of his poems, published in 1768. ”

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John Monsey Collyer, Dictionary of National Biography… (1893)

“ Duncan spent his youth in the sports of the moor and the river until 1745, when the Young Chevalier ('Tearlach MacSheumais ) arrived in the highlands. Whatever his private predilections, Maclntyre, under the pressure of the chief of the district, John Campbell, second earl of Breadalbane, undertook, for the sum of three hundred marks Scots (16l. 17s. 6d.) ”

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John Monsey Collyer, Dictionary of National Biography… (1893)

“ Thence he poured forth invectives and appeals, and sought to rouse the clan against the murderers. Disappointed in his application to Glengarry (then Lord Macdonell and Aros) he had recourse to Macdonald of Sleat, as ‘captain’ or second chief of Clandonald, whom he addressed in a subtle strain of flattery (in the poem commencing ‘O bhean leasaich an stop dhuinn’) . By order of the chief of Sleat the castle of Keppoch was burned to the ground, and seven of the actual murderers were slain in their beds. ”

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John Monsey Collyer, Dictionary of National Biography… (1893)

“ He was present at Killiecrankie, and celebrated the triumph of the highlanders. In his poem of ‘Rinrory,’ as the battle was called in the north, he gives an account of the death of Claverhouse, which differs from the ordinary version. ”

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John Monsey Collyer, Dictionary of National Biography… (1893)

“ His luxuriance of epithet, however, has tempted some of his imitators to subordinate sense to sound, and in this respect his influence has been unfortunate. Besides the Edinburgh edition of 1751, there have been published reproductions of the poems in Glasgow in 1764, 1802, 1835, 1839, 1851. ”

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John Monsey Collyer, Dictionary of National Biography… (1893)

“ Besides the works mentioned Maclntyre was the author of numerous love-songs, lyrical and satirical pieces, and a succession of annual prize poems for the Highland Society, 1781-9. The 'Lament for Colin of Glenure,' a gentleman of the Campbell family, who, being receiver on the forfeited Lochiel estate, fell a victim to an unseen assassin, is a fine elegy. ”

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