From Companion to Gaelic Scotland – “Born Bohuntin. Sub-Librarian of the Advocates’ Library, Edinburgh. Published An Duanaire (1868), the seventh edition of the poems of Alexander MacDonald (1874) and, posthumously, Practical Lessons in Gaelic (1891). Contributed to J. F. Campbell’s Leabhar na Feinne (1872), assisted with the 1885 edition of Iùl a’ Chrìosdaidh and wrote for An Gàidheal and for the Celtic Magazine under the pen-name of ‘Abrach’.”

Related to Father Allan MacDonald.