From Companion to Gaelic Scotland – “Born Colonsay. First holder of the Chair of Celtic, University of Edinburgh, 1882–1914. Author of A Descriptive Catalogue of Gaelic Manuscripts (1912); consultant editor for Celtic Review; author of essays on Gaelic proverbs, ‘An seann sgoil’, etc. [...]”

Associate of Alexander Carmichael, Dr Alexander Nicolson and Donald MacKechnie.