Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair

Also known by his legal name Alexander MacDonald (4) Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair ("Alexander, son of the Reverend Alexander"), 1698–1770, was a Scottish war poet, satirist, lexicographer, political writer and memoirist. One of the most famous Scottish Gaelic Bards of the 18th century, he served as a Jacobite military officer and Gaelic tutor to Prince Charles Edward Stuart.