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medical degree he returned permanently to the 

 Hebrides. He at first settled for the practice of his 

 profession and for farming in South Uist, but the late 

 Mr. Gordon, the proprietor both of South Uist and the 

 Island of Barra, who entertained a warm friendship 

 for him, offered him the tenancy of the large and 

 important farm of Eoligary in Barra, to which he 

 removed, and there carried on extensive and successful 

 farming for many years, at the same time giving the 

 inhabitants of the island the benefit of his medical 

 advice gratuitously. He was much trusted and highly 

 respected by the islanders, and indeed by all who had 

 the privilege of knowing him as a friend or otherwise ; 

 and when he died at Eoligary in February 1886, in the 

 seventy-seventh year of his age, he was much missed 

 and sincerely mourned. He, like his eminent elder 

 brother, was interested in the ornithology of the 

 Hebrides, as is also one of his sons, Mr. William 

 Lachlan MacGillivray, now of Eoligary, who has a fine 

 ornithological collection there, and has made not a few 

 presentations of birds and eggs of special interest to 

 the Edinburgh Natural History Museum. The natural 

 history blood therefore appears to run in that branch of 

 the MacGillivray family also. 



