Giving The Devil His Due: Malcolm McLaurin, Chamberlain of Tiree, and the Creation of a Crofting Island Lewis written from the perspective of

written from the perspective of those trying to build a viable future on the land

over the last half century

Drawing on lived experience

le Dòmhnall Mac na Ceàrdaich

often from humble backgrounds

Giving The Devil His Due: Malcolm McLaurin, Chamberlain of Tiree, and the Creation of a Crofting Island Lewis written from the perspective ofCrofting was introduced to the Inner Hebridean island of Tiree in the first decade of the nineteenth century. Central to its introduction was Malcolm McLaurin, a native of Ardchattan and a former student of medicine, who was appointed to Tiree as Chamberlain or factor by the 5th Duke of Argyll in 1801. This book is both a detailed biography of McLaurin and a close study of the background to, and the implementation of, what was no less than a tenurial