• Born: 10 September 1867, Brindisi, Italy
• Marriage (1): Edith Ann BUDD-BUDD on 5 October 1898 in Brighton, East Sussex, England
• Died: 9 January 1939, Kensington, London, England at age 71
• Buried: 1939, Kensington, London, England

  General Notes

Charles Edward Alexander MacLeod was born at Brindisi, Italy, on the 10th September 1867. As a boy, he resided for some time in Carlisle and at Yockleton Hall, near Shrewsbury. In 1880 he entered the Royal Free Grammar School of Edward VI in Shrewsbury. In 1886, he entered the Medical School of the Westminster Hospital in London, where he qualified M.R.C.S. (Eng.) and L.R.C.P. (Lond.) on 30th July 1891 and registered as a Medical Practitioner on 26th August. He took a LOCUM TENENS in Aberystwyth and thereafter returned to London, where he did some coaching at the Medical School.

In January 1895, he became House-Surgeon at the Westminster Hospital and in June obtained the diploma of F.R.C.S. (Eng.). He was also Clinical Assistant in the Eye, Ear and Skin Department of the Hospital. From 1896 to 1897 he took 'locums' in Southend and Southampton. In 1898 he was appointed Assistant-Anaesthetist to the Westminster and National Dental Hospitals and formed a partnership with Dr. George Lindsay Turnbull. In 1902, he became a Fellow of the Medical Society of London.

In the BROAD WAY, the Gazette of Westminster Hospital, in 1903, there is reference to the connection of 'Big Mac' with the hospital, his continued success and to his 'big heart'. "Many and merry were the meetings held at his 'digs' in times past. Old students will remember him as host, as coach or as friend in need, seated in a huge armchair".

He was 47 when the First World War broke out; he applied to the Advisory Medical Board for National Service but was rejected on medical grounds. In later years as life became more leisurely, he was able to pursue his love of genealogy and became a recognized authority on most of the old Skye families. On August 1928, he visited Dunvegan Castle, where he saw the leases and other documents accumulated there through the centuries. He displayed his tremendous enthusiams for his own race — the Clann mac mhic Alasdair Ruaidh — by repairing the Alasdair Ruaidh burial ground at St. Mary's Church, Kilmuir, Dunvegan. The work was completed in 1930 and the following inscription is affixed to the wall. "Sacred to the Memory of the MacLeods of Bharkasaig, Bay and Gillen popularly known as the Clann mac mhic Alasdair Ruaidh, descended from Tormod, second son of William (Cleireach) 5th Chief of MacLeod and in remembrance of the inimitable Poetess, Mairi nighean Alasdair Ruaidh".

He was a man of immense kindness and was greatly beloved by his patients one of whom left him a house, complete with furniture and an extensive garden at Kenley in Surrey. He did much charitable work, particularly at the Convents of the Poor Clare, Westbourne Park Road, and of Our Lady of Zion, Chepstow Villas. Despite his flourishing practice and many calls on his leisure time, he was a keen motorist, golfer and bridge player.

He died in Harness on 9th January 1939 at the age of 71. On 14th January 1939, the following excerpt appeared in THE TIMES. "By the death of Dr. C.E. Alexander MacLeod at Ladbroke Grove on January 9th, Kensington has lost its best known and most beloved doctor." He was the eldest surviving member of the Bay Branch of the MacLeods of Skye, popularly known as the Clann mac mhic Alasdair Ruaidh, to which belonged the famous Gaelic poetess, Mair nighean Alasdair Ruaidh. A plaque to his memory was placed in the family burial ground at Kilmuir churchyard, Dunvegan. He himself was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.

Dr. Charles Edward Alexander MacLeod married on the 5th October 1898 at the Parish Church, Brighton, Edith Ann (born on 2nd September and baptised on 2nd November 1873 at the Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin at Twikenham), the fourth daughter of Frederick John Budd-Budd (1843 –1916) of Restlands, West Hoathly, Sussex and Victory Mansion, Brighton, and his wife Ann Elizabeth (1838 –1927), formerly Hindes of Beccles, Suffolk, who were married in the Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin, in Twickenham. The honeymoon was spent at Totland Bay on the Isle of Wight. On their return to London, they resided at first at 89 Ladbroke Grove and later removed to 76 and, finally, to 70b Ladbroke Grove, W.11. Dr. Charles Edward Alexander MacLeod and his wife had issue. Dr. Charles Edward Alexander MacLeod died on 9th January 1939 and was succeeded in the representation of the family of Bay and Gillen by his eldest son, Alexander Cameron MacLeod, Surgeon.

SOURCE: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon and Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS: THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, Section III, "MacLeod Cadet Families", Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society, 1970, pp. 237, 239-241, 243.

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  Burial Notes

Kensal Green Cemetery

  Recorded Events in His Life

• Parents: Alexander Charles MacLeod and Annie Golland.

• He appeared on the 1911 England Census on 2 April 1911 in Kensington, London, England.

Charles married Edith Ann BUDD-BUDD on 5 October 1898 in Brighton, East Sussex, England. (Edith Ann BUDD-BUDD was born on 2 September 1873 in Twickenham, Middlesex, England and was christened on 2 November 1873 in Twickenham, Middlesex, England.)

  Marriage Notes

Parish Church