Macbean, Lachlan

b Kiltarlity, Inverness-shire 1852, d Kirkcaldy, Fifeshire 1931. Living in the generation after Mary MacDonald (qv), he edited the Fifeshire Advertiser and was an authority on Gaelic culture including its literature. Among other writing, Songs and Hymns of the Gael, or of the Scottish Highlands (1888) which he collected and published, proved crucial in preserving and popularising much of the older material. No.370.