Black and white photograph of Duncan MacKinnon, Lodge Farm.
Duncan MacKinnon of Lodge Farm, Kirkapol, brother of Rev. Hector MacKinnon and son of the couple in L14.
1998.132.26
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1998.132.2
Black and white photograph of the family of the Rev. Hector MacKinnon of Kirkapol.
The family of the Rev. Hector MacKinnon of Kirkapol, probably taken in the 1880s or 1890s. L-R: (back row) John (Rev. Hector`s brother and Lady Victoria`s `Faithful John`); Johnny (Rev. Hector`s bother who emigrated to Canada); Sarah (Rev. Hector`s sister); Duncan (Rev Hector`s brother who died aged 43); (front) Rev. Hector`s parents, Donald MacKinnon and Ann MacLean. The boy in the doorway is a Chisholm from the Lodge.
1998.132.27
Rev Hector MacKinnon
Photograph of Rev Hector MacKinnon.
Courtesy of Ms Elsie MacKinnon
Rev. Hector MacKinnon was born at Lodge Farm in Kirkapol in 1866, the son of Donald MacKinnon and his wife Ann MacLean. He studied at Edinburgh University where he won prizes in several Arts and Divinity classes and was awarded three bursaries.
In 1891 he was licensed as a minister and the following year chosen as the successor to Rev John Gregorson Campbell in Tiree. From 1894 to 1897 he ministered in Stornoway and then in Campbeltown until 1905 when he was called to the parish of Shettleston in the east end of Glasgow.
His eloquence as a preacher in English and Gaelic earned him the soubriquet of ‘Spurgeon of the North’. He died in 1913 aged forty-six from influenza complicated by pneumonia. A plaque in Kirkapol church commemorates his life.
Black and white photograph of Rev. Hector MacKinnon of Lodge Farm, Kirkapol.
Rev. Hector MacKinnon (1866-1913) of Lodge Farm, Kirkapol. Born at Lodge Farm, Kirkapol, he studied at Edinburgh University, was ordained as a minister in 1890 and served in Tiree in 1891. He ministered in Shettleston in the east end of Glasgow where he died unexpectedly aged 46.
1998.130.6
Black and white postcard of a painting of the old ruined chapels at Kirkapol pre-1906.
The old ruined chapels at Kirkapol; original postcard date-stamped July 1906.
1998.102.2
The Lodge at Kirkapol
Postcard of the Lodge at Kirkapol.
The Lodge in Kirkapol was enlarged in the early 1890s for Lady Victoria Campbell who made it her permanent home while on Tiree. The Ordnance Survey indicates that the original building was used as a school for boys and girls in 1878.
Initially Lady Victoria visited the islands for around six weeks each year, staying with the factor Hugh MacDiarmid and his family at Island House while on Tiree. In 1891 she determined to spend her winters on Tiree and rented a number of houses until work on the Lodge was complete.
While on the island Lady Victoria organised sewing classes for girls and woodwork classes for boys. She started agitating for Gott Bay pier in 1891 and lobbied successfully for a district nurse for the island.
Black and white postcard of the Tiree Lodge.
The Tiree Lodge at Kirkapol.
1998.102.3
Souvenir booklet of postcards with views of Tiree.
Souvenir booklet of cardboard-mounted postcards with views of the pier, the Scarinish Hotel (J35), the Lodge (J36) and Balemartine.
2003.151.1
Copy of colour photograph of the pipe band at the Lodge in June 1977.
Tiree Pipe Band playing the Queen`s 25th Jubilee celebrations near the Lodge Hotel in June 1977.
2000.131.1
Three floppy disks with Gaelic place-names in Tiree townships.
Gaelic place-names in the Tiree townships.
2000.59.12
Family tree for Lachlan MacKinnon and his wife Catherine MacIntyre and a photograph of a gravestone in Tiverton cemetery, Ontario.
Family tree for Lachlan MacKinnon (c.1800-1868) of Heanish and Kirkapol and his wife Catherine MacIntyre and a photograph of their son Alexander Charles` gravestone in Tiverton cemetery, Ontario.
2000.53.1
Photocopied extract `The Buildings of Scotland – Argyll and Bute` by Frank Arneil Walker, pp 594-600.
Descriptions of townships and buildings, churches and chapels, burial grounds and cemeteries, monuments and memorials, duns, forts and broch, standing stones, airport and piers, Sandaig museum, Skerryvore and the Hynish complex.