Photograph of Colina Campbell in Caoles House, Coll.
Courtesy of Mr Hugh MacKinnon
Colina Campbell was the wife of Dr Alexander Buchanan and the daughter of Colin Campbell and his wife Mary Ann MacLean. Her father, a landed proprietor who owned the estates of Cornaig and Caoles on the Isle of Coll, was also the tenant of Balephetrish farm for some twenty years from the 1840s to the 1860s.
In 1856 Colonel Hugh MacLean lost his estates on Coll. Five years later several families evicted from the centre of Coll were given sanctuary on the Campbell estates in the east end of the island. Some fifteen families removed their cattle and effects to their new home on the same day.
According to a Gaelic poem in the ‘Handbook to the islands of Coll and Tiree’, it was Colina herself who offered them aid, although she was barely twenty years old at the time. She died in 1930 aged eighty-nine.
Black and white photograph taken in Caoles, Coll.
Colina Campbell (1841-1930), wife of Dr Alexander Buchanan, Medical Officer for Tiree, photographed in Caoles, Coll.
Audio cassette recording of Hugh MacKinnon of Baugh talking to Dr John Holliday in January 1999.
Hugh MacKinnon of Baugh talks to Dr John Holliday in January 1999 about his early life and memories of his schooldays including the mine that blew up at Scarinish, the construction work in Tiree during the war, the station commander Preston Potts, the RAF base and plane crashes, the people living in Baugh, crofting, Dr Buchanan, the shops, his first bicycle and his father’s work. (Continued on AC90)
Audio cassette recording of Angus Munn and Neil Johnston of Heanish talking to Dr John Holliday in November 1998.
Angus Munn and Neil Johnston of Heanish talk to Dr John Holliday in November 1998 about the Heanish bard, sailors, the Land League in Tiree, cobblers, Donald Lamont and his family, boarded-out children, stories about Stanley Swan and Jack MacEwan, the history of Baugh guesthouse, stories about the owners of the guesthouse, the fever hospital, a boatbuilder from Heanish, the boats he built and the people who worked with him.
Audio cassette recording of John George MacLean of Scarinish talking to Dr John Holliday in December 1998.
John George MacLean of Scarinish talk to Dr John Holliday in December 1998 about his early years and schooling at Scarinish, working at Baugh farm and elsewhere as a shepherd, the building of Tiree aerodrome, Italian POWs, the bad winter of 1942, wartime entertainment, RAF and other personnel, bomb disposal, the materials and methods used in thatching, community spirit, demolition of houses to make roads, stories about the Rev. MacKay and the fire in the old shop in Scarinish.
Hector MacPhail of Ruaig tells the story of the first voyage of Iain MacArthur from Roisgeal in Caoles on his uncle’s sailing ship. He was made to turn out in foul weather to change sail and to sew up the bodies of his fellow crew members after a fever had gone round the boat.
Photograph of the memorial at Baugh to Dr Alexander Buchanan, Medical Officer for Tiree 1860-1911.
Dr Buchanan was Tiree’s Medical Officer from 1860 to 1911. Although he was wealthy by island standards, an indication of the importance people of the time placed on medical treatment can be seen by the fact that in 1880 there was no nurse, one doctor and four ministers.
As well as payment for smallpox vaccinations and looking after those on the Poor Roll, Dr Buchanan had the income from one of the best farms on the island at Baugh. He died in 1911 aged 75, leaving an estate valued at £3,750.
On his death a monument was erected on Cnoc Eibrig in Baugh to a ‘Medical officer and loved and valued friend of the islanders’. This monument was damaged during World War II by blasting from the nearby quarry, despite the erection of a wooden shield.
Colour photograph of Dr Buchanan`s memorial at Baugh.
Memorial to Dr Buchanan (1835 – 1911) at Baugh, Tiree`s Medical Officer from 1860 until his death.
Baugh Surgery staff in 1999. L-R: Receptionsit Mary MacKinnon of Balephetrish, Practice Nurse Becca Gray, Dr John Holliday, receptionists Rena MacKinnon of Balephetrish and Marjie Brown of Salum.
