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Flora MacDonald foi filla de Marion e Ranald MacDonald de Milton, Illa de Uist, Escocia. O seu pai faleceu cando ela era unha nena, e a súa nai foi secuestrada e casada con Hugh MacDonald de Armadale, Sleat na Illa de Skye. Ela foi unha devota practicante presbiteriana .
In Pretty Young Rebel, award-winning biographer Flora Fraser tells the remarkable story of Flora Macdonald. It is a tale of adventure and daring, wit and charm, struggle and survival, and of a woman who showed extraordinary courage in the face of great danger. Please ask your local bookshop or bookseller to stock this book.
Flora MacDonald married her kinsman, Allan MacDonald of Kingsburgh, in 1750. They farmed at Flodigarry, Skye, until financial difficulties forced them to emigrate to North Carolina, USA, in 1774. They travelled with three of their seven children, as well as their son-in-law and two young grandchildren.
26 de jul. de 2015 · CBC. Updated July 26, 2015. Flora MacDonald, longtime politician, dead at 89. Longtime Canadian politician and Order of Canada recipient Flora MacDonald has died at the age of 89. Born in North Sydney, N.S., MacDonald served as Member of Parliament for Kingston and the Islands from 1972 to 1988. In 1979, she became the first female secretary of ...
Flora MacDonald Merrill Denison lived two lives, one conventional, the other not. As Flora MacDonald (a frequent nom de plume and her maternal grandmother’s name), she once wrote, “I have been an interested tenant of Mrs. Denison’s body and at times we differ so vastly in our reasoning and conclusions that I have come to believe she and I are two different personalities.”
Flora MacDonald ( Gaelic: Fionnghal nic Dhòmhnaill ); (1722 – 5 March 1790) wis a memmer o the Macdonalds o Sleat, that gied help tae Charles Edward Stuart tae evade govrenment sodgers efter the Battle o Culloden in Apryle 1746. Her faimily supportit the govrenment durin the 1745 Rising an Flora later claimt tae hiv assistit Charles oot o ...
The story of Flora Macdonald is well known and her courageous support for Bonnie Prince Charlie. Ms MacDonald, who was born on South Uist, was a member of the MacDonalds of Sleat clan, helped Charles Edward Stuart – or Bonnie Prince Charlie – escape government troops after the Battle of Culloden in April 1746.
