Angus of the Hills (C.1809-C.1854)
Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal, 1 (2011), 89-108 ISSN 2045-4570 ______ Angus of the Hills (c.1809-c.1854) D OUGLAS W. B. SOMERSET ngus of the Hills, Aonghas nam Beann, is well known in Highland religious circles, though perhaps not given all the honour that he shouldA be. The purpose of this article is to clarify, as far as possible, some of the dates and other basic facts of his life. For convenience, we have attached dates to the title and to several of the sections of this article but it should be emphasised that these dates are very much approximate. We are not claiming to have settled the various chronological questions that crop up. 1. Lewis (early years until about 1838) Angus Macleod, Angus of the Hills, was born in the parish of Uig, Lewis.1 His date of birth is uncertain but it was before 1810.2 His father 1 The principal sources for the life of Angus of the Hills are: The Sunday at Home Family Magazine for Sabbath Reading (1892-3), pp. 69-71 (compiled by an anonymous “gentleman” from information supplied by Mrs Bishop of Tobermory); Principal John Macleod, “Angus of the Hills”, Free Presbyterian Magazine, vol. 2 (1897-8), pp. 349-52 (cited below as Macleod); Malcolm Macphail, “Notes on Religion in Lewis, Part VII”, Oban Times, Saturday 1st 1898, Part VIII, Saturday 8th October (obtainable from Stornoway Public Library); Roderick MacCowan, The Men of Skye (Portree, 1902), pp. 147-153; Norman C. Macfarlane, The Men of the Lews (Stornoway [1924] (we quote from the partial reprint The Men of Lewis (Stornoway, c.
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