Sir James Macdonald, 6th Baronet (died 1723) was a Scottish Chief of Clan Macdonald of Sleat.[1]
Macdonald was a younger son of Sir Donald Macdonald, 3rd Baronet and Lady Mary Douglas. Among his siblings was elder brother, Sir Donald Macdonald, 4th Baronet, who participated in the Jacobite rising of 1689 and 1715.
His paternal grandparents were Sir James Macdonald, 2nd Baronet (the eldest and only surviving son of Sir Archibald Macdonald, a Baron of the Exchequer) and Margaret Mackenzie. His maternal grandparents were Robert Douglas, 8th Earl of Morton and the former Anne Villiers (a daughter of Sir Edward Villiers).
Upon the death of his nephew, Donald in 1720, he succeeded as the 6th Baronet Macdonald, of Sleat, in the Isle of Skye, County Inverness, which had been created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia in 1625. He lived at Oransay, Scotland.
Macdonald married Janet (Macleod) Macleod, a widow of John Macleod, 2nd of Talisker, and daughter of Alasdair MacLeod, 2nd of Grishornish and Margaret MacQueen. Before her death, they were the parents of:
After her death, he married Margaret Macdonald, daughter of John Macdonald. Together, they were the parents of:
Sir James died in 1723 at Forres, Morayshire, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest surviving son, Alexander.[3]