MAODONALD, Lieutenant-Col. John, F.R.S.
(1759–1831)> MUSICIAN · WRITER
MAODONALD (Lieutenant-Col. John, F.R.S.). Scottish musician and writer, Kingsbury, New York, 1759. Son of Flora Macdonald, the Scottish Heroine. Exeter, Aug. 16, 1831. He published a number of works on military tactics, telegraphy, and a Treatise Explanatory of the Principles Constituting the Practice and Theory of the Violoncello. Fo., 1811. Also a Treatise on the Harmonic System, arising from the Vibrations of the aliquot divisions of strings. Fo., 1822.