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Sir Hector Maclean became the 7th Baronet of Morvern and Twenty Third Chief of the Clan Maclean in 1783. When Sir Allen, passed without heir on the 10th of December in 1783, the next in line for the chiefship had to be re-traced back to Hector Og. Sir Hector, as the great-grandson of Hector Og, was the rightful claimant to the Chief of the Clan Maclean. Sir Hector served as lieutenant in the lst Battalion of the Perthshire Regiment of Fencible Men. Great Britian. The 'fencible regiments' were defense regiments raised durring war-time to protect the homefront at existing garrisons, thus allowing the regular Army soldiers to deployed for offensive purposes. The Perthshire Regiment was likely raised as a result of either the Irish Rebelion of 1798 or the French Revolution and Napolionic Wars—all of which occured during Sir Allen's military service.
Little is known of Sir Hector. Although his career was in the Army, the greater part of his later life was spent in seculuded retirement. He never married nor did he ever live in or near Mull. Sir Hector died in 1818, on November 2, without heir. His titles and the chiefship passed to his brother Fitzroy Jeffreys Grafton Maclean.
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