His understanding preserved him from those follies into which pride and anger frequently hurried his brother chieftains.

Many, therefore, who regarded his brother chieftains as mere barbarians, mentioned him with respect.

Even at the Dutch Embassy in St.
James's Square he was spoken of as a man of such capacity and courage that it would not be easy to find his equal.

As a patron of literature he ranks with the magnificent Dorset.

If Dorset out of his own purse allowed Dryden a pension equal to the profits of the Laureateship, Lochiel is said to have bestowed on a celebrated bard, who had been plundered by marauders, and who implored alms in a pathetic Gaelic ode, three cows and the almost incredible sum of fifteen pounds sterling.