This article incorporates text from A history of the clan Mac Lean from its first settlement at Duard Castle, in the Isle of Mull, to the present period, by John Patterson MacLean, a publication from 1889, now in the public domain in the United States.This article incorporates text from The Jacobite peerage, baronetage, knightage and grants of honour, by Melville Henry Massue Ruvigny et Raineval (marquis de), a publication from 1904, now in the public domain in the United States.
^ ab"MacLean". Electric Scotland. Retrieved 26 August 2007. The castle dates from the thirteenth century, and was repaired and enlarged by Hector Mor Maclean, who was Lord of Duart from 1523 till 1568. In 1691 it was besieged by Argyll, and Sir John Maclean, the chief of that time, was forced to surrender it. After that date, though occasionally occupied by troops, the stronghold gradually fell to ruins, and the Duart properties passed to other hands till Sir Fitzroy repurchased Duart itself in 1912.
^"Sir Fitzroy Maclean of Duart". Ambaile. Retrieved 5 March 2009. Sir Fitzroy Jeffreys Grafton Maclean was born in 1835 and was the 26th chief of the clan Maclean. He served in Bulgaria and the Crimea and was present at the capture of Martinique and Guadeloupe in the West Indies. In 1911 he bought and restored the ruined Duart Castle. To celebrate his 100th birthday he planted a rowan tree in the castle grounds to ward off evil spirits
^ abde la Caillemotte de Massue de Ruvigny, Melville Amadeus Henry Douglas Heddle (1904). The Jacobite Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Grants of Honour. T.C. & E.C. Jack. p. 98. Sir John Maclean commanded the right wing of the Jacobite army at Kiltie crankie, and held out in the island of Kernburgh until 1692, when he made his peace with William of Orange. He afterwards went to France and remained at St. Germains until the Act of Indemnity of 1703, when he returned to Scotland. He joined Lord Mar in 1715, and after Sheriffmuir retired to Gordon Castle, where he died in March 1716. The Castle of Duart and most of his other lands were seized by Argyll, and never afterwards recovered.
*denotes where someone died without a son and the chiefship went to his closest living male relative ^ He was the 16th and last Laird of Duart until the property was recovered and restored