Diarmid Iain MacAulay

Born 14th Feb 1948, Diarmid Iain MacAulay, F.S.A. is the elder son of Iain MacMillan MacAulay and Nina MacAulay.
Part of his junior education was in Dunoon Grammar School and his senior education was at Ottershaw School, a Public School in Surrey run on the principles of Kurt Hahn.

On the breakdown of his father’s health in 1966 he returned to Scotland and managed the family 4000-acre Hill Farm at Ardbhar in the wild but magnificent country of NorthWest Sutherland.
With 750 North Country Cheviot sheep, a pedigree fold of 15 Highland Cattle, plus 15 cattle crosses he relied heavily on wonderful, loyal, Border Collies to manage his rocky kingdom.
He married Fiona MacWilliam who gave up her job as a bilingual secretary in Geneva to join him in Sutherland. On their croft in Unapool they built their home and ran a successful guesthouse for over 20 years. Fiona is now at Edinburgh University studying for an Honors degree in English language.
They had three children: Ruairidh Gun MacAulay, a Master in the Merchant Navy, Magnus McNair MacAulay, a Security Manager in London and Kate Johnston MacAulay a Financial Adviser. Ruairidh and his wife Teresa have extended the line another generation with the birth of their son Cameron Graham MacAulay and anticipate extending the line one step farther in July

Diarmid was Clerk to the Grazings Committee and then Chairman for may years before becoming a Director of the Kylesku Crofters Trust Ltd., a Community Land Buy-out. Involved in Environmental work and Training he was Project Officer for the Applecross Rural Skills Training Project: Footpath Training Officer for the National Trust for Scotland: Project co-coordinator for Assynt Crofters Trust for the E.U. Telematics Project. “ Sustainable Telematics for Environmental Management” Rights of Way Surveyor in North West Yorkshire for the Environment Agency for a conditions survey for Footpaths and Rights of Way. He is completing an Honors degree in Environmental Studies with the Open University and is studying Archaeology with Aberdeen University.
He has inherited his Father’s Arms and Motto “ Dulche Pro Patria Periculum,”
translated as “Danger is Sweet for My Country”