Baron Macdonald, of Slate in the County of Antrim, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1776 for Sir Alexander Macdonald, 9th Baronet, of Sleat. The Macdonald family of Sleat descends from Uisdean Macdonald, also known as Hugh of Sleat, or Hugh Macdonald, who was an illegitimate son of Alexander Macdonald, Earl of Ross. On 28 May 1625, his great-great-great-great-grandson Donald Gorm Og Macdonald was created a baronet, of Sleat in the Isle of Skye in the County of Inverness, in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia. The baronetcy was created with remainder to heirs male whatsoever and with a special clause of precedence which provided that it should have precedency over all former baronets.
Barons Macdonald (1776)
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Alexander Macdonald, 1st Baron Macdonald (–1795) •
Alexander Wentworth Macdonald, 2nd Baron Macdonald (1773–1824) •
Godfrey Macdonald, 3rd Baron Macdonald of Slate (1775–1832) •
Godfrey William Wentworth Bosville-Macdonald, 4th Baron Macdonald (1809–1863) •
Somerled James Brudenell Bosville-Macdonald, 5th Baron Macdonald (1849–1874) •
Ronald Archibald Bosville-Macdonald, 6th Baron Macdonald (1853–1947) •
Alexander Godfrey Macdonald, 7th Baron Macdonald (1909–1970) •
Godfrey James Macdonald, 8th Baron Macdonald (b.1947) The
heir apparent is the present holder's only son Hon. Godfrey Evan Hugo Thomas Macdonald, Younger of Macdonald (born 1982). ==Macdonald baronets, of Sleat (1625); reverted 1832==