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Blàr nam Fèinne (Battlefield of the Fingalians) on Cnoc na Moine (Hill of the Peat) in The Aird, to the west of Inverness, is the site of the 11th century battle between Scottish forces led by Maol Chaluim mac Dhonnchaidh (Malcolm III of Scotland) against Norwegian forces led by Thorfinn.
John Byset the Elder, Lord of the Aird (died 1257) was a Scoto-Irish nobleman who is the progenitor of the Bissett family (anglicized McKeon/McKeown) of the Glens of Antrim in Northeast Ireland or Ulster.
The son of George MacKenzie and Williamina Sutherland was educated on the Isle of Erraid Public School, in Argyll, the Aird Public School on the Isle of Lewis, the Nicolson Institute in Stornoway and the Portree High School in Skye.
(Fraser was also created Duke of Fraser, Marquess of Beaufort, Earl of Stratherrick and Upper Tarf, Viscount of the Aird and Strathglass and Lord Lovat and Beaulieu in the Jacobite Peerage of Scotland by James Francis Edward Stuart (titular King James III of England and VIII of Scotland) in 1740.)