Roderick Maclean attempted to assassinateQueen Victoria of England in 1882 with a pistol. This was the last of seven attempts over a period of forty years to kill Victoria, and it was the only one in which the gun in use was actually loaded. Maclean's motive was puportedly a curt reply to poetry of his mailed to the Queen.
Tried for high treason, the jury found the Scotsman Maclean "not guilty, but insane" and he lived out his remaining days in an asylum. The verdict prompted the Queen to change English law regarding cases with similar outcomes to be considered as "guilty, but insane."
A poem (http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/poems/pgassass.htm) was later written about Maclean's attempt on the Queen's life by William Topaz McGonagall, considered by some the "worst" (http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/index.shtml) poet in the English language.
MacLean admits that the signature on the form is his, and does not deny that the contents and risks were explained to him; he says that he simply has no recollection at all of any such explanation or even of having signed the consent.
MacLean says that prior to the cranial angiogram Dr. Hoff introduced himself to her and told her that he and Dr. Willinsky would be performing the cranial angiogram because it was a simpler procedure than the spinal angiogram, and that it could be done under a local anesthetic.
MacLean's future income loss it is necessary to determine firstly his anticipated retirement age, secondly to determine what his earning capacity up to that date would have been but for his disability, thirdly to credit against such amounts his expected earnings for the period, and finally to calculate the present value of such loss.
The Macleans of Duart had held the earlier office of Chamberlain to the Lord of the Isles, a title which was confirmed by the crown in 1495 even after the Lordship was abolished.
He and Maclean of Lochbuie were among the barons of the Isles who accompanied Donald Dubh to Ireland, and at the command of the Earl of Lennox, claiming to be regent of Scotland, swore allegiance to the king of England.
The quarrel between the Macleans and the Macdonalds of Isla and Kintyre attracted, in 1589, the serious attention of the king and council, thus the rival chiefs, with Macdonald of Sleat, were summoned to Edinburgh.
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