Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Macfarlane, Patrick
MACFARLANE, PATRICK (1768–1832), Gaelic scholar, born in 1758, was for some time schoolmaster at Appin, Argyllshire, but latterly resident in Glasgow, where he died towards the end of 1832. His work in Gaelic literature consisted mostly of translations published by the Society in Scotland for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge. Among the authors whose works he translated into Gaelic are Baxter, Dr. Blair, Bunyan, Doddridge, and Guthrie. He corrected the proofs of the Gaelic New Testament of 1813 and of McLeod and Dewar's Dictionary. He also compiled a manual for family devotion (1829), published a small collection of Gaelic poems (1813), and a vocabulary of Gaelic and English (1815).
[Reid's Bibl. Scoto-Celtica; Brit. Mus. Cat; Gent Mag. 1833, pt. i. p. 93.]