(died 28 May1885, aged 79 ), 27th Chisholm clan chief. Parents: Roderick Chisholm and his wife, who was a Sutherland. Roderick Chisholm, the father of the subject of the present entry, was, according to the Inverness Chronicle of Inverness, Scotland, 3 June 1885, “one of the band of emigrants from the Highlands who colonized the Canadian Glengarry in the early years of the present century.” Roderick Chisholm died in 1832 in Montreal in the cholera epidemic. “When his son, twenty-six years later, was served heir to his distant kinsman, the Highlanders of Canada, particularly those of Glengarry, greatly rejoiced at his succession.” The distant kinsman was Duncan Macdonell Chisholm, 26th chief, who died in London, Eng., 14 Sept. 1858. James Sutherland Chisholm was unmarried at the time of his succession, but he married a bride from Canada who was “of the good blood of the Macdonells of Glengarry” and brought her to Scotland in 1861. The bride’s name was Annie Cecilia Macdonell and the date of the marriage was 13 Nov. 1861. Chisholm died at his ancestral home of Erchless Castle, in Strathglass, Scotland. He was among those who signed the address of 1832 from the Chisholms of GC to their chief. Col. Alexander Chisholm “was an important witness in establishing the right of James Sutherland Chisholm, of Montreal, to succeed to the title and estates.” (Scott, ii, 42)

Inverness Chronicle 3 June 1885 repr. in a (Canadian?) newspaper as “Death of the Chisholm of Chisholm,” ASC, ii 38,39 (Neatby) * text of address of 1832 with annotated list of signatories, life of Chisholm, in Alexander Mackenzie, History of the Chisholms (Inverness, 1891) 108-112, 118-120