_Rev. Norman MACLEOD _
_Very_Rev. Norman MACLEOD _|_Jean MORRISON _______
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_Sir_John MacKintosh MacKintosh MACLEOD _|
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|--The_Very_Rev_Sir George Fielden MACLEOD
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|_Edith FIELDEN __________________________|
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!CREATION: Baron (L.), 6 Feb. 1967, Baronet (U.K.), 3 March 1924.
!ARMS: Az., a castle triple towered arg., masoned sa., windows and portcullis gules, on a chief of the second an open book ppr., leaved of the fourth. Crest -- A bull's head cabosed sa., horned or, between two keys, wards uppermost of the last. Motto -- Hold fast.
!RESIDENCE: 23, Learmonth Terrace, Edinburgh, 4.
!SOURCE: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon and Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS -- THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, Section III, "MacLeod Cadet Families", Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society, 1970, pp. 40, 42. George F. MacLeod was born on 17th June 1895 in Glasgow, and was educated at Winchester, Oriel College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A., Edinburgh University, and Union Theological College, New York, U.S.A. During the First World War, he served as Captain in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, and received the Military Cross and Croix de Guerre. Licensed by the Presbytery of Edinburgh on 29th June 1921, George F. MacLeod went in 1922 as a missioner to the Lumber Camps in British Columbia. On his return to Scotland he became assistant to St. Giles, Edinburgh. He was ordained for Social Service with Toc H on 17th December 1924. He was admitted collegiate minister of St. Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, on 24th March 1926, and was translated to Govan on 8th October 1930. He resigned, on 31st May 1938, to found the Iona Community and become its first leader. Mr. MacLeod was responsible for the restoration and reconstruction of the Abbey buildings, which he made the centre of the Community's life. Glasgow University honoured him with the doctorate of divinity on 16th June 1937. Dr. MacLeod succeeded his nephew, Sir Ian Francis Norman MacLeod, who died in Naples on 29th April 1944, as 4th Baronet of Fuinary. In May he was elected Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. In 1956 he was appointed a Chaplain to Her Majesty in Scotland. On the 6th February 1967, Dr. MacLeod was created a Life Peer with the title of the Baron MacLeod of Fuinary. He was elected Lord Rector of Glasgow University. The Rev. Sir George F. MacLeod married, on 28th August 1948, Lorna helen Janet, daughter of the Rev. Donald MacLeod of the High Church, Inverness, with issue.
!SOURCE: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon and Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS -- THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, Section III, "MacLeod Cadet Families", Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society, 1970, p. 37.