George MacLeod [SEP] educated at
a wealthy Lancastrian family (owning cotton mills). From this background and heir to a baronetcy, George MacLeod was educated at Winchester College and Oriel College, Oxford. His paternal grandfather was the highly respected Revd Norman MacLeod of the Barony Church, Glasgow, a Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and Chaplain to Queen Victoria.
World War I service.
Upon the outbreak of World War I in 1914, MacLeod joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, rising to the rank of Captain. He first
the Right Hon. Iain Norman Macleod, who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1970. The family belong to the branch of the Macleods of Pabbay and Uig.
On 21 December 1942, John George Macleod married Nancie Elizabeth Clark. Their issue are two sons, Peter and Keith and a daughter, Gillian.
Career.
Macleod was educated at George Watson's College and studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated in 1938. During the Second World War, from 1939 to 1945, he