!BIOGRAPHY: BURKE''S PEERAGE AND BARONAGE, 105th Edition, 1980, p.
1714.
The Baron MacLeod of Fuinary (The Very Rev. Sir George MacLeod, M.C.),
of Fuinary in Morven, Co. Argyll, and a Baronet, educ. Winchester, and
Oriel Coll. Oxford (B.A. 1919, hon. Fell. 1969), served in World War I
1914-19 as T/Capt. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (M.C. 1917, Croix
de Guerr (avec palmes) 1918), hon. D.D. Glasgow Univer. 1937, Minister of
Govan Parish Church 1930-38, Leader of the Iona Community from 1938,
Moderator of the Gen. Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1957-58,
Chaplain to H.M. in Scotland 1956, b. 17 June, 1895, succeded his
neephew as 4th Baronet 1944, and created a Life Peer as Baron MacLeod
of Fuinary, of Fuinary in Morven, Co. Argyll 6 Feb. 1967, m. 28 Aug. 1948,
Lorna Helen Janet, elder dau. of Rev. Donald MacLeod, of Balvonie of
Inshes, Inverness, and has issue.
!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.