!BIOGRAPHY: BURKE''S LANDED GENTRY, Eighteenth Edition, Vol. II, London,
1969, pp. 417, 418.
!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. 53-54, 55.
Norman was born on 9th January 1873, in Dundee, and educated at
Totteridge Park School, Herts., George Watson''s College, Edinburgh, and
St. Andrews University (United College and St. Mary''s). President of
Misisonary Society and Shakespearian Society at St. Andrews University.
Acted as Student Missionary at Achnacarry in 1895 and 1896. He was
licensed on 8th May 1897, by the Presbytery of St. Andrews. Assistant
at Pollokshields Parish, Glasgow, 1897 to 1902. Charge of Canonbie
Parish, Dumfriesshire, 1902 to 1903.
Ordained and Inducted to St. Garardine''s Church, Lossiemouth, in 1903,
where he was first minister. Inducted to Belhaven parish, Dunbar, on 7th
January 1914 until 1927. Charge of St. John''s parish, Glasgow, 1916 to
1917 while the Rev. J. Campbell was at the war. Inducted to St. Bride''s
Parish, Glasgow, on 8th June 1927.
Officiating clergyman to troops at Westbarnes and Dunbar, 1914 to
1918. Member of School Board in Lossiemouth and Dunbar, and of
Education Committee, Member of Parish Council at Dunbar. Masonic
Grand Chaplain. Moderator of the Synod of Lothian and Tweedale.
President of Scottish Church Society from 1935 to 1937.
He was regarded as an authority on Church Worship on which he gave
lectures to groups of ministers in Glasgow. "A true Christian, he had
little patience with sectarian differences standing as barriers between
the people of the Church of Christ. . . . I cannot be recall his keen and
active mind, his sincerity and never failing courage, his genial
personality, his unswerving faith and loyalty, . . . none sought his advice
and help in vain. . . . He will be remember best as a true son of
consolation."
The Reverend Norman MacLeod married, on 25th September 1906, Mary
Campbell, daughter of Peter Salmon Faill, Head Inspector and
Superintendent of Branches of the Bank of Scotland, and his wife Mary
Lyon Campbell, with issue.
The Reverend Norman MacLeod died, as already noted, on 26th January
1942, and was succeeded in the representation of the family of Suardal
by his only son.