in the following August. On 30 July 1827 he obtained the degree of D.D. from the university of Glasgow. On 31 Oct. 1836 he was elected by the managers minister of the Gaelic chapel of ease (St. Columba's), Glasgow, and was admitted in December. He was moderator of the general assembly of the church of Scotland which met on 18 May 1836, and in 1841 he was appointed chaplain in ordinary to the queen, and one of the deans of the Chapel Royal. He died 25 Nov. 1862.
Macleod is described in the 'Life' of his son Norman as a 'remarkably handsome man, with a broad forehead, an open countenance full of benevolence, and hair which from an early age was snowy white,' Besides attaining some eminence as a popular preacher, especially to Gaelic audiences, he interested himself in schemes for the welfare of the highlands. It was through his action, in directing attention to the insufficient provision for elementary education in the highlands and islands, that the church was induced to form its education scheme; and during a period of exceptional distress in the highlands he made a very successful visit to England to collect subscriptions. He also frequently undertook evangelising tours in Ireland, preaching to the Irish in their native language, which he had thoroughly mastered. Besides several sermons in Gaelic, he was the author of 'Gaelic Collection for the use of Schools,' 1828; 'The Gaelic Messenger,' 2 vols. 1880–1; 'Dictionary of the Gaelic Language' (in conjunction with Dr. Dewar), 1831; 'The Mercy and Justice of God manifested in the Expulsion of our First Parents from the Garden of Eden,' 1849; and the 'Psalms of David in Irish.'
By his wife Agnes Maxwell of Aros he had five sons and six daughters. The two elder sons, Norman (1812–1872) [q. v.] and Donald became ministers of the church of Scotland.
The third son, Sir George Husband Baird Macleod (1828–1892), surgeon, studied medicine at Glasgow (M.D. 1853), Paris, and Vienna, and in February 1854 was appointed senior surgeon of the civil hospital at Smyrna, retaining the office throughout the Crimean war. Some valuable 'Notes on the Surgery of the Crimean War, with Remarks on Gunshot Wounds,' appeared in the 'Edinburgh Medical Journal' for 1855. Next year he commenced practice at Glasgow, becoming surgeon in the Glasgow Royal Infirmary and lecturer on surgery at Anderson's College. In 1869 he succeeded Sir Joseph Lister as regius professor of surgery in Glasgow University. He was made senior surgeon in ordinary to the queen in Scotland, LL.D. of St. Andrews, and a knight (1887). Dying 31 Aug. 1892, he was buried in Campaie churchyard. In 1859 he married Sophia, daughter of William Houldsworth, esq., by whom he had a family. He contributed important articles to Cooper's 'Surgical Dictionary,' 'American International Cyclopædia,' the 'Lancet,' and the 'British Medical Journal' (Times and Lancet, September 1892; information kindly given by the Rev. Dr. Hamilton of Belfast).
[Donald Macleod's life of Norman Macleod (his son); Hew Scott's Fasti Eccles. Scot, ii. 32–3, 65, iii. 37; Men of the Reign.]
MACLEOD, NORMAN, D.D. (1812–1872), Scottish divine, eldest child of Norman Macleod, D.D. Glasgow [q. v.], and Agnes, daughter of Maxwell of Aros, chamberlain of the Duke of Argyll, was born at Campbeltown, Argyllshire, where his father was then parish minister, on 3 June 1812. His early education was obtained at the Campbeltown Burgh School. At the age of twelve he was sent to board with the schoolmaster of Morven, of which parish his grandfather, another Norman, was minister. In 1825, on the removal of his father to Campsie, Stirlingshire, he became a pupil at the parish school there. In 1827 he entered Glasgow College, where his career was not specially distinguished, logic being the only subject in which he gained honours. In 1831 he went to Edinburgh to study divinity under Chalmers and Welsh, by the former of whom he was much influenced. On Chalmers's recommendation he was appointed tutor to the only son of Henry Preston, esq., of Moreby Hall, Yorkshire, which post he held for three years, sometimes residing at Moreby, sometimes travelling with his pupil on the continent, and finally bringing him with him to Edinburgh, when he returned thither to prosecute his studies. In October 1835 he resumed work at Glasgow College; in May 1837 became a licentiate of the church of Scotland, and on 15 March 1838 was ordained parish minister of Loudoun, Ayrshire, being presented by the Dowager Marchioness of Hastings. He quickly gained the affection of his parishioners, and his church became crowded. In the non-intrusion controversy, which was raging at this time in Scotland, he was one of ‘the forty’ who advocated the adoption of a middle course between the ‘evangelicals’ and ‘moderates,’ such as was afterwards embodied in Lord Aberdeen's bill, which declared that presbyteries might decide on the suitableness of presentees to the parishes to which they had been presented. In 1843 Macleod published a pithy pamphlet on the controversy, entitled ‘Cracks about
