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's coalition government. He was the second son of Rev. Norman MacLeod. He had an younger brother, the

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, and six sisters. McLeod was created a

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in the 1924 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours. He married Edith Fielden in 1888. They had two sons, the second baronet (and father of the third baronet), and

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, the fourth baronet, founder of the

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and Minister at

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. They also had a daughter, Ellen, who married Rev. James Alan Cameron Murray.

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* 1857 births 1934 deaths Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Glasgow constituencies UK MPs 1910–1918 UK MPs 1918–1922 Unionist Party (Scotland) MPs Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom {{Conservative-UK-MP-1850s-stub