Norman Macleod (1838–1911) was a Scottish minister who served as

Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland The moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland is the minister or elder chosen to moderate (chair) the annual General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, which is held for a week in Edinburgh every year. After chairing the Ass ...

in 1900.

Life

He was born on 7 June 1838, the son of Rev John Macleod of

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, and his wife Margaret MacLean. His brother, John Macleod, became minister of

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. He studied divinity at

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. In 1875 he translated from

Blair Atholl Blair Atholl (from the Scottish Gaelic: ''Blàr Athall'', originally ''Blàr Ath Fhodla'') is a village in Perthshire, Scotland, built about the confluence of the Rivers Tilt and Garry in one of the few areas of flat land in the midst of the G ...

Parish Church to St Stephen's Church in

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. In 1885 he was living nearby at 7 Royal Circus. In 1890 translated St Stephens Church in

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. In 1876 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were David Smith, Andrew Douglas Maclagan, David Stevenson and Thomas Stevenson. He died on 11 December 1911. He is buried with his wife in

Dean Cemetery The Dean Cemetery is a historically important Victorian cemetery north of the Dean Village, west of Edinburgh city centre, in Scotland. It lies between Queensferry Road and the Water of Leith, bounded on its east side by Dean Path and o ...

in western Edinburgh. The grave lies on the north path of the original northern extension at the junction with a north–south path.

Family

He was married to Helen Augusta Colquhoun (died 1914).

Family

He was married to Mary Augusta Colquhoun.

Memorials

A memorial stained glass window to his memory was erected in St Stephens Church in 1914.Inverness Press and Journal (newspaper) 18 May 1914

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Macleod, Norman 1838 births 1911 deaths Alumni of the University of Glasgow Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 19th-century ministers of the Church of Scotland 19th-century Scottish Presbyterian ministers 20th-century ministers of the Church of Scotland 20th-century Scottish Presbyterian ministers