Norman Macleod

MACLEOD, Norman. b. Campbeltown, Argyll, 3 June 1812; d. Glasgow, 16 June 1872. He was educated at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, and also in Germany. He became minister of Loudoun, Ayrshire (1838-43), of Dalkeith, Midlothian (1843-51), and of the Barony Church, Glasgow (1851-72). He was awarded an Honorary DD by Glasgow University in 1858. He was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1869. He was known and admired throughout Scotland as a fearless advocate of social reform. One of his prayers ends 'may I, ere I die, be a blessing to the city in which I dwell, especially to the poor and miserable in it, for whom my heart bleeds' (Kelynack, 1950, p. 170)...