Iain Macleod

The Right Honourable Iain Macleod
Chancellor of the Exchequer
In office 20 June 1970 – 20 July 1970
Prime Minister	Edward Heath
Preceded by	Roy Jenkins
Succeeded by	Anthony Barber
Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
In office 11 November 1965 – 20 June 1970
Leader	Edward Heath
Preceded by	Edward Heath
Succeeded by	Roy Jenkins
Leader of the House of Commons
In office 9 October 1961 – 20 October 1963
Prime Minister	Harold Macmillan
Preceded by	Rab Butler
Succeeded by	Selwyn Lloyd
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
In office 9 October 1961 – 20 October 1963
Prime Minister	Harold Macmillan
Preceded by	Charles Hill
Succeeded by	The Lord Blakenham
Chairman of the Conservative Party
In office 9 October 1961 – 20 October 1963
Leader	Harold Macmillan
Preceded by	Rab Butler
Succeeded by	The Lord Blakenham
Secretary of State for the Colonies
In office 14 October 1959 – 9 October 1961
Prime Minister	Harold Macmillan
Preceded by	Alan Lennox-Boyd
Succeeded by	Reginald Maudling
Minister of Labour and National Service
In office 20 December 1955 – 14 October 1959
Prime Minister	Anthony Eden Harold Macmillan
Preceded by	Walter Monckton
Succeeded by	Edward Heath
Minister of Health
In office 7 May 1952 – 20 December 1955
Prime Minister	Winston Churchill Anthony Eden
Preceded by	Harry Crookshank
Succeeded by	Robin Turton
Member of Parliament for Enfield West
In office 23 February 1950 – 20 July 1970
Preceded by	Ernest Davies (Enfield)
Succeeded by	Cecil Parkinson
Personal details
Born	Iain Norman Macleod (1913-11-11)11 November 1913 Skipton, United Kingdom
Died	20 July 1970(1970-07-20) (aged 56) London, United Kingdom
Political party	Conservative
Spouse(s)	Evelyn Blois ​ (m. 1941)​
Children	2
Alma mater	Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

Iain Norman Macleod (11 November 1913 – 20 July 1970) was a British Conservative Party politician.

Macleod had ankylosing spondylitis. He is buried in the churchyard of Gargrave Church in North Yorkshire, near his mother who had died seven weeks earlier. Evelyn Macleod was struck down in June 1952 with meningitis and polio, but subsequently managed to walk again with the aid of sticks and worked hard to support her husband's career. After her husband's death she accepted a peerage in 1971 and took her seat in the House of Lords as Baroness Macleod of Borve. Macleod's daughter Diana Heimann was a UK Independence Party candidate at Banbury in the 2005 general election.

His estate was valued for probate at £18,201 (around £250,000 at 2016 prices).

Sources

• The Macleods – The Genealogy of a Clan, Section Four by Alick Morrison, M.A., by Associated Clan Macleod Societies, Edinburgh, 1974
• The MacLeods – The Genealogy of a Clan, Section Four by The Late Major Loudoun Hector Davenport MacLeod, RM, 1988
• Dell, Edmund (1997). The Chancellors: A History of the Chancellors of the Exchequer, 1945–90. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-006-38418-2.
• Dutton, David (2001). Neville Chamberlain (Reputations). Hodder Arnold. ISBN 978-0-340-70627-5.
• Goldsworthy, David (2004). "Macleod, Iain Norman". In Matthew, Colin (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 35. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0198614111.
• Grigg Lloyd George: War Leader (Allen Lane, London, 2002) ISBN 0-7139-9343-X
• Kyle, Keith (2011) [1991]. Suez: Britain's End of Empire in the Middle East. I B Tauris. ISBN 978-1-448-20321-5.
• Jenkins, Roy (2012) [1993]. Portraits and Miniatures. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-848-85533-5.
• Pelling, Henry (1992) [1963]. A History of British Trade Unionism. London: Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-013640-1.
• Shepherd, Robert (1994). Iain Macleod. Hutchinson. ISBN 978-0-091-78567-3.
• Thorpe, D. R. (2010). Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan (Kindle ed.). London: Chatto & Windus. ISBN 978-1844135417.
• Williams, Philip Maynard (1985) [1979]. Hugh Gaitskell. London: Jonathan Cape Ltd. ISBN 978-0-224-01451-9.

Other websites

• British Army Officers 1939−1945
• "The tragic loss of Iain Macleod", Douglas Hurd, Total Politics, 21 February 2013

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Iain Macleod

Parliament of the United Kingdom (1801–present)
New constituency	Member of Parliament for Enfield West 1950–1970	Succeeded by Cecil Parkinson
Political offices
Preceded by Harry Crookshank	Minister of Health 1952–1955	Succeeded by Robin Turton
Preceded by Walter Monckton	Minister of Labour and National Service 1955–1959	Succeeded by Edward Heath
Preceded by Alan Lennox-Boyd	Secretary of State for the Colonies 1959–1961	Succeeded by Reginald Maudling
Preceded by Rab Butler	Leader of the House of Commons 1961–1963	Succeeded by Selwyn Lloyd
Preceded by Charles Hill	Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1961–1963	Succeeded by The Lord Blakenham
Preceded by Edward Heath	Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer 1965–1970	Succeeded by Roy Jenkins
Preceded by Roy Jenkins	Chancellor of the Exchequer 1970	Succeeded by Anthony Barber
Party political offices
Preceded by Rab Butler	Chair of the Conservative Party 1961–1963 Served alongside: The Lord Poole (1963)	Succeeded by The Lord Blakenham
Media offices
Preceded by Iain Hamilton	Editor of The Spectator 1963–1965	Succeeded by Nigel Lawson