Anna Macleod

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Anna MacGillivray Macleod
Edinburgh Ladies' College
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh
Known forauthority on brewing and distillation
world's first female Professor of Brewing and Biochemistry
AwardsHorace Brown medal
Scientific career
Fieldsbiochemistry, botany, brewing
InstitutionsHeriot-Watt University
Doctoral studentsGeoff Palmer

Anna MacGillivray Macleod (15 May 1917 – 13 August 2004) was a Scottish

academic, an authority on brewing and distilling. She was a professor at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. She was the world's first female Professor of Brewing and Biochemistry.[1]

Family

Born in

Macleods
of Pabbay and Uig.

Her father, Rev. Alasdair MacGillivray Macleod, was a Minister of the Church, died at an early age. He and her mother, Margaret Ingram Sangster were both in 1914 graduates of Aberdeen University. Her two brothers were both doctors of medicine: her elder brother was Dr. John George Macleod, editor of Davidson's Textbook of Medicine and the author of Macleod's Clinical Examination'', and her younger brother was Dr. Alasdair MacGillivray Macleod, a general practitioner in Linlithgow.[4]

She showed an interest in her family's genealogy, research on which she had started.

Education and profession

Macleod was educated at

Edinburgh Ladies' College. In 1939 she graduated from University of Edinburgh with a BSc with honours in botany. She joined the faculty of Heriot-Watt University in 1945, where she remained until her retirement in 1977. She returned in 1951 to the University of Edinburgh to study for her PhD. In the late 1960s, she was awarded a Doctor of Science, from the university, for a thesis on the germination of barley.[5]

In 1961, together with Leslie Samuel Cobley, she co-edited "Contemporary Botanical Thought", published by Oliver and Boyd. She edited the Journal of the Institute of Brewing from 1964 to 1976, and she was the first female President of that organisation (now the

professor emeritus
.

During her time at Heriot-Watt University, Macleod supervised the PhD work of Sir Geoff Palmer.[6]

In 1993, Heriot-Watt University awarded her an

pasteurisation), Peter Griess (colour chemistry), Joseph Williams Lovibond (colour physics), Gosset (statistics) and the man after whom the medal was named. He said that she was recognised nationally and internationally with distinction as a university teacher, scholar, scientist, technologist and as a brewer.[8]

Death and legacy

Anna Macleod died at St Raphaels, Edinburgh on 13 August 2004.

Heriot-Watt University's Edinburgh campus has a residence hall named in her honour.[8]

Heriot-Watt University's International Centre for Brewing and Distilling (ICBD), as it is now called, started the Anna Macleod Scholarship with a financial gift she had bequeathed to that University in her will.[citation needed]

References

  1. ISBN 978-1-57607-090-1
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  2. ISBN 978-1-57607-090-1
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  3. ^ "Research > Learning > Hall of Fame > Hall of Fame A-Z > Anna Macleod (1917-2004)". www.nrscotland.gov.uk. National Records of Scotland. Retrieved 29 January 2023.
  4. ^ The Macleods - The Genealogy of a Clan, Section Four by Alick Morrison, M.A., by Associated Clan Macleod Societies, Edinburgh, 1974
  5. ^ a b "Anna MacLeod". The Scotsman. 6 September 2004.
  6. ^ Coulson, Annie (28 June 2023). "Windrush 75: The story of Sir Geoff Palmer". BioTechniques.
  7. ^ "Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh: Honorary Graduates". www1.hw.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 18 April 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  8. ^ a b Heriot-Watt University, retrieved 1 April 2013

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

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Preceded by President of the
Institute of Brewing

1970–1972 		Succeeded by
Ewart Agnew Boddington
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