John George Macleod
John George Macleod (8 May 1915 in Kirkhill – 4 April 2006 in
Family
Macleod was the elder brother of
On 21 December 1942, John George Macleod married in Edinburgh Nancie Elizabeth Clark. Their issue are two sons, Peter John Macleod, married Braid Church, Edinburgh 1966 Geraldine Finlay, who both died in 2022 and Keith Roderick Macleod, who died in 2010 and married Yvonne Ann Hay. In addition to the two sons,they also had one daughter, Gillian Lesley Macleod, born Edinburgh 18 Oct.1945, who married Edinburgh 7 Dec. 1968 at Magdalen Chapel, Cowgate, Edinburgh and a reception afterwards at Prestonfield House, Edinburgh Gerard Willem Charles Lemmens, born Surabaya, Dutch East Indies, 24 April 1940, B.Sc.in Trop Agr. 1963, Knight in the Order of the Hop 2007, they live in Wadhurst, East Sussex.
Career
Macleod was educated at
In 1964, Macleod wrote the medical handbook Clinical Examination (later renamed Macleod's Clinical Examination), which is still (in 2023) in print in its 19th Edition and has sold worldwide over a million copies. In 1964, the physician
Personal note
He was interested in art and gave lectures on Art in Medicine with slides he had collected. He also was an enthusiastic supporter of the Traverse Theatre, and a keen gardener and garden designer. During State visits Macleod sometimes was the duty physician at Holyrood Palace and on one occasion received a gift from the French president Giscard D'Estaing ( a dish with his initials).
References
- ^ Tait, Mr (12 September 2013). "Dr John George MacLeod FRCP Edin". www.rcpe.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
- PMC 1562516.
- ^ Munro, John F (2006). "Obituaries: Dr John George MacLeod FRCP Edin". www.rcpe.ac.uk. Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
- 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