MACLEOD, NORMAN, D.D., a divine of the church of Scotland, eminent for his pulpit oratory, his writings, and his liberal Christianity, was b. at Campbeltown, in Argyle shire, in 1812. He was educated at the university of Glasgow, and entering the church, became successively minister of Loudon in Ayrshire, Dalkeith, near Edinburgh, and the important barony church, Glasgow. He gained the degree of D.D. in 1858, was appointed one of the queen's chaplains in Scotland, and in 1869 was moderator of the general assembly of the church. In 1850 he visited Canada, and in 1867, India, on missions connected with the business of the church of Scotland. From 1850 to 1860 he edited the Edinburgh Christian Magazine, and from 1860 onwards was the eon. ductor of Good Words, to which he contributed numerous tales, essays, verses, etc., many being republished. Among the rnost important and popular of his works are: Reminiscences of a highland Parish; The Old Lieutenant and Ins SOW Eastward; The Gokl Thread; The Starling; The Earnest Stude.nt; 77te Home Education; Sermons, etc.
Dr. Macleod died at Glasgow June 16, 1872. See Memoir, by his brother, the rev. Donald Macleod (1876).
McLEOD, XAVIER DONALD, 1821-65; b. New York; son of Alexander; graduated at Columbia college, and admitted to orders in the Protestant Episcopal church in 1845. After preaching for a short time in a country parish, be traveled and studied in Europe. While abroad he beeatne a Roman Catholic, and on his return engaged in literary pur suits.. His publications are: Pynnshurst: his Wanderings and Ways of Thinking; Life of Sir Walter Scott; The Bloodstone; Life of Mary, Queen of Scots; 77te Elder's House, or the Ihree Converts; Chdteau Lescure, or the Last Marquis; lhe Weeder and The Saga of Vik ing l'orgail, two poems which have much merit. In 1837 he becatne professor of belles-lettres at Mount St. Mary's college, near Cincinnati, and was ordained as a priest,