MACLEOD. JAMES FARQUHARSON (1836-94). A Canadian soldier and civil officer, born in Toronto. Ile graduated at Queen's University, Kingston, in 1S54, and in 1860 became a barris ter. In 1856 he entered the militia and in 1867 he was made a major and brevet lieutenant colonel. For his services during the Red River expedition of 1870 he was created Companion of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George by the Queen. In 1873 be was appointed captain in the Northwest 'Mounted Police. and in 1876 lie was placed in command of that body and became a member of the Northwest Council. Four years afterwards he was appointed stipendary magis trate of the Northwest Territories, over all of which he had civil and criminal jurisdiction.
McLEOD, JOHN (1788-1849). A Canadian ex plorer. born at Stornoway in the island of Lewis, Scotland. In 1811 he came to America and en tered the service of the Hudson's Bay Company. He took an active part in the settlements at Selkirk and Winnipeg, an afterwards opened trade routes to the Pacific. Fur several years le cultivated a large farm, with grist and saw mills, at Vancouver. In 1826 he returned to the Hudson Bay district, where he was placed in charge of the company's work in North America, lie died in Montreal. July 24, 1849.
NcLEOD, MALcoLlt (1821-98). A Canadian lawyer and author, a son of John McLeod (q.v.), the explorer. He was horn at Green Lake, Saskatchewan, then a part of the Northwest Territories. October 21. 1821. Ile was sent to Edinburgh, Scotland, for his edneation: and after studying law in Montreal, he was admitted to the bar in 1845. He became District Magis trate for the counties of Ottawa and Pontiac (1874-76), and Queen's Counsel (1887). His name is especially associated for his important public services with the great Northwest. His exposure of the abuses of the Hudson's Bay Com par1y hastened the surrender of its charter and the incorporation of its territories with the Do minion of Canada (1870), Ile also published The Peace Rinr (1872), made up from his father's journal and his own observations in the Problems of Canada (]880); and numerous valuable papers on the geography and history of Canada. le died at Ottawa in Sep tember, 1898.
MacLEOD, NORMAN ( 1812-72 ) A Scottish divine and author, born June 3, 1812, at Camp belltown, Argyllshire, where his father was min ister. He was educated at the University of Glasgow, and studied divinity at Edinburgh under Chalmers. He became licentiate in the Church of Scotland in 1837, and the next year was ordained minister of Loudoun in Ayrshire. In the controversy which soon divided the Church he adopted a middle course between the 'evan gelicals' and the 'moderates,' producing several able pamphlets. On the disruption he remained in the Church, and became parish minister at Dalkeith (1843). He was one of the founders of the Evangelical Alliance (1847). In 1852 he accepted the Barony parish in Glasgow, where he established the first congregational penny sav ings bank and opened refreshment rooms for working men and a mission church for the poor. In 1857 he was appointed chaplain to the Queen. In the midst of these and other philanthropic schemes he found time for numerous sketches and essays, in which he reached a wide public. He edited the Christian Magazine from 1850 to 1860. and was the first editor of Good Words (1860 72). After a visit to Egypt and Palestine in 1864 he published Eastward (1866). In 1867 he was sent by the General Assembly to inspect the missions in India. An account of this tour was published under the title, Peeps at the Far East (1871). Ile died at Glasgow, June 16, 1872. Consult Memoirs, by his brother, Donald Mac Leod (London and New York, 1876).
IVIcLEOD, XAVIER DONALD ( 1821-65). An American author, born in New York City. He studied at Columbia, and in 1345 took orders in the Protestant Episcopal Church. After preach ing for a short time he traveled and studied in Europe, became a Roman Catholic, and on his return engaged in literary pursuits. Subsequent ly he was made priest. and held the chair of rhetoric and belles-lettres in Mount Saint Nlary's College ( Ohio) . Ilis publications Pynnshurst: II is Wanderings and Mays of Think ing (1852); Life of Sir Walter Scott 11:3521; Chateau Leseure, or the Last Marquis: and two poems, The Weeder and The Saga of Viking Torquil.