Iain Macleod Children and Grandchildren

Iain Norman Macleod was a British Conservative Party politician and government minister. A playboy and professional bridge player in his twenties, after war service Macleod worked for the Conservative Research Department before entering Parliament in 1950. He was an outstanding orator and debater and was soon appointed Minister of Health, later serving as Minister of Labour.

He served an important term as Secretary of State for the Colonies under Harold Macmillan in the early 1960s, overseeing the independence of many African countries from British rule but earning the enmity of Conservative right-wingers, and the soubriquet that he was “too clever by half”.

Macleod did not contest the first-ever Conservative Party leadership election in 1965 but endorsed the eventual winner Edward Heath. When the Conservatives returned to power in June 1970, he was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in Heath’s government but died suddenly only a month later.

Iain Macleod Children and Grandchildren

Macleod’s daughter Diana Heimann was a UK Independence Party candidate at Banbury in the 2005 general election. Macleod’s daughter Diana Heimann was a UK Independence Party candidate at Banbury in the 2005 general election. There is no information about his grandchildren in the ,edia.