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Proceedings of Royal Society of Edinburgh. 
George Husband Baird Macleod, Knt., M.D. Glas., LL.D. St 
And., F.R.S. and F.R.C.S. Ed., F.F.P.S.G., and F.E.C.S.I., 
Corresponding Member of the Societe de Chirurgie de Paris 
and of the Academie de Medecine de Paris ; Member of the 
Deutsche Gesellschaft fiir Chirurgie ; Eegius Professor of 
Surgery, Glasgow University ; Senior Surgeon to the Glasgow 
Western Infirmary, and Surgeon in Ordinary to Her Majesty the 
Queen in Scotland. By the Eev. W. H. Macleod, B.A. 
Cantab., B.D. 
(Read January 16, 1893.) 
George Husband Baird Macleod was born in the Manse of Campsie 
on the 21st of September 1828, and died in Glasgow on the 31st of 
August 1892, after two days’ illness. He was the son of Norman 
Macleod, D.D., Dean of the Chapel Eoyal, and one of Her Majesty’s 
Chaplains, afterwards minister of St Columba’s Church, Glasgow, 
famed as a Celtic scholar, his writings in the Gaelic language being 
unrivalled among modern authors. From this cause, added to his 
eloquence as a preacher, and his unwearied labours for the good of 
the Highlanders, his memory is yet fondly cherished wherever the 
Gaelic language is spoken. The grandfather of Sir George was 
Norman Macleod, minister of the parish of Morven, whose ministry, 
together with that of his son, who succeeded him (John Macleod, 
D.D., Dean of the Thistle, the well-known and much-honoured 
“High Priest of Morven”), extended to the remarkable term of 105 
years. On his mother’s side he was descended partly from a Low- 
land family, who achieved no little distinction in their day and 
generation, the last of whom, his grandfather, James Maxwell, 
being Commissioner to the Duke of Argyll over his estates in Mull, 
Morven, and Tiree. Through his mother he was also descended from 
several well-known Argyllshire families. It would be impossible 
here to do more than allude to the many influences which helped to 
mould his character, but no sketch would be complete if it did not 
make some mention of the atmosphere in which he had been brought 
up, or of the traditions which he unconsciously imbibed, inherited on 
both sides from a race of honoured ancestors. That he fully appre- 
ciated how much he had gained from the past, his own record of his 
