In 1963, Philby was revealed to be a member of the spy ring now known as the Cambridge Five, the other members of which were Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross.

Philby had been briefed on the situation shortly before reaching Washington in 1949 ; it was clear to Philby that the agent was Donald Maclean, who worked in the British Embassy at the time and whose wife, Melinda, lived in New York.

Philby had undertaken to devise an escape plan which would warn Maclean, currently in England, of the intense suspicion he was under and arrange for him to flee.

Burgess had to get to London to warn Maclean, who was under surveillance.

Burgess was sent back to England, where he met Maclean in his London club.

The " affair of the missing diplomats ," as it was referred to before Burgess and Maclean surfaced in Moscow, attracted a great deal of public attention, and Burgess ' disappearance, which identified him as complicit in Maclean's espionage, deeply compromised Philby's position.

Fuchs attended a conference of the Combined Policy Committee ( CPC ) in 1947, a committee created to facilitate exchange of atomic secrets between the highest levels of government of the U. S., Great Britain and Canada ; Donald Maclean, as British co-secretary of CPC, was also in attendance.

Who was that Katherine Maclean?

What was once a smithy is now a garage still in the hands of the Maclean family.

For a few weeks he was the youngest brigadier in the British Army, and he was one of only two men in the entire war to rise from private to brigadier ( the other being Fitzroy Maclean ).

( The independent Liberal parliamentary leadership was briefly taken over by the unknown Donald Maclean until Asquith, who had lost his seat like other leading Liberals, returned to the House at a by-election ).

Around 1873, Mathew Maclean donated land for the Presbyterian Church, and it was built at a cost of $ 2, 441. 01 with a membership of seventeen.

En route to Iceland in the company of the painter Johann Zoffany, the Bishop of Linköping, and a Dr. Solander, Banks ( later a president of the Royal Society ) was entertained by Maclean of Drummen, on the Isle of Mull.

Philby was eased out of office and quietly retired in 1953 after the defection of his friends and fellow members of the " Cambridge spy ring " Donald Duart Maclean and Guy Burgess.

In Scotland, Connolly's thinking was hugely influential for socialists such as John Maclean, who would similarly combine his leftist thinking with nationalist ideas when he formed his Scottish Workers Republican Party.

* Charles Rawden Maclean ( 1815 – 1880 ), alias " John Ross " opponent of slavery, was born in Fraserburgh

Although originally sold as a secret medicine, Warburg's Tincture was highly regarded by many eminent medical professionals who considered it as being superior to quinine ( e. g. Surgeon-General W. C. Maclean, Professor of Military Medicine at British Army Medical School, Netley ).

Between 1830 and 1843, while Maclean was in charge of affairs on the Gold Coast, no confrontations occurred with Asante.

It was incredible ..." However, noted Fitzroy Maclean, " too much dash had its penalties.

Westphal was also a studio analyst along with Don Maclean for the 2007 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament games that aired on FSN.

Blunt, a Fellow of Trinity College, was several years older than Burgess, Maclean, and Philby ; he acted as a talent-spotter and recruiter.

Philby learned one of the suspects was Maclean.

Realizing he had to act fast, he ordered Burgess, who was on the embassy staff as well and living with Philby, to warn Maclean in England, where he was serving in the Foreign Office headquarters.

Allan Maclean reported that 20 bodies were recovered in the spring thaw the following May.

It is unlikely that Canna ever formed part of the territories of the MacDonald Lordship of the Isles, which title became forfeit in 1493, as Monro reported of " Kannay " in 1549 that the island was a: " faire maine land, foure myle lange, inhabit and manurit, with paroche kirke in it, guid for corne, fishing and grassing, with a falcon nest in it, pertines to the Abbot of Colmkill ", although it " burned with fire " as part of the feud between Clanranald and Maclean of Duart in the late 16th century.

Although Maclean did not transmit technical data on the atom bomb, he reported on its development and progress, particularly the amount of plutonium ( used in the Fat Man bombs ) available to the United States.

It has been reported that Maclean suggested to Moscow that the goal of the Marshall Plan was to ensure American economic domination in Europe.

Maclean is also reported to have commented on the World Bank created at the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944 and the International Monetary Fund, a related institution.

Maclean was reported seriously ill with pneumonia in December 1982, and was housebound after his recovery.

In Cairo Maclean dined with Alexander Cadogan, his FO superior, and the next day reported to Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary.

Sam Lesser, the son of Polish Jewish immigrants, befriended Maclean in Moscow, where he was correspondent for the KGB-funded British newspaper The Daily Worker.

When the Liberal President of the Board of Education Sir Donald Maclean died, Margesson insisted that to appoint another Liberal merely on the basis of party balance would inflame tensions amongst Conservative MPs, potentially lead to a poor appointment and maintain an imbalance since the Liberals had one more Cabinet Minister than the Liberal Nationals ( and the National Labour Lord Privy Seal Lord Snowden was increasingly siding with the Liberals on all key divisions, thus providing a surrogate ), despite the latter having two more MPs.

He also had the dubious distinction of having on his staff at various times Kim Philby, Guy Burgess and Donald Duart Maclean.

When Maclean was sixteen, his father was elected for the North Cornwall constituency, and he spent some time in Cornwall during school holidays.

Fresh out of Cambridge, Maclean joined the Foreign Office and spent a couple of years at the Paris embassy.

Maclean spent the winter working in Moscow and amusing himself at the dacha ( country cottage ) of American friends, including Chip Bohlen.

The drive back was uneventful, but nearing Cairo, Maclean, along with most of his party, was seriously injured in a crash and spent months out of action.

Maclean spent months there with him, " talking, eating, and above all, arguing ".

Ralph Stevenson, the British Ambassador to this government in exile, accompanied Subasić to Vis, but he and Maclean stayed out of the negotiations and spent their days swimming and speculating.

Aileen suffered from psychiatric problems, which grew more severe during the period of poverty and suspicion following the flight of Burgess and Maclean.

Others, like Fitzroy Maclean were a little more astute in their observations and conclusions.

At a later date a report received by King James VI indicated that Clanranald had re-occupied the island, but despite these temporary setbacks the island remained in Maclean of Coll's hands for three centuries or more.

Prior to the Findhorn Foundation in 1972 there was a Findhorn Trust as more people joined Eileen Caddy, Peter Caddy and Dorothy Maclean, who had arrived at the Caravan Park at Findhorn Bay on 17 November 1962.

Erskine had at one stage described socialism as " a predatory creed ", but by the time of the First World War he was becoming more politically radical and finding sympathy with the cause of figures such as Maclean.

As Maclean told Kitty Harris, on the evening he met Melinda, he saw more to her " I was very taken by her views.

Melinda Maclean and their children joined him in Moscow, more than a year later.

He felt that the Soviet agents Philby, Maclean, Burgess and Blunt could all have been identified more quickly using the scientific methods that he proposed.

When the weather became more conducive to travel, Maclean began his third and longest trip, aiming for Chinese Turkestan, immediately east of the Soviet Central Asian republics he had reached in 1937.

Maclean famously paraphrased Churchill: " My task was simply to help find out who was killing the most Germans and suggest means by which we could help them to kill more.

Maclean decided he needed to discuss matters with Tito and then with Allied superiors in Cairo to argue for more resources to push the project forward, and accordingly made his way back to Partisan HQ in Jajce.

However, Sir James Balfour, a senior officer in the Covenanter army, wrote in his journal that about 800 Scots were killed in total, of whom no more than 100 were from Clan Maclean.

The Books Division has more than six thousand books in print at the present time, including such well-known works as The Chicago Manual of Style ; The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas Kuhn ; A River Runs Through It, by Norman Maclean ; and The Road to Serfdom, by F. A. Hayek.

Friend and poet Edwin Morgan notes that unlike his contemporaries ( such as Sorley Maclean and Derick Thomson ), Crichton Smith was more prolific in English than in Gaelic, perhaps viewing his writing in what, from Crichton Smith's view, was an imposed non-native language as a challenge to English and American poets.

He sent word to Colonel Allan Maclean at Quebec to bring more of his Royal Highland Emigrants and some militia forces to Sorel, from where they would move up the Richelieu toward St. Jean, while Carleton would lead a force across the Saint Lawrence at Longueuil.