Macleod was awarded half of the Nobel Prize for the discovery of insulin, even though many people ( including Banting ) publicly insisted that Macleod's involvement was minimal and Best's work had been essential.

In 1963, Gilmour offered the editorship to Iain Macleod, the politician who had recently resigned his cabinet seat in objection to the controversial appointment of Sir Alec Douglas-Home as Prime Minister.

Macleod greatly accelerated decolonisation and by the time he was moved to Conservative Party Chairman and Leader of the Commons in 1961 he had made the decision to give independence to Nigeria, Tanganyika, Kenya, Nyasaland ( as Malawi ) and Northern Rhodesia ( as Zambia ).

The company promoted Donald ( Don ) Macleod, who had previously served as the company ’ s president and chief operating officer, to CEO.

The election of the new Conservative Party serving government under Prime Minister Edward Heath in 1970 led to budget cuts under Chancellor of the Exchequer Iain Macleod ( who had earlier called the idea of an Open University " blithering nonsense ").

Iain Macleod, who had a difficult relationship with Home

Macleod had his way, but by that time Home was no longer at the Commonwealth Relations Office.

Lieutenant Macleod, in command of two British 3-pounders, had just arrived and was directed to fire on the Dragoons.

He became a Member of Parliament at the age of 22 and in 1821 married Anna, a daughter of the chief of the clan Macleod, with whom he had eleven children.

Macleod had earlier invited Prior's third child, Henry, to manage the magazine.

He refused to continue at the Ministry of Supply and also rejected an offer of the Ministry of Health because Iain Macleod, with whom he had a rivalry, had held the post five years earlier and Maudling did not want to be seen as five years behind him.

The Tory Reform Group ( TRG ) was formally established in June 1975 from the merger of four like-minded groups: PEST ( Pressure for Economic and Social Toryism ), two separate London dining clubs named the Macleod Group and Social Tory Action Group, and a consortium in Manchester who had already been going by the name the TRG.

Yallambie has never had a post office of that name, however the Simpson Barracks Post Office opened on 31 March 1987, replacing the Macleod office open since 1923, and was closed in 1996.

In 1650, after Montrose had made another attempt at a Royalist uprising, he was captured by Neil Macleod of Assynt.

Some Ktunaxa remained on or returned to the Prairies year round and had a settlement near Fort Macleod, Alberta.

However the day before Iain Macleod had reviewed a book of Powell's speeches entitled A Nation Not Afraid in The Spectator in which he mentioned the word:

Their first strike on the alcohol traders came after a Native complained at Fort Macleod about a group of whisky traders who had sold him overpriced whisky.

no: John James Richard Macleod

Macleod showed no great academic talent but did develop an enduring love of literature, especially poetry, which he read and memorised in great quantity and his results were good enough for him in 1932 to go to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he obtained a Lower Second in History three years later, in 1935.

As well as Rakosi, Zukofsky, Reznikoff, George Oppen, Basil Bunting and William Carlos Williams, the issue included work by a number of poets who would have little or no further association with the group: Howard Weeks, Robert McAlmon, Joyce Hopkins, Norman Macleod, Kenneth Rexroth, S. Theodore Hecht, Harry Roskolenkier, Henry Zolinsky, Whittaker Chambers, Jesse Lowenthal, Emanuel Carnevali ( as translator of Arthur Rimbaud ), John Wheelwright, Richard Johns and Martha Champion.

Between Fort Macleod and Edmonton, Highway 2 maintains no fewer than four lanes of traffic and is largely a controlled-access freeway between Okotoks and Edmonton, with improvements underway to eliminate remaining at-grade crossings.

A faction hostile to Macleod pursued the charges in church courts, to no avail.

In a sermon just after its 1857 Scottish premiere, Macleod argued that ' no woman could hear it without a blush '

For this Banting and Macleod were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1923.

On April 20, 1960, Sir Milton Margai led the twenty four members of the Sierra Leonean delegation at the constitutional conferences that were held with Queen Elizabeth II and British Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod in the negotiations for independence held at the Lancaster House in London.

Though he voted for the Labour Party in their 1945 landslide victory, because he wanted to punish the Conservative Party for the Munich agreement, after the war he joined the Conservatives and worked for the Conservative Research Department under Rab Butler, where his colleagues included Iain Macleod and Reginald Maudling.

Later in 1968, when the government published its Bills for the new session, Powell was angry at Heath's acceptance of the plan drawn up by the Conservative MP Iain Macleod and Labour's Richard Crossman to reform the Lords, titled the Parliament ( No. 2 ) Bill.

Among other awards, Macleod won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his 1999 novel No Great Mischief.

Editorship of The Spectator has often been part of a route to high office in the Conservative Party in the UK ; past editors include Iain Macleod, Ian Gilmour and Nigel Lawson, all of whom became cabinet minister or a springboard for a greater role in public affairs, as with Boris Johnson ( 1999 to 2005 ), the Conservative Mayor of London.

The ‘ Tory Leadership ’ article prompted a furious response from many Spectator readers and caused Macleod, for a time, to be shunned by political colleagues.

After securing a third term for the Conservatives in 1959 he appointed Iain Macleod as Colonial Secretary.

* Iain Macleod: Secretary of State for the Colonies

* Iain Macleod: Secretary of State for the Colonies

However, Sir Thomas never formulated anything like Gresham's Law, which was the 1857 invention of Henry Dunning Macleod, an economist with a knack for reading into a text that was not written.

Macleod, Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1959 to 1961, was, like Butler, on the liberal wing of the Conservative party ; he was convinced, as Home was not, that Britain's colonies in Africa should have majority rule and independence as quickly as possible.

In 1843 the last laird, John Macleod, was deep in debt and chose to emigrate to Tasmania having sold Raasay for 35, 000 guineas to George Rainy.

By 1779 he was working for Finley and Gregory, a fur trading Company later administered by Normand Macleod.

John James Rickard Macleod | John J. R. Macleod, 1923 Nobel Prize winner for discovering Insulin and Western Reserve University Professor of Physiology

Macleod joined the Royal Fusiliers as a private in 1939 but was commissioned into the Duke of Wellington's Regiment and fought briefly in France in 1940, suffering a serious war wound to the thigh which, particularly when combined with a later spinal condition ( ankylosing spondylitis ), was to leave him with pain and a limp for the rest of his life.

When Harold Macmillan resigned as Prime Minister in 1963, Macleod, despite his ability, was not considered a serious prospect for the leadership.

Meanwhile, the Social Credit League went into the election under the interim leadership of the Reverend Ernest George Hansell, Member of the federal Parliament for the Alberta riding of Macleod since 1935.

for Macleod ( Alberta ), leader for the 1952 election.