Sir John MacLeod, 1st Baronet
British politician (1857-1934)
Sir John Mackintosh MacLeod, 1st Baronet (5 May 1857 – 6 March 1934) was a Scottish accountant and MP for the Unionist Party. He sat for Glasgow Central from a by-election in 1915 to 1918, and for Glasgow Kelvingrove from 1918 to 1922. He was elected in 1918 as a supporter of David Lloyd George's coalition government.
He was from an old highland family, the second son of Rev. Norman MacLeod. He had a younger brother, the Scottish international rugby union footballer William MacKintosh MacLeod, and six sisters. He was a partner of Kerr, MacLeod & Macfarlan, Chartered Accountants, Glasgow.
McLeod was created a baronet in the 1924 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours.
He married Edith Fielden, daughter of Joshua Fielden in 1888. They had two sons, the second baronet (and father of the third baronet), and George MacLeod, the fourth baronet, founder of the Iona Community, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and Minister at Govan Old Parish Church.
“Sir John MacLeod, 1st Baronet” enters the record as british politician (1857-1934). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what John, MacLeod and Baronet can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Sir John MacLeod, 1st Baronet” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, John, MacLeod and Baronet provides the most credible route into that argument.
Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7527910. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1857, 1934, 1915 and 1918.
Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.
- Establishing names and roles
- Building a first chronology
- Locating cited institutions
Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Sir John MacLeod, 1st Baronet”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Sir John MacLeod, 1st Baronet primary sources, Sir John MacLeod, 1st Baronet archive and John research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Sir John MacLeod, 1st Baronet”?
- Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
- How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “Sir John MacLeod, 1st Baronet” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.