Sir George MacLeod

Sir George MacLeod , 1895-1991, Scottish clergyman. He was educated at Oxford and, after serving in World War I, was ordained a Church of Scotland minister in 1924. Disaffected with his church's tenuous relations with its parishoners, MacLeod left his ministry in a Glasgow slum and in 1938 organized a multidenominational religious community with unemployed workers and fellow clerics on the Scottish island of Iona . A pacifist dedicated to political and social involvement, MacLeod served as moderator of the Church of Scotland in 1957-58. In 1967 he was created a life peer as Baron MacLeod of Fuinary.

MacLeod, George Fielden (1895–1991), founder of the Iona community. In 1926 he was appointed minister at the fashionable St Cuthbert's Church in Edinburgh, but, despite his popularity there, he accepted an invitation to become minister of Govan Old Parish Church in the slums of Glasgow in 1930. During the 1930s he became a pacifist and a socialist, and an outstanding radio preacher. In 1938 he founded the Iona Community (q.v.). He exercised wide influence and received many honours, being elevated to the House of Lords in 1967.