Norman MacLeod

Norman MacLeod, 1st Lord MacLeod (Scottish Gaelic: Tormod MacLeòid) (1705–1772), also known in his own time and within clan tradition as The Wicked Man (Scottish Gaelic: An Droch Dhuine), was an 18th-century Scottish politician and the 22nd Chief of Clan MacLeod. Background Norman was the younger son of Norman MacLeod, the 20th Chief of Clan MacLeod. Norman's brother, John, was briefly the 21st Chief of Clan MacLeod as an infant after their father died in 1706. By 1707, John had also died, and Norman was left with the chiefdom at the age of 1. Norman was the Member of Parliament for Inverness-shire between 1741 and 1754. He matriculated arms, and supporters, at Lyon Office, on 12 January 1753. He supported the Government cause in the Jacobite Rising, and was an absentee chief as he seldom lived at his ancestors' traditional seat of Dunvegan Castle.