Reginald MacLeod of MacLeod

Sir Reginald MacLeod of MacLeod
Reginald MacLeod of MacLeod, sometime before 1906.
Born	(1847-02-01)1 February 1847
Died	20 August 1935(1935-08-20) (aged 88)
Known for	The 27th Chief of Clan MacLeod
Predecessor	Norman Magnus MacLeod of MacLeod (brother)
Successor	Dame Flora MacLeod of MacLeod (daughter)
Spouse(s)	Lady Agnes Mary Cecilia Northcote
Children	2

Sir Reginald MacLeod of MacLeod, KCB (1 February 1847 – 20 August 1935) was the 27th chief of the Scottish clan Clan MacLeod.

Sir Reginald MacLeod of MacLeod was born on 1 February 1847. He was the son of Norman MacLeod of MacLeod (1812 – 1898), 25th chief of Clan MacLeod and his wife Louisa Barbara St. John (1818–1880), only daughter of the 14th Baron St John of Bletso. He was educated at Harrow and Cambridge.

On 17 April 1877, MacLeod of MacLeod married Lady Agnes Mary Cecilia Northcote ( – 26 October 1921), the daughter of Sir Stafford Northcote, later 1st Earl of Iddesleigh, and Cecilia Frances Farrer. They had two daughters.

In the 1885 General Election he stood unsuccessfully for the Conservatives in Inverness-shire losing the seat to an Independent Liberal.

In 1889 he became the Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer, an office of the Court of the Exchequer which was originally concerned with the recovery of dues, penalties and debts owed to the Crown. In February 1900 he was appointed the fourth Registrar General, and in this role he presided over the 1901 census. Two years later, he was in August 1902 appointed Permanent Under Secretary for Scotland. He was knighted in 1905.

After a further unsuccessful attempt to be elected to Parliament in 1911 he retired from public life and became a director of Shell, the first of several directorships he held.