Norman Maclean

Norman Maclean (3 May 1869 – 15 January 1952) was a Scottish minister and religious author who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1927. In his latter years he was Chaplain-in-Ordinary to the King. Life Maclean was born on the Isle of Skye in 1869. He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Skye in 1892 and was appointed to the mission church on Kyleakin. However, after only two weeks he was summoned to Inverness to meet Rev Norman MacLeod who asked him to take over Benbecula parish church. He stayed there for four months, lodging at an inn near North Ford. He was the minister of St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh from 1915 to 1936, succeeding Rev William Lyall Wilson. In 1921 he was Convenor of the Scottish Churches Memorial Project overseeing war memorials across the country. He was specifically involved in the creation of the beautiful war memorial chapel in St Cuthberts, designed by the Glasgow architect Peter MacGregor Chalmers.