(31 Jan. 1907-19 June 1972), university teacher. (R. B. Macleod) Born at Martintown, GC. Parents: Rev. John B. Macleod and his wife Helena Margaret Brodie. The Rev. John B. Macleod (d. 1931), from a Prince Edward Island family, was a Presbyterian minister at Martintown 1906-1913, and was one of three brothers in his family to become Presbyterian ministers; one of these being Donald Morrison MacLeod, a minister at Alexandria, GC. Robert Brodie Macleod received his B. A. (1926) and M. A. (1927) from McGill University, and his Ph. D. (1932) from Columbia University. He lectured in psychology at McGill in 1927-1928, was an instructor in psychology at Cornell University 1930-1933, was chairman of the psychology and education dept. at Swarthmore College 1933-1946, was chairman of the psychology dept. at McGill 1946-1948, was Susan Linn Sage Professor of Psychology at Cornell from 1948, and was chairman of the psychology dept. there 1948-1953 and 1965-1966. He was married 17 Oct. 1936 to Beatrice Fullerton Beach. (two children) His colleagues published a festschrift in his honour, The MacLeod Symposium June 2-3, 1972 (Ithaca, N. Y., Dept. of Psychology, Cornell University, 1973; pp. 128). The volume includes (pp. 4-15) a fragment of autobiography in which Macleod discusses his parents, education, graduate studies in Germany, and his academic career to 1933. For GC men and festschrifts, see D. C. MacIntosh of Yale and Bengt Hambraeus. By the time The MacLeod Symposium was published, Macleod had died. at Ithaca, N. Y.

The Macleod Symposium for biog. detail, list of his publications, portrait * his entries in Who’s Who in America, 1972-1973, and Who Was Who in America, Vol. 5: 1969-1973 * (short) obituary, The New York Times, 22 June 1972 p. 42 * wins scholarship for study at University of Berlin, Cornwall Standard 7 June 1928 * Swarthmore & McGill appointments, Glengarry News 14 April 1933, 21 June 1946 * Rev. John B. Macleod: MacMillan, Kirk, 111-112; Rhodes Grant, ii, 39-41, iii, 23-24