Iain Macleod

The Right Honourable Iain Macleod
Chancellor of the Exchequer
In office 20 June 1970 – 20 July 1970
Prime Minister	Edward Heath
Preceded by	Roy Jenkins
Succeeded by	Anthony Barber
Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
In office 11 November 1965 – 20 June 1970
Leader	Edward Heath
Preceded by	Edward Heath
Succeeded by	Roy Jenkins
Leader of the House of Commons
In office 9 October 1961 – 20 October 1963
Prime Minister	Harold Macmillan
Preceded by	Rab Butler
Succeeded by	Selwyn Lloyd
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
In office 9 October 1961 – 20 October 1963
Prime Minister	Harold Macmillan
Preceded by	Charles Hill
Succeeded by	The Lord Blakenham
Chairman of the Conservative Party
In office 9 October 1961 – 20 October 1963
Leader	Harold Macmillan
Preceded by	Rab Butler
Succeeded by	The Lord Blakenham
Secretary of State for the Colonies
In office 14 October 1959 – 9 October 1961
Prime Minister	Harold Macmillan
Preceded by	Alan Lennox-Boyd
Succeeded by	Reginald Maudling
Minister of Labour and National Service
In office 20 December 1955 – 14 October 1959
Prime Minister	Anthony Eden Harold Macmillan
Preceded by	Walter Monckton
Succeeded by	Edward Heath
Minister of Health
In office 7 May 1952 – 20 December 1955
Prime Minister	Winston Churchill Anthony Eden
Preceded by	Harry Crookshank
Succeeded by	Robin Turton
Member of Parliament for Enfield West
In office 23 February 1950 – 20 July 1970
Preceded by	Ernest Davies (Enfield)
Succeeded by	Cecil Parkinson
Personal details
Born	Iain Norman Macleod (1913-11-11)11 November 1913 Skipton, United Kingdom
Died	20 July 1970(1970-07-20) (aged 56) London, United Kingdom
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	Evelyn Blois ​ (m. 1941)​
Children	2
Alma mater	Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

Iain Norman Macleod (11 November 1913 – 20 July 1970) was a British Conservative Party politician and government minister.

A playboy and professional bridge player in his twenties, after war service Macleod worked for the Conservative Research Department before entering Parliament in 1950. He was noted as a formidable Parliamentary debater and—later—as a platform orator. He was quickly appointed Minister of Health, later serving as Minister of Labour. He served an important term as Secretary of State for the Colonies under Harold Macmillan in the early 1960s, overseeing the independence of many African countries from British rule but earning the enmity of Conservative right-wingers, and the soubriquet that he was "too clever by half".

Macleod was unhappy with the "emergence" of Sir Alec Douglas-Home as party leader and Prime Minister in succession to Macmillan in 1963 (he claimed to have supported Macmillan's deputy Rab Butler, although it is unclear exactly what his recommendation had been). He refused to serve in Home's government, and while serving as editor of The Spectator alleged that the succession had been stitched up by Macmillan and a "magic circle" of Old Etonians.

Macleod did not contest the first ever Conservative Party leadership election in 1965, but endorsed the eventual winner Edward Heath. When the Conservatives returned to power in June 1970, he was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in Heath's government, but died suddenly only a month later.