Roderick MacLeod (minister)
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Roderick MacLeod FRSE (1754–1801) was Principal of Kings College, Aberdeen 1800 to 1815.[1]
MacLeod was born in 1727, the third son of Christina and Donald MacLeod, Laird of Talisker, Skye. Roderick had three siblings.[2] He studied at Aberdeen University, graduating MA in 1746.
In 1764 he was elected Sub Principal and after 36 years in this role was elected Principal in place of John Chalmers, holding this role until death. From 1749 he was Professor of Philosophy at Kings College, Aberdeen.
In 1783 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh the day it was founded. Aberdeen University gave him an honorary doctorate (DD) in 1793.[3]
He died on 11 September 1815. He is buried in the enclosed area to the east of St Machar's Cathedral in Old Aberdeen.