1. Anna MacGillivray Macleod was a Scottish biochemist and academic, an authority on brewing and distilling.
14 Facts About Anna Macleod
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Anna Macleod was a professor at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.
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Anna Macleod was the world's first female Professor of Brewing and Biochemistry.
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Anna Macleod's father was born on the Isle of Lewis.
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Anna Macleod was second cousin to politician and former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Iain Norman Macleod.
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Anna Macleod's family belongs to the branch of the Macleods of Pabbay and Uig.
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Anna Macleod's father, Rev Alasdair MacGillivray Macleod, was a Minister of the Church, died at an early age.
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Anna Macleod showed an interest in her family's genealogy, research on which she had started.
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Anna Macleod was educated at Invergordon Academy and Edinburgh Ladies' College.
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Anna Macleod joined the faculty of Heriot-Watt University in 1945, where she remained until her retirement in 1977.
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Anna Macleod returned in 1951 to the University of Edinburgh to study for her PhD.
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Anna Macleod edited the Journal of the Institute of Brewing from 1964 to 1976, and she was the first female President of that organisation, from 1970 to 1972.
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Anna Macleod said that she was recognised nationally and internationally with distinction as a university teacher, scholar, scientist, technologist and as a brewer.
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Anna Macleod died at St Raphaels, Edinburgh on 13 August 2004, possibly of sepsis.