1337 John MacLeod

Constituency  : Sutherland  1894-1900

John  took  over  at  Sutherland  after  Angus  Sutherland  resigned  to  become  a  fisheries  inspector. He  was  elected  unopposed.

John  was  a  Crofters  sympathiser  who  had  acted  as  his  predecessor's  informal  deputy.  He  originally  trained as  a  chemist. In  the  early  1880s  he  worked  for  a  gold  prospector  called  Dunker.  He  was  appointed  to   the  Deer  Forest  Commission  by  Gladstone  in  1892. One  of  the  Duke  of  Sutherland's  men  was  aghast  at  this  describing  John  as  " a  man  of  no  reputation  and  is  not  in  a  position  socially  to  allow  him  to  be  a  member  of  any  Commission".

John  made  little  contribution  to  Parliament.

John  was  defeated  by  a  Liberal  Unionist  in  1900.