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Iain Macleod
Iain Macleod was born at Clifford House, Skipton, Yorkshire, on 11 November 1913. He was educated at Ermysted's Grammar School in Skipton and at Fettes College in Edinburgh
He was one of the great British bridge players.
Iain macleod biography definition
He won the Gold Cup in 1937, with teammates Maurice Harrison-Gray (Capt), S. J. Simon, Jack Marx (bridge) and Colin Harding, and authored a book, Bridge is an Easy Game which contains a description of the Acol bidding system.
A bridge connection earned him a job offer with a printing company, but by the late 1930s he was living the life of a playboy off his bridge earnings; he only gave up playing seriously (and relying on his bridge earnings) in the early 1950s when his developing political career became his priority.
At the general election of February 1950 he won in the parliamentary constituency of Enfield, West.
Though not initially appointed to ministerial office, a brilliant Commons performance in March 1952 against Aneurin Bevan in a deba