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Report of Proceedings of Tynwald Court Printed (by Authority) by CORRIE Ltd., 48 Bucks Road, Douglas, Isle of Man. REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS OF TYNWALD COURT DOUGLAS, Tuesday, 15th July, 1986 at 10.30 a.m. Present: The Lieutenant-Governor (His Excellency Major General Laurence New, C.B., C.B.E.). In the Council: The Lord Bishop (the Rt. Rev. Arthur Henry Attwell), The Attorney-General (Mr. T.W. Cain), Messrs. R.J.G. Anderson, A.A. Catlin, Mrs. B.Q. Hanson, Mr. E.G. Lowey, Dr. E.J. Mann, Messrs. J.N. Radcliffe and E.M. Ward, B.E.M., with Mr. T.A. Bawden, Clerk of the Council. In the Keys: The Speaker (the Hon. Sir Charles Kerruish, O.B.E.), Messrs. W.K. Quirk, W.A. Gilbey, J.D.Q. Cannan, Mrs. C.M. Christian, Messrs. S.L. Morrey, J.H. Kneale, R.A. Payne, P. Karran, M.R. Walker, N.Q. Cringle, C.H. Faragher, Dr. D.L. Moore, Messrs. C.A. Cain, A.R. Bell, B. May, G.V.H. Kneale, E.C. Irving, C.B.E., A.C. Duggan, D.C. Cretney, D.F.K. Delaney, D. Martin, J.A. Brown, with Mr. R.B.M. Quayle, Clerk of Tynwald. The Lord Bishop took the prayers. APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE The Governor: Hon members, we have apologies for absence from the Hon. President of the Legislative Council, who is attending a meeting in London with the Air Minister, and from the hon. member for Middle, Mr. Maddrell, and, from 3p.m. onwards tomorrow, from Mr. G.V.H. Kneale, who will be absent because of a meeting of the Council of Local Education Authorities in Coventry. TRIBUTES TO THE LATE HUGH MACLEOD The Governor: Hon. members, since we last met a distinguished former member of Tynwald, the late Hugh MacLeod, has died and I would like now to call upon the hon. Mr. Speaker to pay tribute to him. The Speaker: Your Excellency, when a hundred years ago our national poet Brown penned these lines: Excellent Manxman, Scotia gave you birth, But you were ours, being apt to take the print Of Island forms, the mood, the tone, the tint, Apologies for Absence Tributes to the Late Hugh MacLeod T2244 TYNWALD COURT, TUESDAY, 15th JULY, 1986 Nor missed the ripples of the larger mirth. A lovely soul has sought the silent firth: he could well have been writing of our former colleague, Hugh Duncan Campbell MacLeod, whose passing we mourn today. If you search the register of the House of Keys, you will find that over the centuries there has been one MacLeod entered since the register came into being in 1417, and that entry relates to the service of Hugh MacLeod who joined us in 1962 and served until 1976. In that sense he was unique, but he was unique in so many ways: unique in that his connection with the Isle of Man was probably the strongest that any member could ever claim; the clan's name father, Leod, of which he was a direct descendant, was the son of Olaf, King of Mann and the Islands for a period of 50 years from 1187 to 1237, and at the dawn of heraldry the back galley was the emblem of the old Manx kings and it was quartered in the arms of the MacLeods until the seventeenth century, when they adopted instead a quartering of the three legs of Man. The historian of the clan, Dr. Grant, once summed up its character saying, 'Throughout their history there runs a thread of tenacity that worthily fulfils their motto — "Hold Fast." In that sense, Mac, as he was familiarly known to us, was a worthy holder of tradition. Born in Scotland in 1901, he was educated at Dollar Academy in Perthsire and was, in that setting of his youth, a friend of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, known to us affectionately as the Queen Mum. Instead of going on to university when he finished at Dollar, he joined, under age, a Scottish infantry regiment and saw service in France, winning an M.C., for gallantry, and latet -served in India. On demobilisation he returned to his studies, this time at Oxford, where he gained a degree in Zoology and later became a Fellow of the Royal Zoological Society. Many members will recall with delight the way in which he reeled off the classic descriptions of forms of wildlife and animal diseases in agricultural debates as he addressed himself to a subject on which he was a master. Leaving Oxford, he took up big game hunting as a career and subsequently, as so often proves to be the case, turned his affections and skill to the collection and preservation of rare species as part of the wildlife preservation campaign. His journeyings took him to many parts of the world: Africa, the Amazon basin, the Himalayas — you name them, he had been there. He was to settle down in Britain with extensive farming interests in Buckinghamshire and Scotland and became an acknowledged expert as a sheep breeder. It was at this time he gained his first experience in public service as a member of the Buckinghamshire County Council. Retiring with his wife to the Isle of Man but maintaining a Scottish farming interest in a company at his Craigdarroch holding he quickly associated himself with the Island community. Election to the German Parish Commissioners was to be the introduction to service with the Education Authority and subsequently in the House of Keys. In this setting his interests were wide-ranging: he chaired the Assessment Board, he served on the Tourist Board, the Social Security Board, the Board of Education, the Government Property Trustees, the War Pensions Committee and I am sure the Health Services Board has never had a member so consistent as a visitor attending Noble's Hospital. He also served on the Forestry, Mines and Lands Board, the Manx Museum and National Trust, the Whitley Council and discharged many committee responsibilities. A very loyal patriot, he was proud of his ancestry, his family links with the Island Tributes to the Late Hugh MacLeod TYNWALD COURT, TUESDAY, 15th JULY, 1986 T2245 and exalted in the rich Celtic flavour of his upbringing and culture. A worshipper of the works of Burns, he could sit and relate his poems seemingly endlessly, and he was always in great demand on Manx Scottish Society occasions. It became traditional that he should deliver in his own inimitable way the Ode to the Haggis on Burns night and if Mac's name was on the toast list you knew you were in for an evening of fun and fascinating wit. Perhaps surprisingly for a Scot, he was not interested in wealth; it was people that he loved, broad in his sympathies and • interests, generous with his encouragement and support. To the brash and foolish he could be mischievous or caustic in his comments, as we well learned. To the • • hesitant, lacking in confidence, he was an encourager. Today, Your Excellency, we part from our Agenda to salute a prodigious man who, in modern parlance, we would possibly describe as a rich character and when all the things we will otherwise be concerned with today are all so much history, dross, or nothing more, the things we are about now will still matter — the issues of life, death, the meaning of life, man, God, accountability for what one has done with one's life, and I would suggest that Mac's monument is not cut in bronze or cut in stone, but writ large in the lives of those men and women whose lives he has touched and enriched. As to his family and friends, we extend our sympathy in their loss. I would suggest to the Court and all those mourn him that his epitaph may be properly found in the words of the poet he revered, Robert Burns, who wrote: As good a man now lies at rest As 'ere God with his image blest; The friend of man, the friend of truth, The friend of age and guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warm'd, Few heads with knowledge so informed; If there's another world he lives in bliss, If there is none, he made the best of this. The Governor: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I call on Mr. Anderson on behalf of the President of the Legislative Council. Mr. Anderson: Your Excellency, as a member who sat for ten years with Hugh MacLeod, I would like to be identified with the words of Mr. Speaker. I do not in any way try to emulate his speech this morning which has been so adequate, but as someone who has sat by him for ten years I would wish to be identified. I am a sure that the name of Hugh MacLeod in our minds will live on for a very long time. His sense of humour, his devotion to the hospital and the Board of Education will be long remembered by the hon. members of this Court who have served with him, and it gives me pleasure to identify with the speech so adequately presented here this morning by Mr. Speaker. The Governor: Hon. members, may I suggest that we stand for a few moments in memory of Hugh MacLeod. Tributes to the Late Hugh MacLeod T2246 TYNWALD COURT, TUESDAY, 15th JULY, 1986 The Court stood in silence. The Governor: Thank you, hon. members. LETTER FROM H.R.H. PRINCE EDWARD The Governor: Before we move on with the business before us, hon. members, you will be, I think, interested to hear that I have received a very charming letter from His Royal Highness Prince Edward.
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