Reverend Norman Macleod, the Younger (1812-1872), Scottish divine and miscellaneous writer, son of the Reverend Norman Macleod, D.D., a distinguished minister of the Scottish Church, studied at Edinburgh, and was ordained in 1838. He became one of the most distinguished ministers, and most popular preachers of his Church, was made one of the Royal Chaplains in Scotland in 1857, and became a trusted friend of Queen Victoria. He was the first editor of Good Words, to which he contributed many articles and stories, including: Wee Davie (1864), The Starling: A Scottish Story (1867), and The Old Lieutenant and his Son (1862). Amongst his other works are: Earnest Student: Being Memorials of John Mackintosh (1854), Home School (1856), The Gold Thread (1861), Parish Papers (1862), Eastward (1866), A Highland Parish (1866), Reminiscences of a Highland Parish (1867), Days in North India (1870), Peeps at the Far East: A Familiar Account of a Visit to India (1871), Character Sketches (1872) and Half Hours in the Holy Land: Travels in Egypt, Palestine, Syria (1887).