Macmillan, Donald Uilleam

Brief Profile

Donald Uileam Macmillan was the youngest in the family of Colonel Angus  Leith Macmillan and Jeannie Lindsay, Dalmore. He followed his father’s military footsteps, serving in the Seaforth Highlanders during World War II.

‘DU’ began his career with the Commercial Bank in Invergordon. On demobilisation he had to change career perforce. He became an insurance agent, subsequently inspector, for the NFU Mutual Insurance Society. His territory initially was the whole of the Highlands and Islands. He covered a prodigious mileage in days when congested roads were rarely a problem.

An elder of Ferintosh and Conon Bridge church he was a friend and curling and fishing companion of its minister the Reverend John Sellar.

Closer to retirement he devoted himself, more and more, to public service, being elected or appointed to various bodies, local and pan-Highland.

In 1938 he married Catherine McIntosh also the youngest of a large family. They had two boys .Michael and Robin who became respectively solicitor and civil engineer. In his later years until curtailed by ill health he enjoyed bridge with his wife and teasing his grandchildren.

He was survived by his wife and two sons.

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