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Margaret MacLean (civil servant)
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Margaret MacLean (26 September 1942-5 October 2021) was a civil servant involved in the establishment of the National Museum of Scotland. Early life Margaret MacLean was born on the 26th September 1942 in Stornoway, on the Isle of Lewis.<ref name":0" /> She was the daughter of Dugald MacLean, a butcher, and Isabel May MacRae, who had been a nurse before their marriage in 1940.<ref name":0" /> MacLean was educated at Stornoway's Nicolson Institute, before studying at the University of Aberdeen and the University of Tubingen. She graduated in 1965 with an MA Honours degree in English and German.<ref name=":0" /> Career MacLean moved to London and joined the Civil Service in 1965, working in the Department of Customs and Excise for three years, before working as Private Secretary to Dick Taverne, during his time as Financial Secretary to the Treasury.<ref name":0" /> She moved to the Scotland Office in 1970, where she worked as Head of Personnel and Head of Arts and Cultural Heritage. In these roles she was involved in organising cultural activities for the European Summit in Edinburgh in 1992, and in establishing the National Museum of Scotland.<ref name":0" /> Retirement and death MacLean retired in 1996 due to scleroderma-related illness, but continued to serve as a governor of Edinburgh College of Art, a member of the Scottish Museums Council and on the Scottish Committee of the National Heritage Lottery Fund.<ref name":0" /> She died in Edinburgh on 5 October 2021.<ref name":0" /> 
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