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          Sir Fitzroy, who was born in and died in June , was awarded a DLitt from the University of Glasgow in Although initially drawn to.!

          Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet

          Scottish soldier, writer and politician

          Sir Fitzroy Hew Royle Maclean, 1st Baronet (11 March 1911 – 15 June 1996), was a British Army officer, writer and politician.

          Sir Fitzroy Maclean enjoyed a distinguished career in the British army.

        1. Biographical Note.
        2. Sir Fitzroy, who was born in and died in June , was awarded a DLitt from the University of Glasgow in Although initially drawn to.
        3. Sir Fitzroy was born in Dublin12 on the 18th of May in and was the only son of Sir Charles Maclean and Emily Marsham.1 He had four sisters, Emily.
        4. Sir Fitzroy, who attended Eton, won a modern languages scholarship to Cambridge University's Kings College.

          5. A Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) from 1941 to 1974 Maclean was one of only two soldiers who during the Second World War enlisted in the British Army as a private and rose to the rank of brigadier, the other being future fellow Conservative MP Enoch Powell.

          Maclean wrote several books, including Eastern Approaches, in which he recounted three extraordinary series of adventures: travelling, often incognito, in Soviet Central Asia; fighting in the Western Desert campaign, where he specialised in commando raids behind enemy lines; and living rough with Josip Broz Tito and his Yugoslav Partisans while commanding the Maclean Mission there.

          It has been widely speculated that Ian Fleming used Maclean as one of his inspirations for James Bond.[2]

          Early life

          Maclean was