Maclean was born on 5 May 1916 to Major Hector Fitzroy Maclean (1873–1932) and Winifred Joan Wilding (c1875-1941), daughter of J. H. Wilding.[3] He succeeded as the 27th Chief of Clan Maclean of Duart in 1936 at the death of his grandfather, Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 10th Baronet. He married (Joan) Elizabeth Mann (1923–2021), granddaughter of Sir Edward Mann, 1st Baronet, of Thelveton Hall in 1941. They had two children and eight grandchildren:[4]
The Hon. Janet Elizabeth Maclean (b. 1944); married with issue
He saw active service in World War II while serving in the 3rd Battalion Scots Guards. He fought in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. After the war ended he became a sheep and cattle farmer in Scotland.[1] He was Lord Lieutenant of Argyllshire from 1954 to 1975
The Boy Scouts Association appointed Maclean as its Chief Scout of the United Kingdom from 1959 to 1971 and Commonwealth from 1959 to August 1975.[5] He oversaw the formation of his Advance Party and its The Chief Scout's Advance Party Report which resulted in sweeping changes to the Boy Scouts Association and disaffection and schisms but failed to arrest enrolment losses and shifted the balance of enrolments to younger age children.[6][7][8][9] The World Organization of the Scout Movement’s committee awarded him its only distinction, the Bronze Wolf in 1967, for exceptional services to world Scouting.
Quarterly: 1st, Argent a Rock Gules; 2nd, Argent a Dexter Hand fesswise couped Gules holding a Cross Crosslet fitchée in pale azure; 3rd, Or a Lymphad Oars in saltire Sails furled Sable flagged Gules; 4th, Argent a Salmon naiant proper in chief two Eagles' Heads respectant Gules;
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Dexter: a Seal proper; Sinister: an Ostrich with a Horseshoe in its beak proper
^ abcd"Lord Maclean, 73, Aide to Queen; Organized 1981 Royal Wedding". Associated Press in The New York Times. 10 February 1990. Retrieved 1 March 2009. Lord Maclean, the former chief official of Queen Elizabeth II's household and organizer of the 1981 wedding of the Prince of Wales, died on Thursday, his family announced today. He was 73 years old. Lord Maclean died at Hampton Court Palace, a former royal residence in London, where he was chief steward since 1985. The announcement gave no cause of death.
^"Lord Charles Hector Fitzroy Maclean, Baron Maclean, K.T., G.C.V.O., K.B.E." macleanclan.com. Archived from the original on 22 April 2010. Retrieved 1 March 2009. Born in 1916, Sir Charles Hector Fitzroy Maclean succeeded as the twentyseventh Chief of the Clan Maclean and 11th hereditary Baronet of Morvern in 1936. A respected leader and public servant, Lord Maclean was ever committed to the preparing future generations for service.
^"Sir Fitzroy Maclean". 23 November 1936. Retrieved 6 March 2009. Sir Fitzroy Donald Maclean, Bt., who died yesterday at Duart Castle, Isle of Mull, at the age of 101, Chief of his Clan and a Crimean veteran, was one of the best known of the "grand old men" of Scotland. ... He married in 1872 Constance Marianne, daughter of Mr. G.H.Ackers, of Moreton Hall, Cheshire. She died in 1920, leaving two sons and one daughter, the wife of Brigadier F.W.Bullock-Marsham. Sir Fitzroy's elder son, Major Hector Fitzroy Maclean, Scots Guards, who married Winifred Joan, daughter of Mr.J.H.Wilding, died in 1932, and he is succeeded by his grandson, Charles Hector Fitzroy, born in 1916.
^Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage: 107th Edition. Burke's Peerage. 2003. p. 2525.
^"Meet the Chiefs"(PDF). The Scout Information Centre. October 2004. Archived from the original(PDF) on 31 October 2007. Retrieved 8 December 2007.
*denotes where someone died without a son and the chiefship went to his closest living male relative ^ He was the 16th and last Laird of Duart until the property was recovered and restored