James Charles Macnab of Macnab

Career Between 1944 and 1945, during the closing stages of the Second World War, Macnab served in the Royal Air Force and the Scots Guards. He was commissioned as a Lieutenant into the Seaforth Highlanders in 1945. In 1948 he transferred to the Federation of Malaya Police Force, serving successively as an Assistant Superintendent, then Acting Deputy Superintendent, and retired in 1957. He returned as a Captain into the Seaforth Highlanders (Territorial Army), from 1960 to 1964, and was a justice of the peace for Perthshire from 1968 to 1975, then for Stirling from 1975 to 1986.

In 1970 Macnab succeeded his great uncle, Archibald Corrie Macnab of Macnab, as Chief. However, he was faced with high death duties, with the result that in 1978 he had to sell Kinnell House and much of the estate. He went on living at Finlarig, Killin, until 1985, when he moved to Fife following the death of his wife's parents.

The Macnab lived at Leuchars Castle Farmhouse, Leuchars, St Andrews, Fife, and was a member of the New Club, Edinburgh. His elder son James William Archibald Macnab, (born 1963), became the 24th Chief of Clan MacNab on his death.