I . Alistair Maclean
(1922–87)
a Scottish author of adventure novels. They include The Guns of Navarone (1957), Ice Station Zebra (1963) and Where Eagles Dare (1967), which have all been made into successful films. He also wrote books about T E Lawrence and Captain James Cook .
II . Donald Maclean
(1913–83)
an English spy. He became a Communist as a young man at the same time as the other British spies Anthony Blunt , Guy Burgess and Kim Philby , and from 1944 worked for the British Foreign Office while acting as a spy for the Russian government. In 1951 he learned of British suspicions against him, and escaped with Burgess to Russia, where he lived until his death.
See also Foreign and Commonwealth Office .