Career
Her family owned Creggan"s Inn on the shores of Loch Fyne in Argyll. Her first book pioneered recipes which she had collected from family and friends which she described as family or country house cooking, as opposed to the classical French haute cuisine which was the universal style in hotels and restaurants in the 1960s. Her first book, Lady Maclean"s Cook Book (1966) was enlivened by such dishes as the Duchess of Devonshire"s fish soup, Lady Diana Cooper"s blackcurrant leaf ice, Lady Lovat"s oxtail, Fitz"s "plov from Samarkand" - and went through several printings.
Her other cookery books included Lady Maclean"s Diplomatic Dishes, 1975, Lady Maclean"s Book of Sauces and Surprises, 1978, Lady Maclean"s Second Helpings and More Diplomatic Dishes, 1984).
Veronica Nell Fraser was born in London on 2 December 1920, the fourth of five children of the 16th Lord Lovat. Maclean then served as Member of Parliament for Bute and North Ayrshire from 1959 until the February 1974 general election.
Jeremy became a Major-General in the British army, having served in the SAS. Sir Fitzroy and Lady Maclean had two sons: Charles Edward (born 1946) and Alexander James Simon Aeneas (born 1949), who were brought up in their mother"s faith. Lady Maclean died on 7 January 2005, at Strachur in Argyll.
Her husband had previously died there, in 1996.
