Family
Maclean was married to the American-born Melinda Marling in 1940. They had three children, Fergus, born in 1944, Donald, in 1946 and Melinda, in 1951. In 1965, Maclean's wife began an affair with Kim Philby and went to live with him in 1966. Donald's son, Donald, married Lucy Hanna. They had a son. Donald Duart Maclean's only grandson, who resides in the UK.
Melinda Maclean lived out her years in New York. She died in Feb., 2010.
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—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
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—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)