Personal Life
Macadam married an American Caroline Ladd Corbett, who was born and raised in Portland, Oregon and was a descendent of one of its founding families. Before marriage, she was Assistant to the then US Secretary of State, Henry L. Stimson, and the couple met at the international conference Macadam had arranged at Banff, Canada in 1932. After their marriage, she was of invaluable support to her husband in opening doors both through her wide contacts there and through her American family in helping him to raise the substantial funding required for the operations of The Royal Institute of International Affairs. She was later Chairman of the Eastern Counties Women’s Conservative Associations.
The couple had four children: Helen Ivison Taylor, William Ivison Macadam, Elliott Corbett Macadam and Caroline Alta Colacicchi (who writes under name Alta Macadam). The couple lived in London and at Runton Old Hall, East Runton, Norfolk where keen sportsman Macadam would shoot and fly fish.
He died on 22 December 1974, at his home at 16 Upper Belgrave Street, London.
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