After a brief period at Sotheby's and Freud Communications, he began working in television as a researcher and was commissioned to direct and produce Champagne and Canvas, a documentary that was nominated for best video at the 1998 BBC British Short Film Festival. Since then, he has worked as a freelance director, producer, and writer in both film and TV, and also combines his media career with the management of the MacLeod Estate which he took on in 2008.
Hugh married French former actress Frédérique Feder (Three Colours Red, Mutant Action), daughter of Serge Feder and Anne Isabelle Marie Coquillon, on 28 September 2002. The marriage was later dissolved by divorce on 25 March 2020.
They have a son, Vincent Liam MacLeod, Younger (born 1999).
The Latin motto, murus aheneus esto, translates into English as "be thou a wall of brass".[2] The 1st and 4th quarters represent Clan MacLeod; the 2nd and 3rd quarters represent the supposed royal Manx heritage of the clan.
A bull's head cabossed sable, horned Or, between two flags gules, staves of the first.[3]
Escutcheon
Quarterly; 1st and 4th, azure, a castles triple-towered and embattled argent, masoned sable, windows and porch gules; 2nd and 3rd, gules, three legs in armour proper, garnished and spurred Or, flexed and conjoined in triangle at the upper part of the thigh.[3]
Supporters
Two lions reguardant gules, armed and langued azure, each holding a dagger proper.[3]
Motto
Hold fast (above the crest); murus aheneus esto (on a compartment below the shield).[3]
^ abcdeDewar, Peter Beauclerk (2001). Burke's landed gentry of Great Britain: together with members of the titled and non-titled contemporary establishment (19, illustrated ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. pp. 941–942. ISBN978-0-9711966-0-5.