page_title: Ivison Macadam
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Ivison Macadam / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of Runton Old Hall, Norfolk, England from the SW. West lawn and South and West wings.
context_page_description: Sir Ivison Stevenson Macadam KCVO Kt CBE CStJ FRSE FKC was the first Director-General of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, and the founding President of the National Union of Students.
  He was also the Editor and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Annual Register of World Events; a longtime member of the editorial board of the Round Table and sat on the governing bodies of King’s College, London and other organisations.
context_section_description: When Macadam was only seven, his father was shot and killed by a mentally disturbed gunman in an Edinburgh tragedy In 1902.
  In 1938 he married, Caroline Ladd Corbett, who was born and raised in Portland, Oregon USA (Born 20 September 1910 at Portland, Multnomah Co. Died on 28 August 1989 in East Runton, Norfolk). Her parents were Elliott Ruggles Corbett (1884–1963) and Alta Rittenhouse Smith (1886–1976). Caroline was the great-granddaughter of two of Portland's pioneers (Henry W. Corbett and William S. Ladd). Before her marriage, she was Assistant to the US Secretary of State, Henry L. Stimson, and the couple met at the IPR's international conference that Macadam had arranged at Banff, Canada in 1933.
  After their marriage, she was of invaluable support to her husband in his professional life and in assisting him to raise the substantial funding required for the operations of the RIIA. She was later Chairman of the Eastern Counties Women’s Conservative Associations.
  The couple had four children: Helen Ivison Macadam (who married 1. Ian Wightwick M.C., 2. The Rev. Roger Taylor), William Ivison Macadam, Elliott Corbett Macadam and Caroline Alta Macadam (who is married to Francesco Colacicchi and writes under the name of Alta Macadam). The couple lived in London and at Runton Old Hall, East Runton, Norfolk. Macadam was a keen sportsman, shot and fly fisherman.
caption: The Ivison Macadams' home Runton Old Hall, Norfolk
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