He is described as a "prominent member" of the International Playing Card Society[1] and is Secretary of the British Skat Association.
[2] Later McLeod toured Europe to study the individual variants of tarock games and captured his findings in the monumental 2-volume work A History of Games Played with the Tarot Pack which he co-authored with Professor Sir Michael Dummett, the "leading authority on the history of the Tarot".
[3] According to McLeod, Tarock belongs to one of the largest and perhaps most interesting families of card games in the world.
[6] McLeod's magnum opus is the two-volume set on the history of tarot card games which he co-authored with Michael Dummett.
Volume One deals with games in which the Fool is used to excuse the player from following suit or playing a trump to a trick; Volume Two deals with games played in Central Europe from the late 18th century onward, in which the Fool is used as the highest trump.