Charles Maclaren
Charles Maclaren FRSE FGS (7 October 1782 – 10 September 1866) was a Scottish journalist and geologist. He co-founded The Scotsman newspaper, and edited the 6th Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.[1]
Life
Maclaren was born in Ormiston, Haddingtonshire, the son of a farmer and cattle-dealer. He was almost entirely self-educated, and when a young man became a mercantile clerk in Edinburgh.
In 1817, with John Ritchie, John Ramsay McCulloch and William Ritchie, he established The Scotsman newspaper in Edinburgh and at first acted as its editor for its first 27 years. Offered a post as clerk in the custom house, he resigned his editorial position, resuming it in 1820, and resigning it again in 1845. In 1820, Maclaren was appointed editor of the sixth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. From 1864-1866 he was president of the Edinburgh Geological Society, in which city he died in 1866. He was interred at the Grange Cemetery.
Works
Maclaren's Selected Works (1869) were edited by Robert Cox and James Nicol.[2]
Family
His second wife, Jane Veitch Hume née Somner (married 1842; died 1871), was the widow of David Hume the younger.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Waterston, Charles D; Macmillan Shearer, A (July 2006). Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783-2002: Biographical Index II. Edinburgh: The Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
- ↑
- Dictionary of National Biography, Cox, Robert (1810–1872), author of several important works on the Sabbath question, by T. F. Henderson. Published 1887.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Maclaren, Charles". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press
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