MACLAREN

Charles (only child of a small farmer). b. Or mist on, Hadding tons hire 7 Oct. 1782; clerk to several firms at Edinburgh; established with others The Scotsman 25 Jany. 1817, joint editor 1817–18 and 1820–45; a clerk in the custom house 1818–20; edited 6th ed. of Encyclopædia Britannica 20 vols. 1822, for which he wrote articles America, Europe, Greece, Physical geography and Troy; F.R.S. Edinb. 1837; F.G.S. 1846, pres. of Geol. Soc. of Edinb. 1864 to death; author of A di ertation on the topography of the plain of Troy, 1822, rei ued as The plains of Troy described 1863; A sketch of the geology of Fife and the Lothians 1839, 2 ed. 1866. d. More land cottage, Edinburgh 10 Sep. 1866. R. Cox and J. Nicol’s Select writings of C. Maclaren 2 vols. (1869), portrait .