Maclaren, Ian (nom de plume of Rev. John Watson), born in Essex, of Scottish parents; studied in Edinburgh; was minister of the Free Church in Logiealmond and in Glasgow, and translated to Sefton Park Presbyterian Church, Liverpool, In 1880; wrote a series of idylls entitled “Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush,” and a second series entitled “The Days of Auld Lang Syne”; both had a large circulation, and a number of other works, religious as well as fictitious; (b. 1850).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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