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CHARLES MACLAREN (1782-1866)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 261 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES
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MACLAREN (1782-1866)  , Scottish editor, was
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born at Ormiston,
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Haddingtonshire, on the 7th of
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October 1782, the son of a
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farmer and
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cattle-dealer . He was almost entirely self-educated, and when a
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young
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man became a clerk in
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Edinburgh . In 1817, with others, he established the Scotsman
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news-
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paper in Edinburgh and at first acted as its editor . Offered a
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post as clerk in the
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custom
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house, he resigned his editorial position, resuming it in 182o, and resigning it again in 1845 . In 182o
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Maclaren was made editor of the
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sixth edition of the
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Encyclopaedia Britannica . From 1864–1866 he was
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president of the
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Geological Society of Edinburgh, in which
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city he died on the loth of
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September 1866 .

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