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