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Watson (JOHN pseudonym IAN MACLAREN)

JOHN, pseudonym IAN MACLAREN, an English clergyman and author; born in Manningtree, Essex, England, Nov. 3, 1850; was graduated at Edinburgh University (1870); studied theology at New College, Edinburgh, and Tübingen; ordained minister of the Free Church, Logiealmond, Perthshire (1875); called to Free St. Matthew's, Glasgow (1877); translated in 1880 to Sefton Park Church, Liverpool, one of the most important congregations of the Presbyterian Church of England; received Hon. D. D. in 1895 from St. Andrews University, and a similar degree in 1897 from Yale University, where he lectured on preaching (1896). Till 1893 Dr. Watson was known as a popular preacher and able minister; but in that year he acquired additional distinction and wider fame by writing a series of Scotch idylls for the "British Weekly."

When collected and published in book form under the title of "Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush," they became widely popular in Great Britain and the United States. "The Days of Auld Lang Syne," WATSON by other stories a second series of idylls, published in 1895, also reached a large circulation.

These were followed by which were equally successful. Dr.

Watson's religious publications include:

Hei8 orchi JOHN WATSON ; "The Cure of Souls"; (1897); "Com- "The Upper Room"; "The Mind of the JOHN WATSON er's Wheel" Master" (1896) ;" "The Potter's panions of the Sorrowful Way" (1898).

He died in 1907.