A Doctor of the Old School (Esprios Classics) - Maclaren, Ian
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Rev Dr John Watson DD (1850-1907), was a minister of the Free Church of Scotland. He is remembered as an author of fiction, known by his pen name Ian Maclaren. In 1874 he was licensed by the Free Church of Scotland and became assistant minister of Edinburgh Barclay Church. In 1880 he became minister of Sefton Park Presbyterian Church, Liverpool, from which he retired in 1905. In 1896 he was Lyman Beecher lecturer at Yale University, and in 1900 he was moderator of the synod of the English Presbyterian Church. While travelling in the United States he died at Mount Pleasant, Iowa. Maclaren's…mehr

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Rev Dr John Watson DD (1850-1907), was a minister of the Free Church of Scotland. He is remembered as an author of fiction, known by his pen name Ian Maclaren. In 1874 he was licensed by the Free Church of Scotland and became assistant minister of Edinburgh Barclay Church. In 1880 he became minister of Sefton Park Presbyterian Church, Liverpool, from which he retired in 1905. In 1896 he was Lyman Beecher lecturer at Yale University, and in 1900 he was moderator of the synod of the English Presbyterian Church. While travelling in the United States he died at Mount Pleasant, Iowa. Maclaren's first stories of rural Scottish life, Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush (1894), achieved extraordinary popularity, and was followed by other successful books, The Days of Auld Lang Syne (1895), Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers (1896), and Afterwards and Other Stories (1898).
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Ian Maclaren is a pseudonym name used by the Scottish author and minister Rev. He was born on November 3, 1850, in Essex England. And spent most of his life in Scotland. He completed his studies at Glasgow Academy at University of Edinburgh and later on he completed his divinity at New College. After finishing his academic journey, he became a minister in the Church of Scotland. Under the pen name of Ian Maclaren, he began his literary career and framed a series of sketches for "Brier Bush". Most of the time Ian McLaren's work majorly focuses and revolves around valuable themes of faith, challenges, communities and Joys of everyday life. He has contributed in many ways to various periodical works and some of his other notable works consist of other books like "Doctor of the Old School "and "Young Barbarians". Additionally, his writing always continued to be appreciated for describing the valuable and distinguished Scottish rural life helping people to explore human values.