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He was the son of John Watson, a civil servant. He was born at Manningtree , Essex , and educated at Stirling and at Edinburgh University , later studying Theology at New College , Edinburgh , and at Tubingen .

In 1874 he entered the ministry of the Free Church Of Scotland and became assistant minister of Barclay Church, Edinburgh . Subsequently he was minister at Logiealmond in Perthshire and at Glasgow , and 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 sketches of rural Scottish life, ''Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush'' ( 1894 ), achieved extraordinary popularity and were followed by other successful books, ''The Days of Auld Lang Syne'' ( 1895 ), ''Kate Carnegie and those Ministers'' ( 1896 ), and ''Afterwards and other Stories'' ( 1898 ). Under his own name Watson published several volumes of sermons, among them being ''The Upper Room'' ( 1895 ), ''The Mind of the Master'' ( 1896 ) and ''The Potter's Wheel'' ( 1897 ).


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