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- Colin Shaw Maclaren 1898-1985
Born July 26, 1898, in Errogie, Scotland, near Loch Ness
Died 15 May 1985 at Booth Memorial Medical Center in Flushing, Queens
Son of James Maclaren 1870-1950 and Daisy Ogilvy c1870
Brother of Hamish, Helen, and Patrick
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THE LONDON GAZETTE, 2 OCTOBER, 1917
Issue 30319 Page: 10180
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30319/page/10180
The KING has approved the admission of the undermentioned gentlemen cadets, from Cadet College, Wellington, to the Un-attached List for the Indian Army:-
To be Second Lieutenants
Dated 18 June 1917
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Colin Shaw Maclaren
THE LONDON GAZETTE, 23 JULY, 1918,
Issue No. 30808. Page 8633
The King has approved the undermentioned officers to the IA:-
Sec.Lieuts. to be Sec. Lieuts. from the Unsattached list
...
Colin Shaw Maclaren.27 June 1917
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30808/page/8633
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OBITUARY in the New York Times. May 17, 1985, Friday
(Late City Final Edition. Section:D Page:20 Column:3 Desk:Metropolitan
http://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/17/nyregion/colin-maclaren-scot-soldier-and-reporter-for-the-times.html
COLIN MACLAREN, SCOT, SOLDIER AND REPORTER FOR THE TIMES
By WILLIAM G. BLAIR
Colin Shaw Maclaren, a Scottish Highlander whose career took him from fighting Afghan tribesmen on British India's Northwest Frontier to 38 years as a reporter for The New York Times, died Wednesday at the Booth Memorial Medical Center in Flushing, Queens. He was 86 years old and lived in Flushing.
He served as a police reporter, night rewriteman and obituary writer on The Times from 1930 until he retired in 1968.
Mr. Maclaren, who remained a British subject throughout his life, came to The Times in 1923, not as a reporter but as an advertising salesman, at the invitation of Adolph S. Ochs, then the newspaper's publisher.
A year earlier, Mr. Maclaren, awaiting his discharge as a captain in the British Army, had met Mr. Ochs at Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo. Mr. Maclaren recounted years later that he had never heard of The Times until Mr. Ochs told him to ''come to New York and I'll give you a job.
Served in Middle East
Until his encounter with the American publisher, Mr. Maclaren had followed a military career, first as a second lieutenant in Queen Victoria's Own Corps of Guides, an infantry frontier force in India, and then as an infantry captain under Viscount Allenby against Turkish forces in the Middle East during World War I.
After two years as an advertising salesman at The Times, he left to attend a summer session at the Columbia University School of Journalism.
Over the next three years, he worked as a writer, real-estate salesman and supporting actor on Broadway. In 1929 he rejoined the Times advertising staff and in 1930 transferred to the local news staff as a police reporter.
Mr. Maclaren was born July 26, 1898, in Errogie, Scotland, near Loch Ness.
His schooling in St. Andrews, Scotland, was followed by four years at Episcopal Trinity College in Glenalmond, Scotland. After cadet training at Wellington College in Madras, India, he was commissioned in the British Indian Army in 1917.
There are no immediate survivors. A funeral service is to be held at 10 A.M. tomorrow at the Walter B. Cooke funeral home at 80-20 Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights, Queens.
ChicagoTribune.com>Collections>New York TimesColin Maclaren, Reporter, And Scots Highlander
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-05-18/news/8501310573_1_scotland-advertising-salesman-new-york-times
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WORLD BIRD CALLS by Colin Shaw Maclaren (26 Jul 1896-15 May 1985)
The whistle of the Curlew in Zealand
The honk of a Barnt Goose in Maine
The chatter of the Mina in India, China
The bark of a Bustard in Spain,
The squawk of a, Heron in Prepit
The screech of a Kite in Bombay
Chit Chat of Fleming in Santo Domingo
And chuckle of Grouse in Strathspey.
The atoos cackle in Queensland,
The parakeets peep in Mysore,
The Nightingale’s bell note, that old Dardanelle-note,
That once lured Leander from shore.
The lilt of the Linnet in Peach-bloom
The piping of Pipits in flight,
The sprinkling-spank-spink of the old Bobolink,
The hoot of the owl in the night.
The music of Sky-larks at mid-day
Rock 'n roll of a Night-hawk at dark
The chirps of the Sparrows that follow the harrows
The squealing of Seagulls at Stark.
The boom of the Bittern in Norfolk –
Mysterious voice of the Fens
The Sibilant, eerie wood-note of the Yeery
The chattering trill of the Wren
The greeting of Robins the World-round
In the West-Land of wee wings that hum
And in Europe, well look who is with us –
The Cuckoo the ornithological bum
The scream of an Eagle in ether
The Caw of a Crow on a stake
The startling pleasant “Ka-Chok” of the Pheasant
The laugh of a Loon on a lake
The twittering of Swallows returning
to home neath the cow-stable eaves
The Keening of Falcons High over the Balkans
the chains of a chat in the leaves.
The crowing rooster at daybreak
instilling light sleepers with pain.
The hullabaloo in the wing of a zoo
Where our avian friends have domain
From the cry of all things that are air-borne,
The Bunting, Dove, Wood & Quail,
The Roo-Koo-too of Wood Pigeon, O-Will-You of Wigeon
And piping of Snipe in a gale.
To the call of the Thebaic Ibis
And the mythical phoenix of Greece
Or the Clack of a Stork on its rounds in New York
What are almost all but a summons to peace?
Is there only one thing that is silent –
one being more mute than a Swan
DOES NONE CHALLENGE THE BIRDS WITH THE PLEA OF MERE WORDS?
IS THE ONLY NON-HARBINGER MAN?
Collin S Maclaren
Written at the time of the first of the post-World War II peace drive when the UN was founded about 1945.
This is painted on a picture he did which had a painting of each bird with the verse painted in underneath.
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Colin Shaw Maclaren
in the 1901 Scotland Census
Name: Colin Shaw Maclaren
Age: 2
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1899
Relationship: Son
Father's Name: James Shaw Maclaren
Mother's Name: Daisy Stewart Maclaren
Gender: Male
Where born: Stratherick, Invernessshire
Registration Number: 82
Registration District: Tain
Civil Parish: Tain
County: Ross and Cromarty
Address: Ardlarach Ho
ED: 8
Household Schedule Number: 10
Line: 4
Roll: CSSCT1901_21
Household Members:
Name Age
James Shaw Maclaren 31
Daisy Stewart Maclaren 29
Hellen Maclaren 3
Colin Shaw Maclaren 2
Mary N C Maclaren 1
Douglas V L H Maclaren 3wks
Catherine J Davidson 48
Isabella Gaudie 43
Catherine M Mcqueen 21
Margt Macdonald 20
Euphemia Mcleod 26
https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1901Scotland&indiv=try&h=93100
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