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Colin Shaw Maclaren, Captain

Male 1898 - 1985  (86 years)


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  • Name Colin Shaw Maclaren 
    Suffix Captain 
    Born 26 Jul 1898  Errogie, Stratherick, Inverness, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    1 Source See more at https://ancestorium.com/tng/getperson.php?personID=I000120&tree=1 
    Educ. St Andrews. Episcopal Trinity College in Glenalmond. at Wellington College in Madras, India Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Profession Reporter for New York Times from 1923-1968 Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Regiment/Rank Capt.. Commisioned 1917. Queen Victoria's Own Corps of Guides, an infantry frontier force in India. Then infantry captain under Viscount Allenby against Turkish forces in the Middle East during World War I. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Died 15 May 1985  Booth Memorial Medical Center in Flushing, Queens, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I000120  Ancestorium
    Last Modified 1 Mar 2023 

    Father James Shaw Maclaren, of Ardlarach,   b. 13 Dec 1869, Govan, Lanark, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Jul 1948, lived at The Mount, Otford, Sevenoaks, Kent, England (Tonbridge, Kent?) Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years) 
    Mother Daisy Steuart Ogilvy,   b. 1871,   d. 1924, (Maybe) Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 53 years) 
    Married 12 Dec 1895  St Peter, Cranley Gardens, Kensington, London SW7 3DB England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • James Shaw Maclaren
      in the 1901 Scotland Census
      Name: James Shaw Maclaren
      Age: 31
      Estimated Birth Year: abt 1870
      Relationship: Head
      Spouse's name : Daisy Stewart Maclaren
      Gender: Male
      Where born: Parish Renfrew, Maxwell
      Registration Number: 82
      Registration District: Tain
      Civil Parish: Tain
      County: Ross and Cromarty
      Address: Ardlarach Ho
      Occupation: Living On Own Means
      ED: 8
      Household Schedule Number: 10
      Line: 1
      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. Occupation: Monthly Nuse
      Isabella Gaudie 43 Occupation: Childrens Nurse Dom
      Catherine M Mcqueen 21
      Margt Macdonald 20
      Euphemia Mcleod 26
      Source Citation
      Parish: Tain; ED: 8; Page: 5; Line: 1; Roll: CSSCT1901_21
      Source Information
      Ancestry.com. 1901 Scotland Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.
      Original data: Scotland. 1901 Scotland Census. Reels 1-446. General Register Office for Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland.
      Description
      The 1901 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 31 March/1 April 1901. The following information was requested: place, name, relationship to head of family, marital status, age, gender, profession, birthplace, and whether blind, deaf, and dumb. Learn more...

      https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1901Scotland&indiv=try&h=93097
    Family ID F00058  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Palma,   d. UNKNOWN 
    Family ID F00122  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • 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
      ...
      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