WATSON, FREDERICK: Church of England; b. at York Oct. 13, 1844; d, at Cambridge , Jan. 1, 1906. He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge (B.A., 1868; M.A., 1871; B.D., 1884; fellow, 1871-78). He was ordered deacon in 1871 and ordained priest in 1872; was assistant curate at Stow-cum-Quy, 1871-75, and St. Giles', Cambridge, 1875-78; rector of Staraton, Norfolk, 1878-1886; vicar of Stow-cum-Quy, 1886-93; after 1893 he was minister of St. Edward's, Cambridge, and being reelected to his fellowship at St. John's, was also lecturer in Hebrew sad theology in that college. He was Hulsean lecturer in 1883, and an honorary canon of Ely. He wrote The Ante-Nicene Apologies (Cambridge, 1870); Defenders of the Faith (1878); The Law and the Prophets (Hulaean lectures; 1883); The Book of Genesis a True History (London, 1892); and Inspiration (1906).

WATSON, JOHN (" IAN MACLAREN "): Presbyterian; b. at Manningtree (9 m. s.w. of Ipswich), Essex, Nov. 3, 1850; d. at Mt. Pleasant, Ia., May 6, 1907. He studied at the universities of Edinburgh (M.A., 1870) and Tübingen, and f

Ba r aI t New College, Edinburgh; was assistant at arclay Church, Edinburgh (1874-W); minister of Logicalmond Free Church (1875-77); of St. Matthew's Church, Glasgow (1877-80); and Sex- M.' ton Park Presbyterian Church, Liverpool (1880- 0 1905). He was Lyman Beecher lecturer at Yale in 190' 9 :1896, and in 1906 again visited the United States, ww here he was taken ill and died. In theology he was was a liberal evangelical. He wrote: The Upper F .O(r goom (bouden, 18M), The Mind of the Maater (I (1896); The Cure of 1Z (Yale lectures; 1896);

The Potter's Wheel (1897); Companions of the Sorrowful Way (1898); Doctrines of Grace (1900); The Life of the Master (1901); The Homely Virtues (1903); and The Inspiration of our Faith (1905). He is moat widely known, however, for his sketch of Scotch life in the series of studies which was begun with his Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush (1894), and these are marked by an intense appreciation of the peculiar qualities which have ever made the Scotch favorite subjects for literary portrayal. Humor and pathos are blended, and he was in the front rank of the successors to Dean Ramsay and Dr. John Brown.

Bibliography: W. R. Nicoll, "tan Maclaren." Life of the Rev. John Watson, London, 1908-09; Sir E. Russell, in

Srobbert Journal, July, 1907.