name: Charles MacLaren
birth_date: 1782-10-07 00:00:00
death_date: 1866-09-10 00:00:00
genres: Archaeology, Geology
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about: Charles Maclaren FRSE FGS was a Scottish journalist and geologist. He co-founded The Scotsman newspaper, was its editor for 27 years, and edited the 6th Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica and the first to suggest that Hisarlik was the site of Troy.