John Watson

1850–1907 · Presbyterian (Free Church of Scotland; England) · Liverpool, England

John Watson (1850–1907), minister of Sefton Park Presbyterian Church in Liverpool for twenty-five years, wrote the Scottish stories of Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush under the name Ian Maclaren. He was the first principal of the Liverpool theological college, gave the Yale lectures on preaching in 1896, and died on a lecture tour in America.