Charles Maclaren
Scottish journalist and geologist (1782–1866) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other people with the same name, see Charles McLaren (disambiguation).
Charles Maclaren FRSE FGS (7 October 1782 – 10 September 1866) was a Scottish journalist and geologist. He co-founded The Scotsman newspaper, was its editor for 27 years, edited the 6th Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica,[1] and was the first to suggest that Hisarlik was the site of Troy.[2][3]