Maclaurin, Colin, mathematician, born in Kilmoden, Argyllshire; was professor of Mathematics in Aberdeen and in Edinburgh; wrote a “Treatise on Fluxions,” in defence of Newton against Berkeley, and an “Account of Newton's Discoveries”; did much to give an impetus to mathematical study in Scotland (1698‒1746).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Maclaren, Ian * Macleod, Norman