John McLaren, Lord McLaren

In 1869, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposer being Robert William Thomson.

He was elected Member of Parliament for Wigtown Burghs in April 1880 and appointed Lord Advocate, losing his seat on seeking re-election on 20 May 1880.

Under pressure from Gladstone and Sir William Harcourt, he accepted appointment to the bench in 1881 with the judicial title Lord McLaren.

Lord McLaren died in Brighton in Sussex on 6 April 1910 but was returned to Edinburgh for burial in the Grange Cemetery on its southernmost path.

[3] The original bronze medallion head was stolen but it is replaced with an accurate and convincing plastic replica.