Daniel McLean (1826–28), missionary to Jamaica and later minister of the UP church at Lanark, and Grace Whyte Millar of Loanhead (1831–1923).
He entered Christ's College, Cambridge, taking a First Class Honours degree in Classics (1889) and in the Semitic Languages Tripos (1893).
His life work lay within a field that philologically-equipped theologians had pursued relentlessly since the seventeenth century: the establishment of a complete variorum edition of the scriptural texts.
McLean, whose background was devoutly Presbyterian, spent forty years working on an edition of the Septuagint.
McLean is buried in the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge, with his wife Mary, née Luce, who died in 1905.