The Grey Mother & Other Poems Being Songs of Empire
Watt, Lauchlan Maclean
Dent (1903)
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WATT, L Maclean. THE GREY MOTHER & OTHER POEMS BEING SONGS OF EMPIRE. 1903. Aldine House. £18.00
He was also a front line Chaplain in WW1

(He was born on 24th October 1867, and was educated at Edinburgh University, where he graduated M.A. in 1894 and B.D. in 1897. Licensed by the Presbytery of Dalkeith on 12th May 1896, he was ordained, on 7th April 1897, to Turriff, translated, on 12th February 1901, to Alloa and Tullibody, translated, on 16th February 1911, to St. Stephen's, Edinburgh, and translated, on 26th June 1923, to Glasgow Cathedral.

He retired, on 15th May 1934, to Kinloch, Lochcarron, Ross-shire.

He received the D.D. of Edinburgh University in 1920, and the LL.D. of Glasgow University in 1933. Dr. MacLean Watt was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1933.

During the First World War, he served as chaplain with the 7th Division. H.M. Government sent him as Commissioner to the United States and Canada in 1918. In his own Church, Dr. MacLean Watt held many important posts, all of which he filled with distinction. He wrote many books in prose and verse,)