Education
He was educated at the Royal High School and the University of Edinburgh, graduating Master of Arts in 1885.
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He was educated at the Royal High School and the University of Edinburgh, graduating Master of Arts in 1885.
He entered Christ"s College, Cambridge taking First Class Honours degree in Classics,1889, and in Semitic Languages, 1893. Took the Prize in Biblical Hebrew. Fellow of Christ"s from 1894, lectured in Hebrew, and later in Aramaic.
(1903-1931).
Tutor from 1911, then Master of Christ"s 1924-1936. Illinois-health forced him to turn down the Vice-Chancellor"s post. Responsible for a number of academic works.
He spent forty years working on an edition of the Septuagint.
She died in Cambridge in 1905. After a First in Classics and Philosophy at Edinburgh University, McLean took another first degree at Cambridge, graduating from Christ"s with a First in Classics and in the Semitic Languages Tripos (today within the domain of the Oriental Studies Tripos).
He became Fellow and lecturer Hebrew in Christ"s and then university lecturer in Aramaic (1903 -31). 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.
He was a tutor at Christ"s from 1911 and Master from 1927 to 1936.
He was elected Federal Bar Association in 1934. He was Master of Christ"s College, Cambridge from 1927 to 1936.
He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, a secret society from 1888.