Background
Maclean Watt was born at Grantown-on-Spey, Morayshire, although his mother was a native of Skye, and he was educated at Edinburgh University (Master of Arts, Bachelor's Degree).
Maclean Watt was born at Grantown-on-Spey, Morayshire, although his mother was a native of Skye, and he was educated at Edinburgh University (Master of Arts, Bachelor's Degree).
University of Edinburgh.
He was a published poet and author, and respected as a literary critic. Licensed by the Presbytery of Dalkeith on 12 May 1896, he was minister of Turriff (1897–1901), of Alloa and Tullibody (1901-1911), of Saint Stephen’s, Edinburgh (1911-1923), and of the High Kirk known as Glasgow Cathedral (1923-1934). In 1907 he accompanied the King of Denmark to Iceland as a correspondent for The Times, The Scotsman and The Manchester Guardian.
During the War he was a chaplain with the Gordon Highlanders in the 7th Division, and he was sent by the Government as Commissioner to the United States and Canada in 1918.
He was a prolific author in prose and verse, on folk-lore, history and antiquities, especially Celtic and Gaelic as well as aspects of religion, literature and the life of a soldier, and gave the Warrack Lectures and McNeil-Frazer Lectures on preaching in 1930. He was Turnbull Trust preacher at The Scots" Church in Melbourne in 1932.