![]() ![]() ![]() McLachlan’s formal education ended early – in 1924 he said, “I went to school until I was ten, then I went to work in the mine” – but he remained a studious youth whose reading extended well beyond the Bible and Robert Burns, the staple texts of Scottish working-class culture. Although McLachlan was only four years old when he left Ecclefechan, he remembered it from visits to his maternal grandmother, and he took an interest in the writings of the social critic Thomas Carlyle, who sometimes recalled his own humble origins in the same village. There his father was employed in the coalmines of the Coltness Iron Company, and the family lived in a company house. James Bryson McLachlan spent his earliest years in rural Dumfriesshire, where his mother and father worked as farm labourers before they moved their growing family north to the village of Newmains in Lanarkshire. 1893 Catherine Ferguson Greenshields in Wishaw, Scotland, and they had seven daughters and two sons d. ![]() 1869 in Ecclefechan, Scotland, son of Esther Bryson and James McLachlan m. McLACHLAN, JAMES BRYSON, coalminer, union leader, labour radical, farmer, and journalist b. 9 Feb. ![]()
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