Editing Colin Maclaurin (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:The grave of Colin Maclaurin, Greyfriars Kirkyard.jpg|thumb|left|260px|The grave of Colin Maclaurin, Greyfriars Kirkyard]]
[[File:Colin MacLaurin Road, Edinburgh.JPG|thumb|Colin MacLaurin Road, Edinburgh]]
In 1733, Maclaurin married Anne Stewart, the daughter of Walter Stewart, the [[Solicitor General for Scotland]], by whom he had seven children. His eldest son [[John Maclaurin, Lord Dreghorn|John Maclaurin]] studied law, was a [[Senator of the College of Justice]], and became Lord Dreghorn; he was also joint founder of the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|access-date=24 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Maclaurin actively opposed the [[Jacobite rising of 1745]] and superintended the operations necessary for the defence of Edinburgh against the Highland army. Maclaurin compiled a diary of his exertions against the Jacobites, both within and without the city.<ref>{{Citation| last=Maclaurin | first=Colin | chapter=Colin Maclaurin's 'Journal of the Forty-five'| editor-last=Hedman| editor-first=Bruce | title=Miscellany XIII of the Scottish History Society Fifth Series volume 14| publisher=Lothian Print| place=Edinburgh, Scotland| date= 2004 |pages= 312–322}}</ref> When the Highland army entered the city, however, he fled to [[York]], where he was invited to stay by the [[Archbishop of York]].

[[File:Maclaurin grave.jpg|upright|thumb|right|Memorial, Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh]]

On his journey south, Maclaurin fell from his horse, and the fatigue, anxiety, and cold to which he was exposed on that occasion laid the foundations of [[dropsy]]. He returned to Edinburgh after the [[Jacobitism|Jacobite]] army marched south, but died soon after his return.

He is buried at [[Greyfriars Kirkyard]], [[Edinburgh]]. The simple table stone is inscribed simply "C. M. Nat MDCXCVIII Ob MDCCXLVI" and stands close to the south-west corner of the church but is supplemented by a more wordy memorial on the outer wall of the church.

The mathematician and former [[MIT]] President [[Richard Cockburn Maclaurin]] was from the same family.

The Maclaurin Society (MacSoc), the Mathematics and Statistics Society at Glasgow University, is named in his honour.

Colin MacLaurin Road within Edinburgh University's [[King's Buildings]] complex is named in his honour.