Personal
Maclaurin was born in Scotland, and was related to the noted Scottish mathematician Colin Maclaurin. He came out to New Zealand with his family at the age of four. In 1904 he married Alice Young of Auckland, and they had two sons. His brother James Scott Maclaurin (1864–1939) was a noted chemist, who invented the Cyanide process for extracting gold.
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