# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-maclaurin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:09:13.217Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-maclaurin"
name: "John MacLaurin"
slug: "john-maclaurin"
description: "The Hon John Maclaurin, Lord Dreghorn FRSE was a Scottish advocate who rose to be a Senator of the College of Justice. In 1783 he was one of the founders of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He was a prolific author on both legal and literary issues."
tagline: "Scottish judge and writer"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1734"
deathDate: "1796"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.39
  momentum:             20.90909090909091
  historical:           1.535241333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  39
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maclaurin%2C_Lord_Dreghorn"
    title: "John Maclaurin, Lord Dreghorn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18527251"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations