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He resided for many years at Pallingswick Lodge, 

 Hammersmith, London, and afterwards at Bicknor Court, 

 Gloucestershire. Eventually he lived at Glasbury House, 

 Clifton, where he died after having become one of the leading 

 literati of Bristol and Q-loucestershire, President of the Archseo- 

 logical Society of the district, and Editor of its Journal. 



Throughout a long period of his life he devoted himself 

 to writing on matters historical and antiquarian, with special 

 reference to Cornwall. 



The columns of the Cornish Bibliotheca and Collectanea, 

 by Boase and Courtenay, contain long lists of his publications. 



He wrote upon church matters in years long gone by, and 

 also published a life of Sir Peter Carew, taken from the original 

 manuscript in Lambeth Palace Library. This he illustrated 

 with preface, introduction, and notes. His largest work was the 

 Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor, 

 Cornwall, in 3 large volumes, in which he was assisted by the 

 local investigations of Rev. W. lago, who also furnished him 

 with nearly all the illustrations of antiquities appearing in the 

 book, either executed by autographic-transfer process, or drawn 

 for the engraver upon the wood, as acknowledged throughout 

 the work. 



In 1874 Col. Vivian published the Visitation Pedigrees of 

 Cornwall, and acknowledged in his preface the valuable 

 co-operation he had received from Sir John Maclean in the 

 numerous contributions signed J.M. 



Sir John's life was not spent in seclusion. He was an 

 ardent churchman and a strong conservative. He was in the 

 habit of rising early and of donning a surplice in church before 

 proceeding to his office in the morning. He wrote on Church 

 Guilds and a variety of subjects, and took an interest in active 

 work. 



In his History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor (which Deanery 

 has since been altered in direction and extent) he treated of 20 

 parishes. Afterwards finding that Otterham ought perhaps to 

 have been included in his book, he wrote its history separately, 

 and contributed it to our Society's Journal. 



