Robert Craig Maclagan
Dr Robert Craig Maclagan FRSE FRCPE (6 March 1839 – 12 July 1919) was a Scottish physician, anthropologist and author from the Maclagan family. He was co-founder of the Scottish Association for the Medical Education of Women.
Life
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He was born in Edinburgh on 6 March 1839 the son of Elizabeth Allan Thomson and her husband, Andrew Douglas Maclagan, a surgeon. He lived his early years at 129 George Street in Edinburgh’s New Town.[1] He was educated at the Edinburgh High School then studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh graduating with an MD in 1860.[2]
In 1869 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being Sir Robert Christison.[3]
Alongside his medical career he was a military volunteer and held the rank of Colonel with the 5th Battalion Royal Scots. In a further disconnected field (other than through writing) from 1873 he was Partner and Chairman of A. B. Fleming & Co, one of the world’s largest ink manufactures, based in Granton in northern Edinburgh.[4]
He died on 12 July 1919 at home at 5 Coates Crescent in Edinburgh’s West End, where he had lived for at least 40 years.[5] He is buried with his family in Dean Cemetery in west Edinburgh. The grave lies on the north wall of the original cemetery, backing onto the first north extension.
Publications
- The Arsenic Eaters of Styria (BMJ 1864)
- The Clan of the Bell of St Fillan (1879)
- Scottish Myths (1882)
- The Games and Diversions of Argyleshire (1901)
- Evil Eye in the Western Highlands (1902)
- Our Ancestors: Scots, Picts and Cymry (1913)
- Religio Scotica
Family
He was father to Douglas Philip Maclagan WS (1867–1948).[6]
References
- ^ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1839–40
- ^ Maclagan, Robert Craig (1860). "On Hyoscyamus niger".
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(help) - ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783 – 2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X.
- ^ "Granton History: A B Fleming". grantonhistory.org. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
- ^ British Medical Journal 19 July 1919
- ^ "Robert Craig Maclagan (1839 - 1919) - Genealogy". geni.com. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
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