Robert Craig Maclagan

Maclagan's house at 5 Coates Crescent, Edinburgh

Dr Robert Craig Maclagan FRSE FRCPE (1839–1919) was a Scottish physician and anthropologist from the eminent Maclagan family. He was co-founder of the Scottish Association for the Medical Education of Women.

Life

The Maclagan grave, Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh

He was born in Edinburgh on 6 March 1839 the son of Andrew Douglas Maclagan and his wife Elizabeth Allan Thomson. 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 Edinburgh University graduating MD in 1860.

In 1869 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being Sir Robert Christison.[2]

Alongside his medical career he was a keen 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.[3]

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.[4] 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).[5]

References

  1. ↑ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1839–40
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ "Granton History: A B Fleming". grantonhistory.org. Retrieved 2018-02-10.
  4. ↑ British Medical Journal 19 July 1919
  5. ↑ "Robert Craig Maclagan (1839 - 1919) - Genealogy". geni.com. Retrieved 2018-02-10.
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