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.

This article is about the Scottish physician and folklorist. For his uncle the military engineer, see Robert Maclagan.
Maclagan's house at 5 Coates Crescent, Edinburgh

Life
The Maclagan grave, Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh

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
  1. Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1839–40
  2. Maclagan, Robert Craig (1860). "On Hyoscyamus niger". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. 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.
  4. "Granton History: A B Fleming". grantonhistory.org. Retrieved 2018-02-10.
  5. British Medical Journal 19 July 1919
  6. "Robert Craig Maclagan (1839 - 1919) - Genealogy". geni.com. Retrieved 2018-02-10.
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