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Sir Edward Douglas Maclagan (25 August 1864 – 22 October 1952) was an administrator in 
He was Chancellor of University of Engineering and Technology Lahore
/ref> He was awarded
Sir Edward Douglas Maclagan (25 August 1864 – 22 October 1952) was an administrator in British India
The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent. Collectively, they have been called British India. In one ...
.
He was born in the Punjab, the son of General Maclagan of the Royal Engineers
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and educated at Winchester College
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and New College, Oxford
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. In 1883 he passed the Indian Civil Service
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Its members ruled over more than 300 million ...
Examination.
MacLagan wrote widely on Indian history and superintended the Punjab census of 1891. With Horace Arthur Rose
Horace Arthur Rose (25 November 1867 – 18 September 1933) was an administrator in the Indian Civil Service and also an author of works related to India in the time of the British Raj.
Rose was the son of a merchant from East Grinstead and wa ...
, Superintendent of Ethnography in the Punjab in the early 20th century, he compiled a large work, ''A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province
''A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province'' is an ethnological study of areas of present-day Pakistan and India. It was compiled by Indian Civil Service administrator H.A. Rose, based on the 1883 and 189 ...
'', including material from Denzil Ibbetson
Sir Denzil Charles Jelf Ibbetson (30 August 1847 – 21 February 1908)Talbot (2012). was an administrator in British India and an author. He served as Chief-Commissioner of the Central Provinces and Berar from 1898 to 1899 and Lie ...
's 1881 census.
In 1906 he was appointed Chief Secretary to the Government of the Punjab, in 1910 was appointed Secretary to the Revenue Department of the Indian Government and from 1915 to 1918 served as Secretary to the Education Department. He became Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab
Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising ...
in 1919 and Governor
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from 1921 to 1924.
He was Chancellor of University of the Punjab
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from 1919 to 1924. In 1923, in his role as the Governor of the Punjab, he laid the foundation stone for the new main building of Mughalpura Technical College. This was renamed as Maclagan Engineering College and later became the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore
The University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore (UET Lahore) is a public university located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan specializing in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects. It is the oldest and one of the most ...
and Punjab Engineering College
Punjab Engineering College (abbreviated PEC or PEC Chandigarh) is a public research & technical institution in Chandigarh. It was founded in 1921 in Lahore, established in Chandigarh in 1953, and focuses on the field of applied sciences, particu ...
, Chandigarh
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./ref> He was awarded
Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire
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#Knight Grand Commander (GCIE)
#Knight Commander ( KCIE)
#Companion ( CIE)
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(KCIE) and Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India
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# Knight Grand Commander (GCSI)
# Knight Commander ( KCSI)
# Companion ( CSI)
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(KCSI).
He returned to England in 1924 and occupied himself in writing ''The Jesuits and the Great Mogul''. From 1925 to 1928 and from 1931 to 1934 he acted as President of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
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.
Works
*''Monograph on the Gold and Silver Works of the Punjab'' (1890) *''The Punjab and its feudatories; The report on the census (Census of India, 1891)'' (1892) *''Gazetteer of the Multan District'' (1902) editor *''A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier'' (1991) with Denzil Ibbetson and H. A. Rose *''The Jesuits and the Great Mogul'' (1932)Notes