Dr Robert Craig Maclagan

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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

Maclagan grave, Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh

He was born in

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on 6 March 1839 the son of Elizabeth Allan Thomson and her husband,

Andrew Douglas Maclagan Sir Andrew Douglas Maclagan PRSE FRCPE FRCSE FCS FRSSA (17 April 1812, in Ayr – 5 April 1900, in Edinburgh) was a Scottish surgeon, toxicologist and scholar of medical jurisprudence. He served as president of 5 learned societies: th ...

, a surgeon. He lived his early years at 129 George Street in Edinburgh’s New Town. He was educated at the

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then studied medicine at the

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graduating with an MD in 1860. In 1869 he was elected a Fellow of the

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his proposer being

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. Alongside his medical career he was a military volunteer and held the rank of Colonel with the 5th Battalion

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. 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. 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.British Medical Journal 19 July 1919 He is buried with his family in

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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

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'' (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).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Maclagan, Robert Craig 1839 births 1919 deaths Writers from Edinburgh Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 19th-century Scottish people 19th-century Scottish medical doctors Scottish folklorists Scottish non-fiction writers Royal Scots officers Burials at the Dean Cemetery People educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh Medical doctors from Edinburgh