Dr. Sir Andrew Douglas Maclagan, PRSE FRCPE FRCSE FCS FRSSA

Biographical Summary

Maclagan, Sir Andrew Douglas. 17/04/1812-05/04/1900. Ref: 976. Male.

• Titles and British Honours: Knight (1886).
• Place of Birth: Ayr.
• Place of Death: 28 Heriot Row, Edinburgh.
• Place of interment: Dean Cemy. Edinburgh.
• Profession: Physician, Toxicologist.
• Appointments Held: Lecturer 1845-62, Materia Medica, Extra Mural School, Edinburgh; Professor 1862-97, Medical Jurisprudence and Public Health (Forensic Medicine), Edinburgh University.
• Schools and Tutors: High School Edinburgh.
• Undergraduate Studies: MD (Edinburgh 1833).
• Postgraduate Studies: Medicine in London, Paris and Berlin, LL.D (Hon Glasgow 1891, Edinburgh 1897).
• Family: son Robert Craig Maclagan, FRSE 1839-1919.
• Mother: Miss Whiteside.
• Father: David Maclagan, FRSE 1785-1865.
• Siblings: Robert Maclagan, FRSE 1820-c1893 and David Maclagan FRSE 1824-83.
• References: BMJ. 1900 (1) 935; Who Was Who 1; A Boyle et. al. Scotland's Cultural Heritage, 4, 1983; W P Anderson 1931, 726.
• Memberships: FRCPE (President 1884-7), FRCSE (1833, President 1859-61), Royal Medical Society (President 1832), FCS, Pharmaceutical Society of Britain (Hon), FRSSA (1900, President).
• Date of Election: 09/01/1843.
• Proposers: Sir Robert Christison, 2/4/1842, (ms Proposal NLS Acc 10,000/46). (Billet 19/12/1842).
• Service to the RSE: Councillor 1883-5, Curator 1856-78, Vice-President 1878-83, 1885-90, President 1890-5.
• Fellow Type: OF.

SOURCE: Waterston, Charles D; Macmillan Shearer, A (July 2006). Biographical index of former fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783-2002: Biographical Index. II. Edinburgh: The Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. page 599

Other References

• Wikipedia contributors, "Douglas Maclagan", Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.