MACLAGAN, Alexander (1 son of Thomas Maclagan). b. Bridgend, Perth 3 April 1811; apprentice to a plumber 1823–9, then a journeyman; contributed to Edinburgh literary journal 1829; manager of a plumbery in Dunfermline 1833; junior clerk in inland revenue office, Edinb. 1850; entertained at a public dinner in the hall of Burns’ cottage 1851; granted civil list pension of £30, 29 Sep. 1856; author of Sketches from nature and other poems 1851; Ragged school rhymes 1851, new ed. 1871; National songs and ballads 1878. d. Edinburgh 20 April 1879. C. Rogers’ Modern Scottish minstrel, v 226–40 (1857).
MACLAGAN, David. b. Edinburgh, Feb. 1785; ed. Edinb. univ., M.D. 1805; M.R.C.S. Edinb. 1804; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1807, F.R.C.S. 1816; assistant surgeon to 91 regt. 10 Sep. 1807, served at Walcheren; staff surgeon 9 Portuguese brigade 1811 and served in Spain to 1814; phys. in the army 26 May 1814, placed on h.p. 1816; in practice at Edinb. 1816 to death; pres. of R.C.S. 1826; pres. R.C.P. 1856; surgeon in ordinary to the queen in Scotland 1838 to death; F.R.S. Edinb. d. 129 George st. Edinb. 6 June 1865. Proc. Royal Soc. of Edinb. v 476–7 (1866).
MACLAGAN, David (son of the preceding). Actuary at 9 Royal circus, Edinburgh; manager of Edinburgh life insurance co. 1873–83; F.R.S. Edinb. 1872; author of St. George’s, Edinburgh, a history of St. George’s church and of St. George’s Free church 1876. d. Mentone 30 March 1883.
MACLAGAN, Philip Whiteside (son of David Maclagan, M.D., d. 1865). L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1839; M.D. Edinb. 1840; assistant surgeon in the army 15 Jany. 1841; assistant surgeon royal Canadian rifle regiment 19 Dec. 1845; surgeon 20 foot 24 Sep. 1850, resigned 3 Dec. 1853; much interested in philanthropic movements; botanist. d. Berwick 26 May 1892; memorial fountain unveiled in High st. Berwick 14 June 1893. Daily Graphic 17 June 1893 p. 5, view of fountain.
MACLAINE, Sir Archibald (2 son of Gillean Maclaine of Scalasdale in the Isle of Mull, d. 23 Nov. 1778 aged 64). b. 13 Jany. 1773; ensign 94 foot 16 April 1794; held Matagorda an outwork of Cadiz with 155 men against 8000 French under marshal Soult 22 Feb. to 22 April 1810; major 87 foot 4 Oct. 1810; lieut.-col. 7 West India regiment of foot 25 Jany. 1813 to 25 April 1816; lieut.-col. 14 foot 9 Aug. 1821 to 4 Nov. 1822; lieut.-col. 17 foot 4 Nov. 1822 to 30 July 1829 when placed on h.p.; colonel of 52 foot 8 Feb. 1847 to death; C.B. 4 June 1815; knighted at St. James’s palace 19 Oct. 1831; K.C.B. 6 April 1852; knight of order of Charles the Third of Spain 1816; general 5 June 1855. d. 68 Cumberland st. Hyde park, London 9 March 1861. bur. Highgate cemet.
MACLAINE, Hector (1 son of William Osborne Maclaine). b. Murtle, Aberdeenshire 24 Nov. 1851; ed. Eton and Woolwich; lieut. R.A. 6 Jany. 1872 to death; in India 1873–4, returned to India 1879, on service in Kandahar 1880, in the action at Maiwand 27 July 1880 showed great bravery and energy in working his guns under fire; while in search of water on 28 July was taken prisoner, was returned as killed or missing and name taken out of army list in Aug.; imprisoned at Kokaran from 30 July; murdered by his captors at Kandahar 1 Sep. 1880 and his body soon after found by 92nd highlanders. bur. Kandahar with military honours. Shadbolt’s Afghan Campaign (1882) 131–4, portrait.
MAC LAREN, Archibald. b. 1819; proprietor of the Gymnasium, Alfred st. Oxford to death; the British army is trained on his principles and in gymnasia which he invented; wrote Systematized exercise, expansion and developement of the chest. Macmillan’s Mag. Nov. 1890 pp. 35–40; author of A military system of gymnastic exercises for the use of instructors 1862, 2 ed. 1868; A system of fencing for the use of instructors in the army 1864; A system of physical education, theoretical and practical 1866; Training in theory and practice 1866, 2 ed. 1874. d. Summertown near Oxford 19 Feb. 1884.
MACLAREN, Charles (only child of a small farmer). b. Ormiston, Haddingtonshire 7 Oct. 1782; clerk to several firms at Edinburgh; established with others The Scotsman 25 Jany. 1817, joint editor 1817–18 and 1820–45; a clerk in the custom house 1818–20; edited 6th ed. of Encyclopædia Britannica 20 vols. 1822, for which he wrote articles America, Europe, Greece, Physical geography and Troy; F.R.S. Edinb. 1837; F.G.S. 1846, pres. of Geol. Soc. of Edinb. 1864 to death; author of A dissertation on the topography of the plain of Troy, 1822, reissued as The plains of Troy described 1863; A sketch of the geology of Fife and the Lothians 1839, 2 ed. 1866. d. Moreland cottage, Edinburgh 10 Sep. 1866. R. Cox and J. Nicol’s Select writings of C. Maclaren 2 vols. (1869), portrait.
MC LAREN, Duncan (son of John Mc Laren, farmer). b. Renton, Dumbartonshire 12 Jany. 1800; a draper in a shop opposite St. Giles’s ch. Edinb. 1824; member of town council Edinb. 1833, baillie, treasurer, lord provost 1851–4; chairman of Edinburgh chamber of commerce; contested Edinb. 1852, M.P. Edinb. 1865–81, used to be called in the house the Member for Scotland; established the Heriot free schools, Edinb. 1836; author of History of the resistance to the annuity tax under each of the four church establishments for which it has been levied 1836, 4 ed. 1851; Facts regarding the seat rents of the city churches of Edinburgh 1840. d. Newington house, Edinburgh 26 April 1886, portrait in council chamber, Edinb. J. B. Mackie’s Life and works of D. Mc Laren 2 vols. (1888), 2 portraits.
M’LAREN, James. b. Polmont, Stirlingshire 1829; general superintendent North British railway co. 1843 to death, the oldest official connected with the company. d. Edinburgh 30 Oct. 1893.