This article is about the Scottish physician and folklorist. For his uncle the military engineer, see Robert Maclagan.
Dr Robert Craig MaclaganFRSE 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.
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]
The fragment of Folklore of the West Highlands manuscript by Dr Robert Maclagan
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.
The Maclagan Manuscriptsedit
The Maclagan Manuscripts are an important collection of folklore, customs and beliefs, which Robert Maclagan collected between the years 1893 and 1902.[6] He worked in a team of dedicated collectors, in the West Highlands and they collected a huge amount of material, that covers topics as diverse as folk medicine, customs and beliefs, hero tales, material culture, rhymes and children's games, recipes and weather lore, place-name legends, the natural world and much more. Dr Robert Craig Maclagan published some of the material in a number of articles and books. The manuscript itself totals more than 9000 pages and is held in the University of Edinburgh School of Scottish Studies Archive. Some of the manuscripts have been digitized and are available to view online.[7] The collection he amassed is significant because it gives us a window into the life of men and women in the 19th century in the Highlands of Scotland.
^Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783 – 2002(PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN0-902-198-84-X.
^"Granton History: A B Fleming". grantonhistory.org. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
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