Sir Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan was a British museum director and art historian.
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18 Facts About Eric Maclagan
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In 1905 Eric Maclagan joined the staff at the Victoria and Albert Museum as an assistant in the Textiles Department.
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Eric Maclagan became head of this department when Skinner died in 1908.
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In 1916 Eric Maclagan was temporarily transferred to the Foreign Office, and later to the Ministry of Information.
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Eric Maclagan produced the Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in collaboration with Margaret Longhurst, an assistant keeper in the Sculpture Department.
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Eric Maclagan introduced the "Object of the Week" scheme, under which a different object from the museum's collection, with a descriptive label, was placed in the entrance hall every Monday.
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Eric Maclagan wanted to rearrange the displays according to primary and secondary collections, but this proved impossible in the financial climate of the 1930s, and was not realised until Sir Leigh Aston reassembled the collections in 1945.
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Eric Maclagan was knighted in 1933, and in 1945 he was appointed KCVO.
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Eric Maclagan held important appointments both at home and abroad.
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Eric Maclagan was appointed to lectureships at Edinburgh, Belfast, Dublin and Hull and was given honorary degrees at Birmingham and Oxford.
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Eric Maclagan was a gifted lecturer, proficient in French and German.
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Eric Maclagan was a keen churchman and took a prominent part in the affairs of the Anglo-Catholic movement.
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Eric Maclagan performed much public service on behalf of the church through the Cathedrals Advisory Council and the Central Council for the Care of Churches, which for some time was housed in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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Eric Maclagan made several translations of the works of French poets, especially Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Valery and published a volume of poems, Leaves in the Road in 1901 whilst an undergraduate.
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Eric Maclagan designed several bookplates including one for his friend Bernard Berenson.
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In 1913 Eric Maclagan married Helen Elizabeth, daughter of the Commander the Hon.
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