13 Facts About William Maclagan

William Dalrymple Maclagan was Archbishop of York from 1891 to 1908, when he resigned his office.

William Maclagan was succeeded in 1909 by Cosmo Gordon Lang, later Archbishop of Canterbury.

William Maclagan, the fifth son of a distinguished Scottish physician David William Maclagan FRSE, was born in Edinburgh in 1826, and educated at the Royal High School.

William Maclagan served five years in the Indian Army rising to the rank of lieutenant and resigning on grounds of ill health.

William Maclagan was appointed to the Privy Council after the accession of King Edward VII 24 January 1901.

William Maclagan made a private visit to Russia in 1897 and in the same year, he tried to create two new bishoprics, one in Sheffield.

William Maclagan complained that from 1891, he had been more Bishop than Archbishop owing to the large population and territory of the diocese.

William Maclagan was apparently a strong High Churchman, but his private beliefs had to be subsumed often.

William Maclagan resigned his office in 1908, possibly on grounds of ill health.

Archbishop William Maclagan died in London on 19 September 1910, and was survived by his second wife Augusta.

William Maclagan was married secondly on 12 November 1878 to the Honourable Augusta Anne Barrington, a daughter of the daughter of the William Barrington, 6th Viscount Barrington.

William Maclagan's posterity is represented by the three surviving children of Michael Maclagan.

The artist Philip Douglas William Maclagan is descended from an older brother.