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	General '''Sir Robert Maclagan''' {{post-nominals\|country=GBR\|size=100%\|KCMG\|FRSE\|FRGS}} (14 December 1820 – 1894) was a [[British Army]] officer and military engineer. He served most of his career in India.		General '''Sir Robert Maclagan''' {{post-nominals\|country=GBR\|size=100%\|KCMG\|FRSE\|FRGS}} (14 December 1820 – 1894) was a [[British Army]] officer and military engineer. He served most of his career in India.

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{{Short description|British Army officer and military engineer (1820–94)}}
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General '''Sir Robert Maclagan''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCMG|FRSE|FRGS}} (14 December 1820 – 1894) was a [[British Army]] officer and military engineer. He served most of his career in India.

==Life==

He was born on 14 December 1820 the son of Jane Whiteside and her husband, the eminent Edinburgh physician [[David Maclagan]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.geni.com/people/General-Sir-Robert-Maclagan-KCMG/6000000002889135091|title=General Sir Robert Maclagan, KCMG|website=geni_family_tree|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-26}}</ref> His childhood home was 22 George Street in the centre of [[New Town, Edinburgh|Edinburgh’s New Town]].<ref>Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1820-21</ref>

He was educated at the [[Royal High School, Edinburgh|High School]] in Edinburgh and the [[University of Edinburgh]] but did not graduate. He then went to [[Addiscombe Military Seminary]] near [[London]]. He joined the Honourable [[East India Company]] as a 2nd Lieutenant in 1839. He then went to the School of Military Engineering in Chatham, to specialise as an engineer. He arrived in [[Delhi]] in India in 1842. He was in charge of the engineering works for the defence of [[Lahore]] in March 1846. Following severe illness he was given more sedate duties, including running the Civil Engineering College at [[Rurki]] aged 27. In the Mutiny of 1857 he successfully defended Rurki against the rebel forces. In his military career he rose to the rank of General, first in the Bengal Engineers then in the [[Royal Engineers]].<ref name="Obituary">{{cite journal |title=General Robert Maclagan, E.E. By Major-General Sir Robert Murdoch Smith, K.C.M.G., R.E. |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |date=1895 |volume=20 |pages=xlvi - xlviii |doi=10.1017/S037016460004904X |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S037016460004904X |access-date=23 February 2022}}</ref>

In 1853 he was elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh]] his proposer being [[Robert Christison|Sir Robert Christison]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|access-date=24 July 2017|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

From 1861 he ran the Public Works Department for all of the [[Punjab]]. [[Queen Victoria]] created him a Knight of the [[Order of St Michael and St George]] (KCMG) for his efforts.

He retired in 1879. He spent most of his final years between Edinburgh and London.

He died in 1894.

==Family==
His brothers included [[Andrew Douglas Maclagan]] and Rev [[William Maclagan]], Archbishop of York.

His children included Robert Smeiton Maclagan CIE, Sir Edward Douglas Maclagan KCIE.

He was uncle to [[Robert Craig Maclagan]].

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