Edward Douglas MacLagan

Sir Edward Douglas Maclagan (25 August 1864 – 22 October 1952) was an administrator in British India.

He was born in the Punjab, the son of General Maclagan of the Royal Engineers and educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford. In 1883 he passed the Indian Civil Service Examination.

He was Chancellor of University of the Punjab from 1919 to 1924. In 1923, in his role as the Governor of the Punjab, he laid the foundation stone for the new main building of Mughalpura Technical College. This was renamed as Maclagan Engineering College and later became the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore and Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh. He was awarded Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE) and Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI).

He returned to England in 1924 and occupied himself in writing The Jesuits and the Great Mogul. From 1925 to 1928 and from 1931 to 1934 he acted as President of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

Works Monograph on the Gold and Silver Works of the Punjab (1890) The Punjab and its feudatories; The report on the census (Census of India, 1891) (1892) Gazetteer of the Multan District (1902) editor A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier (1991) with Denzil Ibbetson and H. A. Rose The Jesuits and the Great Mogul (1932)