Edward Douglas MacLagan

Sir Edward Douglas Maclagan KCSI KCIE (1864–1952) was an administrator in British India. He became Governor of the Punjab (1921–1924). He was Lieutenant-Governor from 1919.

He wrote widely on Indian history. His work superintending the Punjab census of 1891 contains ethnographic information that is still cited. With Horace Arthur Rose, Superintendent of Ethnography in the Punjab in the early twentieth century, he compiled a large work, A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier, including material from Denzil Ibbetson's 1881 census.

Main Block, University of Engineering and Technology Lahore

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 if Mughalpura Technical College. This was renamed as Maclagan Engineering College and later became the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore. He served as Secretary to the Government of India in the Education Department, Revenue Secretary, and Chief Secretary to the Government of the Gabe. He was Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE) and Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI).

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)
• Gazeteer 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)