William Maclagan

William Dalrymple Maclagan ( born June 18, 1826 in Edinburgh, † September 19, 1910 in London) was Archbishop of York from 1891 to 1908 as Archbishop of York in 1902, he crowned Queen Alexandra. .

Life

Maclagan was born the fifth son of the distinguished Scottish physician David Maclagan (1785-1865) in Edinburgh. He studied at the Royal High School and then served five years in the Indian Army, from which he then with the rank of lieutenant resigned for health reasons. In 1852 he volunteered at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he spent four years later earned a degree in mathematics. He was ordained a deacon at the same time and then worked in the Church of England. In 1869 he became rector of Newington, and in 1875 he became vicar of St. Mary's Abbots, Kensington. During this period he composed several hymns.

On 24 June 1878 he became Bishop of Lichfield. In 1891 he joined the bishopric and was for 17 years the Archbishop of York. He was a member of the Privy Council after the approval of King Edward VII on 24 January 1901. According to a private visit to Russia in 1897, the same year he tried to set up two new suffragan dioceses, one of them in Sheffield. To achieve this, the archbishop was willing to use two thousand pounds of his income - a thousand pounds for each new diocese, but the project stagnated. Maclagan complained in 1891 that he would be more than Archbishop Bishop due to the large population and vast territory of the archdiocese. In 1906, he pitched the idea again, and called specifically Sheffield and Hull as the preferred bishoprics for the new dioceses. By the end of his term, there were still only nine dioceses in the archdiocese. Sheffield should not get its own bishop before 1914.

Maclagan was apparently a strict churchman, but his private beliefs often had hintan stand. In 1899 he met together with his ecclesiastical superiors Dr. Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury († 1902), a decision against the use of incense and other liturgical practices; he was dutiful and loyal in the enforcement of the views of the Primate.

Maclagan resigned from his post in 1908, possibly for health reasons.

Archbishop Maclagan died in London on September 19, 1910 and was survived by his second wife Augusta ( 1836-1915 ).

Family

Maclagan was married twice. His first wife Sarah Kate Clapham (1836-1864) he married in 1860., With whom he had two sons, Cyril and Walter ( 1862-1929 ). His second wife Augusta Anne Anne Barrington (1836-1915), granddaughter of the 6th Viscount Barrington, he married on November 12, 1878, was already bishop of Lichfield. With his second wife he had children Eric (1879-1951) and Theodora "Dora" Maclagan ( 1881-1976 ). Maclagan was the younger brother of Professor Sir (Andrew ) Douglas Maclagan, MD ( 1812-1900 ). Sir Douglas, who had also trained at the Royal High School in Edinburgh, was a colleague of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1833 and was defeated in 1886 and was knighted in contact with Charles Darwin. Another brother had apparently General Robert Maclagan, RE ( 1820-1893 ).

He christened Princess Mary of York, later Countess of Harewood, on 7 June 1897 in St Mary Magdalene 's Church near Sandringham House. She was the only daughter of the future King George V. Archbishop Maclagan was selected for baptism, because the parents of the Princess Duke and Duchess of York were.

In 1902 he crowned Alexandra of Denmark, the wife of King Edward VII, Queen of the United Kingdom.

Hymns composed by Dr. Maclagan

• The Saints of God! Their conflict past 1869 for the first time in the Church Bells ( text or here)
• It is finished! blessed Jesus ( music and lyrics here )
• Palms of glory, raiment bright, date unknown.

Works

• Frederick Temple and William Dalrymple Maclagan. Answer of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York to the Bull Apostolicae Curae of HH Leo XIII, from circa 1897.
• William Dalrymple Maclagan. Hymns and Hymn Tunes by the late Archbishop MacLagan, printed for use in York Minster, etc. by William Dalrymple Maclagan (1915 )
• William Dalrymple Maclagan, Archbishop of York on reservation of the Sacrament ( 1900).