William Maclagan

The Most Reverend and Right Honourable William Maclagan
Archbishop of York
Province	Province of York
Diocese	Diocese of York
Installed	15 September 1891, York Minster
Term ended	1908 (ret.)
Predecessor	William Connor Magee
Successor	Cosmo Gordon Lang
Other posts	Bishop of Lichfield (24 June {?}/11 July 1878 {enthr.}–1891)
Personal details
Born	(1826-06-18)18 June 1826 Edinburgh, Edinburghshire, United Kingdom
Died	19 September 1910(1910-09-19) (aged 84) South Kensington, Middlesex, UK
Buried	Bishopthorpe churchyard
Nationality	British
Denomination	Anglican
Residence	Bishopthorpe Palace (as archbishop)
Parents	Dr David Maclagan & Jane née Whiteside
Spouse	1. Sarah née Clapham, 1860 (m.)–1862 (her d.) 2. the Hon Augusta née Barrington, 1878 (m.)–1910 (his d.)
Children	with Sarah: Revd Walter & 1 other son; with Augusta: Sir Eric & 1 daughter
Education	Royal High School, Edinburgh
Alma mater	Peterhouse, Cambridge

William Dalrymple Maclagan (18 June 1826 – 19 September 1910) was Archbishop of York from 1891 to 1908, when he resigned his office, and was succeeded in 1909 by Cosmo Gordon Lang, later Archbishop of Canterbury. As Archbishop of York, Maclagan crowned Queen Alexandra in 1902.

Maclagan, the fifth son of a distinguished Scottish physician David Maclagan FRSE (1785–1865) was born in Edinburgh in 1826, and educated at the Royal High School. His elder brother was the surgeon and scholar Douglas Maclagan. He served five years in the Indian Army rising to the rank of lieutenant and resigning on grounds of ill health.

In 1852, he enrolled at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he received a degree in mathematics four years later. He was immediately ordained a Deacon, and served in the Church of England thereafter. In 1869, he was Rector at Newington, and in 1875, he was Vicar of St Mary's Abbots, Kensington; both parishes being in London. During this period, he composed several hymns. On 24 June 1878, he became Bishop of Lichfield, in the same year that he made a prestigious second marriage.

In 1891 (possibly 28 July 1891), he was translated Archbishop of York, which position he held for the next seventeen years. He was appointed to the Privy Council after the accession of King Edward VII 24 January 1901. He made a private visit to Russia in 1897 and in the same year, he tried to create two new bishoprics, one in Sheffield. To do this, the Archbishop was prepared to surrender two thousand pounds of his considerable income – one thousand pounds for each new diocese, but the project still came to nothing. Maclagan complained that from 1891, he had been more Bishop than Archbishop owing to the large population and territory of the diocese. In 1906, he revived the idea, specifically naming Sheffield and Hull as the preferred seats for the new dioceses. By the end of his tenure, there were still only nine dioceses in the province. Sheffield did not get its own Bishop until 1914.