death_date children other_post nationality birth_date residence term_end education alma_mater death_place title profession spouse image diocese name caption enthroned predecessor birth_place buried parents successor religion province article_title
19 september 1910 with other son ; with augusta : sir eric & amp sarah ; 1 daughter : revd walter & amp ; 1 bishop 1878 -- 1891 -rrb- of lichfield -lrb- 24 june / 11 july british 18 june 1826 bishopthorpe palace -lrb- as archbishop -rrb- 1908 -lrb- ret . -rrb- royal high school , edinburgh peterhouse , cambridge south kensington , middlesex , uk archbishop of york infantryman 1 -rrb- -- 1862 -lrb- her d. -rrb- 2 . the . hon augusta née barrington , 1878 -lrb- m. -rrb- -- sarah 1910 -lrb- his d. -rrb- née clapham , 1860 -lrb- m. williamdalrymplemaclagan.jpg diocese of york william maclagan contemporary portrait of maclagan . 15 september 1891 , york minster william magee edinburgh , edinburghshire , united kingdom bishopthorpe churchyard dr david maclagan & amp ; jane née whiteside cosmo lang anglican province of york william maclagan

william maclagan

william dalrymple maclagan -lrb- 18 june 1826 -- 19 september 1910 -rrb- 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 -lrb- 1785 -- 1865 -rrb- 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 .
