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Maclagan was twice married. His first marriage in 1939 to a cousin, Brenda
Alexander, was dissolved by divorce in 1946. His second marriage in 1949 to Jean Elizabeth Brooksbank Garnett lasted almost 54 years; she died on 3 August 2003. He died ten days later on the day of her funeral. Maclagan had a
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from 1891 to 1908, and the cleric who had crowned Queen
Alexandra in 1902. His paternal grandmother, second wife of the Archbishop, was the Honourable Augusta Anne Barrington (1836β1915), daughter of the 6th Viscount Barrington. (Augusta Maclagan had money settled upon her when she married Maclagan,
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He was a proficient linguist, fluent in Greek, Latin, French, German, Italian and Serbo-Croat, and with some knowledge of Arabic. His first book, in 1949, was a translation of part of the
Venerable
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Through both his mother and his paternal grandmother, Maclagan thus had connections to several
British aristocratic families. The Honourable Augusta Maclagan was a great-granddaughter of the 9th
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then Bishop of
Lichfield, in 1878: about half her money was settled on her son Eric when he married in 1913, giving him and his wife a considerable degree of financial independence.)
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In 1946, Maclagan returned to
Trinity College, where he remained as Fellow and Tutor in Modern History until his retirement in 1981. For many years he shared teaching duties with the
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504:. London: Orbis & New York: Clarkson Potter, 1981; revised and updated edition, 1991; adapted small-format edition, 2002. (The 1981 American edition was published as
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344:. His mother, Helen Elizabeth Lascelles (10 October 1879 β 19 October 1942), who married Eric Maclagan on 8 July 1913, was a granddaughter of the 4th
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Many of his core interests were genealogical. He had a longstanding expertise in the history of the medieval Anglo-Norman family of
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in London, where his proficiency in
Italian and Serbo-Croat stood him in good stead. He ultimately reached the rank of
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Studies in
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son by his first marriage, and a son (who died, aged 26, in 1984) and two daughters by his second marriage.
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of India. He is best known to students of royal and noble genealogies and royal families as co-author (with
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478:"Clemency" Canning: Charles John, 1st Earl Canning, Governor-General and Viceroy of India, 1856β1862
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was commissioned by the
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at the College of Arms. He held this post for 10 years until his promotion to the office of
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English Genealogical Congress: selected papers given at the Congresses of 1978 and 1984
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and a second cousin once removed to the 7th Earl of Harewood who married Mary,
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and Kinghorne; thus making her grandson Michael Maclagan a distant kinsman to
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English Historical Scholarship in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
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in London. He began his heraldic career in 1948 with an appointment as
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in 1939 (the last Fellow to be so elected before the outbreak of
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The Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation: books I and II
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518:"The Ancestry of the English Beaumonts", in L. L. Brook (ed.),
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Lines of Succession: Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe
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Presidents of the Oxford University Conservative Association
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Outside the University, he served as a university-appointed
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Essays in British History presented to Sir Keith Feiling
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Maclagan's paternal grandfather was the Most Reverend
463:"Governors General of India: 3, 'Clemency' Canning",
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Catalogue of Welsh Manuscripts in the College of Arms
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Maclagan was characterised by his obituary-writer in
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Wombat's Family Forest -Family History and Genealogy
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162:Advisory Committee, 1961β85; and as Master of the
483:"The White Mutiny", in H. R. Trevor-Roper (ed.),
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487:(New York & London, 1964), pp. 271β301.
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47:. He was Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at
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95:In February 1941, Maclagan was commissioned a
340:(1879β1951), for many years director of the
293:history, and in 1968 published a history of
256:Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation
200:, and served as a Gold Staff Officer at the
67:Maclagan was born in London and educated at
51:, for more than forty years, a long-serving
1014:16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers officers
511:"Genealogy and the Medieval Historian", in
569:(Supplement). 14 March 1941. p. 1589.
470:Ricardus dβAungerville, Bishop of Durham,
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210:Portcullis Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary
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453:. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1955.
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934:Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order
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301:cruises in the eastern Mediterranean.
924:People educated at Winchester College
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493:. London: Thames & Hudson, 1968.
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208:in 1969. In 1970, he was appointed
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954:English genealogists
762:"Michael Maclagan",
129:John Phillips Cooper
105:Royal Armoured Corps
57:Lord Mayor of Oxford
817:The College of Arms
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798:The Daily Telegraph
318:Society of Indexers
284:Lines of Succession
164:Scriveners' Company
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679:"Lives in Brief",
666:The London Gazette
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443:With J. P. Wells.
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377:Archbishop of York
268:first Earl Canning
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