Edward Douglas MacLagan

Sir Edward Douglas Maclagan KCSI KCIE (25 August 1864 – 22 October 1952) was an administrator in British India.

[1] MacLagan wrote widely on Indian history and superintended the Punjab census of 1891.

With Horace Arthur Rose, Superintendent of Ethnography in the Punjab in the early 20th century, he compiled a large work, A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province, including material from Denzil Ibbetson's 1881 census.

[2] In 1923, in his role as the Governor of the Punjab, he laid the foundation stone for the new main building of Mughalpura Technical College.

From 1925 to 1928 and from 1931 to 1934 he acted as President of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.