Memorial to Philip Whiteside Maclagan
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Memorial to Philip Whiteside Maclagan
Image: © Russel Wills Taken: 20 Mar 2015
Dr Philip Whiteside Maclagan (1818-92) was born in Edinburgh the second son of an army surgeon. He trained at Edinburgh University and became an army surgeon with the Royal Canadian Regiment. After marrying the daughter of Dr George Johnston of Berwick in 1847 he joined Johnston's practice in 1853, eventually inheriting it on Johnston's death. Over the next decades whilst he and his son Charles steadily built up the practice he busied himself as an elder and lay preacher at the Wallace Green Presbyterian Church and as a trustee of the British School. The inscription reads: PHILIP WHITESIDE MACLAGAN / M. D. / BORN 9th OCTOBER 1818 / DIED 25th MAY 1892 / IN AFFECTIONATE & GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE / OF A NOBLE LIFE SPENT UNGRUDGINGLY / IN PROMOTING THE HIGHEST INTERESTS / OF HUMANITY / "THE BELOVED PHYSICIAN"
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