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and succeeded Mr David Maclagan in the convenership of its Con- 
tinental Committee. 
Mr Brown Douglas devoted a great deal of time and attention to 
some aspects of philanthropy which do not bulk largely in the public 
eye, but are full of good to many. He was for forty years president 
of the District Sick Society. He took an active share in the 
Society for Teaching the Blind in their own houses, in the Indigent 
Old Men’s Society, and other kindred institutions — bringing, as 
director or as member, to their affairs sound practical wisdom* 
excellent business habits, wide views, keen sympathy, and helpful 
liberality. 
Mr Brown Douglas was twice married — first in 1845, to Mary, 
second daughter of the late Charles Maitland Christie, Esq. of 
Durie, and again, in 1852, to Marianne, second daughter of the 
late Hon. Alexander Leslie Melville, who, -with four sons and six 
daughters, survives him. 
David Maclagan, F.B.S.E. By Professor Duns, D.D. 
David Maclagan was born in Edinburgh on the 9th of October 
1824. His father, Dr Maclagan, a distinguished physician, had 
retired from the Army Medical Service after a noted career, and 
had settled down to a highly successful civil practice in Edinburgh. 
His mother was Miss Whiteside of Ayr. David was the fourth of 
seven sons, six of whom survive — Professor Douglas Maclagan, 
M.D., Dr Philip Whiteside Maclagan, Berwick-on-Tweed, General 
Maclagan, R.E., William Dairy mple Maclagan, Lord Bishop of 
Lichfield, John Thomson Maclagan, Secretary of the Church of 
Scotland’s Widows’ Eund, and Dr J. M‘Grigor Maclagan, Biding 
Mill-on-Tyne. Mr Maclagan was educated at the Edinburgh High 
School. He began business life in the office of “ The Scottish 
Union Insurance Company,” and was appointed manager of “The 
Insurance Company of Scotland” in 1847. He was an original 
member of the Society of Accountants, a body which was incorpor- 
ated by charter in 1854. Mr Maclagan removed to London in 
1862, on his appointment as secretary to “The Alliance Eire and 
Life Insurance Company.” In this position, his business associations 
