Maclagan, Christian (1811–1901), archaeologist, was born at Underwood, near Denny, Stirlingshire, the daughter of George Maclagan (d. 1818), distiller and chemist of good education, and his wife, Christian, daughter of Thomas Colville, printer, of Dundee. Her great-great-grandfather Alexander Maclagan (1653–1722) was parish minister of ...
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Simpson, William Douglas (1896–1968), archaeologist and historian, was born at 80 Hamilton Place, Aberdeen, on 2 August 1896, the younger son of Henry Fyfe Morland Simpson (1859?–1920), rector of Aberdeen grammar school, and his wife, Jenny Fridericke Simpson, née Dohm (1866?–1949). He was educated at the grammar school and at ...
