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Note.—He was in that charge at Albuera 16 May 1811 in which out of the 1500 men composing the 7 and 23 regiments only 150 escaped; the brigade going into action under three colonels and coming out under only one captain and with 3 battalions each commanded by a lieutenant. There was no parallel slaughter of British officers and soldiers during the war.

MACKWORTH, Hubert Francis. b. Trinidad 27 Sep. 1823; ed. at King’s college, London; inspector of mines and collieries in southern district of England and Wales 1851 to death; F.G.S.; author of Lectures in connection with the educational exhibition of the Society of arts 1854; The ventilation, underground gases and sanitary condition of mines. Bristol 1859. d. Clifton wood house, Bristol 13 July 1858.

MACLACHLAN, Alexander. b. 1789; 2 lieut. R.A. 3 Dec. 1803, col. 11 Nov. 1851, col. commandant 19 May 1863 to death; served in Spain 1813 and 1814; L.G. 22 June 1860; knight of St. Maurice and Lazare. d. Dublin 26 Feb. 1866.

MACLACHLAN, Archibald. Ensign 69 foot 6 May 1795; captain O’Conner’s recruiting corps 1 Dec. 1797, placed on h.p. 1799; major 69 foot 4 June 1813 to 25 Nov. 1816 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 20 June 1854. d. Rockstone place, Southampton 29 Dec. 1854.

MACLACHLAN, Daniel. b. Glasgow 1807; M.R.C.S. Edinb. 1827; F.R.C.P. 1859; M.D. Glasgow; army hospital assistant on coast of Africa 1827; assist. surgeon 79 highlanders 1828–40; physician and surgeon Chelsea hospital 8 May 1840 to 1863; author of A practical treatise on the diseases and infirmities of advanced life 1863. d. Claremont, Ventnor, Isle of Wight 15 June 1870. Proc. Med. and Chir. Soc. vi 350 (1871).

MAC LACHLAN, John. b. 1789; senior partner in firm of Mac Lachlan and Stewart, publishers and university booksellers, Edinburgh. d. Blackford Brae, Oswald road, Edinburgh 9 Nov. 1876. Scotsman 10 Nov. 1876 p. 8.

MAC LACHLAN, John. b. 1827; ordained in Rome 1850; R.C. bishop of Galloway 29 Jany. 1878 to death, consecrated in Glasgow cathedral 23 May 1878. d. Dumfries 16 Jany. 1893.

MACLAGAN, Alexander (1 son of Thomas Maclagan). b. Bridgend, Perth 3 April 1811; apprentice to a plumber 1823–9, then a journeyman; contributed to Edinburgh literary journal 1829; manager of a plumbery in Dunfermline 1833; junior clerk in inland revenue office, Edinb. 1850; entertained at a public dinner in the hall of Burns’ cottage 1851; granted civil list pension of £30, 29 Sep. 1856; author of Sketches from nature and other poems 1851; Ragged school rhymes 1851, new ed. 1871; National songs and ballads 1878. d. Edinburgh 20 April 1879. C. Rogers’ Modern Scottish minstrel, v 226–40 (1857).

MACLAGAN, David. b. Edinburgh, Feb. 1785; ed. Edinb. univ., M.D. 1805; M.R.C.S. Edinb. 1804; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1807, F.R.C.S. 1816; assistant surgeon to 91 regt. 10 Sep. 1807, served at Walcheren; staff surgeon 9 Portuguese brigade 1811 and served in Spain to 1814; phys. in the army 26 May 1814, placed on h.p. 1816; in practice at Edinb. 1816 to death; pres. of R.C.S. 1826; pres. R.C.P. 1856; surgeon in ordinary to the queen in Scotland 1838 to death; F.R.S. Edinb. d. 129 George st. Edinb. 6 June 1865. Proc. Royal Soc. of Edinb. v 476–7 (1866).

MACLAGAN, David (son of the preceding). Actuary at 9 Royal circus, Edinburgh; manager of Edinburgh life insurance co. 1873–83; F.R.S. Edinb. 1872; author of St. George’s, Edinburgh, a history of St. George’s church and of St. George’s Free church 1876. d. Mentone 30 March 1883.

MACLAGAN, Philip Whiteside (son of David Maclagan, M.D., d. 1865). L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1839; M.D. Edinb. 1840; assistant surgeon in the army 15 Jany. 1841; assistant surgeon royal Canadian rifle regiment 19 Dec. 1845; surgeon 20 foot 24 Sep. 1850, resigned 3 Dec. 1853; much interested in philanthropic movements; botanist. d. Berwick 26 May 1892; memorial fountain unveiled in High st. Berwick 14 June 1893. Daily Graphic 17 June 1893 p. 5, view of fountain.

MACLAINE, Sir Archibald (2 son of Gillean Maclaine of Scalasdale in the Isle of Mull, d. 23 Nov. 1778 aged 64). b. 13 Jany. 1773; ensign 94 foot 16 April 1794; held Matagorda an outwork of Cadiz with 155 men against 8000 French under marshal Soult 22 Feb. to 22 April 1810; major 87 foot 4 Oct. 1810; lieut.-col. 7 West India regiment of foot 25 Jany. 1813 to 25 April 1816; lieut.-col. 14 foot 9 Aug. 1821 to 4 Nov. 1822; lieut.-col. 17 foot 4 Nov. 1822 to 30 July 1829 when placed on h.p.; colonel of 52 foot 8 Feb. 1847 to death; C.B. 4 June 1815; knighted at St. James’s palace 19 Oct. 1831; K.C.B. 6 April 1852; knight of order of Charles the Third of Spain 1816; general 5 June 1855. d. 68 Cumberland st. Hyde park, London 9 March 1861. bur. Highgate cemet.

MACLAINE, Hector (1 son of William Osborne Maclaine). b. Murtle, Aberdeenshire 24 Nov. 1851; ed. Eton and Woolwich; lieut. R.A. 6 Jany. 1872 to death; in India 1873–4, returned to India 1879, on service in Kandahar 1880, in the action at Maiwand 27 July 1880 showed great bravery and energy in working his guns under fire; while in search of water on 28 July was taken prisoner, was returned as killed or missing and name taken out of army list in Aug.; imprisoned at Kokaran from 30 July; murdered by his captors at Kandahar 1 Sep. 1880 and his body soon after found by 92nd highlanders. bur. Kandahar with military honours. Shadbolt’s Afghan Campaign (1882) 131–4, portrait.

MAC LAREN, Archibald. b. 1819; proprietor of the Gymnasium, Alfred st. Oxford to death; the British army is trained on his principles and in gymnasia which he invented; wrote Systematized exercise, expansion and developement of the chest. Macmillan’s Mag. Nov. 1890 pp. 35–40; author of A military system of gymnastic exercises for the use of instructors 1862, 2 ed. 1868; A system of fencing for the use of instructors in the army 1864; A system of physical education, theoretical and practical 1866; Training in theory and practice 1866, 2 ed. 1874. d. Summertown near Oxford 19 Feb. 1884.

MACLAREN, Charles (only child of a small farmer). b. Ormiston, Haddingtonshire 7 Oct. 1782; clerk to several firms at Edinburgh; established with others The Scotsman 25 Jany. 1817, joint editor 1817–18 and 1820–45; a clerk in the custom house 1818–20; edited 6th ed. of Encyclopædia Britannica 20 vols. 1822, for which he wrote articles America, Europe, Greece, Physical geography and Troy; F.R.S. Edinb. 1837; F.G.S. 1846, pres. of Geol. Soc. of Edinb. 1864 to death; author of A dissertation on the topography of the plain of Troy, 1822, reissued as The plains of Troy described 1863; A sketch of the geology of Fife and the Lothians 1839, 2 ed. 1866. d. Moreland cottage, Edinburgh 10 Sep. 1866. R. Cox and J. Nicol’s Select writings of C. Maclaren 2 vols. (1869), portrait.

MC LAREN, Duncan (son of John Mc Laren, farmer). b. Renton, Dumbartonshire 12 Jany. 1800; a draper in a shop opposite St. Giles’s ch. Edinb. 1824; member of town council Edinb. 1833, baillie, treasurer, lord provost 1851–4; chairman of Edinburgh chamber of commerce; contested Edinb. 1852, M.P. Edinb. 1865–81, used to be called in the house the Member for Scotland; established the Heriot free schools, Edinb. 1836; author of History of the resistance to the annuity tax under each of the four church establishments for which it has been levied 1836, 4 ed. 1851; Facts regarding the seat rents of the city churches of Edinburgh 1840. d. Newington house, Edinburgh 26 April 1886, portrait in council chamber, Edinb. J. B. Mackie’s Life and works of D. Mc Laren 2 vols. (1888), 2 portraits.

M’LAREN, James. b. Polmont, Stirlingshire 1829; general superintendent North British railway co. 1843 to death, the oldest official connected with the company. d. Edinburgh 30 Oct. 1893.

M’LAREN, John H. b. Scotland 1827; assistant secretary to Royal insurance company at Liverpool about 1855, general manager 1872 to death; effected amalgamations with other companies, that with the Queen insurance co. in 1891 being the greatest. d. Claughton, Birkenhead 13 Nov. 1893.

MC LAUCHLAN, Henry. b. 1791; surveyor in connection with the manors commission, and resident at Truro for some years; F.G.S. 1832; employed on ordnance trigonometrical survey 1830; wrote Notes to accompany geological map of forest of Dean, in Trans. Geol. Soc. v. pt. 1; Memoir made during a survey of the Watling street from the Tees to the Scotch border 1852; The Roman wall and vestiges of Roman occupation in the North of England 1857; Memoir written during a survey of the Roman wall 1858. d. 14 Liston road, Clapham, Surrey 4 Jany. 1881. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. xxxviii proceedings p. 53 (1882); Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. (1874) 333.

MACLAUCHLAN, Thomas (youngest son of James Maclauchlan, minister of Moy, Inverness). b. Moy, Jany. 1816; ed. at Aberdeen univ., M.A. 1833, LL.D. 1864; colleague to his father at Moy 1837–43; Free church minister at Stratherrick, Loch Ness, Invernessshire 1844–9 and at Free St. Columba’s, Edinb. 1849; convener of committee on highlands and islands 1850; moderator of Free church assembly 1876; F.S.A. Scotland 1856, member of council 1875–8, vice pres. 1879–82; author of The depopulation system in the Highlands 1849; The way to God, or the doctrine of Christ’s mediatorship explained 1853; The poems of Ossian 1859 in Gaelic; Celtic gleanings, history and literature of the Scottish Gaels 1857; The early Scotch church 1865. d. Edinburgh 21 March 1886.

MC LAUGHLAN, John (son of a Highland Scotchman). b. Dovenby near Cockermouth 1791; a labourer known as Clattan; tallest man in Cumberland, 6 feet 6 inches in height; appeared as a wrestler at Carlisle 1817, threw all his competitors; thrown by Wm. Wilson at Keswick 1819; carried off prizes at Whitehaven, Aug. 1825, at Workington races Aug. 1828, and at Keswick, Sep. 1828; umpire at Dovenby races June 1829; gained prize at Cockermouth, Aug. 1830, and at Liverpool 1837; thrown by John Selkirk at Liverpool 1840; made a tour with the pugilists Tom Molyneaux and Jack Carter in England and Scotland lasting 5 years; landlord of The Highlandman or Rising Sun in Market place, Whitehaven many years to 1839; employed about the docks in Liverpool several years. d. Liverpool, Oct. 1876. J. Robinson and S. Gilpin’s Wrestling (1893) 208–218.

MC LAUGHLIN, Hubert. b. 1805; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1828, M.A. 1832; chaplain at Nice; R. of Burford, Salop, 1st portion, 9 March 1838 to death; rural dean of West division of Burford 1843 to death; preb. of Hereford 1857 to death; author of A tract on church extension 1851; Biographical sketches of ancient Irish saints 1874. d. Boraston rectory 15 Dec. 1882. Times 21 Dec. 1882 p. 4 col. 4.

MACLAY, Archibald. b. Killearn near Glasgow 14 May 1776; ed. Edinb. univ.; presbyterian minister Kirkcaldy 1802–1805; minister of a congregational ch. in New York 1805–1809; pastor of a baptist ch. New York 1809–38; general agent of American and foreign Bible soc. 1838; an organizer of Bible translation soc. of England, and in forming American Bible union 1850, of which he became general agent and then president; obtained an endowment for Maclay baptist coll. Canada; author of A selection of hymns. New York 1816; An address at Hope st. Baptist chapel, Glasgow 1840. d. New York city 2 May 1860. Appleton’s American biography iv 141–2 (1888).

MACLAY, Mikluoho (of Scottish and Cossack parentage). b. 1846; ed. at St. Petersburg univ. and in Germany in 1860; a traveller and explorer in New Guinea 1866 etc.; known as the king of the Papuans; proposed to the Russian government to found a colony in New Guinea 1887. d. Wylie’s hospital, St. Petersburg 15 April 1888.

MACLEA, Charles Gascoigne. b. 1793; member of firm of Maclea and March, machine-makers, Dewsbury road, Leeds; had an European fame as a maker of flax-spinning and other machinery; retired from business Jany. 1843; chairman of Leeds and Yorkshire insurance co. 1847–63; alderman of Leeds 1842–62, mayor 1846; a juror for tools and manufacturing machines at Great Exhibition 1851; presented a font to St. Mark’s ch. Woodhouse. d. Blenheim terrace, Leeds 24 May 1864. R. V. Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis (1865) 516–8; Mayhall’s Annals of Yorkshire, i 641, ii 251–2 (1878).

MACLEAN, Alexander (son of David Maclean of Glasgow, manufacturer). b. Nov. 1840; in business at Glasgow to 1861; studied painting at Rome, Florence and Antwerp; exhibited 7 pictures at R.A. 1872–7; his best pictures are Covent Garden Market 1874, Looking Back 1876, At the railings, St. Paul’s, Covent Garden 1877. d. St. Leonard’s-on-Sea 30 Oct. 1877.

MACLEAN, Allan Thomas (2 son of Archibald Maclean of Penny-cross, co. Argyle). b. 1791; cornet 13 hussars 23 Aug. 1810, lieut.-col. 11 July 1834 to 1 Aug. 1840 when placed on h.p.; col. 13 hussars 12 Nov. 1860 to death; L.G. 20 Dec. 1861; served in Peninsular war from Dec. 1810 until wounded and taken prisoner at Conches, March 1814; received silver war medal with 6 clasps. d. Oxford sq. London 9 Dec. 1868. Reg. and mag. of biog. i 113, 358, 525 (1869).

MC LEAN, Archibald (son of Neil Mc Lean of Mull, Scotland, a member of legislative council of Canada). b. St. Andrew’s, April 1791; in Canadian army 1812; A.Q.M.G., and on the staff; a prisoner at Lundy’s Lane till end of the war; barrister at York, Canada; a representative for Stormont and Cornwall in legislative assembly of Upper Canada, and twice elected speaker; judge of court of King’s bench 1837–56; chief justice of Upper Canada 1856, president of the court of error and appeal to death. d. Toronto 1865. Appleton’s American biography, iv 142–3 (1888).

MACLEAN, Archibald. Rear admiral in German navy. d. Berlin 7 Nov. 1884.

MC LEAN, Charles. Carver and gilder at 181 Fleet st. London 1838, afterwards at 78 and 79 Fleet st. to 1869; manager of Commercial plate glass co. at 78 and 79 Fleet st.; started Fun in 1861 and Banter at 183 Fleet st. 2 Sep. 1867, ran to 4 Nov. 1867; Charles Mc Lean junior published Fun at 80 Fleet st. d. 1869.

MACLEAN, Sir Charles Fitzroy, 9 Baronet (son of sir Fitzroy Jeffries Grafton Maclean, 8 baronet d. 5 July 1847). b. 14 Oct. 1798; ed. at Eton; ensign Scots fusilier guards 10 Oct. 1816; captain 81 foot 7 Aug. 1823, lieut.-col. 16 March 1832, placed on h.p. 25 Oct. 1839; military secretary at Gibraltar; colonel 9 Nov. 1846. d. West Cliff house, Sandgate road, Folkestone 27 Dec. 1883.

MACLEAN, Donald (brother of sir C. F. Maclean 1798–1883). b. 1800; ed. at Eton and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1827, D.C.L. 1844; took a leading part in formation of the Union society; barrister L.I. 9 Feb. 1827; M.P. city of Oxford 1835–47. d. Rome 21 March 1874.

MC LEAN, Sir Donald (4 son of John Mc Lean). b. Kilmonaig near Tiree, Argyllshire 27 Oct. 1820; employed in a merchant’s office at Sydney 1837–9; learnt the Maori language; clerk in office of protector of the aborigines, New Zealand 1840; local protector for the Taranaki district 1844, inspector of police for Taranaki 1845; comr. for negotiating purchases of lands from the natives 5 March 1847 to 1863; resident magistrate Taranaki 1850–63; the first native secretary 1856–63; member of provincial council and superintendent of Hawke’s Bay province 4 March 1863; member of legislative assembly 1866; native minister and minister for colonial defence June 1869 to Dec. 1876; C.M.G. 28 July 1870, K.C.M.G. 23 July 1874. d. New Zealand 5 Jany. 1877. W. Gisborne’s New Zealand rulers (1886) 163, 248, 289, portrait.

MACLEAN, Sir George (eld. son of Wm. Maclean of Dysart, Fifeshire). b. Dysart 1795; ed. at Edinburgh; entered commissariat service 1812; commissary general 29 Dec. 1849, placed on h.p. 20 Oct. 1856; knighted at St. James’s palace 9 June 1854; K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856 d. Southampton 29 May 1861.

MC LEAN, Hector (3 son of John Donald Mc Lean of Sydney, New South Wales). Matric. from New coll. Oxf. 26 Jany. 1885 aged 20; rowed in the University boat against Cambridge 1886 and 1887; captain of the Oxford university boat club 1887. d. of typhoid fever at Oxford 20 Jany. 1888.

Note.—The Clinker Fours, a race between the colleges of the second division which takes place annually in the month of March were instituted in his memory.

MACLEAN, Henry Dundas (5 son of Alexander Maclean of Ardgour, Argyleshire 1764–1855). b. 1800; ed. at Harrow; lieut. 90 foot 27 Jany. 1820; captain 95 foot 6 Nov. 1824, major 20 April 1832, placed on h.p. 17 Nov. 1840, brevet lieut.-col. 9 Nov. 1846; sheriff of Cumberland 1848. d. Lazonby hall, Cumberland 8 Dec. 1863.

MACLEAN, John (son of Charles Maclean of Portsoy, Banffshire). b. 1828; bursar at King’s coll. Aberdeen 1847, M.A. 1851; in a counting-house in London; ordained by bishop of Ripon 1858; assistant to bishop of Huron in St. Paul’s cathedral, London, Toronto 1858–66; warden and divinity professor of St. John’s college, R. of St. John’s cathedral, Winnipeg and archdeacon of Assiniboia or Manitoba 1866–74; bishop of Saskatchewan, Rupert’s Land 1874 to death; consecrated at Lambeth 3 May 1874; secured a permanent endowment for his see and for Emanuel college at Alberta which became an university; D.C.L. Trinity college, Toronto 1871. d. Alberta, Rupert’s Land 13 Nov. 1886. The Guardian 17 Nov. 1886 p. 1720.

MACLEAN, John. b. 1810; chief comr. for British Kaffraria, Sep. 1852, lieut. governor Dec. 1860 to 27 March 1865 when British Kaffraria was reunited to Cape Colony by 28 and 29 Vict. cap. 5; lieut. governor of Natal 6 Oct. 1864 to Nov. 1866; C.B. 25 Aug. 1857. d. East London, British Kaffraria 2 Dec. 1874; his widow Katharine Louisa Georgina was granted civil list pension of £100, 19 June 1875 and d. 5 Jany. 1878 aged 60.

MACLEAN, John. b. London 31 March 1836; gave dramatic readings; first appeared on the stage at T.R. Plymouth 1859 and played the King in Hamlet there 1860; acted in Jersey, Guernsey and Birmingham; appeared at Surrey theatre, London as Peter Purcell in the Idiot of the mountain 7 Sep. 1861; the original Mr. Gibson in Tom Taylor’s Ticket-of-Leave man, Olympic theatre 27 May 1863; the original Saunders in Wills’s Man o’ Airlie, at Princess’s 20 July 1867; acted at Gaiety theatre 21 Dec. 1868 to 1871 and 1872–9, at Olympic 1879–80, at Vaudeville 1881; played at opening of Princess’s theatre 18 Jany. 1884; played Adam in As you like it at St. James’s 24 Jany. 1885, and Camillo in the Winter’s Tale at Lyceum 10 Sep. 1887; acted with Mary Anderson in U.S. of America 1888; last appeared at Strand theatre as the Old French nobleman in My Brother’s sister 15 Feb. 1890; founder and first preceptor of the Logic club of Freemasons. d. at his lodgings, Percy st. Tottenham court road, London 15 March 1890. bur. Paddington cemet. 19 March where memorial monument of red granite 9 ft. 6 in. in height was unveiled 3 May 1892. Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1880) 255; Illust. sp. and dr. news, vi 575, 592, 593 (1877) portrait, xxii 537 (1885) portrait, and 22 March 1890 p. 44 portrait; The Era 22 March 1890.

M’LEAN, John Donald (younger son of Donald M’Lean of Aird, Isle of Skye). b. Aird 1821; emigrated to New South Wales 1837; grazier and squatter at Westbrook on the Darling downs 1851, was interested in 40 stations; went to reside near Sydney about Dec. 1859; member of legislative assembly Queensland 1860, colonial treasurer and member of executive council 21 July 1866 to death. d. Westbrook, Queensland by a fall from his horse 16 Dec. 1866. Australian men of mark, ii 87–92 (1889), portrait.

M’CLEAN, John Robinson (son of Francis M’Clean of Belfast) b. 1813; ed. at royal academical institution Belfast and Glasgow univ.; M.I.C.E. 15 June 1844, member of council 1848, vice pres. 1858–64, pres. 1864–5; lieut.-col. engineer and railway volunteer staff corps 21 Jany. 1865 to death; chairman Anglo American telegraph co.; F.R.S. 3 June 1869; contested Belfast 3 April 1857; M.P. East Staffordshire 17 Nov. 1868 to death. d. Stonehouse near Ramsgate 13 July 1873.

M’LEAN, Robert. b. 29 July 1857; ed. at Dr. Adams’ school, Victoria park, Manchester and at Fettes coll. Edinb. 1870–5; articled to Hall, Son and Lord, Manchester 1876–81; New Inn prizeman at examination June 1881; practised at Manchester 1881, and in London with Albert Gibson 1888 to death; author of A lesson well learnt and of other dramas and of Diversions of an articled clerk 1892; edited with A. Gibson and Arthur Weldon, Law Notes, a monthly magazine for students 1888 to Feb. 1893; author with A. Gibson of The student’s conveyancing 1885, 3 ed. 1892; Student’s Equity 1887; Student’s practice of the courts 1882, 4 ed. 1889; wrote the libretto of Eric the Dane, a cantata performed at one of Sir Charles Halle’s concerts. d. Richmond house, High st. Oxford road, Manchester 2 Feb. 1893. Law Notes, March 1893, portrait.

M’LEAN, Thomas. b. 1788; a publisher of engravings 69 Haymarket, London 1825, retired in favor of his eldest son; brought out prints of sir E. Landseer’s pictures of The Stag at bay, Dignity and impudence, Laying down the law, and Be it ever so humble there’s no place like home; published the Political sketches of H. B. [i.e. J. Doyle] No. 1–757, a series of coloured lithographic prints 1829–43; published Illustrated description of the works of J. Gillray 1830; Humorous engravings, sporting prints 1835. d. Selhurst, Surrey 9 March 1875.

MACLEAR, Sir Thomas (eld. son of James Maclear). b. Newton Stewart, Tyrone 17 March 1794; ed. Winchester; studied at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals; M.R.C.S. 1815; house surgeon of Bedford infirmary 1815; practised at Biggleswade 1823–33, where he erected an observatory 1828; astronomer royal at Cape of Good Hope 5 Jany. 1834 to 1870; F.R.A.S. 1828; F.R.S. 8 Dec. 1831, royal medallist 1869; Lalande medal of the Academy of sciences 1867; knighted by patent 24 May 1860; granted civil list pension of £100, 18 June 1863; became totally blind 1867; contributed to Memoirs of R. Astronom. soc. 1835 etc.; author of Observations of Halley’s comet made at Cape of Good Hope 1837; Astronomical observations made under the direction T. Maclear 1840; Contributions to astronomy and geodesy 2 vols. 1851 and 1853; Verification and extension of La Caille’s arc of meridian 1866; Catalogue of 4810 stars from observation made by sir T. Maclear 1884. d. Grey villa, Mowbray, Capetown 14 July 1879. bur. in the observatory grounds. Monthly notices of R.A.S. xl 200–204 (1880); Proc. of royal society, xxix 17–18 (1879); Nature 14 Aug. 1879 p. 365.

MACLEAY, Sir George (son of Alexander Macleay, colonial sec. N.S.W., d. 1848). b. 29 July 1809; educ. Westminster 1822 etc.; went to N.S.W. and accompanied capt. Charles Sturt in his expedition down the Murrumbidgee and Murray rivers 1829–30; member of legislative council of N.S.W. and speaker 1843–6; member for the Murrumbidgee to the first legislative assembly of N.S.W. 22 May 1856; C.M.G. 30 June 1869, K.C.M.G. 5 March 1875; settled at Pendell court, Bletchingley, Surrey. d. Chalet des Rosiers, Mentone 24 June 1891.

MACLEAY, James Robert (brother of preceding). b. 15 April 1811; ed. Westminster 1822, king’s scholar 1825; sec. to legation in Chili 1838; registrar of commission at Cape of Good Hope for suppression of slave trade 24 Jany. 1843; retired upon superannuation allowance of £166, 1 May 1858. d. 49 Queen’s gate gardens, Kensington 28 Oct. 1892.

MACLEAY, Kenneth (son of Kenneth Macleay of Glasgow, physician). b. Oban 4 July 1802; entered Trustees’ academy, Edinb. 26 Feb. 1822; miniature painter on ivory; painter in oils and water-colours on paper; an original member of Royal Scottish academy 1826; his full-length portrait of Helen Faucit was lithographed; executed for the queen a series of full-length figures illustrative of costumes of the highland clans, 31 of these were lithographed, hand-coloured and published under title of Highlanders of Scotland 2 vols. 1870. d. 3 Malta terrace, Edinburgh 3 Nov. 1878, his dau. M. F. L. Macleay was granted civil list pension of £100, 16 March 1880. R. Brydall’s Art in Scotland (1889) 444–5.

MACLEAY, Sir William (2 son of Kenneth Macleay of Newmore, Rossshire). b. Caithness 13 June 1820; ed. at new academy and univ. of Edinb.; emigrated to New South Wales 1839, a sheep farmer on the Murrumbidgee 1839–54; member of legislative assembly of N.S.W. for the Lachlan and Lower Darling 1854–75; the first president of Entomological Soc. of N.S.W. established at Sydney 17 April 1862, name changed to Linnean Soc., gave funds for endowment of the society and a house at Elizabeth Bay; expended interest on £40,000 on research fellowships in univ. of N.S.W. to which he also gave his entomological museum; in the Chevert at his own cost made an exploring expedition in New Guinea, May to Sep. 1875; member of legislative council 1875; knighted by patent 22 June 1889; author of Description of twenty new species of Australian coleoptera 1862. d. Sydney 7 Dec. 1891. The Australian portrait gallery (1885) 93–8, portrait.

MACLEAY, William Sharp (brother of James Robert Macleay 1811–92). b. London 30 July 1792; ed. at Westminster 1806–10 and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1814, M.A. 1818; attaché at embassy in Paris 1814; secretary to board for liquidating British claims in France on the peace of 1815, returned to England 1819; F.L.S. 1821; comr. of arbitration to mixed British and Spanish court for abolition of slave trade at Havannah 1 Aug. 1825, commissary judge in same court 20 Feb. 1830, and judge of mixed court under treaty of 1835, April 9, 1836; retired on a superannuation allowance 1 Feb. 1837; went to New South Wales 1859; author of Horæ Entomologicæ or essays on annulose animals 2 vols. 1819–21; Annulosa Javanica, insects of Java 1825, No. 1 only; The Annulosa of South Africa 1838; History of the skeleton of the new sperm whale 1851. d. Elizabeth Bay, Sydney 26 Jany. 1865. F.O. List, Jany. 1865 p. 116.

MACLEHOSE, James (son of Thomas Maclehose, weaver). b. Govan 16 March 1811; apprentice to George Gallie, bookseller, Glasgow 1823–30; with Messrs. Seeleys, London 1833–8; bookseller with R. Nelson in Glasgow 1838, alone 1841–81 and with his sons 1881 to death; had the largest retail book business out of London; his circulating library commenced in 1841 held 20,000 volumes; his binding business begun in 1863 became well known; had upwards of 50 writers in his employment and published many books; bookseller to Glasgow univ. 1864, publisher 1871; author of Old county houses of the old Glasgow gentry; Memoirs and portraits of one hundred Glasgow men 2 vols. 1886; great friend of David Livingstone and Daniel Macmillan the publisher. d. 18 Victoria crescent, Downhill, Glasgow 20 Dec. 1885. Maclehose’s Memoirs, ii 343–6 (1886), portrait.

MC LELAN, Archibald Woodbury. b. 1824; member of provincial assembly of Nova Scotia 1858–69; member of the senate of the Dominion 1869; member of Canadian cabinet 1881; president of the privy council to 1881; minister of marine and fisheries 1881; minister of finance Dec. 1885 and postmaster general 1887; comr. for Canada at international fisheries exhibition 1883; lieut. governor of Nova Scotia 9 July 1888 to death. d. Nova Scotia 25 June 1890.

M’LELLAN, Archibald (son of a coachbuilder). b. Glasgow 1795; a partner with his father as a coachbuilder; an heraldic draughtsman; deacon of the incorporation of hammersmen; deacon convener of the Trades’ house 1831 and 1834; gave land for a new western approach to Glasgow cathedral; member of Glasgow town council 30 years; his paintings, sculptures, gold and silver plate and library and his house in Sauchiehall st. purchased by the Glasgow town council for £44,500 in 1854; author of An essay on the cathedral church of Glasgow 1833; Catalogue of books and music in library of A. M’Lellan 1839. d. Mugdock castle, Stirlingshire 22 Oct. 1854. bur. in the High church burying-ground at Glasgow. Maclehose’s Glasgow men, ii 205–6 (1886), portrait; Waagen’s Treasures of art, iii 286–91 (1854); Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 457–62.

M’LENNAN, Donald (3 son of John M’Lennan, insurance agent). b. Inverness 1833; ed. Aberdeen univ., M.A.; editor of South Shields gazette to 1864; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1864; assisted his brother in the preparation of Primitive marriage 1865 and Studies in ancient history 1876; published The patriarchal theory, based on the papers of the late J. F. Mac Lennan. Edited and completed by Donald Mac Lennan 1884. d. 2 Vicarage gardens, Campden hill, Kensington, May 1891.

MC LENNAN, John. Assistant surgeon Bombay army 7 May 1821, surgeon 15 Nov. 1833; physician general Bombay 1 Jany. 1849, retired 26 Jany. 1855. d. 5 April 1874.

MC LENNAN, John Ferguson (brother of Donald Mc Lennan 1833–91). b. Inverness 14 Oct. 1827; ed. at King’s coll. Aberdeen, M.A. 1849, and at Trin. coll. Camb., 25th wrangler 1853; advocate in Edinb. Jany. 1857; secretary to Scottish law amendment soc. 1858; parliamentary draughtsman for Scotland 1871; LL.D. Aberdeen 1874; the best authority on ancient marriage ceremonies; author of Primitive marriage, an enquiry into the origin of the form of capture in marriage ceremonies 1865; Memoir of Thomas Drummond 1867; Studies in ancient history 1876; Studies in ancient history, comprising a reprint of Primitive marriage 1876, new ed. 1886. d. Hawthorndene, Hayes Common, Kent 16 June 1881.

MACLEOD, Alexander. b. Nairn 17 Oct. 1817; entered Glasgow univ. 1835, studied at the Relief theological hall 1839–44; presbyterian minister at Strathaven, co. Lanark 20 Feb. 1844; transferred to John st. ch. Glasgow 11 Oct. 1855; the first pastor of Trinity ch. Claughton, Birkenhead 17 March 1864 to death; D.D. Glasgow 9 Feb. 1865; moderator of presbyterian church of England 1889; author of Christus consolator, or the social mission of the pulpit 1870; Talking to the children 1872, 8 ed. 1880; Bob, some chapters of his early life 1877; Days of heaven upon earth 1878; William Logan 1879; The gentle heart 1881; The children’s portion 1884. d. Birkenhead 13 Jany. 1891. In memoriam. Rev. Alexander Macleod, D.D. (1891); J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1851) 375–80.

M’LEOD, Sir Charles. Entered Madras army 1794; lieut. 11 Madras N.I. 1 Jany. 1800; captain 21 N.I. 21 Sep. 1804, major 25 Oct. 1815; lieut.-col. commandant 12 N.I. 31 May 1827 to 5 June 1829; col. 34 N.I. 5 June 1829 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 23 July 1823, K.C.B. 30 June 1852. d. Seymour st. Portman sq. London 15 April 1853.

MACLEOD, Donald. Entered Madras army 1812; lieut.-col. of 6 Madras light cavalry 1840, of 5 Madras light cavalry 18 Feb. 1845 to 1846; col. 3 light cavalry 11 Sep. 1848 to 1860; col. 4 light cavalry 1860–69; L.G. 2 Oct. 1862; commander of Nagpore subsidiary force 20 Sep. 1848 to 17 June 1851, of Ceded district 28 March 1854 to 28 March 1859. d. 29 Greenhill gardens, Morningside, Edinburgh 7 Feb. 1870.

MC LEOD, Sir Donald Friell (son of Duncan Mc Leod 1780–1856). b. Fort William, Calcutta 6 May 1810; entered Bengal civil service 1829; administrator of Saugor and Nerbudda 1831–40; collector and magistrate at Benares 1843–9; comr. at Jellunder of the Trans-Sutlej States 1849–54; financial comr. of the Punjab 1854–9 and 1860–5; lieut. governor of the Punjab, Jany. 1865, retired 1870; chairman of the Scinde, Punjab and Delhi railway; C.B. 18 May 1860; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1866. d. St. George’s hospital, London 28 Nov. 1872 from an accident on the Metropolitan railway at Gloucester road station same day. E. J. Lake’s Memoir of sir D. F. Mc Leod (1873), portrait; I.L.N. lxi 550, 565 (1872), portrait.

MACLEOD, Duncan (son of Donald Macleod). b. Torbat, co. Ross 20 Feb. 1780; entered Bengal army Feb. 1797; lieut. Bengal engineers 13 Feb. 1803, col. 18 June 1831 to death; built the palace at Moorshedabad 1825–36; left India, Feb. 1841; A.I.C.E. 1842; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. London 8 June 1856. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xvi 163–66 (1857).

MACLEOD, Sir George Husband Baird (3 son of Norman Macleod 1783–1862). b. 1828; studied medicine at Glasgow, M.D. 1853; at Paris and Vienna; senior surgeon of civil hospital at Smyrna, Feb. 1854 to 1856; surgeon at Glasgow 1856 to death; surgeon in Glasgow royal infirmary, and lecturer on surgery at Anderson’s college; regius professor of surgery in Glasgow univ. 1869; crown member of general council of medical education 15 Sep. 1887 to death; surgeon in ordinary to the queen in Scotland 10 Sep. 1877; LL.D. St. Andrews; knighted at Osborne 12 Aug. 1887; author of Notes on the surgery of the war in the Crimea 1858; Outlines of surgical diagnosis 1864; Note book for sir G. Macleod’s clinical class 5 ed. 1890; wrote articles in S. Cooper’s Surgical dictionary 1861. d. Woodside crescent, Glasgow 31 Aug. 1892. bur. Campsie churchyard. I.L.N. 10 Sep. 1892 p. 326, portrait.

MACLEOD, Sir John (son of Donald Macleod of Bernaray, co. Inverness). Ensign 78 highlanders 9 March 1793, lieut.-col. 12 May 1808 to Jany. 1826; L.G. 10 Jany. 1837; colonel of 77 regt. 17 Feb. 1840 to death; C.B. 4 June 1815; K.C.H. 4 July 1832; knighted at St. James’s palace 4 July 1832. d. 18 Montague st. Portman sq. London 3 April 1851.

M’LEOD, John Lyons. Entered R.N. 26 Nov. 1841; when a midshipman he captured the slaver Venus after an action of 20 minutes 13 Feb. 1845 for which promoted to be lieut.; British consul at Mozambique 15 Feb. 1856 to 31 Dec. 1858, when he exposed the slavery system known as the engagés libres; consul for districts bordering on rivers Niger and Chadda 26 June 1866, consulate abolished 13 May 1869, granted compensation allowance 1 July 1869; author of Travels in Eastern Africa 2 vols. 1860; Madagascar and its people 1865. d. 25 Oct. 1893.

MACLEOD, Sir John Macpherson (eld. son of Donald Macleod, colonel in Madras army). b. Ardarden, Dumbartonshire 1792; ed. at Haileybury and at univ. of Edinb.; writer Madras civil service 1811; assistant sec. to government of Madras 1814–20 and sec. 1823; comr. for government of Mysore 1832; member of Indian law commission 1835, retired 1841; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1866; P.C. 24 March 1871; author of Remarks on some popular objections to the income tax 1849. d. 1 Stanhope st. Hyde park, London 1 March 1881.

MACLEOD, Joseph Addison (eld. son of Joseph Addison Macleod of city of London, solicitor). b. 1839; ed. Trin. hall, Camb., LL.B. 1861; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1863; Q.C. 18 Jany. 1882. d. 27 Leinster gardens, Hyde park, London 14 April 1883. bur. Hulton, Essex 18 April.

MACLEOD, Norman (son of Norman Macleod, minister of Morven, Argyllshire). b. Morven, Dec. 1783; minister at Kilbrandon, Argyllshire 1806–8; minister at Campbeltown, Argyllshire 12 June 1808; minister at Campsie, Stirlingshire, Aug. 1825; D.D. Glasgow 30 July 1827; minister of Gaelic chapel of ease, St. Columba’s, Glasgow 31 Oct. 1835 to death; moderator of general assembly of church of Scotland 1836; chaplain in ord. to the queen 2 Oct. 1841; one of the deans of chapel royal 1841; author of Gaelic collection for the use of schools 1828; The Gaelic messenger 2 vols. 1831; The psalms of David in Irish; author with D. Dewar of A dictionary of the Gaelic language 1831. d. Glasgow 25 Nov. 1862. J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1848) 103–7; Hew Scott’s Fasti, ii 32–3, 55 and iii 37.

MACLEOD, Norman (eld. son of the preceding). b. Kirk st. Campbeltown, Argyllshire 3 June 1812; ed. at Glasgow and Edinburgh univs.; minister of Loudoun, Ayrshire 15 March 1838 to 1843; minister of Dalkeith near Edinburgh 15 Dec. 1843 to 1851; sent by general assembly to British North America, June 1845; member of general assembly 1849; minister of Barony church, Glasgow 27 Feb. 1851, inducted July 1851; dean of the chapel royal; one of H.M. chaplains for Scotland 26 Dec. 1857; hon. D.D. Glasgow 30 April 1858; dean of the order of the thistle 26 July 1869; visited the mission stations in India 1867; moderator of the general assembly 1869; edited The Edinburgh christian magazine 1850–9; Good words 1860 etc.; Good words for the young 1868–70; author of Deborah or fireside readings for servants 1857; The home school, or hints on home education 1856; Parish papers 1862; Reminiscences of a highland parish 1867; The starling, a Scottish story 2 vols. 1867; Eastward, a visit to Egypt and the Holy Land 1866; Peeps at the far east, a visit to India 1871 and 25 other books. d. Glasgow 16 June 1872. bur. Campsie 20 June. His statue erected in Glasgow and two windows placed by the queen to his memory in Crathie church. D. Macleod’s Memoir of N. Macleod (1877), portrait; Cartoon portraits (1873) 86–7, portrait; J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1851) 313–23; More leaves from the journal of a life in the highlands (1884) 209–37; Illustrated Review, iv 33–7 (1872), portrait; Maclehose’s Glasgow men, ii 207–12 (1886), portrait.

MACLEOD, Roderick. b. Scotland; ed. at univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1 Aug. 1816; surgeon in the army; settled in London; L.R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1821; F.R.C.P. 9 July 1836, Gulstonian lecturer 1837, consiliarius 1839; editor and proprietor of London Medical Gazette, number one 8 Dec. 1827, a weekly journal; physician St. George’s hospital 13 Feb. 1833 to 1845; author of On rheumatism 1842. d. Chanonry, Old Aberdeen 7 Dec. 1852. Munk’s College of physicians, iii 243–4 (1878).

MACLEOD, Roderick. b. 1786; M.P. Cromarty and Nairn 1818–20; M.P. co. Sutherland 1831–7 and M.P. Inverness district of burghs 1837–40; lord lieutenant of Cromarty 8 May 1833 to death. d. Invergordon castle, Rossshire 13 March 1853.

M’LEOD, Roderick (son of the minister of Snizort). b. Glen-Haltin, Isle of Skye 1794; presbyterian minister at Lynedale, Skye to 1823, at Bracadale 1823–38 and at Snizort 1838–43; minister of the Free church, often preaching on hill sides and in snow storms 1843, itinerated in Skye to his death; moderator of Free ch. general assembly 1863; author of Report of the proceedings of the general assembly in the case of the suspension of R. M’Leod 1826. d. 1868. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 383–8, portrait.

MACLEOD, Roderick Bannatyne. b. 18 Feb. 1823; entered Bengal army; cornet 4 European light cavalry 27 Sep. 1843, captain 6 Sep. 1851; captain 3 European light cavalry to 1862; major 21 hussars 30 July 1862, lieut.-col. 4 March 1868 to 8 Dec. 1877 when he retired as M.G. d. Golden manor court near Hanwell, Middlesex 24 Feb. 1881.

MACLEOD, William Couperus. Entered Madras army 1821; lieut. 30 Madras N.I. 8 Sep. 1826, lieut.-col. 14 May 1853 to 1856; lieut.-col. of 29 N.I. 1856–7, of 14 N.I. 1857–9, of 40 N.I. 1859–60, of 14 N.I. 1860–3 and of 1 N.I. 1863 to 1 Aug. 1864; commandant at Jaulnah 16 Aug. 1859 to 9 July 1861; commandant at Malabar and Canara 9 July 1861 to 15 Jany. 1862; commandant of Nagpore subsidiary force 15 Jany. 1862 to 2 June 1863; commanded Pegu division 2 June 1863 to 27 April 1864; commanded Ceded district 27 April 1864 to 30 May 1868; col. of 30 Madras N.I. 12 March 1865 to 1869; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. 62 Gloucester gardens, London 4 April 1880.

M’LERIE, John. b. Ayrshire 1809; private in fusilier guards; an orderly clerk in war office; ensign 58 foot 28 Dec. 1838, adjutant 1838–48, lieut. 27 June 1841, sold out 7 June 1850; served in Tasmania and N.S.W.; was in Maori war of 1845; paymaster and adjutant of the mounted patrol, Sydney; principal gaoler at Darlinghurst; police magistrate and superintendent of police, Sydney 1850; inspector general of police 1856 when he suppressed bush-ranging. d. 6 Oct. 1874. Heaton’s Australian Dict. of dates (1879) 140.

M’LETCHIE, James. b. Maybole, Ayrshire 24 Dec. 1800; apprentice to a surgeon at Maybole; ed. Glasgow univ., D.D.; presbyterian minister at Larkhall 1837, at Gartsherrie to 1841, at St. Thomas’, Leith 1841, at Blackfriars’ parish, Glasgow 1842; minister of the second charge, High ch. Edinb. 1843 to death. d. Edinburgh 18 Sep. 1866. bur. Grange cemetery 24 Sep. Sermons by J. M’Letchie (1871) memoir pp. vii–xxvii, portrait.

MACLISE, Daniel (2 child of Alexander Mc Lish of Cork, tanner). baptized in presbyterian ch. Princes st. Cork 2 Feb. 1806 but he always said he was b. 25 Jany. 1811; student at Cork academy opened 1822; opened a studio in Patrick st. 1825; entered schools of the R.A. London 20 April 1828, gained the gold medal for historical composition 1829; contributed 80 character portraits to Fraser’s Mag. latterly under nom de plume of Alfred Croquis, June 1830 to 1838; exhibited 83 pictures at R.A., 20 at B.I. and 21 at Suffolk st. 1829–71; altered spelling of his name to Maclise 1835; A.R.A. 1835, R.A. 1840; for his great mural paintings of Wellington and Blucher 1858–61 and The death of Nelson on board the Victory 1861–4, in the royal gallery Westminster, he was paid £7,000; designed the Swiney cup for the Society of arts, the medal for International Exhibition 1862, and the Turner medal for the R.A.; illustrated The princess by A. Tennyson 1860 and took part in illustrating many other works. d. 4 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea 25 April 1870. bur. Kensal Green cemetery in his father’s vault, portrait by E. M. Ward in National portrait gallery. W. J. O’Driscoll’s Memoir of D. Maclise (1871), portrait; The Mask (1868) 100, portrait; J. Sherer’s Gallery of British artists, ii 15–19; Sandby’s History of royal academy, ii 161–64 (1862); Walford’s Photographic portraits of living celebrities (1859), portrait; Fine art. By W. M. Rossetti (1867) 245–54; Maclise Portrait gallery (1883) 448–63, portrait; I.L.N. vi 293 (1845) portrait, iii 169, 170 (1868), portrait; Illust. Times 4 May 1870 p. 313, portrait; Dublin univ. mag. May 1847 p. 594, portrait.

MACLIVER, Peter Stewart (son of David Macliver of Kilchoman, Islay, Scotland). b. Edinburgh 1820; ed. High sch. and univ. of Glasgow; on staff of Tyne mercury at Newcastle 1845; started the Newcastle Guardian; founder and proprietor of Western Daily Press, Bristol 29 June 1858, built at great cost new offices 1889; M.P. Plymouth 1880–85; great advocate of cause of post office officials; liberal candidate for Doncaster division of Yorkshire 1890. d. Cotham park, Brighton 19 April 1891. Michell’s Newspaper Press directory (1892) 78, portrait; Congregationalist, Dec. 1881 pp. 977–82, portrait.

MACLOUGHLIN, David. b. 1784; ed. Edinb. univ., M.D. 1810; L.R.C.S. 1809; assistant surgeon in the army 22 June 1815; served during Peninsular war, taken prisoner; in charge of a French hospital; Napoleon made him a member of the Legion of honour, the first Englishman so honoured; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1859; in practice at 36 Bruton st. London; author of Result of an enquiry into the existence of premonitory diarrhœa in cholera 1854; Consultation médico-légale sur paralysies vraies. Paris 1841, 2 ed. 1845; Result of an enquiry whether cholera can be conveyed by intercourse 1856; Proofs of the non existence of a specific enthetic disease 1863; Letter to the duke of Somerset relative to the question, Is there a syphilitic virus 1864; Pathological facts as to the means for the prevention of contagious disease 1864. d. 22 Maddox st. London 26 Feb. 1870.

MACLURE, Robert. Ed. Edinb. acad.; head classical and mathematical master of a district sch. in connection with King’s coll. London; a candidate for Greek chair in Edinb. univ. Dec. 1851; professor of humanity Marischal coll. and univ. Aberdeen 1852 to 15 Sep. 1860; professor of humanity in Aberdeen univ. 15 Sep. 1860 to 1881. Testimonials of Dr. Maclure, candidate for the Greek chair (1852).

MACMAHON, Sir Charles (3 son of sir Wm. Macmahon, master of the rolls in Ireland). b. Fortfield, co. Dublin 10 July 1824; ensign 71 Highlanders 4 Aug. 1843; cornet 10 hussars 3 April 1846, lieut. 2 Feb. 1847, sold out 8 Aug. 1851; a member of the police force, Melbourne, Australia, Jany. 1853, assist. commissioner 1856, then chief commissioner, resigned 1858; member of legislative assembly West Bourke 1861, a member of the cabinet 1861–63; contested West Bourke 1863; member legislative assembly, West Melbourne 1866–78 and 1880–86; speaker of the assembly 1871–4, 1874–7 and 1880; knighted by patent 29 Sep. 1875. d. East Melbourne 28 Aug. 1891. Mennell’s Australian Biog. (1892) 305–6.

MC MAHON, Patrick. b. 1813; barrister G.I. 8 June 1842, went Oxford circuit; M.P. co. Wexford 1852–65 and M.P. New Ross 1868–74; junior counsel for defence of Tichborne claimant 1872–3; author of articles in Dublin Review. d. 19 Dec. 1875. I.L.N. xxx 499 (1857) portrait, lxviii 43 (1876).

MAC MAHON, Patrick William. Ensign 81 foot 6 Nov. 1835; captain 44 foot 17 May 1845, lieut.-col. 28 Aug. 1857 to 28 Dec. 1866; lieut.-col. 36 foot 28 Dec. 1866 to death; col. in the army 4 May 1861; C.B. 1 March 1861. d. Brighton 14 Oct. 1871.

MC MAHON, Sir Thomas, 2 Baronet (younger son of John Mc Mahon, patentee comptroller of port of Limerick, d. 22 May 1789). b. 27 Dec. 1779; ensign 22 foot 2 Feb. 1797; lieut.-col. 17 foot 20 June 1811 to 4 Nov. 1822; succeeded brother as 2 bart. 12 Sep. 1817; colonel 94 foot 28 March 1838 to 28 Sep. 1847; colonel 10 foot 28 Sep. 1847 to death; commander in chief at Bombay 16 Oct. 1839 to 13 Jany. 1847; general 20 June 1854; K.C.B. 18 Jany. 1827, G.C.B. 20 June 1859. d. 10 Great Cumberland st. Hyde park, London 10 April 1860.

MACMAHON, Sir Thomas Westropp, 3 Baronet (eld. son of preceding). b. 14 Feb. 1813; cornet 16 lancers 24 Dec. 1829; cornet 6 dragoons 1830, captain 1838–42; captain 9 light dragoons 1842, placed on h.p. 13 July 1847; in Sutlej campaign, present at Sobraon 1846; major 5 dragoon guards 24 Nov. 1854, lieut.-col. 12 Dec. 1854, placed on h.p. 15 Feb. 1861; military secretary Bombay 14 Feb. 1840 to April 1847; A.Q.M.G. in Crimea 8 March to 20 Dec. 1854, present at Alma, Balaklava, Tchernaya and at siege of Sebastopol; M.G. cavalry brigade Aldershot, and inspector general of cavalry in Great Britain 14 June 1871 to 31 July 1876; col. of 18 hussars 6 Jany. 1874 and of 5 dragoon guards 1885 to death; general 12 April 1880; C.B. 5 July 1855. d. The Sycamores, Farnborough, Hampshire 23 Jany. 1892.

MACMANUS, Terence Bellew. b. co. Fermanagh about 1823; a shipping agent at Liverpool; a member of the ’82 club in Ireland 1844; joined the physical force movement 1848; took part in the Tipperary civil war 1848; tried for high treason by special commission at Clonmel with Smith O’Brien 9 Oct. 1848, sentenced to death and confined in Richmond Bridewell, his sentence was commuted to transportation for life, transported to Van Diemen’s Land, reached there July 1849; escaped to San Francisco 1852 where he became a shipping agent but failed. d. San Francisco 1860. bur. Glasnevin cemetery near Dublin 10 Nov. 1861.

MAC MASTER, Gilbert. b. Saintfield, Ireland 13 Feb. 1778; at Jefferson coll. Philadelphia 1791–3; licensed to practise medicine 1805; pastor of Reformed presbyterian ch. Duanesberg, New York 1808–40, and of Princetown ch. Indiana 1840–6; D.D. of Union univ. 1828; author of An essay in defence of some fundamental doctrines of christianity. Utica 1815; An apology for the book of Psalms 1818; The moral character of civil government with reference to the institutions of the United States. Albany 1832; Thoughts on the union of the church. Cincinnati 1846. d. New Albany, Indiana 15 March 1854. Appleton’s American biography, iv 148 (1888).

MC MASTER, Valentine Munbee. b. 1835; assist. surgeon 78 regt. 27 March 1855, surgeon 14 March 1868; served in Persian war 1857, in Indian mutiny, wounded at Lucknow; Victoria cross for exposing himself to the fire of the enemy in bringing in and attending to the wounded at Lucknow 25 Sep. 1857, decorated 18 June 1858. d. the barracks, Belfast 22 Jany. 1872. Medical Times, i 115 (1872).

MC MASTER, William. b. Tyrone, Ireland 24 Dec. 1811; in mercantile house of Robert Cathcart, Toronto, Canada 1833; a merchant at Toronto; member of legislative council of Canada 1862–7 when he was called to the senate; gave 12,000 dollars to Canadian literary institute, Woodstock; built at cost of 100,000 dollars Mc Master hall, the baptist college, Toronto; with his wife gave 80,000 dollars to Jarvis st. baptist ch. Toronto; chairman of Canada board of G. W. Railway; president Canadian bank of commerce; while speaking at Mc Master hall, Toronto, fainted and remained unconscious till his death next morning 22 Sep. 1887. Appleton’s American biography, iv 149 (1888).

M’MICHAEL, Neil. b. 1808; minister of Gillespie church, Dunfermline 1835 to death; professor of divinity, united presbyterian church 1847–; D.D.; author of Hildebrand and his age 1853; The pilgrim psalms an exposition of the songs of degrees 1860. d. Dunfermline 3 April 1874. John Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1851) 390–93.

MACMILLAN, Angus. b. Glenbrittle, Skye 1810; went to New South Wales 1829, worked on sheep stations to 1839; in company with one black man explored the country south-west of Sydney 28 May 1839 etc.; discovered Gippsland 1840–1 which was originally called by him Caledonia Australis; author of On the preservation of sight 1859; settled down on a sheep-run of his own on the Avon where he d. May 1865. Mc Combie’s History of the colony of Victoria (1858) 79, 80; Mennell’s Australian biography (1892) 306.

MACMILLAN, Daniel (3 son of Duncan Macmillan of Upper Corrie, island of Arran, farmer d. 1823). b. Upper Corrie 13 Sep. 1813; apprenticed to Maxwell Dick of Irvine, bookseller 1 Jany. 1824 for 7 years; worked for Mr. Atkinson of Glasgow, bookseller 1831–33; shopman to Mr. Johnson of Cambridge 1833–37; employed by Messrs. Seeley of Fleet st. London, publishers 1837–43; bookseller and publisher at 57 Aldersgate st. Feb. 1843; bought business of Mr. Newby of Trinity st. Cambridge 1843 where he issued his first university catalogue March 1844; issued Kingsley’s Westward Ho! 1855 and Tom Brown’s school days 1857; gave up his business in London end of 1843. d. Cambridge 27 June 1857. T. Hughes’ Memoir of D. Macmillan (1882), portrait; A bibliographical catalogue of Macmillan and Co.’s publications (1891), portrait.

MACMILLAN, James. b. 1815; editor of the Worcester Herald 1836 to death; projector and founder of Worcestershire association for promotion of science; the regenerator of the Worcester races. d. Worcester 3 Feb. 1868. Newspaper Press, ii 69 (1868).

MACMILLAN, John. b. Byreflat, parish of Keir, Dumfriesshire 9 June 1802; ed. at gr. sch. Dumfries and univ. of Edinb., M.A. 1829; master in Watson’s hospital, Edinb. March 1827 to Jany. 1831; rector of Dumfries gr. sch. Jany. 1831 to April 1837; one of classical masters in Glasgow high sch. April 1837 to Nov. 1844; one of classical masters in high school of Edinb. Nov. 1844 to 1867, examiner 1867–72. d. 1872. W. S. Dalgleish’s Memorials of high school of Edinburgh (1857) 48.

M’MINNIES, John Gordon (son of John M’Minnies). b. Lancaster 1817; alderman of Warrington; senior partner in W. Bashall and Co. cotton manufacturers, Farington near Preston; M.P. Warrington 1880–85. d. Summer house, Warrington 1 Feb. 1890.

MC MULLEN, John. b. Ballinahinch, co. Down 8 March 1833; ed. St. Mary’s college, Chicago to 1854; studied at Urban coll. Rome 1854, priest and D.D. 1858; president of the univ. of St. Mary of the Lake, Chicago 1861–4, building destroyed in the fire 1871; in charge of the cathedral of the Holy Name, Chicago 1870, vicar general of the diocese 1877; bishop of the diocese of Davenport, Iowa 1880 to death. d. Davenport 3 July 1883. Appleton’s American Biography, iv 150 (1888).

MC MULLEN, Richard Turrill. b. Surrey 10 Jany. 1830; sailed in a 3 ton cutter the Leo in a voyage to the Eddystone 1868; in the Sirius 11 tons circumnavigated Scotland; sailed with 2 seamen from Greenhithe to Cherbourg, but as they sulked and mutinied he henceforth sailed alone; had a 16 ton yacht the Orion; he skirted most of the currents and races between the Pentland Firth and the Channel islands and tried most of the anchorages between the Galloper Sands and the Land’s End; author of Down channel from London to the Land’s End in the Leo 3 tons, and from London to the Scilly islands in the Orion 16 tons 1869; Infidelity, its cause and antidote 1879; Orion, or how I came to sail alone in a 19 ton yacht 1879; An experimental cruise single handed in the Procyon 7 ton lugger 1880; Whither do they ascend? 1881; Priestly pretensions and God’s word 1885; found dead sitting alone in his boat the Perseus in mid channel June 1891. R. T. Mc Mullen’s Down channel (1893); The Times 10 Oct. 1893 p. 5.

MC MURDIE, Henry. b. London 21 May 1822; in a mercantile house in Liverpool; became a Romanist; educated at Mount St. Mary seminary, Emmettsburg, U.S. America; ordained priest 1854; professor of dogmatic theology and moral philosophy in Mount St. Mary, and then the director of the seminary; the ablest theologian and metaphysician of the R.C. ch. in U.S. of America. d. Emmettsburg 20 Jany. 1880. Appleton’s American biography, iv 150 (1888).

MACNAB, Sir Allan Napier, 1 Baronet (son of Allan Macnab, lieut. 71 foot). b. Newark now Niagara, Ontario 19 Feb. 1798; served against the Americans in their invasion of Canada 1813; midshipman on board H.M.S. Wolfe short time 1813; a volunteer with the 100th foot 1813; ensign 49 foot 3 March 1814, served in the American war, at end of which he left the army 1814 or 1815; articled clerk in office of attorney general; called to Canadian bar 1826, practised at Hamilton 1826; member for Wentworth in house of assembly 1830, speaker of the house 1837–41 and 1844–8; at the head of a band of volunteers defeated the Canadian rebels 1837–8 and for his services was knighted by patent 14 July 1838; a queen’s counsel; leader of the conservatives 1841–4 and 1848; formed a coalition ministry with Augustin Norbert Morin 1854–6; settled near Brighton, Sussex 1857; contested Brighton 30 April 1859; created baronet 5 Feb. 1858; returned to Hamilton and elected member again 1860; a militia A.D.C. to the queen and hon. col. in the army; col. commandant of 7th military district in Upper Canada; chosen speaker again 1862. d. Hamilton, Toronto 8 Aug. 1862. Appleton’s American Biography, iv 151–2 (1888), portrait.

M’NAB, Duncan. b. South Knapdale, Argyleshire 1807; ed. Glasgow univ.; assist. minister to Dr. Mackintosh Mackay at Dunoon 1835; assist. to the second charge at Campbelton 1839 and to the first charge 1841–3; joined the Free church 1843, minister at Campbelton, assisted in organising many congregations; minister of Free Renfield congregation, Glasgow 1856 to death; author of Discourses. Ed. by A. S. Patterson. With biographical sketch pp. ix–xv by W. Trail (1864), portrait. d. at house of his brother-in-law in London 12 June 1863. Scott’s Fasti, iii pt. i p. 39 (1870).

MC NAB, William Ramsay (only son of James Mc Nab b. 1810, curator of Edinb. botanical gardens, d. 20 Nov. 1878). b. Edinburgh, Nov. 1844; M.D. Edinb. 1866, began practice 1867; professor of natural history in royal agricultural college, Cirencester 1870–2; introduced the facts and methods of Julius Von Sachs in teaching botany 1871; professor of botany in royal college of science, Dublin, March 1872 to death; scientific superintendent of royal botanic gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin 1880 to death; Swiney lecturer on fossil botany at British Museum 1888 to death; author of Outlines of morphology and physiology 1877, new ed. 1881; Outlines of classification of plants 1877. d. 2 Montrose, Cabra road, Dublin 3 Dec. 1889; a subscription raised for his wife and children. His collection of coleoptera is in the Dublin museum of science and art. Nature, Dec. 1889 pp. 112, 159, Feb. 1890 p. 347.

MACNAGHTEN, Agnes (dau. of James Eastmont of St. Berner’s near Edinb.) An associate of British archæological assoc. 1845; resided at Bittern manor near Southampton the ancient Roman Clausentum, preserved the Roman remains found on the spot and made a collection of the coins discovered there; (m. first Lewis Shedden captain 15 hussars; m. secondly 1848 Stewart Macnaghten of Invertrossachs, Perthshire, barrister M.T. 1839). d. Bittern manor 28 April 1863. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xx 168 (1864).

MACNAGHTEN, Sir Edmund Charles Workman, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir F. W. Macnaghten, 1 bart. 1763–1843). b. Dublin 1 April 1790; succeeded 22 Nov. 1843; M.P. Antrim 1847–52; author of The elements of political economy. Coleraine 1854. d. Dundarave, Bushmills, co. Antrim 6 Jany. 1876. I.L.N. lxviii 95, 623 (1876).

MACNAGHTEN, Elliot (4 son of sir F. W. Macnaghten, 1 bart. 1763–1843). b. 1 April 1807; ed. Rugby 1818 etc.; officer of supreme court, Calcutta; director H.E.I.Co. 1842–58, deputy chairman 1854–5, chairman 1855–6; member of council for India 21 Sep. 1858 to Oct. 1871 and V.P. 1866. d. Ovingdean near Brighton 24 Dec. 1888.

MC NAIR, William Watts. b. 13 Sep. 1849; in Indian survey department 1 Sep. 1867 to death; a good plane-tabler and an accomplished surveyor; accompanied the Khyber column of the Afghan field force 1879–80 when he explored the Lughman valley and the route to Kafiristan, of which he made maps; surveyed in Beluchistan 1881–9; visited Kafiristan disguised as a native doctor and speaking Urdu, April to June 1883, read an account of this expedition before the Royal Geographical Soc. in London 10 Dec. 1883, and was awarded the Murchison grant. d. of typhoid fever at Mussooree 13 Aug. 1889. J. E. Howard’s Memoir of W. W. Mc Nair (1889), 2 portraits.

Note.—Mc Nair was officially reprimanded by Lord Ripon for crossing the Afghan frontier against all regulations, but congratulated in private on the success of his visit to Kafiristan.

MACNAMARA, Sir Burton (youngest son of Francis Macnamara of Doolin castle, co. Clare). b. Doolin castle 1794; entered navy 26 July 1808; served on the lakes in Canada 1814–5; inspecting commander of coast guard 1825–32; captain 16 Nov. 1833; R.A. on h.p. 21 July 1856; admiral on h.p. 20 March 1867; knighted by Marquess of Normanby 1839; a candidate for the borough of Ennis 1841. d. 22 Merrion sq. north, Dublin 12 Dec. 1876.

MACNAMARA, Francis. b. 1802; M.P. Ennis 1832–5; sheriff of co. Clare 1839; lieut.-col. Clare militia 4 Nov. 1854 to 10 Nov. 1871. d. 27 June 1873.

MACNAMARA, Henry Tyrwhitt Jones (2 son of Frederick Hayes Macnamara, officer in 47 foot). b. 1820; ed. at Ealing and Lichfield gr. sch.; pupil of Wm. Alexander Dow, special pleader; a founder of Hardwicke debating soc. which first met at George’s hotel, Strand, the first president; a special pleader 1841–9; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1849; went Oxford circuit 1849–72; had many pupils; much employed as an arbitrator; recorder of Reading, Aug. 1864 to Oct. 1870; a revising barrister 1867–72; judge of county court, circuit 43 (Brentford, Brompton and Marylebone), 1 April 1872 to Aug. 1873; legal member of court of the railway comrs. 2 Aug. 1873 to death; wrote some light pieces for the stage; author of Tournaments, or the days of chivalry 1839; Peace, permanent and universal, its consistency with divine revelation 1841, an essay which gained prize of 100 guineas awarded by the Society for promotion of permanent and universal peace 1 Jany. 1841; A practical treatise on nullities and irregularities in law 1842; A practical treatise on the counts and pleas allowed in civil proceedings 1844; R. P. Collier’s Railway consolidation acts 2 ed. 1847; Leonora, a love story 3 vols. 1848, anon.; The complete practice of the law of England 1855; Paley’s Law and practice of summary convictions 4 ed. 1856 and 5 ed. 1866. d. 34 Linden gardens, Bayswater, London 2 Feb. 1877. bur. Willesden cemetery 8 Feb. H. T. J. Macnamara’s The christian code: rules for the conduct of human life (1878); Graphic, xv 236 (1877), portrait; Solicitors’ Journal, xxi 732–34 (1877).

MACNAMARA, James Austin. b. 1777; bookseller Cork, a bookseller in Dublin 1813, bankrupt 1814, returned to Cork 1815; he brought out The holy catholic bible, containing the whole of the books in the sacred scriptures, translated from the Latin Vulgate. Cork, printed for the proprietor J. A. Macnamara 1818, quarto. d. suddenly in the street, London 21 Dec. 1860. H. Cotton’s Rhemes and Doway (1855) 110–16, 210–13.

MC NAMARA, Thomas. b. near Slane, co. Meath 1808; ed. at Navan seminary and Maynooth college, ordained Maynooth 1833; one of the founders of Castleknock college, co. Dublin 1834, affiliated with the Congregation of the Mission 1839, gave missions throughout Ireland; founded with others the Catholic institution for deaf and dumb mutes at Cabra near Dublin 1846; superior of Castleknock college and visitor of the Irish province of the Congregation of the Mission 1864; rector of the Irish college in Paris 1868–89; author of Programmes of sermons and instructions. Dublin 1881; Sacred rhetoric, or the art of rhetoric as applied to the preaching of the word of God. Dublin 1882. d. St. Joseph’s, Blackrock, co. Dublin 8 March 1892. bur. in cemetery at Castleknock 11 March. College Chronicle (Castleknock), June 1892 pp. 5–6.

MACNAMARA, William Nugent (brother of sir Burton Macnamara 1794–1876). b. 1776; second of Daniel O’Connell in his duel with J. N. D’Esterre at Bishop’s Court, co. Kildare 1 Feb. 1815; M.P. co. Clare 1830 to 1852. d. Ennistymon, co. Clare 11 Nov. 1856.

MACNAUGHT, John (son of John Macnaught of Clarendon, Jamaica). b. 1826; ed. Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1847, M.A. 1852; P.C. St. Chrysostom, Everton, Lancashire 1853, Hugh M’Neill’s opposition to Macnaught’s broad doctrine caused him to resign in 1861; minister of Laura chapel, Bath 1867–71; incumbent of Holy Trinity ch. Conduit st. London 1871–5 when chapel was pulled down; V. of St. Mary’s, Northend, Fulham 1881–6; author of Peter, confession and absolution, three essays 1851; The doctrine of inspiration of holy writ 1856, 2 ed. 1857, to which many replies were made; Free discussion versus intolerance, or the Liverpool clerical society’s method of expelling a brother clergyman 1856; Christianity and its evidences 1863; Cœna Domini 1878. d. 2 Rutland gate, Kensington, London 13 May 1890, cremated. Pictorial World 21 May 1890 p. 697, portrait.

MACNAUGHTAN, John. b. Greenock; minister of Scotch congregation, Crown court, Drury Lane, London 1831; minister of high church, Paisley 1832–43; pastor of free high church, Paisley 1843; minister at Belfast 1849; author of A discourse preached in the High church, Paisley 1837; Sketch of the life of William Perry; Slander against the Free church met and answered 1846; The interdicted farewell sermon. Paisley 1849. Scott’s Fasti vol. ii pt. i p. 207 (1868); J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1848) 215–22.

M’NAUGHTEN, Daniel (son of Daniel M’Naughten a turner). A turner at Glasgow from age of 15; imagined that he was persecuted and always watched by order of the Tories; came to London and near the Salopian coffee house, Charing Cross, fired twice at and killed Edward Drummond private sec. to sir Robert Peel, mistaking him for the baronet, 20 Jany. 1843; tried at central criminal court 3 March 1843 and acquitted as being insane; confined in Bedlam, then removed to criminal lunatic asylum, Broadmoor, where he died 3 May 1865, inquest held same day, verdict death from natural causes. W. C. Townsend’s Modern state trials, i 314–402 (1850); Fraser’s Mag. April 1843 pp. 444–54; Annual Register (1843) 6–9 and 345–62; Law Journal 12 Sep. 1891 pp. 583–4; I.L.N. ii 80, 151 (1843), portrait; The Globe 5 May 1865 p. 1.

Note.—Mr. Drummond was b. 30 March 1792 and became a clerk in the treasury at an early age, he was bur. at Charlton near Woolwich 31 Jany. 1843.

MC NAUGHTON, James. b. Kenmore, Scotland 10 Dec. 1796; ed. Edinb. univ., M.D. 1816; settled as a physician at Albany, U.S. America 1817; lectured at College of physicians and surgeons at Fairfield, New York 1818–38; professor of theory and practice of medicine, Albany medical coll. 1840 to death; president of Albany county medical soc. 1848–9; president of medical and surgical staff of Albany hospital. d. Paris, France 12 June 1874. Appleton’s American biography, iv 153 (1888).

MACNEE, Sir Daniel (son of Robert Macnee). b. Fintry, Stirlingshire 1806; ed. at Glasgow, LL.D. 27 April 1876; apprenticed to John Knox, landscape painter 1819–23; drew and coloured plates for W. H. Lizars the engraver at Edinb. 1825; A.R.S.A. 1830, contributed to its exhibitions from 1825, pres. 9 Feb. 1876; resided in Kent painting portraits 1832; portrait painter at Glasgow 1832–77, at Edinb. 1877 to death; exhibited 97 paintings at R.A. London 1840–80; pres. of West of Scotland academy 1866–76; knighted at Osborne 21 July 1876; painted many subject pictures, his picture The Bracelet is now in National gallery of Scotland; his portrait of Dr. Wardlaw was awarded a gold medal at Paris international exhibition 1855. d. 6 Learmonth terrace, Edinburgh 17 Jany. 1882. Maclehose’s Glasgow men, ii 213–17 (1886), portrait; Graphic, xiii 199, 200 (1876), portrait; Armstrong’s Scottish Painters (1888) 46.

MAC NEECE, Thomas (1 son of James Mac Neece). b. near Markethill, co. Armagh 4 Jany. 1807; sizar at Trin. coll. Dublin 1825, univ. scholar 1828, B.A. 1830, M.A. 1838, B.D. and D.D. 1848, fellow June 1836 to death; tutor, lecturer and examiner 1836–42; archbishop King’s lecturer in divinity 1842 to death; R. of Arboe, Armagh 1842 to death; author of On faith, two sermons 1850; Sermons preached in the chapel of Trinity college, Dublin 1863. d. Boulogne 26 Sep. 1862. bur. Arboe. Sermons by T. Mac Neece (1863), memoir pp. ix–xxi, portrait.

MACNEIL, Roderick (elder son of Roderick Macneil of Barra, Invernessshire). b. 1790; ensign in army 17 March 1808; captain 60 foot 1 Dec. 1814; captain 1 life guards 1 July 1819; major 84 foot 9 Aug. 1821; major 2 life guards 29 Dec. 1821, placed on h.p. 17 June 1828; lieut. col. 91 foot 16 July 1841; lieut.-col. 78 Highlanders 15 April 1842 to 9 Nov. 1846; commanded a division of the army in Madras 1846–51; granted distinguished service reward 1 Sep. 1848; colonel of 8 foot 18 March 1855 to 3 June 1860; colonel of 78 highlanders 3 June 1860 to death; general 21 Dec. 1862. d. 35 Hyde park gardens, London 22 Oct. 1863.

MC NEILE, Edmund Hugh (son of the succeeding). b. 1841; ed. Trin. coll. Camb., scholar; 32 wrangler and B.A. 1863, M.A. 1866; C. of Emmanuel ch. Liverpool 1865; C. of Steeple Claydon, Bucks. 1866; V. of St. Paul’s, Prince’s park, Liverpool 1867 to death; hon. canon of Liverpool 1880 to death; chaplain to bishop of Chester 1877–84. d. St. Paul’s vicarage, Liverpool 8 Jany. 1893.

MC NEILE, Hugh (son of Alexander Mc Neile, sheriff of Antrim). b. Ballycastle, co. Antrim 15 July 1795; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1815, M.A. 1821, B.D. and D.D. 1847; served his terms at King’s inns, Dublin, and at Lincoln’s inn; C. of Stranorlar, Donegal 1820; R. of Albury, Surrey 1822–34; P.C. of St. Jude, Liverpool 1834–48; hon. canon of Chester cath. 1845–68; P.C. of St. Paul, Prince’s park, Liverpool 1848–67; canon residentiary of Chester cath. July 1860; dean of Ripon 9 Sep. 1868, resigned Oct. 1875; author of Seventeen sermons 1825, 2 ed. 1828; Popular lectures on the prophecies 1830; The church and the churches 1846, 3 ed. 1867; The collected works of Dean Mc Neile 1877, vol. i. d. Bournemouth 28 Jany. 1879. bur. Bournemouth cemetery 1 Feb. J. R. Dix’s Pulpit portraits (Boston 1854) 228–55; John Evans’s Lancashire authors and orators (1850) 182–9; Orators of the age. By G. H. Francis (1847) 406–15; J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters (1841) 239–50; E. M. Roose’s Ecclesiastica (1842) 420–4; Church of England photographic portrait gallery (1859), portrait 36; Christian cabinet illustrated almanack for 1860 p. 30; Drawing room portrait gallery 3 series (1860), portrait 11; Dublin univ. mag. xxix 462, portrait; I.L.N. lxxiv 105 (1879), portrait; Graphic, xix 241 (1879), portrait.

M’NEILL, Alexander Duncan (1 son of Alexander M’Neill, advocate). b. Edinburgh 1829; ed. Edinb. high sch. and univ.; an actor in the English provinces; played at Drury Lane, at Lyceum and at Birmingham; manager of old Theatre royal, Aberdeen 1862 and lessee 1869; manager of Royal Princess’ Edinb. 14 Sep. 1868 to death; first appeared as Richelieu 28 Sep., and first time in Edinb. as Rob Roy 7 Nov. 1868; also directed Theatres royal Dumfries and Dundee, and the Gaiety theatre Glasgow; a good actor as Rob Roy, as Jacques in As you like it, and as sir John Falstaff; made his last appearance as Rob Roy at Lyceum, Edinb. 21 July 1884; wrote The gloamin’ and the mirk, a story of modern Athens, a drama at the Princess’ 8 Feb. 1869. d. 4 Buccleuch place, Edinb. 7 Nov. 1884. His son W. A. M’Neill was lessee of the Princess’ Nov. 1884 to 22 May 1886 when the house closed. J. C. Dibdin’s Edinburgh stage (1888) 482–7.

M’NEILL, Archibald (5 son of John M’Neill of Colonsay, Argyllshire). b. Colonsay, Sep. 1803; writer to the signet 18 June 1829; director and principal clerk at chancery office Edinb. 24 March 1843 to 1858; one of the principal clerks of session 6 July 1858 to death; took great interest in the breed of the deer hounds possessed by his family, and contributed to W. Scrope’s Days of deer stalking 1883, An account of the original Scotch greyhounds and details of deer coursing; author of Notes on the authenticity of Ossian’s Poems. By a member of the Society of antiquaries of Scotland 1868. d. Edinburgh 2 June 1870. Journal of jurisprudence, July 1870 p. 375.

M’NEILL, Archibald. b. 1852; ed. at Baptist theological coll. near Birmingham; connected with Birmingham Daily Mail, and Birmingham Morning News; leader writer and dramatic critic on Newcastle chronicle; came to London 1878, writer and dramatic critic on The Sportsman from 1882; sent on 18 Dec. 1887 to Rouen to report the prize fight between James Smith and Jake Kilrain 19 Dec., missed at Boulogne on 20 Dec., found drowned on the beach near the jetty on 6 Jany. 1888 having probably been murdered. I.L.N. 21 Jany. 1888 pp. 57, 58, portrait; Daily Graphic 10 Dec. 1891 p. 9, view of house where he is said to have been murdered.

MC NEILL, Sir John (brother of Archibald Mc Neill 1803–70). b. Colonsay, Aug. 1795; ed. at univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1814; assistant surgeon Bombay army 6 Sep. 1816, surgeon 1 May 1824, retired 4 June 1836; attached to H.E.I.Co.’s legation in Persia 1824–35; secretary of special embassy at Teheran 30 June 1835; minister plenipotentiary to shah of Persia 9 Feb. 1836, envoy and min. plenipo. 25 May 1836 to 5 Aug. 1842; notwithstanding his protests Herat was besieged by the Persians Nov. 1837 to Sep. 1838; he concluded a treaty of commerce with Persia 11 Oct. 1841; F.R.S. 5 April 1838; chairman of board of supervision entrusted with working of Scottish poor law act of 1845, 1845–68; sent to the Crimea with A. M. Tulloch, Feb. 1855, to report on the commissariat department, &c., their final report was signed in London, Jany. 1856; knight of Persian order of the Sun and Lion 1835; G.C.B. 15 April 1839; P.C. 6 May 1857; the last survivor of original members of Royal Asiatic Society 1823; F.R.S. Edinb. 1840; D.C.L. 24 June 1857; author of Progress and present position of Russia in the East 1836, another ed. 1854. d. Cannes 17 May 1883, bust in National portrait gallery, Edinb. Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea 6 ed. vol. vii passim (1877); I.L.N. lxxxii 549 (1883), portrait; Sir A. M. Tulloch’s Crimean Commission (1880) with preface by Mc Neill pp. v–xiv.

MACNEILL, Sir John Benjamin (son of Torquil P. Macneill). b. Mount Pleasant, Dundalk 1794; lieut. in Louth militia 29 April 1811; one of principal assistants to Thomas Telford the engineer, having the turnpike roads in north of England entrusted to him; a consulting engineer in London and Glasgow about 1834; constructed the Wishaw and Coltness railway and other small lines in Scotland; conducted a series of important experiments in canal-boat traction; made known his system of sectio-planography 1837, adopted for railway plans by standing orders of house of commons; surveyed North of Ireland for the Irish railway commission; professor of civil engineering, Trinity college, Dublin 1842–52; completed the Dublin and Drogheda railway; completed first section to Kildare of Great southern and western railway 1844 for which he was knighted by earl de Grey 1844; F.R.S. 5 April 1838; author of Tables for calculating the cubic quantities of earthwork in the cuttings for canals, railways and turnpike roads 1833, 2 ed. 1846; translated C. L. M. H. Navier’s On the means of comparing the advantages of different lines of railway 1836. d. 186 Cromwell road, South Kensington, London 2 March 1880. Min. of proc. of instit. of C.E. lxxiii 361–7 (1883).

MAC NICHOLAS, Patrick. Professor of Greek in Maynooth college; bishop of Achonry 23 Feb. 1818 to death, consecrated 17 May 1818. d. Ballaghadareen, co. Mayo 13 Feb. 1852.

MC NICOLL, Thomas (5 son of rev. David Mc Nicoll). b. 1822; M.R.C.S. Eng.; editor of London Quarterly Rev. 1853 and a contributor to its pages to death; conducted The Planet. London 1862, four numbers; author of Essay on English literature 1861. d. 102 Crown street, Liverpool 1 March 1863. London Quarterly Review, xxxix 270, 419 (1863).

MACONOCHIE, Alexander, Lord Meadowbank (eld. son of Allan Maconochie, Scottish judge 1748–1816). b. 2 March 1777; admitted advocate 2 March 1799; one of the lord advocates depute 1807; sheriff of Haddingtonshire 28 April 1810; solicitor general 13 Feb. 1813; lord advocate July 1816; M.P. Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Feb. 1817 to March 1818; M.P. Kilrenny district of burghs, March 1818 to June 1819; an ordinary lord of session and a lord of justiciary with title of lord Meadowbank 1 July 1819 to Nov. 1843; entertained the archduke Nicholas afterwards emperor of Russia at Meadowbank 1816; succeeded to estates of Garvock and Pitliver, June 1854, when he assumed additional surname of Welwood. d. Meadowbank house 30 Nov. 1861. Kay’s Series of portraits, ii 21, 353, 432–4, 444, 450, 451 (1877), 2 portraits; Omond’s Lord advocates of Scotland, ii 225, 231–55 (1883).

MACONOCHIE, Alexander. b. 1787; entered R.N. Aug. 1803, midshipman March 1804; served in West Indies, while on the Grasshopper taken prisoner by the Dutch 24 Dec. 1811; commander 8 Sep. 1815, retired as a captain 17 Feb. 1855; K.H. 4 May 1836; in Van Diemen’s Land 1837; governor of Norfolk island 6 March 1840 to 1845; invented the mark system of prison discipline 1846; sec. to London geographical society; sec. to lieut. governor of Van Diemen’s Land 1849; governor of Birmingham gaol Oct. 1849 to 17 Oct. 1851; author of Thoughts on convict management and the Australian penal colonies. Hobart Town 1838, 3 ed. 1839; Crime and punishment, the mark system framed to mix persuasion with punishment 1846; Emigration with advice to emigrants 1848; Norfolk island 1847; The principles of punishment on which the mark system is advocated 1850. d. Morden, Surrey 25 Oct. 1860. Mary his widow granted civil list pension of £60, 14 Feb. 1868.

MACONOCHIE, Allan Alexander (1 son of preceding). b. 1806; professor of civil law and law of Scotland in Univ. of Glasgow 1842–55. d. Meadowbank house, Kirknewton, Edinburgh 29 May 1885.

MACONOCHIE, Robert Blair (brother of preceding). b. 21 May 1814; ed. Edinb. univ.; writer to the signet 23 Nov. 1837, partner with Allan Menzies to 1856; clerk of lieutenancy of Midlothian; clerk and treasurer to trustees of the Dick bequest 1856 to death. d. Gattonside near Melrose 4 Oct. 1883. Journal of jurisprudence, Nov. 1883 p. 600.

M’OSCAR, William. b. Lochwinnock, Renfrewshire 7 May 1807; taught classics and modern languages at Paisley some years; edited the Ayrshire news letter at Irvine; founded the Glasgow theatrical review; wrote most of his verse in London, where he resided over 20 years; assisted in compilation of The Renfrewshire annual 1841 and contributed The Dominie’s goat, a tale. d. Kilbarchan 11 Jany. 1877. W. M’Oscar’s Poetical Works (1878), memoir pp. ix–xiii, portrait.

MACPHERSON, Alexander. b. Gairloch 1781; ed. univ. and King’s coll. Aberdeen, M.A. 1803, D.D. 1849; R. of the Academy at Tain 1814–6; minister of Golspie 5 March 1816 to death; author of On the perspicuity, perfection and power of the holy scriptures. Edinb. 1836. d. Golspie 6 Aug. 1861. H. Scott’s Fasti, iii part i, pp. 336–7 (1870).

MC PHERSON, Duncan. b. 1778; entered Bengal army 1794; lieut. 10 Bengal N.I. 3 Oct. 1796, major 1 Oct. 1815; lieut.-col. commandant 67 N.I. 182-, col. 5 June 1829 to 8 Oct. 1836; col. of 16 N.I. 8 Oct. 1836 to death; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846. d. Cheltenham 24 Nov. 1853.

MACPHERSON, Duncan. Assistant surgeon in Madras army 1836, surgeon 11 Dec. 1852; served with 37 grenadier regiment in China 1840–2; served with the irregular horse in the Hyderabad contingent; head of the medical staff of the Turkish contingent 1855–6; inspector general of medical service of Madras 8 Jany. 1858 to 1 Aug. 1864; hon. phys. and surgeon to the queen 1861 to death; author of Two years in China 1842, 3 ed. 1843; Antiquities of Kertch and researches in the Cimmerian Bosphorus 1857. d. Merkára, Coorg 8 June 1867.

MACPHERSON, Duncan (1 son of Cluny Macpherson 1804–85). b. 9 March 1833; ensign 42 foot 25 June 1852, lieut.-col. 29 Sep. 1877, placed on h.p. 10 Jany. 1883; brevet col. 1 April 1879; served in Indian mutiny and in Ashantee war; wounded at battle of Amodful; C.B. 31 March 1874; granted service reward 13 Sep. 1882; chief of the clan Macpherson 1885 to death. d. Cluny castle, Kingussie 3 Oct. 1886.

MACPHERSON, Ewen, known as Cluny Macpherson (1 son of Duncan Macpherson 1750–1817, lieut.-col. of 3 foot guards). b. 24 April 1804; became chief of the clan Macpherson 1817; ensign 1 foot 13 Nov. 1823, lieut. 5 Nov. 1825, placed on h.p. as captain 1 Oct. 1826; lieut.-col. Invernessshire highland rifle volunteers 3 June 1861 to 2 Nov. 1882, hon. col. 2 Nov. 1882 to death; permanent steward of Northern athletic meetings; his piper always played during his meal time; first chief of the Gaelic soc. 1871, served again in 1872; kept up breeds of pure highland cattle and black faced sheep; made a fine collection of arms and Scottish relics at Cluny castle; C.B. 24 May 1881. d. Cluny castle, Kingussie 11 Jany. 1885. Biograph, April 1881 pp. 337–41; I.L.N. lxxix 189 (1881), portrait.

MACPHERSON, Gerardine (elder child of Mr. Bate of London, artist). b. 1830 or 1831; discovered Michael Angelo’s picture The Entombment at Rome, and sold it to the National gallery, London 1868; executed the etchings for the second edition of Mrs. Jameson’s Legends of the Madonna 1857; wrote Memoirs of the life of Anna Jameson, which was published in 1878 after her death; gave lessons in English, worked as an amanuensis and as a newspaper correspondent in Rome; (m. 4 Sep. 1849 Robert Macpherson, artist, who settled in Rome as a painter, then as a photographer, and d. there 1873). d. Rome 24 May 1878. Macpherson’s Memoirs of Anna Jameson (1878), memoir of G. Macpherson pp. xiii–xvii, 360.

MACPHERSON, Sir Herbert Taylor (son of Duncan Macpherson, major 78 foot). b. Ardersier, co. Inverness 27 Feb. 1827; ensign 78 foot 28 Feb. 1845, captain 5 Oct. 1857; captain 82 foot 26 Feb. 1859; captain Bengal staff corps 18 Feb. 1861, lieut.-col. 28 Feb. 1871; obtained V.C. 18 June 1858 for his conduct at defence of Lucknow 25 Sep. 1857; brigadier general Bengal 15 April 1876 to 9 Nov. 1878; commanded first brigade of first division of Khyber column in Afghan war 1878–9; M.G. Bengal 1880–5; commanded the Indian contingent in expeditionary force to Egypt 4 Aug. to Oct. 1882; C.B. 30 Aug. 1869, K.C.B. 22 Feb. 1881; K.C.S.I. 17 Nov. 1882; M.G. 1 July 1882; commander-in-chief at Madras 1 March 1886, assumed command of force of 30,000 men in Burmah 9 Sep. 1886. d. on board steamer Irrawaddy directly after leaving Prome for Rangoon 20 Oct. 1886. J. F. Maurice’s Campaign in Egypt (1887) p. 208; Graphic xxvi 553 (1882), portrait.

MACPHERSON, Hugh. b. 1768; a surgeon in the army; professor of Greek in univ. and King’s coll. of Aberdeen 1797 to death, and sub-principal 1817 to death; proprietor of the island of Eigg, Invernessshire. d. Old Aberdeen 12 March 1854.

MACPHERSON, Sir James Duncan (brother of Sir H. T. Macpherson 1827–86). b. 1811; ed. at King’s coll. Aberdeen; ensign Bengal army 4 Dec. 1828; brigade major during Punjaub campaign 1848–49; military sec. to government of the Punjaub 1852–8; commanded Agra brigade 20 Aug. 1862; commissary general of Bengal army 5 March 1864 to 22 July 1869; M.G. 24 Jany. 1867; C.B. 27 July 1858, K.C.B. 24 May 1873. d. 31 Belsize park gardens, London 29 May 1874. I.L.N. lxiv 547 (1874).

M’PHERSON, John. b. Blairnamarrow, Strathavon, Lanarkshire 29 Aug. 1801; in Paris from 1818 where he was ordained a R.C. priest 9 June 1827; professor at Aquhorties coll. Scotland 1827–32; priest of the Meadows ch. Dundee 1832, erected St. Andrew’s ch. in the Nethergate where he remained to 1847; president of Blair coll. for training the priesthood 1847–58; created D.D. at Rome 1857; vicar general of the district 1858–61; priest at New abbey 1861, and at Perth 1864–9 where he founded a convent for ladies teaching the schools and visiting the prisons; priest of St. Mary’s, Dundee 1869 to death. d. Dundee 16 July 1871. W. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities (1873) 366.

MACPHERSON, John (son of Hugh Macpherson, professor of Greek in univ. of Aberdeen 1768–1854). b. Old Aberdeen 1817; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. and univ., M.A., hon. M.D. 1845; studied medicine in London, Bonn, Vienna and Berlin; M.R.C.S. Oct. 1839; surgeon H.E.I.C.S. 1840–64; civil surgeon of Howrah near Calcutta 1843–6; assist. surgeon European general hospital, Calcutta 1846; presidency surgeon and superintendent general of vaccination to 1864; retired 1864 after 24 years of service without taking any furlough; in practice 35 Curzon st. London 1864 to 1890; made a fine collection of engravings; with J. Mc Clelland conducted The Calcutta journal of natural history, vols. 6–8, 1841; author of The mineral waters of India. Calcutta 1854; Cholera in its home 1866; The baths and wells of Europe 1869, 3 ed. 1888; Our baths and wells, the mineral waters of the British islands 1871; Annals of cholera from the earliest periods 1884. d. 35 Curzon st. London 17 March 1890. I.L.N. 5 April 1890 p. 419, portrait; Pictorial World 27 March 1890 pp. 399, 408, portrait.

MACPHERSON, Philip. b. 1790; ensign 43 foot 2 Nov. 1809; aide de camp and military sec. to sir Charles James Napier in the operations in Scinde; captain 17 foot 26 Nov. 1829, lieut.-col. 3 Dec. 1852 to 7 Sep. 1855; C.B. 4 July 1843; commanded 1 brigade of 4 division in the Crimea 18 Dec. 1854 to 15 June 1855; M.G. 24 Dec. 1858; colonel 13 foot 15 Aug. 1863 to death. d. Clifton, York 2 Feb. 1864. T. Carter’s Historical record of thirteenth light infantry (1867) p. 194.

MACPHERSON, Robert Barclay. b. 1775; ensign 88 foot 3 June 1795, major 17 March 1808 to 28 Nov. 1816 when placed on h.p.; colonel 73 foot 29 July 1852 to 11 Feb. 1857; colonel 88 foot 11 Feb. 1857 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854; C.B. 4 June 1815; K.H. 1835. d. Viewfield lodge, Stirling 23 Dec. 1858.

MACPHERSON, Samuel Charters (brother of John Macpherson 1817–90). b. King’s college, Old Aberdeen 7 Jany. 1806; studied at college of Edinb. 1822–3 and at Trin. coll. Camb. 1823–5; ensign 8 Madras N.I. 28 Feb. 1827, captain 18 Jany. 1845 to death; principal assistant to the collector and agent in Gangam 1842–5; conquered the Gumsur Khond county by the use of moral influences 1842–4; governor general’s agent for suppression of Meriah or human sacrifice and female infanticide in hill tracts of Orissa, Nov. 1845, but was superseded 1847; agent at Benares, Aug. 1853, agent at Bhopal 1853; political agent at Gwalior, capital of Scindhia 13 June 1854 to death; brevet major 20 June 1854; gazetted C.B. 18 May 1860 after his death; author of Account of the religion of the Khonds in Orissa 1852. d. in his brother’s house at Calcutta 15 April 1860. Memorials of service in India from the correspondence of major S. C. Macpherson. Ed. by W. Macpherson (1865), portrait.

MACPHERSON, William (brother of the preceding). b. Aberdeen 19 July 1812; ed. at Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1838; barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1837; practised at Calcutta bar 1846; master of equity in supreme court of Calcutta 1848 to March 1859; edited the Quarterly Review in London, Oct. 1860 to Oct. 1867; secretary of Indian law commission Dec. 1861 to Dec. 1870; legal adviser to India office June 1874, secretary in the judicial department Sep. 1879, retired 20 Feb. 1882; author of A treatise on the law relating to infants 1842; The procedure of the civil courts of the East India Company. Calcutta 1850, 5 ed. 1871; Outlines of the law of contracts as administered in the courts of British India 1860; The practice of the judicial committee of her majesty’s privy council 1860, 2 ed. 1873. d. 3 Kensington gardens square, London 20 April 1893.

M’PHUN, William Rae. b. 1801; publisher at Glasgow; published Mc Phun’s Glasgow magazine 1824; Mc Phun’s Guide through Glasgow 1833, 4 ed. 1837; Mc Phun’s Catechism of phrenology, 34th thousand 1850; Mc Phun’s Catechism of useful knowledge 2 parts 1857–9; Twenty thousand geographical facts 1857, another ed. 1885; Mc Phun’s New pocket lawyer 2 parts 1860–1. d. Greenpoint cottage, Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire 15 Sep. 1877. Bookseller, March 1877 p. 216.

MACQUEEN, Donald John. Ensign 74 foot 14 July 1800, major 23 Oct. 1830, sold out 3 Oct. 1834; served in the Peninsula, Feb. 1810 to 1814, severely wounded several times; received silver war medal with 9 clasps; K.H. 1835; barrack master at Dundee and Perth some time; a military knight of Windsor about July 1865 to death. d. Windsor castle 20 Jany. 1866 aged 79.

MACQUEEN, James. b. Crawford, Lanarkshire 1778; manager of a sugar plantation in Grenada, West Indies 1796 etc.; settled at Glasgow 1821, became editor and part-proprietor of the Glasgow Herald; projected and organised the Colonial bank and the Royal mail steam packet company; settled in London, wrote in newspapers and magazines; F.R.G.S.; author of A geographical and commercial view of northern central Africa. Edinburgh 1821; The West India colonies: the calumnies and misrepresentations circulated against them examined and refuted 1824; General statistics of the British empire 1836; A geographical survey of Africa 1840; A new map of Africa 1841, the first map approaching correctness. d. 10 Norton st. Kensington 14 May 1870. Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. xiv 301–2 (1870).

M’QUEEN, James (son of John M’Queen of Braxfield, d. 1837). b. 1798; ensign 80 foot 31 March 1814, lieut. 1819; lieut. 3 light dragoons 9 Nov. 1820, placed on h.p. 25 Oct. 1821; lieut. 6 dragoons 16 May 1822; captain 4 light dragoons 26 March 1829; major 15 light dragoons 18 June 1841, placed on h.p. 14 June 1842; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. Tintoch house, Barton fields, Canterbury 25 Nov. 1883.

MACQUEEN, John Fraser (8 son of Donald Macqueen of Corrybrough, Invernessshire, d. 1813). b. 1803; barrister L.I. 8 June 1838, bencher 13 March 1861 to death; sec. of the divorce commission Jany. 1851, the first report was made 1853; official reporter of Scottish and divorce appeals in the house of lords 1860; Q.C. 25 Feb. 1861; author of A practical treatise on the appellate jurisdiction of the house of lords and privy council 1842; The rights and liabilities of husband and wife at law and in equity 1848, 3 ed. 1885; Reports of Scotch appeals and writs of error in the house of lords 1851–1865, 4 vols. 1855–66; A practical treatise on divorce and matrimonial jurisdiction under the act of 1857. 1858, 2 ed. 1860. d. 4 Upper Westbourne terrace, Hyde park, London 6 Dec. 1881.

MACRAY, John. b. Aberdeen 1796; employed by Messrs. Treuttel and Wurtz of Soho square, London, foreign booksellers; then by John Henry Parker of Oxford; librarian of the Taylor institution, Oxford 1847–71. d. Ducklington rectory, Oxfordshire 13 Aug. 1878. Bookseller 3 Sep. 1878 p. 816.

MACREADY, Catherine Frances Birch (2 dau. of W. C. Macready 1793–1873). b. Elm place, Elstree, Herts. 21 July 1835, much devoted to the poor at Cheltenham; author of Leaves from the Olive mount 1860; Cowl and cap or the rival churches, and minor poems 1865; Devotional lays 1868. d. and bur. at sea on her voyage from Madeira to England 24 March 1869. Macready’s Reminiscences, i 425, ii 445, 465, 467 (1875).

MACREADY, Sarah (dau. of Mr. Desmond). b. Newcastle 16 Feb. 1790; an actress at theatre royal, Bristol, where she played Lady Macbeth, Hermione in the Winter’s Tale, Emilie in Othello, the Widow Cheerly, Meg Merrilies, Helen Macgregor and queen Elizabeth; (m. as his second wife William Macready manager of the Bristol theatre and father of W. C. Macready. William Macready d. Queen sq. Bristol 11 April 1829, bur. in the cath.); lessee of Bristol theatre 1829 to death; lessee of Bath theatre 2 Sep. 1845 to death; had a residence at Queen sq. Bristol. d. at residence of her son in law J. H. Chute, Bath 8 March 1853. bur. Bristol cath. 14 March. B. S. Penley’s Bath stage (1892) 145–9; The Bristol Mercury 12 March 1853 p. 8.

MACREADY, William Charles (son of William Macready d. 11 April 1829). b. Mary st. Tottenham court road, London 3 March 1793; ed. at Rugby 1803–8; first appeared at Birmingham as Romeo 7 June 1810; his portrait by De Wilde exhibited at Royal academy, London 1812; first appeared in London at Covent Garden as Orestes in the Distressed mother 16 Sep. 1816; played Richard III. at Covent Garden 25 Oct. 1819; the original in London of S. Knowles’ Virginius 17 May 1820; starred at Covent Garden 1816–23 and at Drury Lane 1823–34; first appeared in America at Park theatre, New York as Virginius 2 Oct. 1826; played Joseph Surface in The school for scandal at Drury Lane 27 Nov. 1832; assaulted Alfred Bunn at Drury Lane theatre 29 April 1836 who obtained sum of £150 damages in the Sheriff’s court 29 June 1836; lessee Covent Garden theatre 30 Sep. 1837 to 17 July 1839; produced the Lady of Lyons, playing Claude Melnotte 15 Feb. 1838 and Richelieu 7 March 1839; elected member of Athenæum club 21 June 1838; C. Dickens dedicated Nicholas Nickleby to him 1839; played at Haymarket 16 March 1840 to 13 March 1841, played Evelyn in Money 8 Dec. 1840 to 13 March 1841; manager of Drury Lane theatre 27 Dec. 1841 to 14 June 1843; acted in America 25 Sep. 1843 to 14 Oct. 1844, and in Paris, Dec. 1844 to Jany. 1845; in America again 4 Oct. 1848 to 10 May 1849 when the great riot at Astor place theatre, New York took place; made his last appearance on stage at Drury Lane 26 Feb. 1851 as Macbeth, Samuel Phelps being the Macduff; a public reader and lecturer; lived at 5 Clarence terrace, Regent’s park, London 1840–50, at Sherborne house, Sherborne, Dorset 1850–60 and at Cheltenham 1860 to death; author of The poetical works of Alexander Pope revised and arranged for young people 1849; with J. S. Knowles produced The Bridal, a tragedy altered from The Maid’s Tragedy by Beaumont and Fletcher, Haymarket 26 June 1837; m. (1) 24 June 1824 Catherine Frances Atkins actress b. 11 Nov. 1806, d. Plymouth 18 Sep. 1852; m. (2) 3 April 1860 Cecile Louise Frederica (5 dau. of Henry Spencer). d. 6 Wellington sq. Cheltenham 27 April 1873. bur. Kensal green 4 May. Sir F. Pollock’s Macready’s Reminiscences 2 vols. (1875), 4 portraits; Juliet Pollock’s Macready as I knew him (1884); W. Marston’s Our recent actors, i 25–109 (1888); G. Sharf’s Recollections of scenic effects at Covent Garden (1839); T. Marshall’s Lives of the most celebrated actors (1847) 1–36; A. Brereton’s Some famous Hamlets (1884) 36–9; J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters, ii 215–36 (1841); R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age, ii 104–28 (1844); Metropolitan Mag. xvii 81–5 (1836); Tallis’s Dramatic Mag. (1851) 148, 229–34, 3 portraits; Tallis’s Drawing room table book parts 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 17, 18 and 21, 8 portraits.

MACREDIE, Patrick Boyle Mure (son of Thomas Mure). b. Warriston near Edinb. 28 Sep. 1800; ed. Edinb. univ.; an advocate Edinb. 1822 to death; took the name of Macredie 1835; engaged in the Dreghorn parish presentation case 1830–4; F.R.S. Edinb.; an elder in the General assembly 1832; joined the Free church 1843; carried on mines and fire clay works and built improved dwellings for his workmen. d. Edinburgh 15 April 1868. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 377–82.

MACROBIN, John. L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1826; M.D. Edinb. 1827; professor of medicine in Marischal coll. and univ. of Aberdeen 1839 to 15 Sep. 1860, emeritus professor 1860 to death; represented univ. of Aberdeen on general medical council 19 Dec. 1868 to 19 Oct. 1873; author of An introduction to the study of practical medicine 1835. d. Aberdeen 4 Jany. 1879.

MACROSSAN, John Murtagh (son of a farmer). b. Donegal 1832; went to Australia 1853; on the gold fields of Victoria, New Zealand, New South Wales and Queensland 1853–73; chosen member for the Kennedy electorate to the legislative assembly by the miners of Charters Town, Queensland 1873; sec. for public works and mines 21 Jany. 1879 to 13 March 1883, and 13 June 1888 with additional office of colonial sec. Jany. 1890, retired Aug. 1890; member for Townsville 1888 to death; a delegate for Queensland to Australian federation convention in Sydney 1891. d. Sydney, N.S.W. 30 March 1891; the Queensland parliament voted £2000 to his widow.

MC SHERRY, Thomas. Entered Bengal army 1816; lieut. 15 Bengal N.I. 1 Aug. 1818; captain 30 N.I. 12 May 1827, major 1 Dec. 1839 to 1845; lieut.-col. of 30 N.I. 1846–47, of 1 N.I. 1847–55, brevet col. 20 June 1854. d. 1856.

MC TAGGART, Sir John, 1 Baronet (1 son of John Mc Taggart of Ardwell, Stranraer, Wigtonshire). b. Wigtonshire 15 March 1789; a merchant in London; contested Wigton 1832; M.P. Wigton district of burghs 1835–57; created a baronet 23 Aug. 1841. d. Ardwell 13 Aug. 1867. G.M. iv 392 (1867).

MC TAVISH, Charles Carroll (son of Charles Mc Tavish). b. U.S. of America; M.P. Dundalk 6 Aug. 1847, unseated on petition 20 March 1848; governor of Rupert’s Land, Canada. d. Liverpool 3 days after his return 23 July 1870. Appleton’s Annual Cyclopædia for 1870, x 592 (1873).

MACTIER, William. Entered Bengal army 1810; major 4 Bengal light cavalry 12 Jany. 1842 to 6 Sep. 1851; lieut.-col. 1 Bengal light cavalry 6 Sep. 1851 to 1853; lieut.-col. 2 Bengal light cavalry 1853 to death; colonel in the army 20 June 1854; C.B. 3 April 1846. d. Juanpore, Bengal 17 Sep. 1855.

MACVICAR, John Gibson (2 son of Patrick Macvicar, minister of St. Paul’s, Dundee). b. Dundee 16 March 1800; ed. at univs. of St. Andrews and Edinb.; licensed as a preacher by presbytery of Dundee; lecturer in natural history at St. Andrew’s univ. 1827–31 when he became professor; assistant to Dr. Candlish in St. George’s parish, Edinb.; pastor of a branch of the Scottish church in Ceylon 1839–52; minister of Moffat, Dumfriesshire, July 1853 to death; edited the Quarterly journal of agriculture 1828; author of Elements of the economy of nature 1830, 2 ed. 1856; On the beautiful, the picturesque and the sublime 1837, reproduced as The philosophy of the beautiful 1855; An enquiry into human nature 1853. d. the manse of Moffat 12 Feb. 1884.

MC WHINNIE, Andrew Melville. b. south of England 1808; M.R.C.S. 1830, F.R.C.S. 1843; lecturer on comparative anatomy at St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London 1839–60 and assist. surgeon 1854–60; translated J. G. Cloquet’s Anatomical description of the parts concerned in inguinal and femoral hernia 1835; author of Malformation of the bladder 1854; and with T. Wormald of A series of anatomical sketches 1838. d. The Crescent, New Bridge st. Blackfriars, London 27 Feb. 1866.