M’CABE, Richard. Printer Drogheda; foreman of The Examiner, the Drogheda Argus and the Coleraine Chronicle; manager of the Dundalk Patriot to 1848; a paragraphist and reporter on Dublin and Belfast newspapers to death. d. Drogheda 27 Jany. 1872. bur. Chord 29 Jany. Newspaper Press 1 March 1872 p. 88.

MACCABE, William Bernard. b. Dublin 23 Nov. 1801; reporter on the Dublin Morning register from 1823; edited provincial Irish newspapers; employed on the Morning Chronicle in London from about 1833, to which he contributed critical reviews; a reviewer on the Morning Herald 1835 to about 1850; edited The Telegraph newspaper in Dublin in the interest of cardinal Wiseman 1852–7; lived in Brittany many years; translated J. Venedy’s Ireland and the Irish during the repeal year, 1844, and J. J. I. Von Doellinger’s The church and the churches 1862; author of A catholic history of England 3 vols. 1847–54; Bertha, a romance of the dark ages 3 vols. 1851; Adelaide queen of Italy 1856, 2 ed. 1860; Florine princess of Burgundy 1855, 3 ed. 1873; contributed to Once a Week, Notes and Queries, and the Dublin Review. d. Donnybrook, co. Dublin 8 Dec. 1891.

M’CALL, Allan. b. Dumfries 1850; an architect; leader of Livingstonia mission in Nyasa-Land, travelled between fifteen and twenty thousand miles in South Africa 1872–8. d. Madeira 25 Nov. 1881. bur. Leicester cemet. 18 Jany. 1882.

MC CALL, William. Ensign 79 foot 29 March 1839, major 12 Dec. 1854 to 5 Aug. 1857 when placed on h.p.; standard bearer to corps of gentlemen at arms 30 Sep. 1872 to death. d. 7 Bruton st. Berkeley sq. London 20 Dec. 1875.

MACCALL, William (eld. son of John Maccall of Largs, Ayrshire, tradesman). b. Largs 25 Feb. 1812; entered Glasgow univ. 1827, M.A. 1833; Unitarian minister at Bolton, Lancs. 1837–40 and at Crediton, Devon 1841–6; preacher, lecturer and writer for the press in London 1846–61; edited The Propagandist 1862; author of The agents of civilization 1843; Sacramental services 1847; The elements of individualism 1847; Foreign biographies 2 vols. 1873; Russian Hymns 1878; Moods and memories 1885. d. Stanhope cottage, Woolwich road, Bexley Heath, Kent 19 Nov. 1888.

MAC CALMONT, Frederick Haynes (2 son of rev. Thomas Mac Calmont of Highfield near Southampton). b. Highfield 1846; ed. at Eton and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1869, B.C.L. and M.A. 1872; barrister M.T. 30 April 1872; resided at Southampton, member of the school board, alderman; author of The parliamentary poll book of all elections 1832–79, 1879, Second ed. 1880, Third ed. 1885. d. Radley’s hotel, Southampton 4 Nov. 1880. Solicitors’ Journal, xxv 56 (1880).

M’CALMONT, Hugh (3 son of Hugh M’Calmont of Abbeylands, co. Antrim, d. 1839). b. 1809; member of firm of M’Calmont Brothers & Co., merchants at 15 Philpot Lane, Cannon st. London; resided at 8 Grosvenor place, London and at Abbeylands, co. Antrim; bequeathed £100,000 to St. George’s hospital, London. d. 9 Oct. 1887, the value of his personal property was declared at £3,121,931 7s. 8d., Dec. 1887.

MC CANN, Nicholas (son of Thomas Mc Cann of Lismoy house, co. Longford). b. 1802; M.R.C.S. 1827, L.S.A. 1834; M.D. St. Andrews 1855; L.R.C.P. Edinb. 1859; surgeon to Western dispensary, London 1831–43; surgeon to royal humane soc. 1837; fellow of Medical soc. of London; surgeon to A division of police 1839; examining physician to foreign service messengers 22 Nov. 1858 to death. d. 50 Parliament st. London 24 Jany. 1867.

MACCARTHY, Sir Charles Justin. b. Brighton 1811; auditor general of Ceylon 1847, colonial secretary there 1851; governor of Ceylon 23 Aug. 1860 to death; knighted by patent 10 July 1857. d. Spa, Belgium 14 Aug. 1864.

M’CARTHY, Daniel. b. near Kenmare, co. Kerry 1823; ed. Maynooth coll., teacher of rhetoric 1846, professor of scripture and Hebrew 1854, vice president 1872–8; bishop of Kerry and Aghadoe, consecrated 25 Aug. 1878; editor of L. F. Renehan’s Collections on Irish church history 1861; M. Kelly’s Dissertations on Irish church history 1864; author of Sermons on the immaculate conception 1880. d. Killarney, July 1881. Times 28 July 1881 p. 10.

MACCARTHY, Denis Florence. b. Lower Sackville st. Dublin 26 May 1817; ed. at Dublin and Maynooth; called to Irish bar 1846; contributed a series of political verse to The Nation newspaper over signature of Desmond 1842; an original member of the ’82 club formed in 1844, on the council of the confederation 1847; resided in London 1872–82; contributed poems and humorous prose papers to periodicals signed Desmond, Vig, Trifolium, Antonio, S. E. Y. and D. F. M.; his translations of Calderon’s works appeared in six issues as follows, Justina, a play 1848; Dramas 1853; Love the greatest enchantment 1861; Mysteries of Corpus Christi 1867; The two lovers of heaven 1870; The wonder-working musician, &c. 1873; for the six volumes he was granted medal of royal academy of Spain 1881; granted civil list pension of £100, 3 Aug. 1870; author of The poets and dramatists of Ireland 1 vol. 1846; Ballads, poems and lyrics 1850; The bell founder 1857; Shelley’s Early life 1872; Poems 1882. d. Blackrock near Dublin 7 April 1882. Dublin Review, April 1883 pp. 261–93.

MAC CARTHY, Hamilton Wright (2 son of John James Alexander Mac Carthy, artist). b. 1810; sculptor and poet; exhibited 23 pieces of sculpture at R.A. and 13 at B.I. 1838–67. d. 17 Springfield villas, Kilburn, London 2 Feb. 1882.

MC CARTHY, John F. (son of Michael Mc Carthy). b. 1862; provision merchant at Tipperary; M.P. mid division of Tipperary 18 July 1892. d. Roscrea, Tipperary 8 Feb. 1893.

MACCARTHY, John George (son of John Maccarthy of Cork). b. Cork, June 1829; founded with Justin Mac Carthy, Cork historical society 1849; founded Cork Young men’s society 1852; solicitor at Cork 1853–81; M.P. Mallow 1874–80; assistant comr. under Land act of 1881, 1881–6; one of the two comrs. under land purchase act of 1885, 1886 to death; made a knight of the order of St. Gregory by Leo XIII. Feb. 1880; author of The history of Cork, a lecture. Cork 1856; Irish land questions plainly stated and answered 1870; The French revolution of 1792, its causes etc. Dublin 1884; Henry Grattan, a historical study, Dublin 1886. d. Euston hotel, London 7 Sep. 1892. bur. Glasnevin cemet. Dublin. Irish Law Times, xxii 116 (1888).

MC CAUL, Alexander. b. Dublin 16 May 1799; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 3 Oct. 1814, B.A. 1819, M.A. 1831, B.D. and D.D. 1837; tutor to Earl of Rosse; sent to Poland by London Soc. for promoting Christianity among the Jews 1821; C. of Huntley near Gloucester 1823; head of the mission to the Jews, and English chaplain at Warsaw 1823–30; settled in London 1832; published Old Paths, a weekly pamphlet on Jewish ritual 60 numbers 1836–37; principal of the Hebrew college, London 1840; declined bishopric of Jerusalem 1841; professor of Hebrew and Rabbinical literature in King’s college, London 1841–6, professor of divinity 1846–53, professor of ecclesiastical history Dec. 1853 to 1863; R. of St. James’s, Duke’s place, London 1843–50; preb. of St. Paul’s 1845 to death; declined bishoprics of Adelaide, Newcastle and Capetown 1847; R. of St. Magnus, St. Margaret and St. Michael, Fish st. hill, London 21 Jany. 1850 to death; proctor for the London clergy in convocation 1852 to death; author of A Hebrew primer 4 ed. 1836; Lectures on the Prophecies and The Messiahship of Christ, being Warburtonian lectures 2 series 1846–52; Rationalism and the divine interpretation of scripture 1850; Some notes on the first chapter of Genesis 1861; Testimonies to the divine authority of the holy scripture 1862; An examination of bishop Colenso’s difficulties with regard to the Pentateuch 2 vols. 1863–4 and 50 other works. d. St. Magnus’s rectory, London 13 Nov. 1863. bur. Ilford, Essex 20 Nov. J. B. Mc Caul’s Memoir of A. Mc Caul (1863); I.L.N. xxiv 400 (1854), portrait.

MC CAUL, John. b. Dublin 7 March 1807; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1824, B.A. 1825, M.A. 1829, LL.B. and LL.D. 1835, classical tutor and examiner; principal of the Upper Canadian coll. Nov. 1838; V.P. of King’s coll. Toronto and professor of classics, logic, rhetoric and belles lettres 1842; pres. of univ. of Toronto 1849; pres. of univ. coll. and V.C. of univ. of Toronto 1853–81; M.R.I.A.; author of Remarks explanatory and illustrative on the Terentian metres 1828; The metres of the Greek tragedians explained 1828; Selections from Lucian, with English notes 1829; Remarks on the classical studies pursued in the university of Dublin 1834; Scansion of the Hecuba and Medea of Euripides 1836; Britanno-Roman inscriptions with critical notes. Toronto and London 1863; Christian epitaphs of the first six centuries 1869. d. 15 April 1887. H. J. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 254–5.

MC CAUL, Joseph Benjamin (son of Alexander Mc Caul 1799–1863). Ed. King’s coll. London, theological associate 1850; assistant in British Museum 1846–9 and engaged upon the compilation of the catalogue March 1851 to 1865; censor, reader and divinity lecturer, King’s coll. 1852–54; C. of St. Magnus the Martyr, London 1851–4; C. of All Saints’, Gordon sq. London 1854–5; C. of St. Edmund the King, Lombard st. 1858–65; chaplain at Amsterdam 1877–9; R. of St. Michael, Bassishaw 1865 to death; hon. canon of Rochester 1865 to death; author of The abbé Migne and the Bibliothèque universelle du clergé 1857; The ten commandments, the christian’s spiritual instructor 1861; Bishop Colenso’s Criticism criticised 1862; The epistle to the Hebrews in a paraphrastic commentary 1871; Dark sayings of old, an attempt to elucidate certain passages of scripture 1873; A concise exposition of St. Paul’s epistle to the Romans 1882; The last plague of Egypt and other poems 1879. d. 11 Flander’s road, Turnham Green near London 3 Feb. 1892.

MC CAUSLAND, Dominick (3 son of Marcus Langford Mc Causland of Roe park, co. Londonderry). b. Roe park 20 Aug. 1806; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1822, gold medallist for science 1827, B.A. 1827, LL.B. and LL.D. 1859; called to Irish bar 1835, went north western circuit; a crown prosecutor for co. Fermanagh 1859 to death; Q.C. 4 July 1860; author of The latter days of the Jewish church and nation as revealed in the Apocalypse. Dublin 1841; The times of the Gentiles as revealed in the Apocalypse. Dublin 1852, reissued 1857, both were combined in a 2nd ed. as The latter days of Jerusalem and Rome 1859; Sermons in stones 1856, 13 ed. 1873; Adam and the Adamite 1864, 2 ed. 1868; Shinar the confusion of language 1867; The builders of Babel 1871. d. 12 Fitzgibbon st. Dublin 29 June 1873. W. D. Ferguson’s Memoir of D. Mc Causland (1873); Irish Law Times, vii 354 (1873).

MC CAUSLAND, John Kennedy. b. 1803; entered Bengal army 1818; commanded Gwalior district 20 Jany. 1860 to 13 Feb. 1861; retired L.G. 31 Dec. 1861; C.B. 21 March 1859. d. Melrose villa, Cheltenham 23 July 1879.

MC CAW, William. b. Antrim; minister of presbyterian church, Bridge st. Strangeways near Manchester, Nov. 1846; author of Truth frae ’mang the heather 1856, 5 ed. 1880; The gospel and total abstinence 1857; Romanism, ritualism and revelation 1876. J. Evans’ Lancashire authors (1850) 166–70.

MC CLEAN, John Robinson. b. Belfast 1813; studied at univ. of Glasgow; a civil engineer in London 1844; constructed harbour, docks and railways of Barrow in Furness; partner with F. C. Stileman 1849; engineer of harbours of Dover 1851, Alderney 1862 and St. Catherine’s, Jersey 1862 &c.; sent to Egypt as comr. to report on the Suez canal route; served on several royal commissions; retired from practice 1868; contested Belfast 3 April 1857; M.P. east Staffs. 17 Nov. 1868 to death; chairman of Anglo-American telegraph co.; M.I.C.E. June 1844, member of council 1848, vice pres. 1858, pres. 1864 and 1865; F.R.S.; F.G.S.; F.R.A.S. 8 Jany. 1858. d. Stonehouse, Isle of Thanet 13 July 1873, personalty sworn under £700,000, 6 Sep. 1873. Monthly notices of R.A.S. xxxiv 148 (1874); Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxviii 287–91 (1874); Humber’s Modern engineering 3rd series (1865), portrait.

MC CLELLAND, James. b. Ayr 18 Jany. 1799; accountant Glasgow, March 1824, retired 1874, had many apprentices in his business; president of royal institution of accountants, Glasgow 1853; great friend of George Combe the phrenologist; removed to London 1874. d. 32 Pembridge sq. London 24 Oct. 1879. W. C. Maclehose’s Glasgow men, ii 185–6 (1886), portrait.

MC CLELLAND, John. Surgeon Bengal army 30 Nov. 1846; inspector general of hospitals 8 Nov. 1860, principal inspector general 1864 to 24 Nov. 1865 when he retired; conducted The Calcutta journal of natural history 1841; author of Reports on investigation of coal and mineral resources of India 1838; Some inquiries in Kemaon relative to geology 1835; Sketches of the medical topography and soils of Bengal 1859. d. 29 Marina, St. Leonards-on-Sea 31 July 1883.

M’CLINTOCK, John (eld. son of John M’Clintock of Drumcar, M.P. Enniskillen, d. 1799). b. 14 Aug. 1770; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1790; sheriff of co. Louth 1798; present at battles of Arklow 10 June 1798 and Vinegar Hill 12 June 1798; serjeant at arms with his younger brother Wm. Foster M’Clintock 1794 to 1800 when a pension of £2545 was assigned to them in compensation for the office; M.P. Athlone, Westmeath 24 March 1820 to May 1820 when he was appointed escheator of Munster. d. Drumcar, co. Louth 12 July 1855.

MC CLURE, Sir Robert John Le Mesurier (son of Robert Mc Clure, captain 89 foot, d. 1806). b. Wexford 28 Jany. 1807; ed. at Eton and Sandhurst; entered navy 1824; mate of the Terror in her Arctic voyage 1836–7; commanded the Romney at Havana 1842–6; first lieut. of the Investigator in sir J. C. Ross’s Arctic expedition 1848–9 and commander of her in Collinson’s expedition, sailed from Plymouth 20 Jany. 1850, discovered the north-west passage 26 Oct. 1850, the Investigator was forced into a bay on the north shore of Banks’ Land 23 Sep. 1851 where in 1853 she was abandoned; crossed Banks’s Strait to Winter harbour in Melville Island, April 1852; arrived in England in the North Star 28 Sep. 1854, tried by court martial for loss of his ship when honourably acquitted; captain 18 Dec. 1850; knighted at Windsor Castle 21 Nov. 1855; parliament awarded £10,000 to officers and crew of the Investigator 1855; captain of the Esk 1856; commanded a battalion of the naval brigade at capture of Canton, Dec. 1857; C.B. 20 May 1859; R.A. 20 March 1867, retired V.A. 29 May 1873; awarded good service pension 12 Sep. 1863. d. 25 Duke st. St. James’s, London 17 Oct. 1873. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 25 Oct. The north-west passage. Capt. Mc Clure’s despatches (1853); S. Osborn’s Discovery of a north-west passage 4 ed. (1865); A. Armstrong’s Discovery of the north-west passage (1857); S. Cresswell’s Eight sketches of the voyage of H.M.S. Investigator (1854); Graphic, viii 407, 412 (1873), portrait.

MC CLURE, Sir Thomas, 1 Baronet (son of William Mc Clure, merchant). b. Belfast 4 March 1806; ed. at Belfast royal academical institution; merchant Belfast; sheriff of Downshire 1864 and vice lieut. 17 June 1872 to 1886; M.P. Belfast 1868–74; contested Belfast 6 Feb. 1874; M.P. Londonderry 1878–85; cr. a baronet 20 March 1874. d. Belmont near Belfast 21 Jany. 1893. Daily Graphic 23 Jany. 1893 p. 8, portrait.

M’COLLUM, Thomas. Lessee with Wm. Charman of New royal amphitheatre, Holborn, London, opened 25 May 1867. d. 7 Oakden st. Kennington road, London 22 March 1872 aged 44. bur. Brompton cemet. 26 March. Illust. Times 22 June 1867 p. 392, view of interior of Holborn amphitheatre.

MC COMB, William (son of Thomas Mc Comb of Coleraine, Londonderry, draper). b. Coleraine 17 Aug. 1793; teacher of Brown st. daily school, Belfast to 1828; bookseller in High st. Belfast 1828, retired 1864; established Mc Comb’s Presbyterian Almanac 1840 which ran to 1873; author of The dirge of O’Neill 1817; The school of the Sabbath 1822, 2 ed. 1825; The voice of a year, or recollections of 1848, with other poems 1849; Poetical works 1864. d. Colin View terrace, Belfast 13 Sep. 1873.

MC COMBIE, William (only child of William Mc Combie, farmer). b. Cairnballoch, parish of Alford, Aberdeenshire 8 May 1809; a labourer on his father’s farm; farmed Cairnballoch to 1867; contributed to newspapers, to the British Quarterly Review, and to Journal of sacred literature; joined staff of North of Scotland gazette 1849; edited the Aberdeen Daily Free press from first number 6 May 1853 to death; a preacher in John st. Baptist ch. Aberdeen; author of Hours of thought 1835, 3 ed. 1856; Moral agency and man as a moral agent 1842; Memoirs of Alexander Bethune 1845; Use and abuse, the relation to labour of capital, machinery and land 1852; On education, in its constituents, objects and issues 1857. d. Broadford Bank, Aberdeen 6 May 1870. Aberdeen Daily Free Press 13 May 1870 p. 5; Newspaper Press, iv 153–4 (1870); Nicoll’s James Macdonald, journalist (1890) 34–9.

MC COMBIE, William (younger son of Charles Mc Combie, farmer, Tillyfour). b. Tillyfour farm, Aberdeenshire 1805; ed. at Aberdeen univ.; a farmer of 1200 acres and cattle-dealer at Tillyfour; began to breed black-polled cattle 1840, fatted about 300 oxen a year; the first Scottish exhibitioner of fat cattle at Birmingham; won over 500 prizes for his cattle; one of the largest farmers in Aberdeenshire; known as the ‘Grazier King’; M.P. West Aberdeenshire 1868–76, being the first tenant farmer returned from Scotland; author of Cattle and cattle breeders 1867; The Mc Combe annual prize for black-polled cattle establed at Aberdeen 1876. d. Tillyfour farm, Aberdeenshire 1 Feb. 1880. Times 3 Feb. 1880 p. 5; Graphic, xxi 196 (1880), portrait; W. M’Combie’s Cattle breeders 4 ed. (1886), memoir xi–xviii; Aberdeen Daily Free Press 3 Feb. 1880; James Macdonald’s History of polled Angus cattle (1882).