MACCOMO, Martini. b. Angola, south-west Africa 1839; lion tamer at circus of Messrs. Stone and Mc Collum, New York 1855; travelled through the United States; came to England 1857, engaged by Wm. Manders proprietor of menagerie, first appeared in England at Deptford 1857; travelled with Manders as the African Lion King 1857 to death. d. from rheumatic fever at Palatine hotel, Sunderland 11 Jany. 1871. Era 15 Jany. 1871 p. 11, col. 1; Baily’s Mag. xliii 15–16 (1885).

MC CONNELL, William. b. Warwick st. Regent st. London 29 Sep. 1831; a draughtsman on wood of illustrations to humourous books; on the original staff of The Train, a magazine 1 Jany. 1856; illustrated Oliver Oldfellow’s Our School 1857; G. F. Pardon’s The Months 1858; G. A. Sala’s Twice round the clock 1859; J. Rodenberg’s Tag und Nacht in London 1862; Upside down, or turnover traits with verses by Thomas Hood the younger 1868. d. of consumption at 17 Tavistock st. Bedford sq. London 14 May 1867.

M’COOLE, Michael. b. Ireland 12 March 1837; boatman on the Mississippi river; was 6 feet and ¾ of an inch high and 200 lbs. in weight; beat Wm. Narry at Louisville, Kentuckey, April 1858; beat Tom Jennings near New Orleans 2 May 1861; fought Joseph Coburn for 2000 dollars and the championship at Cecil county, Maryland 5 May 1863 when Coburn won; fought Wm. Davis for 2000 dollars and a champion belt at Rhoads Point near St. Louis 19 Sep. 1866 when M’Coole won; fought Aaron Jones for the championship at Busenburk station, Ohio 31 Aug. 1867 when M’Coole won; fought Tom Allen for 1000 dollars a side and the championship at Foster’s Island, St. Louis 15 June 1869 when M’Coole won; fought Allen again at Chateau island, St. Louis 23 Sep. 1873 when Allen won; arrested 29 Oct. 1873 for shooting Patsy Mavery the pugilist at St. Louis, when put under 20,000 dollars bail; rearrested and found guilty of wilful murder by the coroner’s jury but the matter was squashed. d. New Orleans 17 Oct. 1886. W. E. Harding’s Champions of the American prize ring (1884) 14, 18–20, portrait.

MC CORKINDALE, Duncan (son of Duncan Mc Corkindale). b. Campbeltown, Argyllshire 2 Feb. 1809; a clerk in Glasgow, then in London, returned to Glasgow, retired from business 1857; author of Sketches of genius and other poems 1831; Poems of early and later years 1863; A raid in the Highlands 1868. R. Inglis’ Dramatic writers (1868) 134–5.

MACCORMAC, Henry (son of Cornelius Maccormac an officer in the navy). b. Fairlawn, co. Armagh 1800; studied at Dublin, Paris and Edinb., M.D. Edinb. 1824; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1824; a physician at Belfast; phys. to Belfast fever hospital, took charge of the cholera hospital 1832; visiting phys. to Belfast district lunatic asylum to death; professor of theory and practice of medicine in royal Belfast institution; author of A treatise on the cause and cure of hesitation of speech or stammering 1828; The philosophy of human nature 1837; On the nature, treatment and prevention of pulmonary consumption 1855, 2 ed. 1865; Metanoia, a plea for the insane 1861; Consumption and the breath rebreathed 1872. d. Fisherwick place, Belfast 26 May 1886.

MC CORMICK, Robert (son of Robert Mc Cormick, surgeon in the navy, drowned 1811). b. Runham near Great Yarmouth 22 July 1800; studied at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals 1821; M.R.C.S. 6 Dec. 1822, F.R.C.S. 1844; assistant surgeon R.N. 1823; served in sir E. Parry’s expedition to Spitzbergen in the Hecla 1827; surgeon in the Terror, relieving ice bound whaling ships 1836; surgeon of the Erebus in Ross’s expedition to the Antartic 1839–43; surgeon of the William and Mary yacht at Woolwich 1845–8, of the Fisgard flagship at Woolwich 1847 to Dec. 1848; sent out in the North Star in search of Franklin 1852, when in the command of an open boat, the Forlorn Hope, in a 3 weeks’ exploration he settled the question of the opening between Baring bay and Jones’ sound; arctic medal 1857; deputy inspector of hospitals 20 May 1859, placed on retired list 29 July 1865; Greenwich hospital pension 3 Sep. 1876; author of Narrative of a boat expedition up the Wellington channel in the year 1852. 1854. d. Hecla villa, Wimbledon, Surrey 28 Oct. 1890. R. Mc Cormick’s Voyages in the Arctic and Antartic seas 2 vols. (1884), memoir ii 183–368, three portraits.

MC CORMICK, William. b. Londonderry 1801; M.P. Londonderry 1860–65; contractor for public works 14 Buckingham st. Strand, London. d. London 12 June 1878.

M’CREA, Robert Contart. b. 13 Jany. 1793; entered navy 23 Nov. 1803; present at Trafalgar; commander Scourge revenue cruiser 1818–21; captain 10 Jany. 1837; commander of the Zebra, forcibly removed the ex-rajah of Queda from his abode at Bruas on the coast of Perak and carried him a prisoner to Penang, April 1837, for which he was presented by H.E.I.C. with a piece of plate value 100 guineas; admiral on h.p. 8 April 1868. d. Guernsey 13 Jany. 1875. United Service mag. March 1875 p. 407.

M’CREE, George Wilson. b. Newcastle-on-Tyne 28 April 1822; commenced preaching in village chapels 1839; a missionary in London working among the poor of the Five dials and the Seven dials, known as the bishop of St. Giles’ 1848–73; pastor of the Borough road Baptist chapel, Southwark 1873 to death; sec. of Band of hope union; an originator of the London temperance hospital, Hampstead road 1873; edited The band of hope record 4 vols. 1861–4; author of Illustrations of peace principles 1845; Day and night in St. Giles’, a lecture 1862; The pitman’s prayer, a voice from New Hartley colliery 1862; Shadows of city life 1873; William Brock, a biography 3 ed. 1876; Thomas Wilson the silkman 1879; Poets, painters and players 1882; The Queen’s health, a word for the jubilee year 1887. d. 16 Ampton place, Gray’s inn road, London 25 Nov. 1892. Black and White 17 Dec. 1892 p. 696, portrait; Times 28 Nov. 1892 p. 6.

M’CRIE, Thomas (eld. son of Thomas Mc Crie, ecclesiastical historian 1772–1835). b. Edinburgh 7 Nov. 1797; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edinb.; secession minister of Crieff 1820–8 and of Clola, Aberdeenshire 1828–36; minister of West Richmond st. meeting-house Edinburgh 1836; a contributor to The Witness; professor of theology at the Original secession hall, Edinb. 1836; the Seceders joined the Free church of Scotland 1852; moderator of the Free church assembly 1856; professor of church history and systematic theology at London college of English presbyterian church Oct. 1856 to 1866; D.D. Aberdeen and LL.D. Glasgow; edited The British and foreign evangelical review, Edinb.; author of Life of Thomas Mc Crie 1840; Sketches of Scottish church history 1841, 5 ed. 1875; The ancient history of the Waldensian church 1845; Lectures on Christian baptism 1850; Memoirs of Sir Andrew Agnew 1850, 2 ed. 1851; Thoughts on union with the free church of Scotland 1852; Annals of English presbyterianism 1872; The story of the Scottish church from the reformation to the disruption 1874. d. 39 Minto st. Edinburgh 9 May 1875. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 349–56, portrait.

MACCULLOCH, Horatio (son of a weaver). b. Glasgow, Nov. 1805, and named after lord Nelson; apprenticed to a house-painter; painter of snuff-boxes for Messrs. Smith at Cumnock, Ayrshire 1824; engaged colouring prints in Edinburgh; landscape painter at Glasgow to 1838, then at Edinb.; exhibited at R.S.A. from 1829, an associate 1834, an academician 1838, exhibited Bothwell castle on the Clyde 1863; exhibited 2 pictures at R.A. London and 1 at B.I. 1843–8; the most popular landscape painter of his day in Scotland; illustrated J. P. Lawson’s Scotland delineated 1847; and with others W. Beattie’s Scotland illustrated 1838. d. St. Colme’s villa, Trinity, Edinburgh 24 June 1867, two portraits of him by Sir Daniel Macnee are in national gallery of Scotland. Fraser’s Scottish landscape, the works of H. Macculloch (1872), life pp. 9–39, portrait; Chambers’s Biog. Dict. of Scotsmen, iii 11–13 (1875).

MC CULLOCH, Sir James (son of George Mc Culloch). b. Glasgow 1819; in office of J. and A. Dennistoun, merchants, Glasgow 1839, became a partner 1853, and going to Melbourne, Australia, opened a branch establishment there April 1853, firm wound up 1862; founded house of Mc Culloch, Sellar and Co. 1862; nominee member of Victoria legislative council 1854; elected for Wimmera to first legislative assembly 24 Oct. 1856; formed a government, himself being commissioner of trade and customs 29 April 1857, resigned 10 March 1858; member for East Melbourne 1858, treasurer 27 Oct. 1859 to 26 Nov. 1860; member for Mornington 1862, chief secretary 27 June 1863 to 6 May 1868, chief sec. and treasurer 11 July 1868 to 20 Sep. 1869, chief sec. 9 April 1870 to 19 June 1871; knighted by patent 4 June 1870; agent general for Victoria in London 1872–3; K.C.M.G. 9 March 1874; premier and treasurer of Victoria 20 Oct. 1875 to 21 May 1877. d. Garbard hall, Ewell, Surrey 30 Jany. 1893.

M’CULLOCH, James Melville (1 son of John M’Culloch 1783–1845). b. St. Andrews 25 Feb. 1801; ed. at the United coll. St. Andrews, M.A. 1821, then at St. Mary’s coll.; master gram. sch. Dunkeld 1821–6; head master Circus place sch. Edinb. Jany. 1826 to Feb. 1829; minister St. Vigean’s chapel, Arbroath 25 Feb. 1829 to 1832; minister of parish ch. Kelso 27 Sep. 1832 to 1843; D.D. of St. Andrews 1841; minister of the west parish, Greenock 23 Nov. 1843 to death; presented on his jubilee with a salver and £1260, Feb. 25, 1879; author of Lectures on the advantages which the church derives from an alliance with the state 1835; Pietas juvenilis, a manual of devotion for schools 1838. d. Greenock 12 Jany. 1883. Sermons by J. M. M’Culloch (1884), memoir pp. vii–lvi, portrait; J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy 2 Ser. (1849) 289–94.

MC CULLOCH, John Ramsay (eld. son of Edward Mc Culloch). b. Isle of Whithorn, Wigtownshire 1 March 1789; ed. at Kinross and univ. of Edinb.; wrote the economical articles for The Scotsman 1817–27, edited it 1818–20; contributed 76 articles to Edinburgh Review 1818–37; delivered the Ricardo memorial lectures in London 1824; professor of political economy at London univ. 1828–32; comptroller of the Stationery Office 1838 to death; a foreign associate of Institute of France 1843; granted civil list pension of £200, 30 June 1846; author of The principles of political economy, Edinb. 1825, 7 ed. 1886; An essay on the circumstances which determine the rate of wages and the condition of the labouring classes. Edinb. 1826, 4 ed. 1868; A dictionary, practical, theoretical and historical of commerce and commercial navigation 1832–9. d. in the Stationery Office, Prince’s st. Storey’s gate, Westminster 11 Nov. 1864, portrait by Sir Daniel Macnee in National portrait gallery, London. I.L.N. 26 Nov. 1864 p. 541, portrait.

MC CULLOCH, William (eld. son of the preceding). b. parish of St. Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh 28 Feb. 1816; ed. at high sch. Edinb. and at Addiscombe; ensign 13 Bengal N.I. 24 Sep. 1835, major 4 Sep. 1857, retired with rank of lieut.-col. 31 Dec. 1861; assistant to political agent at Manipur, April 1840, political agent there 1845–63 and 1864–7; author of An account of Manipur and the Hill tribes. Calcutta 1859. d. 4 April 1885.

MC CULLOUGH, John Edward (son of a farmer). b. in Coleraine, Ireland 2 Nov. 1837; apprentice to a chair maker, Philadelphia, U.S. America 1853; appeared in The Belle’s stratagem at Arch theatre, Philadelphia 15 Aug. 1857; acted in Boston and other cities; travelled with Edwin Forrest playing second parts 1866–8; with Lawrence P. Barrett manager of Bush st. theatre, San Francisco, Jany. 1869; Forrest left him his MS. plays, regarding him as his legitimate successor 1872; acted throughout the States 1873–83; first appeared in England at Drury Lane theatre 25 April 1881 as Virginius, then played Othello; returned to New York 1881. d. in a lunatic asylum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 8 Nov. 1885. The Theatre 1 Aug. 1881 p. 121, portrait; Illust. Sport. and Dram. News 14 May 1881 pp. 199, 209, portrait; New monthly mag. cxix 619–23 (1881), portrait.

M’CUTCHEON, James. Editor of the ‘Tyrone Constitution.’ d. Omagh 4 Feb. 1855.

MAC DERMOTT, Robert (son of W. C. Mac Dermott, barrister). b. Upper Gloucester st. Dublin 1832; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. and M.B. 1854, M.D. 1858, gained Berkeley gold medal for Greek; professor of materia medica in Catholic univ. Ireland 1856; the best public lecturer of his time. d. of typhoid fever 9 Great Denmark st. Dublin 8 Oct. 1859. Memoir of Dr. R. Mac Dermott, M.R.I.A. Dublin (1860).

M’DIARMID, John (son of Hugh M’Diarmid, minister of Gaelic church, Glasgow). b. Glasgow 1790; clerk in Commercial bank, Edinburgh to 1817; amanuensis to professor John Playfair in Edinb.; with Charles Maclaren and William Ritchie established the Scotsman in Edinb. 25 Jany. 1817; edited the Dumfries and Galloway Courier, Jany. 1817, a proprietor 1820, owner of the paper 1837 to death, his son William Ritchie M’Diarmid admitted a partner 1843; published the Dumfries Magazine 1825–8; the friend of Robert Burns’ widow and her executor 1834; entertained at a public dinner at Dumfries 1847; edited Poems of W. Cooper 1819, 4 ed. 1854; Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield 1823; and Paul and Virginia 1824; author of The scrap book prose and verse. Edinb. 1821, 3 ed. 1825; Letters of Junius, with dissertations and notes. By Atticus Secundus 1822; Sketches from nature 1830; Pictures of Dumfries and its environs 1832. d. Dumfries 18 Nov. 1852; a M’Diarmid bursary of £10 a year founded at Edinb. univ. W. Anderson’s Scottish Nation, iii 720–2 (1863).

MACDONALD, Alexander. 2 lieut. R.A. 3 Dec. 1803; lieut.-colonel 20 July 1840 to 9 Nov. 1846; served in the Peninsula and South of France 1809–14; C.B. 19 July 1838; L.G. 20 June 1854. d. Aix-la-Chapelle 31 May 1856.

MACDONALD, Alexander. b. New Monkland, Lanarkshire, June 1821; commenced working in a coal pit 1831; at the age of 21 had saved £250; ed. Glasgow univ. 1851 still working as a collier during the summer and autumn; a teacher 1853; agitated for release of women and children from working in coal mines 1852–72, and on laws of contract and hiring, and on the truck system; contested Kilmarnocks burghs 1868; M.P. Stafford 1874 to death, the first working man member, known as the Working Men’s member of parliament; sec. of Miners’ association of Scotland; president of Miners’ national union 1863; visited the U.S. America 3 times; presented by the miners with £1500, Jany. 1873; member of royal commission on trade unions 1874. d. Well hall near Hamilton 31 Oct. 1881. bur. New Monkland ch. yard 7 Nov. The Biograph, Aug. 1880 pp. 148–57; I.L.N. lxiv 551, 552 (1874), portrait.

MACDONALD, Angus. b. Aberdeen 1816; ed. at King’s coll. Aberdeen and univ. of Edinb., M.D. Edinb. 1864; M.R.C.P. Edinb. 1868, F.R.C.P. 1869; practised at Edinb. 1864 to death; lecturer at Minto house, afterwards at Surgeons’ hall; phys. and clinical lecturer on diseases of women in Edinb. royal infirmary; phys. to royal maternity hospital, Edinb.; F.R.S. Edinb. 1871; edited R. E. S. Jackson’s Notebook of materia medica, Edinb. 1871, another ed. 1875; author of The bearings of chronic diseases of the heart upon pregnancy 1878. d. 29 Charlotte sq. Edinburgh 10 Feb. 1886.

MACDONALD, Duncan George Forbes (youngest son of John Macdonald 1799–1849, called ‘The Apostle of the North’). b. about 1823; agricultural engineer in London and Dingwall 1848, also practised as a civil engineer; one of comrs. to adjust boundary line of British North America about 1858; drainage engineer of improvements under control of enclosure comrs. for England and Wales; engineer in chief to inspector general of Highland destitution; F.G.S., F.R.G.S.; author of What the farmer may do with the land 1852; British Columbia and Vancouver’s island, a description of these dependencies 1862; Hints on farming and estate management 10 ed. 1869; Napoleon III. and the Franco-German war 1871; Cattle, sheep and deer 1872; The Highland crofters of Scotland 1878; Grouse disease 1883. d. Lymington house, Brighton 3 Jany. 1884.

MACDONALD, Elizabeth (dau. of Renald Macdonald of Scotland). b. 1772; sent by her guardian to school at Calais; received 22 May 1794 at the Benedictine monastery of the Glorious assumption of the B.V.M. founded at Brussels by Lady Mary Percy in 1597; fled with the community to England in 1794; received the habit of religion and took the names of Mary Benedict at the convent St. Peter st. Winchester 11 May 1795 and was the first to be professed there 8 Sep. 1796; elected 15th abbess of the community 9 Sep. 1811, the ceremony of her benediction took place 10 Oct. 1811, tendered her resignation to cardinal Wiseman, resignation accepted 25 Feb. 1848. d. at the convent, Winchester 17 May 1854.

MACDONALD, George. b. 10 Oct. 1784; ensign 27 foot 5 Sep. 1805, captain 17 Aug. 1815, placed on h.p. 25 Feb. 1816; captain 16 foot 5 Sep. 1816, lieut.-col. 10 Jany. 1837, placed on h.p. 7 July 1841; governor of Sierra Leone 17 Dec. 1841 to March 1845; col. of 96 foot 27 Dec. 1860, of 16 foot 13 Feb. 1863 to death; general 25 Oct. 1871; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877. d. Torquay 1 March 1883. Graphic, xxv 181 (1883) portrait.

MACDONALD, Hugh. b. Bridgeton, Glasgow 4 April 1817; apprenticed to a block-printer; kept a provision shop in Bridgeton; a block-printer at Paisley to 1849; wrote for the Glasgow Citizen 1849–53 and for the Glasgow Sentinel 1855; edited the Glasgow Times; literary editor of Morning Journal 1858 to death; author of Rambles round Glasgow 2 ed. 1856; Days at the coast, sketches of the Frith of Clyde 1874. d. 16 March 1860. Hugh Macdonald’s Poetical Works (1865), memoir; Rev. Charles Rogers’s Leaves from my autobiography (1876) 286–7.

MACDONALD, James. Comedian in North of England; lessee of the Shields, Scarborough and Hartlepool theatres; lessee of T.R. Darlington to 1871; held a responsible position at Drury Lane theatre under F. B. Chatterton 1871–9. d. Newcastle-on-Tyne 25 Jany. 1889 aged 60.

MAC DONALD, James. b. Hopeman, Elginshire 1842; in the house of W. P. Nimmo, bookseller, Edinb. 1860, then a traveller for Nimmo in Scotland; traveller for G. Waterston and Sons, Edinb. till 1870; Canadian traveller for W. Collins, Sons and co. 1870–80; partner with John Walker and William Barringer as J. Walker & Co. booksellers, Warwick lane, Paternoster row, London 1880 to death; killed while crossing the line at Beckenham station, Kent 15 Aug. 1891. bur. Elmer’s End cemetery.

MACDONALD, James William Bosville (2 son of Godfrey Macdonald, 3 baron Macdonald 1775–1832). b. 31 Oct. 1810; ensign 81 foot 1 Oct. 1829; cornet 1 life guards 1831, captain 24 June 1837 to 30 Dec. 1842; private sec. to commander in chief at head quarters 15 July 1856 to death; present at battles of Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and at siege of Sebastopol; col. 21 hussars 1 July 1880 to death; general 1 July 1881; deputy ranger of Hyde park; C.B. 5 July 1855. d. St. Leonards-on-Sea 4 Jany. 1882. Army and navy mag. iii 399 (1882), portrait.

MACDONALD, Sir John (eld. son of Alexander Macdonald, major in the army 1762–1808). b. 10 Sep. 1788; ensign 88 foot 17 Dec. 1803, captain 7 Sep. 1809; major Portuguese service 25 Oct. 1814; major 91 foot 29 Nov. 1821, lieut.-col. 23 Sep. 1824 to 26 April 1827 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. 92 foot 21 Nov. 1828 to 9 Nov. 1846; commanded the force sent to suppress Irish insurrection of July 1848; col. 92 foot 25 May 1855 to death; general 7 March 1862; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831, K.C.B. 4 Feb. 1856. d. Dun Alastair, Perthshire 24 June 1866.

MACDONALD, John (son of Wm. Macdonald). b. Strathglass, Invernessshire 2 July 1818; ed. at the Scots seminary, Ratisbon 1830–7 and Scots college at Rome 1837–40; ordained priest 1841; missioner of Tombae, Banffshire 1841–2, of Glenmoriston, Inverness 1842–4, of Dornie Kintail, Ross 1844, and of Braemar 1844–5; assistant at Inverness 1845–8; missioner Frassnakyle, Strathglass 1848–56; chaplain to Lord Lovat at Eskdale 1856–68; co-adjutor vicar-apostolic of northern district of Scotland, Nov. 1868, vicar-apostolic 23 Feb. 1869; consecrated at Aberdeen bishop of northern district by title of bishop of Nicopolis 24 Feb. 1869; bishop of restored diocese of Aberdeen 29 Jany. 1878 to death. d. Aberdeen 4 Feb. 1889. Brady’s Catholic hierarchy, iii 475–6 (1877).

MACDONALD, Sir John Alexander (1 son of Hugh Macdonald, yeoman of Sutherlandshire). b. George st. Glasgow 11 Jany. 1815; emigrated to Canada with his parents 1820; ed. at royal gram. sch. Kingston; member of bar of Upper Canada 1836; bencher of Law Soc. of Ontario; head of firm of Macdonald and Marsh, Toronto; Q.C. 1846; representative of Kingston in house of assembly 1844–67; receiver general May 1847; commissioner of crown lands 1848; attorney general for Canada West 1854, 1858–62 and 1864; leader of the conservative party 1856–8; postmaster general 1858 for one day; minister of militia 1862 and 1865; P.C. of Canada 1867; minister of justice and attorney general 1867–73; K.C.B. 29 June 1867, G.C.B. 21 Aug. 1884; D.C.L. Oxf. 21 June 1865; took an active part in the federation of the British North American provinces 1864–67 under name of Dominion of Canada; premier of the United provinces July 1867 to 6 Nov. 1873 and 1878 to death; one of 5 British commissioners on treaty of Washington, Feb. 1871; P.C. of Great Britain 14 Aug. 1879; favoured construction of Canadian Pacific railway opened 28 June 1886; was so like lord Beaconsfield that he was called the Canadian Disraeli. d. Earnscliffe hall near Ottawa 6 June 1891, memorial marble bust unveiled in south aisle of the crypt chapel of St. Paul’s cathedral, London 16 Nov. 1892. E. G. Collins’s Life of Sir John Macdonald (1892), 2 portraits; Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 237; Appleton’s American biography, iv 102–4 (1888), portrait; Black and White 13 June 1891 p. 602, portrait; St. Stephen’s Review 7 March 1891, portrait; I.L.N. xxxiii 5 (1858), portrait.

MAC DONALD, John Cameron (son of a factor for lord Abinger). b. Fort William, Invernessshire, June 1822; a reporter on The Times 1842, wrote also descriptive articles on Ireland 1848, on Great Exhibition 1851, Sydenham crystal palace 1854, Chobham camp 1853 and duke of Wellington’s funeral 1852; accompanied prince consort on his visit to emperor of the French at Boulogne 1853; distributed The Times Crimean sick and wounded fund in Russia 1855; a student at an inn of court; manager of The Times printing establishment 1855; printed from stereotype plates 1860; with Joseph Calverley invented the Walter press 1862–71; printed from stereotype plates from continuous rolls of paper 1866; manager of The Times 1873 to death; managed the case of The Times before the special commission on Irish affairs 22 Oct. 1888 to 22 Nov. 1889, which with damages for insertion of forged letters cost The Times a large sum of money. d. Waddon near Croydon 10 Dec. 1889. The Times 11, 12, 16 and 25 Dec. 1889; I.L.N. 21 Dec. 1889 p. 786, portrait; Graphic 21 Dec. 1889 p. 753, portrait.

MACDONALD, Lawrence (son of Alexander Macdonald, violinist). b. Boneyview, Findo-Gask, Perthshire 15 Feb. 1799; apprenticed to Thomas Gibson, mason; an ornamental sculptor in Edinburgh to 1822; entered Trustees’ academy, Edinb. 26 Feb. 1822; studied at Rome 1822–6 where he helped to found British academy of arts 1823, trustee to death; sculptor at Edinburgh 1827–32 and at Rome 1832 to death; exhibited 48 pieces of sculpture at R. A. 1828–57; exhibited in royal institution, Edinb. 1829 colossal group of ‘Ajax bearing the dead body of Patroclus and combating a Trojan warrior’; second to Charles Maclaren in his duel with James Browne, fought near Edinb. 12 Nov. 1829; member of Scottish academy 1829–58. d. Rome 4 March 1878. bur. cemetery of Porta San Paolo. P. R. Drummond’s Perthshire (1879) 109–26; R. Brydall’s Art in Scotland (1889) 190.

M’DONALD, Norman Hilton (only son of sir John M’Donald, K.C.B., adjutant general). Controller of the lord chamberlain’s department 1852 to death; siezed with apoplexy while talking with the marchioness of Ely at lady Elizabeth Hope Vere’s. d. lord chamberlain’s office, St. James’s palace, London 1 Dec. 1857.

MACDONALD, Norman William. b. 1808; governor of Sierra Leone 7 April 1846 to 13 Sep. 1852. d. Priory field house, Taunton 13 May 1893.

M’DONALD, Peter (son of Randal M’Donald). b. Kilfinane, co. Limerick 1836; ed. French college, Blackrock; a commercial traveller; partner in firm of Cantwell and M’Donald, wine merchants and distillers, Dublin; M.P. North Sligo division in the Anti-Parnellite interest Dec. 1885 to death; sheriff of Dublin 1886. d. Clarinda park, Kingstown 12 March 1891. Daily Graphic 17 March 1891 p. 8, portrait.

MACDONALD, Reginald George (eld. son of John Macdonald of Clanronald, captain 22 dragoons 1764–94). b. Aug. 1788; M.P. Plympton 1812–24. d. 22 Clarendon road, Kensington 11 March 1873.

MACDONALD, Robert (son of Alexander Macdonald, wine merchant). b. Perth 18 May 1813; ed. St. Andrew’s univ., D.D. 1870, and at Edinb. univ.; presbyterian minister Longiealmond, Perthshire 1836 and at Blairgowrie 1837–43; Free ch. minister at Blairgowrie 1843–57 and at North Leith 1857; author of Lessons for the present from the records of the past 1848; From day to day, helpful words for christian life 1879. J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy 2 Ser. (1849) 156–61; Wylie’s Disruption worthies (1881) 36–70.

MACDONALD, William (son of John Macdonald of Carraden, Linlithgow). b. 1784; ed. at Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1805, M.A. 1807; V. of Broad Hinton, Cricklade 1809; V. of Chitterne 1812; V. of Bishops-Cannings, Wilts. 14 April 1815 to death; canon of Bitton in Salisbury cath. 1823 to death; archdeacon of Wilts. 21 June 1828 to death; author of Select works of John Douglas bishop of Carlisle, with a memoir. Salisbury 1820; A series of plain sermons on the leading articles of the christian faith 1824. d. Bishops-Cannings 24 June 1862. W. H. Jones’s Fasti (1879) 177.

MACDONALD, William. b. 21 April 1797; ed. Edinb. univ., M.D. 1818; F.R.C.P. Edinb. 1836; lecturer comparative anatomy, Lane’s medical school, London; professor of natural history in the united colleges, St. Andrews 12 Aug. 1850 to death. d. 20 Queen st. St. Andrews 1 Jany. 1875.

MACDONALD, William (son of a bootcloser). b. Newcastle 1859; a newspaper boy in Sunderland; in training stable of James Watson, Belleisle, Richmond, Yorks. 1871–4; won the Princess of Wales plate on Tetrarch at Sandown 27 April 1875, and the Autumn cup on Bugle 18 Oct. 1877; in 1877 had 130 mounts and was a winner in 13, in 1878 had 248 mounts winning 35 times, and in 1880 had 355 mounts winning 47; rode also in France 1878–9; at Epsom in 1881 was second on Retreat for the Derby; won the Cesarewitch stakes on Chippendale 1879 and on Foxhall 1881; won Prince of Wales stakes at Ascot 1880; when riding Buchanan for Liverpool cup, fell and was kicked on the head 12 Nov. 1881. d. Sefton arms hotel, Liverpool 12 Nov. 1881. Sporting Mirror, ii 161–4 (1881), portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news, xvi 238, 245 (1881), portrait.

MACDONALD, William Bell (eld. son of Donald Macdonald). b. Scotland 1807; ed. at univ. of Glasgow, B.A. 1827; served as surgeon in sir Pulteney Malcolm’s flagship in the Mediterranean 1828–31; a comr. of supply; one of the greatest linguists of his time, making a special study of Coptic; collected a valuable library at his estate Rammerscales; a contributor to the Ray Society on zoology and botany 1845–6; represented burgh of Lochmaben in general assembly of church of Scotland some years; author of Lusus Philologici. Ex museo Gul. B. Macdonald. Rammerscales 1851; Ten Scottish songs rendered into German 1854; Sketch of a Coptic grammar adapted for self-tuition 1856. d. 114 West Campbell st. Glasgow 5 Dec. 1862. Gent. Mag. March 1863 p. 390; Inglis’s Dramatic Writers of Scotland (1868) 71.

MACDONALD, William Russell. b. 1787; editor and part proprietor of Bell’s Life in London, the Sunday Herald, the British Drama, and the Literary Humourist; author of A paraphrase of R. Dodsley’s Economy of human life 1817; Fudge in Ireland, a collection of letters, poems, etc. 1822, anon.; Christianity, protestantism and popery compared and contrasted 1829, anon.; The book of quadrupeds 1838; First and second lessons for the nursery 1838. d. Great James st. Bedford row, London 30 Dec. 1854.

MAC DONELL, Sir Alexander (eld. son of Hugh Mac Donell, consul general, Algiers). b. Algiers 24 Feb. 1820; ensign rifle brigade 23 June 1837, major 22 Dec. 1854, lieut.-col. 16 June 1857 to 22 Feb. 1871; served in Kaffir war 1846–7; present at Balaclava, Alma and Inkerman; commanded 2 bat. May 1855 to fall of Sebastopol, medal with 3 clasps; commanded 3 bat. in Indian mutiny, present at capture of Lucknow; served in campaign of north-west frontier of India 1864; commanded expedition against Mohund tribes 1863–4; brigadier general Bengal 22 March 1867 to 23 Oct. 1871; major general Bengal 12 April 1872 to 31 March 1877; C.B. 27 July 1855, K.C.B. 24 May 1881; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877, retired 1 April 1882 with rank of general; colonel commandant 2 bat. rifle brigade 24 Jany. 1886 to death. d. Hackbridge, Carshalton, Surrey 30 April 1891. I.L.N. 16 May 1891 p. 639, portrait.

MAC DONELL, Ewen (son of lieut.-col. Archibald Mac Donell, lieut. governor of Edinburgh castle). b. 1807; studied medicine; entered H.E.I.C. 1835; a doctor; during the mutiny he raised the Sewan levy, received the mutiny medal, accorded special thanks of government of India and a letter of approbation from the queen. d. 59 Nevern square, Earl’s court, London 20 May 1891.

MACDONELL, Sir James (3 son of Duncan Macdonell, chief of Glengarry). b. Glengarry house, Invernessshire; ensign in an independent company 1793; lieut. 78 foot 1794; captain 17 light dragoons 1 Dec. 1795, major 1802; major 78 foot 17 April 1804, lieut.-col. 7 Sep. 1809; served in Naples, Sicily and Egypt 1806–7; lieut.-col. 2 garrison battalion 21 Feb. 1811; captain 2 foot guards 11 Aug. 1811, lieut.-col. 27 May 1825 to 22 July 1830; served in the Peninsula May 1812 to Jany. 1814, and at battle of Waterloo, where he held the chateau of Hougoumont against the French, was one of the persons who helped to shut the gate of the chateau; commanded the Armagh district 1831–8; commanded brigade of guards in Canada 1838; commanded the troops in Canada to 1841; col. of 79 foot 14 July 1842 to 8 Feb. 1849 and of 71 foot 8 Feb. 1849 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 20 April 1838, G.C.B. 5 July 1855; K.C.H. 1837; had decorations of Maria Theresa of Austria and of St. Vladimir of Russia. d. 15 Wilton place, London 15 May 1857. Stewart’s Scottish Highlanders, ii 292–322 (1822); Mackinnon’s Coldstream Guards, ii 214–17 (1833).

MACDONELL, James (eld. son of James Macdonell, excise officer d. 1858). b. Dyce, Aberdeenshire 21 April 1842; left the church of Rome and joined the Baptists 1860; wrote leading articles in the Aberdeen Free Press 1858; on the staff of Daily Review in Edinb. 1862; editor of the Northern Daily Express at Newcastle 1862 at £150 a year to 1865; on the staff of the Daily Telegraph in London 1865–75, the special correspondent in France 9 Dec. 1871 to May 1872; leader writer on The Times 25 March 1875 to death; wrote many articles in Fraser’s Mag., North British Review and Macmillan’s Mag.; author of France since the first empire 1879. d. 78 Gower st. Bedford sq. London 2 March 1879. bur. Beckenham churchyard, Kent 6 March. James Macdonell, journalist. By W. R. Nicoll (1890), portrait.

MC DONNELL, Sir Alexander, 1 Baronet (eld. son of James Mc Donnell, M.D.) b. Belfast 1794; ed. at Westminster 1809–13, King’s scholar 1809; student of Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1813–26; B.A. 1816, M.A. 1820; barrister L.I. 23 Nov. 1824; a comr. of inquiry into public charities; chief clerk in office of chief secretary for Ireland; resident comr. of Irish board of education 1839 to Dec. 1871, being thus the real creator of England’s one successful institution in Ireland; P.C. Ireland 1846; created baronet 20 Jany. 1872. d. 32 Upper Fitzwilliam st. Dublin 21 Jany. 1875. bur. at Kilsharvan near Drogheda. Spectator 20 Feb. 1875 pp. 240–1.

MC DONNEL, Sir Edward. b. Dublin 1806; a paper manufacturer, Dublin; chairman of Great southern and western railway of Ireland 1849 to death, knighted by earl of Clarendon on opening this railway to Cork 1849; lord mayor of Dublin 1854. d. 31 Merrion square south, Dublin 22 Nov. 1860.

MC DONNELL, Edward (son of sir Edward Mc Donnell of Dunfeirth house, Kildare). Resident Melbourne, Australia to 1866; professor in Xavier coll. Calcutta, Jany. 1866; on the staff of the Calcutta Englishman 1866; editor of Lahore chronicle 1867; sub-editor of Bombay gazette 1867, then special correspondent on staff of general Napier in Abyssinia; in Dublin, June 1868. The Newspaper Press 1 Feb. 1869 p. 49.

MAC DONNELL, Eneas (4 son of Charles Mac Donnell of Clonagh, co. Mayo). b. Westport, co. Mayo 27 July 1783; ed. at lay college of Maynooth; one of chief promoters of cause of Catholic emancipation 1810–23, when new catholic association was formed; agent to Irish catholics in England 1824–29; imprisoned for an alleged libel against the government 1816, and for another alleged libel against the character of archdeacon French 1828; author of The hermit of Glenconella, a tale 1820; Catholic question, letters on securities 1829; The Roman catholic oath considered 1835; Vindication of the house of lords, letters to The Times 1836; The ‘Crisis’ unmasked 1843; Letter to W. E. Gladstone respecting the Maynooth grant 1845; Address and advice to his countrymen 1849. d. Lara, Kildare 3 Jany. 1858. Law Times, xxxi 178 (1858).

MC DONNELL, Randal W. Called to bar in Ireland 1856; Q.C. 30 Jany. 1869. d. Bournemouth 5 Jany. 1875.

MAC DONNELL, Richard (eld. son of Robert Mac Donnell of Douglas, co. Cork). b. 1787; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1803, B.A. 1805, LL.B. 1810, LL.D. 1813, M.A., B.D. and D.D. 1821; fellow of his college 1808, senior fellow Nov. 1836 to 1852, Donegal lecturer 1820–7; professor of oratory in Trin. coll. Dublin 1816–52, regius professor of laws 1840–1, regius professor of Greek 1843–52, provost 24 Jany. 1852 to death. d. Provost’s house, Trinity college, Dublin 24 Jany. 1867. bur. under chapel of Trin. coll. 28 Jany.

MACDONNELL, Sir Richard Graves (eld. son of Richard Macdonnell d. 1867). b. Dublin 3 Sep. 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1833, B.A. 1835, M.A. 1836, LL.B. 1845, LL.D. 1862; called to Irish bar 1838; barrister L.I. 25 Jany. 1841; chief justice of the Gambia 20 July 1843 to 1 Oct. 1847; governor of British settlements on the Gambia 1 Oct. 1847 to 23 Feb. 1852, conducted several exploring expeditions opening up the interior of Africa from the Gambia to the Senegal; administrator of St. Vincent 23 Feb. 1852 to 6 Nov. 1854; governor of South Australia 8 June 1855 to 4 March 1862; lieut.-governor of Nova Scotia 28 May 1864 to Oct. 1865; governor of Hong Kong 19 Oct. 1865, retired on pension 1872; C.B. 12 Feb. 1852; knighted at Buckingham palace 28 Jany. 1856; K.C.M.G. 23 Feb. 1871. d. Hyères, France 5 Feb. 1881. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 14 Feb. I.L.N. lxxviii 220, 222 (1881), portrait.

MC DONNELL, Robert (2 son of John Mc Donnell, M.D. medical commissioner of local government board, b. 1796, living 1889). b. Dublin 15 March 1828; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1844, B.A. and M.B. 1850, M.D. 1857; apprenticed to Richard Carmichael, surgeon 1845–9; M.R.C.S. Ireland 1851, F.R.C.S. 1853, pres. 1877; attached to British hospital at Smyrna 1855 and to general hospital in camp before Sebastopol 1855–6; demonstrator of anatomy in Carmichael school of medicine Dublin 1856, lecturer on anatomy and physiology; medical superintendent of Mountjoy prison 1857–67; surgeon to Jervis st. hospital Dublin 1863; M.D. Queen’s univ. Ireland 1864; surgeon to Stevens’s hospital, Dublin, and professor of descriptive anatomy in its medical school 1866; member of council of univ. of Dublin twice; F.R.S. 1 June 1865; pres. of academy of medicine in Ireland 1885–8; author of many scientific papers; edited Selections from the works of A. Colles in New Sydenham Soc. 1881; author of Observations on the function of the liver 1865; Lectures on surgery, two parts 1871–75; What has experimental physiology done 1882. d. 89 Merrion sq. west, Dublin 6 May 1889. Sir C. Cameron’s History of college of surgeons in Ireland (1886) 429–32.

MC DONNELL, Thomas. b. 1793; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1811, B.A. 1813; called to Irish bar 1816; Q.C. 1 July 1837; a crown prosecutor for co. of Down. d. Eglantine hill near Belfast 25 Sep. 1878.

MC DONOGH, Allen. b. Galway 1804; one of the best known steeplechasers in Ireland; won a steeplechase on Sir William 1830, sold him to John Elmore for £350 who resold him to lord Cranstown for £1000; rode Sir William in a match for £1000 against Jerry for 4 miles over the Quorn country and won; won over 20 steeplechases on Brunette a mare belonging to Mr. Preston 1847 etc. d. Dublin, May 1888. Baily’s Mag. xlix 269–70 (1888).

MC DONOGH, Francis (son of Morgan Mc Donogh of Sligo). b. 1806; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1825, M.A. 1864; called to Irish bar 1829; Q.C. 2 Nov. 1842; counsel to inland revenue department; one of counsel for the defence of D. O’Connell 1843; contested Carrickfergus 2 April 1857; M.P. Sligo 1860–65. d. 41 Rutland sq. Dublin 18 April 1882. Irish law times, xvi 177 (1882).

MAC DOUALL, Charles. b. 1814; professor of humanity, Queen’s coll. Belfast, Oct. 1849, then professor of Greek 1851 to death; author of A discourse on the study of oriental languages 1849. d. Belfast 24 Feb. 1883; his library sold at Sotheby’s, London 20–23 Feb. 1884. Testimonials in favor of C. Mac Douall as candidate for Greek chair in Univ. of Edinb. 1852.

MACDOUGAL, Donald (son of a farmer). b. 1800; apprentice to Mr. Bremner, draper, Inverness; a draper Inverness, waited upon customers in their hotels with selections of his goods, originator of the tweed trade in Scotland; chief exhibitioner at Great Exhibition of 1851 of tweeds, plaids, brooches, shawls, &c., his stall became famous and was figured in I.L.N., he was also noticed in Punch 1851; became an advertiser with the motto ‘When you are in the Highlands visit Macdougal’s’; in 1856 paid his creditors in full and was entertained at a banquet in Glasgow 30 April 1857; made a speciality of tartans and plaids; retired 1861; gave a working men’s club to Inverness 1862; presented with his bust in Carrara marble 18 March 1879. The Biograph, v 544–9 (1881).

MAC DOUGAL, Thomas St. Clair. b. Jany. 1804; a master in Islington proprietory school; first master of lower department of city of London school 1837 to Dec. 1874; author of Descriptive outlines of modern geography and a short account of Palestine 1835, 12 ed. 1857. d. 107 Stockwell park road, Brixton 10 March 1880. City Press 13 March 1880 p. 3.

MC DOUGALL, Archibald. b. Tarbut Kintyre, Argyllshire; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; governor of Edinb. orphan hospital 1839–43; minister of Kirkfield ch. Gorbals, Glasgow 1843–47; minister of Argyll ch. Glasgow 1847; author of The family text book 1880. J. Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy (1849) 398–400.

MAC DOUGALL, Sir Duncan (son of Patrick Mac Dougall of Soroba, Argyllshire). b. Soroba 1790; entered army 1804, served in Spain, France, America, West Indies and Cape of Good Hope; brigadier general second in command and quartermaster general in British auxiliary legion of Spain; lieut.-col. 79 highlanders 6 Sep. 1833 to 13 March 1835; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 July 1838; raised and disciplined Royal Lancashire artillery 1853, lieut.-col. commandant 15 April 1853 to 23 May 1857; author of Remarks on the military sanitary commission, suggestions for the improvement of the soldiery and prevention of drunkenness 1838; Remarks on national defence and the instruction of volunteer corps 1860; The history of the volunteer movement 2 ed. 1861. d. 112 Eaton sq. London 10 Dec. 1862.

MC DOUGALL, Francis Thomas (only son of Wm. Adair Mc Dougall, captain 88 foot). b. Sydenham, Kent 1817; medical student King’s college, London 1835, demonstrator of anatomy there 1838; M.R.C.S. 1839, F.R.C.S. 1854; matric. from Magd. hall, Oxf., B.A. 1844, M.A. 1845, D.C.L. 1854; rowed bow oar in the Oxford eight against Cambridge 1842; superintended iron-works in South Wales which failed 1842–4; C. of Framingham, Pigot 1845–6; C. of St. Mark’s, Lakenham 1846; C. of Ch. Ch. Woburn sq. London 1846; went to Borneo as a missionary 30 Dec. 1847; bishop of Labuan 6 Aug. 1855, consecrated at Calcutta 18 Oct. 1855, it was the first consecration that had taken place out of England; also bishop of Sarawak by appointment from the Rajah, Dec. 1855, resigned April 1868; V. of Godmanchester, Hunts. 1868–74; archdeacon of Huntingdon 1870–4; canon of Ely 1871–3; canon of Winchester 16 Oct. 1873 to death; archdeacon of Isle of Wight 1874 to death; V. of Milford, Hants. 1881–5; R. of Mottistone with Shorwell, Isle of Wight 1885 to death; (m. July 1843 Harriette 2 dau. of Robert John Bunyon, she preached to the native women of Borneo, she was author of Letters from Sarawak addressed to a child 1854, and Sketches of our life at Sarawak 1882, she d. Shorwell 7 May 1886); author of Life in death, a sermon with memoir of Capt. J. M. Boyd 3 ed. 1861; A catechism of the christian religion. English and Malay 1868. He d. Winchester 16 Nov. 1886. bur. Shorwell 20 Nov. C. J. Bunyon’s Memoirs of F. T. Mc Dougall and of Harriette his wife (1889), 2 portraits.

MC DOUGALL, Henry John. b. 1820; pupil and dresser at Exeter hospital; ed. Univ. coll. hospital, London, one of the house surgeons; M.R.C.S. 1844; in practice in Henrietta st. Cavendish sq. London; intense study of the microscope led to disease of the brain; wrote on Spermatorrhœa in the Medical Times; translated F. Lallemand’s A practical treatise on the cause of spermatorrhœa 1847, 2 ed. 1851. d. Exeter 18 June 1853.

M’DOUGALL, Sir John (2 son of Patrick M’Dougall of Dunolly castle, co. Argyle). b. Edinburgh 1790; entered navy 16 Dec. 1802; lieut. of the Superb at bombardment of Algiers 27 Aug. 1816; captain 16 Aug. 1836; commander of Nimrod 1833, Vulture 1845 and La Hogue 1849; senior officer at Hong Kong at capture of Bogue forts 1847; admiralty superintendent of packets at Southampton 1855; R.A. 12 May 1857, V.A. 3 Nov. 1863; K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. d. Dunolly 12 April 1865.

MAC DOUGALL, Niel Patrick. b. 1812; entered Bombay army 1826; ensign 9 Bombay N.I. 27 June 1827; lieut. 13 N.I. 21 Aug. 1835, major 1 Aug. 1850 to 1 May 1855; lieut.-col. of 21 N.I. 1 May 1855 to 1857; lieut.-col. of 16 N.I. 1857–8, of 2 N.I. 1858–9, and of 8 N.I. 1859–61; commandant at Skikarpore 1858–9, and at Sattara 1859–60; retired M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. d. Ootacamund, Madras 10 June 1865.

MAC DOUGALL, Patrick Campbell (son of Hugh Mac Dougall, parish minister at Killin). b. Killin 1806; ed. at Edinburgh high sch. and univ.; classical master in Edinburgh academy 1834–44; prof. of moral philosophy in the New or Free church coll. Edinburgh 1844–53; prof. of moral philosophy in univ. of Edinburgh 1 Nov. 1853 to death; author of Introductory lecture on moral philosophy, at the inauguration of the New college 1851; Papers on literary and philosophical subjects 1852. d. 9 Buckingham terrace, Edinburgh 30 Dec. 1867. Grant’s Univ. of Edinb. ii 77, 347–8 (1884).

M’DOUGALL, William. b. Inverary; ed. at univ. of Glasgow; minister of Relief ch. Campbeltown 1823, of Kilmarnock 1827 and of Thread st. ch. Paisley 1843; author of The Saviour’s trouble of soul in anticipation of his sufferings 1836; Discourses 1848. J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1849) 319–25.

MACDOWALL, Charles (son of Wm. Macdowall, watchmaker). b. Pontefract 6 April 1790; apprentice to a chemist; repaired a repeater watch without any instruction; a watchmaker at Wakefield; invented the helix lever clock 1831; at 21 Church st. Kensington, London 1836; invented the helix lever watch and the helix lever escape; patronised by the duke of Sussex when at Kensington palace, where he attended at the conversaziones to explain the inventions; removed to 41 St. James’ st. Pall Mall 1839, to 8 Victoria road, Pimlico 1840, and to 30 Hyde st. Bloomsbury 1848; patented the single pin escapement, for which he received bronze medal at Great Exhibition of 1851; experimented on the three-leg gravity escapement; re-invented the spiral drill. d. 26 Jermyn st. London 27 Oct. 1872. The Horological Journal, Sep. 1873 pp. 5–9, portrait.

M’DOWALL, Charles (only son of Robert M’Dowall of Sheffield). b. 1837; ed. Univ. coll. Oxf., scholar 1856–62; B.A. 1859, M.A. 1865, B.D. and D.D. 1882; head master’s assistant Rossall sch.; senior assistant master Malvern coll. 1864–74; head master Cholmeley high sch. Highgate, London, Jany. 1874 to death; preb. of St. Paul’s, April 1883 to death. d. Cholmeley school house 29 June 1893.

MACDOWALL, Day Hort. b. 3 July 1795; ensign 52 foot 15 April 1813; major 44 foot 27 Nov. 1828 to 21 Feb. 1840 when placed on h.p.; col. 3 Buffs. 9 Sep. 1864 to death; L.G. 4 March 1866. d. 14 Sep. 1870.

M’DOWALL, William (son of a traveller for a cabinet-making firm). b. Maxwelltown, Kirkcudbrightshire 21 July 1815; learnt bookbinding in Dumfries, Glasgow and London; on the staff of the Scottish Herald 1843; editor of the Dumfries and Galloway Standard 1846–53 and 1854 to death; edited a Sunderland paper 1853–4; author of The man of the woods and other poems 1844, 2 ed. 1882; Burns in Dumfriesshire 1870; History of the burgh Dumfries 1867, 2 ed. 1873; Memorials of St. Michael’s churchyard, Dumfries 1876; The mind in the face 1882, 3 ed. 1888; Chronicles of Lincluden as an abbey and as a college 1886; Among the old Scottish minstrels 1888. d. Dumfries 28 Oct. 1888. M. Harper’s Bards of Galloway (1889) 77, 201, 255.

MAC DOWEL, Benjamin George (son of Ephraim Mac Dowel, physician). b. 1820; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1841, M.B. and M.D. 1858, M. Chir. 1859; L.R.C.S.I. 1841, F.R.C.S. 1845; L.R.C.P. Lond. 1846; physician to house of industry hospitals, Dublin; professor of anatomy and surgery, Trin. coll. Dublin 1858–79; examiner in medicine, royal univ. of Ireland; president of Pathological soc. Dublin 1865; a physician in ordinary to the Queen in Ireland 1881. d. 5 Haddington ter. Kingstown 15 Sep. 1885. Medical times and gazette, ii 417 (1885).

MAC DOWELL, Benjamin Francis. b. 1841; M.R.C.S. 1864, F.R.C.S. 1872; M.B. of Dublin univ. 1867; physician and surgeon to Mercer’s hospital and the Lock hospital, Dublin; professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Ledwich school of medicine; a contributor to The Medical Press. d. 29 York st. Dublin 8 Feb. 1879. Medical Press, xxvii 135 (1879).

MACDOWELL, Patrick (son of a tradesman). b. Belfast 12 Aug. 1799; apprenticed to a coachbuilder in London 1813–7; resided with Peter Francis Chenu a French sculptor in Charles st. London; exhibited 78 sculptures at R.A., 3 at B.I. and 8 at Suffolk st. 1822–70; A.R.A. 1841, R.A. 1846, retired 1870; his greatest work was the group of figures entitled Europe, at corner of the Albert memorial in Hyde Park, completed 1870, illustrated in Art Journal 1871 p. 188. d. 74A Margaret st. Cavendish sq. London 9 Dec. 1870. W. B. Scott’s British school of sculpture (1871) 103–8; Sandby’s History of royal academy, ii 195–7 (1862); Art Journal (1850) p. 8 portrait, and (1871) p. 41; Dublin univ. mag. xxxviii 602–10 (1851), portrait; I.L.N. xxx 417, 418 (1857), lvii 679, 681 (1870), portrait.

MACDUFF, John. b. 1800; ensign 15 foot 3 Aug. 1815; captain 40 foot 13 April 1839, major 13 Nov. 1847; lieut.-col. St. Helena regiment 8 June 1849 to 30 July 1852; lieut. col. 74 foot 30 July 1852 to 11 May 1862 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 23 Oct. 1863; C.B. 28 Jany. 1862; served in India many years; commanded an infantry brigade in the Kaffir war 1852–3; commanded the Oudh division at Lucknow 1857. d. Newmiln-by-Stanley, Perthshire 25 Sep. 1865.

MC ELROY, John. b. Brookeborough, co. Fermanagh 11 May 1782; emigrated to U.S. of America about 1802; entered Society of Jesus as a lay brother 1806, ordained May 1817; priest of Trinity church, Georgetown 1817–22, transferred to Frederick, Maryland 1822; built St. John’s church, a college, an academy, an orphan asylum and the first free school in Frederick; one of the two chaplains for the R.C. soldiers in the Mexican war 1846–7; pastor of St. Mary’s church, Boston 1847–62, built Boston college and the church of the immaculate conception. d. Frederick, Maryland 12 Sep. 1877 being the oldest Jesuit in the world.

M’ENCROE, John. b. Tullamane near Cashel 26 Dec. 1795; ed. St. Patrick’s coll. Maynooth 1814, priest 1819, on the American mission 1822–9; in charge of St. Patrick’s ch. Sydney, Australia 1832–61; dean of Sydney, archdeacon of Sydney to death; founded the Sydney Freeman’s Journal 1850; opposed the reintroduction of convicts into New South Wales 1849; author of The christian doctrine, by A. Donlevy revised 1822; The wanderings of the human mind in searching the scriptures, a history of the principal heresies 1841. d. Sydney 22 Aug. 1868.

MACEWAN, Andrew. b. Glasgow 1812; apprentice to James Mc Clelland, accountant to 1834; accountant Glasgow 1834 and in partnership with William Auld 1836–66; first sec. of Glasgow stock exchange 1844–5; one of the founders of Institute of accountants and actuaries, Glasgow 3 Oct. 1853. d. Glasgow 11 June 1866. W. C. Maclehose’s Glasgow men, ii 187–8 (1886), portrait.

MACEWEN, Alexander (12 son of Wm. Macewen, minister of Howgate secession ch. near Edinb. d. 1827). b. Howgate 5 April 1822; ed. at Glasgow univ., M.A. 1840, D.D. 1866, and univ. of Halle and Berlin; secession minister of Helensburgh church, Sep. 1845 to 1856; sent with Messrs. Harper and Eadie to report on the German catholic movement and ecclesiastical affairs of Canton de Vaud 1846; minister of Claremont united presbyterian ch. Glasgow, Aug. 1856 to death; author of The revelation embodied in scripture supernatural 1866. d. Glasgow 4 June 1875. J. Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy (1849) 129–34; Sermons by A. Macewen (1877) memoir ix–lvi.

MACFARLANE, Duncan (son of Duncan Macfarlane, minister of Drymen, Stirlingshire). b. Auchingray 27 Sep. 1771; ed. Glasgow univ., D.D. 1806; presbyterian minister, Drymen 1792–1823; dean of faculties Glasgow univ. 1810, and principal April 1823 to death; one of king’s chaplains 1815; moderator of general assembly 1819 and 1843; dean of the chapel royal to 1824; minister of the High ch. Glasgow 1823–43; originated colonial mission scheme 1835, its convener over 20 years; entertained at a public dinner 23 Feb. 1842; author of A treatise on the christian sabbath 1832; On the duty of prayer as connected with the day of fasting 1835; The right appointment of ministers in the church 1840; The revivals of the eighteenth century, particularly at Cambuslang 1847; Bible temperance and present duty 1847. d. Glasgow 25 Nov. 1857. Maclehose’s Glasgow men, ii 189–90 (1886), portrait; Scott’s Fasti vol. 2 pt. 1 pp. 7, 235, 353 (1868); J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1849) 72–9.

MACFARLAN, James (son of a weaver who became a pedlar). b. Glasgow 9 April 1832; a professional pedlar in Scotland; walked to London to get a publisher 1854; police court reporter to the Glasgow Bulletin; became a pedlar again and retailed his own books; several of his poems were printed in Household Words; author of Poems 1854; City songs and other poetical pieces 1855; Lyrics of life 1856; The wanderers of the west; An attic study, brief notes on nature, men and books 1862. d. Glasgow 6 Nov. 1862. bur. Cheapside st. ground, Glasgow. The poetical works of James Macfarlan, with a memoir pp. i–x (1882); Rev. C. Rogers’s Leaves from my autobiography (1876) 287–91.

MACFARLAN, James (son of James Macfarlan, minister of Muiravonside near Linlithgow, author of The prophecies of Ezekiel 1845, b. 1800, d. 1871). b. 6 Jany. 1845; ed. at academy and univ. of Edinb.; assistant minister at Dundee 1869–71; minister of Ruthwell 1871 to death; raised money and built an apse to his ch., in which he placed the Runic cross which had been expelled by the General Assembly in 1642; collected materials for a life of Stewart Leslie the vagrant verse writer celebrated by Carlyle. d. Foulden, Berwickshire 7 Oct. 1889. bur. Ruthwell, where a memorial has been built. Memoirs of James Macfarlan (1892).

MACFARLANE, Charles (son of Robert Macfarlane). b. Scotland; lived in Italy 1816–27 and in Turkey 1827–9; employed by Charles Knight the publisher many years; nominated a poor brother of the Charterhouse about July 1857; wrote the Civil and military history of England in Knight’s Pictorial history of England 8 vols. 1838–44; author of Constantinople in 1828, 2 vols. 1829; The romance of history, Italy 3 vols. 1832; The book of table talk 1836; The French revolution 4 vols. 1844–5, anon.; The romance of travel, the East 2 vols. 1846, and 30 other books. d. the Charterhouse, London 9 Dec. 1858.

MACFARLANE, Dugald. b. Perthshire 6 June 1790; 1 lieut. 95 foot 18 July 1815; at Waterloo, and at occupation of Paris; retired on h.p. 29 Feb. 1816; one of the founders of the Canterbury province, south island, New Zealand 16 Dec. 1850. d. Christchurch, N.Z. Oct. 1882. I.L.N. 2 Dec. 1882 pp. 567, 569, portrait.

MACFARLANE, James (2 son of rev. John Macfarlane of Bridgton, Glasgow). b. Waterbeck, Dumfriesshire 27 April 1808; ed. Glasgow univ., M.A., D.D. 1848; presbyterian minister East ch. Stirling 1831, of St. Bernard’s ch. Edinb. 1832 and of Duddingston, Edinb. May 1841 to death; moderator of general assembly 1865; F.R.S. Edinb.; author of Remarks on intrusion 1839; Letter to Sir James Graham on tests 1845; The late secession 1846; The church and nation 1849. d. Duddingston 6 Feb. 1866. Proc. Royal Soc. Edinb. vi 18 (1869).

MACFARLANE, John (3 son of rev. James Macfarlane 1759–1823). b. Dunfermline 1 April 1807; ed. at Dunfermline gr. sch. and univ. of Edinb.; minister of Kincardine-on-Forth 1831–40; minister of Nicholson st. U.P. church, Glasgow, Sep. 1840, then of Erskine church, Glasgow 1840–62; LL.D. Glasgow 1842; minister of church at Clapham, London, April 1862 to death, the members increasing from 36 to about 800; moderator of U.P. synod 1866; moderator of English provincial synod 1870; author of The mountains of the Bible, their scenes and their lessons 1849; Altar zeal 1859; The life and times of George Lawson, D.D. 1862; Pulpit echoes 1868, and 12 other books. d. 14 Victoria road, Clapham Common 7 Feb. 1875. W. Graham’s Memoirs of John Macfarlane (1876) portrait; J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1849) 379–85.

MACFARLANE, Robert, Lord Ormidale (only son of Parlan Macfarlane of Glenmallashan, Dumbartonshire, tradesman). b. 30 July 1802; ed. at Glasgow and Edinb. univs.; a writer to the signet 29 June 1827, and in practice as an agent 1827–37; an advocate at Edinb. 9 March 1838; sheriff of Renfrewshire 22 Dec. 1853 to Jany. 1862; an ordinary lord of session with title of lord Ormidale 13 Jany. 1862 to death; reformed procedure of court of session; author of The practice of the court of session in jury causes 1837; Reports of jury trials in the courts of session 1838 to 1839, 1841; Practical notes on the structure of issues in jury cases in the court of session, parts i–viii 1844–5. d. Hartrigge, Jedburgh 3 Nov. 1880. Journal of jurisprudence, xxiv 659–61 (1880).

MACFARREN, Sir George Alexander (son of George Macfarren, dramatist and theatrical manager 1788–1843). b. 24 Villiers st. Strand, London 2 March 1813; pupil of Charles Lucas 1827–9; student R.A. of music 1829–36; taught music in a school in the Isle of Man 1836–7; his Chevy Chase overture produced at the Gewand-haus concerts, Leipsic 1836; professor of harmony and composition at R.A. of music 1837–46 and 1851; his opera The Devil’s Opera produced English opera house 13 Aug. 1838; founded the Handel society 1844, secretary 1844–8 when it ceased, edited Handel’s Belshazzar, Judas Maccabeus and Jephtha; conductor at Covent Garden theatre Jany. 1845; his operas Don Quixote produced at Drury Lane 3 Feb. 1846, Charles the Second, at Princess’s 27 Oct. 1849; his cantata May Day produced at Bradford festival 1857; became nearly blind 1860; his operas Robin Hood, produced at Her Majesty’s theatre Oct. 1860; She stoops to conquer, at Covent Garden 11 Feb. 1864; his oratorios St. John the Baptist, produced at first Bristol festival 23 Oct. 1873; The Resurrection, at Birmingham festival Sep. 1876; Joseph, at Leeds festival 21 Sep. 1877; and King David, at Leeds festival Oct. 1883; principal of R.A. of music, Feb. 1875 to death; professor of music at univ. of Camb. 16 March 1875 to death; Mus. Doc. Camb. 1875, Oxf. 1879 and Dublin 1887; M.A. Camb. 1878; knighted at Windsor Castle 22 May 1883; author of The rudiments of harmony 1860, 16 ed. 1887; Six lectures on harmony delivered at the royal institutions 1869, 3 ed. 1882; On the structure of a sonata 1871; Counterpoint, a practical course of study 1879, 4 ed. 1885. d. 7 Hamilton terrace, London 31 Oct. 1887. bur. Hampstead cemet. 5 Nov. A life of G. A. Macfarren. By H. C. Banister (1891), portrait; Addresses by G. A. Macfarren (1888), portrait; Cazalet’s Royal academy of music (1854) 307–9; I.L.N. lxvi 391, 393 (1875) portrait, lxxxii 573 (1883) portrait; Graphic, xxvii 553 (1883), portrait.

MACFIE, Robert Andrew (son of John Macfie provost of Leith who received George IV. on his landing there in 1822). b. Leith 4 Oct. 1811; ed. at Edinb. univ.; a sugar refiner with his father at Greenock and Leith; agent at Glasgow for National bank of Scotland 1835–8; went to Liverpool 1838 and established firm of Macfie and Sons, sugar refiners; resided at Ashfield hall, Cheshire 1856–71; removed to Dreghorn castle near Edinburgh 1871; an original director of Liverpool chamber of commerce; a trustee of the Liverpool exchange; contested Leith burghs 1859, M.P. Leith burghs 1868–74; knight commander of royal order of Kalakaua of Hawaii 1886 or 1887; author of The patent question 1863; Colonial questions pressing for immediate solution 1871; Cries in a crisis of statesmanship to test and contest free trade 1881; The questions put by the royal commissioners on the depressed state of trade, dealt with by a Former M.P. 1885; The Scotch church question 1885; Off-hand notes on prayers for family worship. By Senex Scotus, an heritor 1892. d. Dreghorn, Collinton near Edinburgh 17 Feb. 1893. The Biograph, July 1879 pp. 61–4; New Monthly Mag. cxvi 936–8 (1879), portrait.

MACGAHAN, Januarius Aloysius (son of a farmer d. 1851). b. New Lexington, Ohio, U.S. America 12 June 1844; a book-keeper, a public reader, a student at law; came to London, Jany. 1869; correspondent of New York Herald in France 1870, correspondent at St. Petersburgh, joined the military expedition to Khiva, sent views to Illust. London News; correspondent with Carlist army in Spain 1874; went in the Pandora to the Polar seas 1875; special correspondent for Daily News in Turkey 1876, narrated the operations of the Russian army in Bulgaria 1876, continually under fire by the side of general Skobeleff, described the engagements from the fights at Shipka Pass to Plevna, Dec. 1877; author of Campaigning on the Oxus and the fall of Khiva 1874, 4 ed. 1876; The Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria 1876; Under the northern lights 1876. d. of typhus fever, Constantinople 9 June 1878. bur. Catholic cemetery 12 June. Appleton’s American biography, iv 115–16 (1888), portrait; The war correspondence of the Daily News 2 vols. 1878; I.L.N. 22 June 1878 pp. 589, 590, portrait; Graphic 25 Aug. 1877 p. 173, portrait, 6 July 1878 pp. 3, 4, view of funeral; The Nineteenth century, Sep. 1891 pp. 414–5.

M’GAULEY, James William. Professor of natural philosophy to board of national education in Ireland 1836–56; went to Canada 1856; settled in England about 1865; member of council of the Inventors’ Institute; managing director to the Inventors’ patent right association; editor of Scientific review 1865; author of Lectures on natural philosophy. Dublin 1840, 3 ed. 1851; The elements of architecture 1846; A treatise on algebra 1854. d. 25 Oct. 1867. Times 26 Oct. 1867 p. 9.

M’GAVIN, John. b. Kilwinning, Ayrshire 1816; grain miller of firm of Harvie and M’Gavin, Washington st. Glasgow 1838, joined by his sons 1866, retired 1872; instituted the Commercial abstinence society 1846; chairman of Scottish temperance league; member of Glasgow Institute of Fine arts 1870, paid half the expense of erecting the new picture galleries opened 2 Feb. 1880, hon. treasurer and secretary to death; had a fine collection of modern paintings, which was dispersed at his decease. d. while walking by the banks of the Garnock 12 July 1881, left £21,000 to charities and £5000 to Institute of Fine Arts. Maclehose’s Glasgow men, ii 191–6 (1886), portrait.

MAC GAVIN, John Drummond (son of rev. Mr. Mac Gavin). b. near Edinburgh 1817; physician Paris to death; attended the grand duchess of Hesse at Houlgate, Normandy during 1875; made a member of the legion of honour for his ambulance services during siege of Paris 1871; an elder of church of Scotland congregation in Paris. d. Paris 19 April 1893.

MC GEACHEY, Forster Alleyne (only son of major Alexander Mc Geachey who fell at siege of Badajoz 1811). b. 1809; ed. at Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1837; a student of L.I. 1834; M.P. Honiton 1841–7; contested Bristol 10 July 1852; sheriff of Herts. 1865; author of A speech delivered in the house of commons on the Maynooth college bill 1845. d. Shenley Hill near Barnet, Herts. 20 March 1887.

MC GEE, Thomas D’Arcy (2 son of James Mc Gee a coastguard man). b. Carlingford, co. Louth 13 April 1825; went to Providence, Rhode Island 1842; a clerk in office of the Boston Pilot at Boston, June 1842, editor of the paper 1844; editor of Freeman’s Journal, Dublin 1845; assistant editor of The Nation; London correspondent of The Nation newspaper, to which he sent poems signed Montanus, Amergin, Feargail, Sarsfield, An Irish exile, Gilla Eirin, Gilla Patrick, and M.; secretary to the committee of the Irish Confederation, arrested, soon released; sent on secret mission to Scotland 1848; escaped to America disguised as a priest after the rout of his party Oct. 1848; started the New York Nation in New York 26 Oct. 1848; started The American Celt at Boston 1850 which he removed first to Buffalo and then to New York, sold his paper and settled in Montreal 1857, where he started The New Era 1857; member for Montreal in legislative assembly 1858, pres. of the council 1862 and 1864–7; presented with a handsome residence in Montreal 1865; member for Montreal West in the Dominion parliament 6 Nov. 1867; minister of agriculture and emigration 1867; author of Historical sketches of O’Connell and his friends. Boston. 3 ed. 1845; Gallery of Irish writers 1846; A memoir of Art Mac Murrogh, king of Leinster 1847; A history of the Irish settlers in North America 1852; A life of Edward Maginn, bishop of Derry 1857; Canadian ballads 1858; A popular history of Ireland 2 vols. 1865; shot by a Fenian outside his residence in Ottawa 7 April 1868. The poems of T. D. Mc Gee (1869) memoir pp. 15–40, portrait; C. M. Collins’s Celtic Irish songwriters (1885) 103–6; I.L.N. lii 437, 457 (1868), portrait.

MACGEORGE, Andrew. b. Port-Glasgow 6 Sep. 1774; writer in partnership with William Bogle at Glasgow 1797–1807; extractor in the burgh court 1807; writer by himself with a large practice in all the courts; connected with passing of Lord Aberdeen’s act; a member of the Coul club; a writer of verses; member of municipal council 1832. d. Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire 2 Oct. 1857. Maclehose’s Glasgow men, ii 197–8 (1886), portrait.

MACGEORGE, Andrew (son of the preceding). b. Glasgow 13 May 1810; ed. at univ. of Glasgow, LL.D. 1891; admitted into faculty of procurators 1836; member of his father’s firm about 1836, head of the firm to 1889; chief founder of royal hospital for sick children Glasgow, secretary long time; author of An inquiry as to the armorial insignia of the city of Glasgow 1866; The Free church, its principles examined by A Layman 1873; Old Glasgow, the place and the people 1880; Flags, some account of their history and use 1881; W. L. Leitch, landscape painter, a memoir 1884. d. Row, Dumbartonshire 4 Sep. 1891.

MACGEORGE, Robert Jackson. b. near Glasgow 1808; ed. at Glasgow and Edinb.; C. of Episcopal church, Glasgow 1837–41; incumbent of Trinity Church, Streetville, Upper Canada 1841–58; incumbent of St. John’s ch. Oban, Argyleshire 1858–81; dean of Argyll and the Isles 1872, resigned 1881; edited the Weekly review at Streetville; the Church and the Anglo American Mag. at Toronto 1853; wrote The students, a farce Jany. 1830, and A Legend of Carrick, a drama 14 Oct. 1830, both played at York st. theatre, Glasgow; author of The Canadian christian offering. Toronto 1848; Tales, sketches and lyrics 1848. d. 14 May 1884. Morgan’s Bibl. Canadensis (1867) 238–9; Inglis’ Dramatic writers (1868) 71.

M’GEORGE, Thomas. b. 1840; deputy starter for the Jockey club at Epsom, Chester, Ascot and Goodwood 1862, starter in succession to his father 1863 to death, no one ever had the jockeys and the horses under better control and it was rarely that an owner was able to complain that his horse was beaten by a bad start. d. Oatlands park hotel, Weybridge 23 Feb. 1885. Baily’s Mag. March 1885 p. 443; Illust. Sport. and Dram. News 28 Feb. 1885 p. 584, 7 March p. 609, portrait.

M’GETTIGAN, Daniel (son of Manasses M’Gettigan). b. parish of Mevagh, co. Donegal, Nov. 1815; ed. at Navan seminary and Maynooth; ordained priest Trinity Sunday 1839; priest of Ballyshannon, June 1855; coadjutor bishop of Raphoe 13 Feb. 1856, consecrated at Letterkenny 18 May 1856, bishop of Raphoe 1 May 1861; archbishop of Armagh 11 March 1870 to death, he requested permission to decline the archbishoprick but the Pope overruled his objections. d. Armagh 3 Dec. 1887. Brady’s Episcopal succession, i 233, 313 (1876), ii 360.

M’GHEE, Charles (son of a Jamaica negro d. aged 108). b. 1767; swept a crossing which he called his ‘shop’ at Ludgate end of Fleet st. London; was known as Brutus Billy, Timbuctoo and Romeo; after ‘shutting his shop’ he sold nuts and oranges at the doors of the theatres; always attended Rowland Hill’s chapel; Miss Waithman the dau. of the alderman was kind to him and gave him his Sunday dinner; saved money and retired when an old man; lived in White Hart yard leading from Stanhope st. into Drury Lane. d. Chapel court, Strand, London 1854. W. P. Treloar’s Ludgate hill (1881) 116, 118–19, portrait; J. Diprose’s St. Clement’s, i 164 (1868).

MC GHIE, James. b. 1824; M.D. Glasgow 1850; L. and F.F.P.S. Glasgow 1858; librarian F.P.S. Glasgow; assist. physician Glasgow lunatic asylum to 1854; superintendent of royal infirmary, Glasgow, the largest hospital out of London 1854 to death; the chief actor in construction of surgical hospital, Glasgow 1861, much praised by French academy of medicine; edited with G. Buchanan and J. B. Cowan, The Glasgow Medical Journal vols. 6 to 8 (1856–8); invented a tissue paper saturated with oil for use in dressing wounds; Glasgow Medical Journal 1859. d. Glasgow 15 Jany. 1862.

MAC GILCHRIST, John. b. Glasgow 1821; ed. at Glasgow univ.; sheep farmer in the Cape colony; M.D. St. Andrews 1850; practised at Edinb.; author of The Cape of Good Hope. By A Traveller 1844; Remarks on the present state of medicine 1856, 2 ed. 1856; The mutineers, a poem 1859; his dramatic works were Chatelard, a tragedy by J. Mc G. 1852; Roseallan’s daughter, a tragedy 1861. d. Edinburgh 27 March 1864. R. Inglis’s Dramatic writers (1868) 136.

MACGILL, Hamilton Montgomery. b. Catrine, Ayrshire 1807; ed. at Mauchline, entered Glasgow univ. 1827 and divinity hall of united secession church 1831; minister of Duke st. church, Glasgow, Feb. 1837 to 1840; separated from Duke st. 1840 and formed the Montrose st. church 1840, minister to 1858; home mission secretary of united presbyterian church 1858 and foreign mission secretary 1868 to death; D.D. Glasgow 1870; edited The juvenile missionary magazine 1845; edited The missionary record; author of The life of Hugh Heugh 2 vols. 1850, 2 ed. 1852; Songs of the christian creed and life 1876. d. in Miss de Broen’s villa, Belleville, Paris 3 June 1880. bur. Glasgow necropolis 11 June. C. H. Macgill’s Memories of Dr. H. Macgill (1880), portrait; J. Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy (1848) 67–71.

M’GILL, James. b. 1795; minister of Reformed presbyterian ch.; author of The four centuries or christianity and the military profession. Glasgow 1857. d. Bournemouth, Oct. 1883.

M’GILL, John. Professor of Hebrew and oriental languages at college of St. Mary, univ. of St. Andrews 1868 to death, inducted 21 Nov. 1868; member of Bible revision committee 1870. d. St. Andrews 16 March 1871.

MACGILLIVRAY, Charles R. (son of a small farmer). b. Kilfinichen, Mull about 1804; employed in a druggist’s shop, Glasgow about 1824–49; a druggist at Glasgow 1849; M.D. Glasgow 1853; lecturer in Gaelic at Glasgow Institution 1859; author of The rudiments of the Gaelic language 1858; Turus a’ Chriosduidh 1869. d. Glasgow 7 June 1867.

MACGILLIVRAY, John (eld. child of William Macgillivray 1796–1852). b. Aberdeen 18 Dec. 1822; naturalist on board the Fly in the Torres Straits and Eastern Archipelago 1842–6; naturalist on board the Rattlesnake 1846–50; naturalist on board the Herald on the coast of South America 1852–5; collected natural history specimens in the Australasian islands 1855–67; author of Narrative of the voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake 1846–50, to which is added an account of E. B. Kennedy’s exploration of the Cape York peninsula 2 vols. 1852. d. Sydney 6 June 1867. Good Words (1868) 425–9, portrait.

MACGILLIVRAY, William. b. Old Aberdeen 25 Jany. 1796; art student at King’s college, Aberdeen 1808, M.A. Aberdeen 1815, LL.D. 1844; assistant and secretary to regius professor of natural history and regius keeper of the museum of univ. of Edinb. 1823; conservator of museum of royal college of surgeons in Edinb. 1831 to March 1841; professor of natural history in Marischal college and univ. of Aberdeen, March 1841 to death; edited the Edinburgh journal of natural history and of physical science Oct. 1835 to May 1840; author of A history of British birds 5 vols. 1837–52; Manuals of botany, ornithology and geology 3 vols. 1840; A history of the molluscous animals of Aberdeen, Kincardine and Banff 1843; The natural history of Dee Side and Braemar 1855. d. Aberdeen 4 Sep. 1852. J. A. Harvie-Brown and T. E. Buckley’s Vertebrate Fauna of the Hebrides (1888), portrait on page 11.

M’GILVRAY, W. b. island of Islay, Scotland; assist. minister New Ch. Dumfries 1834; minister at St. Mark’s, Glasgow 1835 and at Hope st. Gaelic ch. Glasgow, June 1842 to Sep. 1846; a member of the Disruption assembly 1843; Gaelic minister in Glengarry district, Canada 1846–8; wrecked in the Great Britain in Dundrum bay 22 Sep. 1846; again minister of St. Mark’s, Glasgow 1848; D.D. Lafayette coll. U.S. America 1847. J. Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy (1849) 230–7; H. Scott’s Fasti, ii pt. i 44 (1868).

M’GLASHAN, James. Assistant in house of Blackwood and Sons, publishers, Edinburgh; publisher in Dublin with Wm. Curry, junior 1830–46, alone 1846–55 when he retired; proprietor of Dublin university magazine 1833–55, presented with a service of plate on twentieth anniversary of the magazine; the principal publisher in Dublin to 1855. d. of mental disease, Edinburgh 4 March 1858. Bookseller, March 1858 p. 108; Fitzpatrick’s Life of Charles Lever 2 vols. (1879), passim.

MC GLASHAN, John. Solicitor in Edinburgh; member of Society of solicitors-at-law 1824; a solicitor before the supreme court from 1831; went to New Zealand about 1855; author of Practical notes on the act of Sederunt 1831; The law and practice in actions of Aliment 1837; Practical notes on the jurisdiction in the sheriff courts of Scotland 1842, 4 ed. 1868; Digest of the laws relating to pawnbrokers 1844, 2 ed. 1847. d. New Zealand 1866.

MACGLASHAN, John (1 son of John Macglashan). b. Peterborough 5 Sep. 1842; articled to Bell and Miller, engineers, Westminster and Glasgow; assist. resident at Albert docks, Greenock; resident engineer of graining docks at Partick; in charge of works between Hurda and Sohagpore on Great Indian peninsula railway 1865–8; assist. resident engineer on the Nagpore extension 1869–76, then on the Sholapore and Raichore portion 1876; had special thanks of directors for his exertions during water famine in 1878; had sole charge of the Dond and Munmar line 1881–3; A.I.C.E. 23 Sep. 1875. d. Aboyne, Deeside, Scotland 23 Sep. 1884. Min. of Proc. I.C.E. lxxx 338–40 (1885).

MC GOUGAN, Eugene Malcolm. b. 1828; in general post office, London to 1853; attendant in British museum library 1853–92; a great friend of the costermongers of London, and of institutions for the blind in north of London. d. St. Albans 21 July 1893. Civil Service prayer union Oct. 1893 p. 3.

MACGOWAN, Edward, M.D.; practised at Exeter; physician to the mission of London Society for promoting Christianity among the Jews 1841; arrived at Jerusalem 21 Jany. 1842. d. Jerusalem 6 Feb. 1860 aged 65. W. H. Hunt’s Jerusalem. Bishop Gobat in re Hanna Hadoub (1858) 22 etc.

M’GRATH, Henry Walter (3 son of Nicholas M’Grath of Dublin). b. Dublin 1803; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1825, M.A. 1830; deacon 1829; P.C. of Walton le Dale near Preston 1832–7; R. of St. Ann’s, Manchester, Aug. 1837 to 1852; R. of St. Paul’s, Kersal Moor 29 May 1852 when the church was consecrated to 1865; hon. canon of Manchester 1858 to death; built a house called Ditton at Torquay about 1878, lived there 1878 to death; author of The sacraments practically rejected by Unitarians, in Unitarianism confuted (1839) 593–646. d. Ditton, Lower Warberry road, Torquay about 17 July 1884. C. W. Bardsley’s Memorials of St. Ann’s church (1877) 17, 20; J. Evans’s Lancashire authors and orators (1850) 174–78.

MAC GREGOR, Arthur Trevor. b. 1799 or 1800; lieut. R.N. 22 Oct. 1823; captain 8 Aug. 1857, retired 7 March 1868; retired admiral 7 April 1885. d. Ardmore, Cheltenham 21 Dec. 1886.

MACGREGOR, Sir Charles Metcalfe (2 son of Robert Guthrie Macgregor). b. Agra 12 Aug. 1840; ed. at Marlborough 1853–5; ensign 57 Bengal N.I. 5 Jany. 1857; commanded a squadron of Hodson’s horse in Indian mutiny Aug. 1858, second in command 1861–4; served in Fane’s horse through Chinese campaign 1860; served in the Afghan war 1878–80; assist. deputy quartermaster general in India 1865–7 and in Abyssinia 1867–8; commanded the Punjab frontier force 28 Nov. 1885 to death; major general 22 Jany. 1887; author of Mountain warfare, an essay 2 ed. 1866; A military report on the country of Bhutan 1873; Narrative of a journey through the province of Khorassan 2 vols. 1879; Wanderings in Balochistan 1882; compiled History of the Second Afghan war 6 vols. 1885–6, suppressed by Indian government; The defence of India 1884, suppressed by the government; C.S.I. 31 Dec. 1875; C.I.E. 1 Jany. 1878; C.B. 1879; K.C.B. 17 Jany. 1881; compiled the Gazetteer of Central Asia 1868 which occupied him 5 years. d. Shepheard’s hotel, Cairo 5 Feb. 1887. bur. Glengyle on shores of Loch Katrine. The life of Sir C. M. Macgregor. Ed. by Lady Macgregor 2 vols. (1883), portrait.

MC GREGOR, Sir Duncan. b. 16 March 1787; ensign or lieut. 72 foot 31 Aug. 1801; captain 78 foot 17 April 1804, major 25 Nov. 1813, placed on h.p. 25 April 1816; major 31 foot 29 Jany. 1824, placed on h.p. 26 May 1825; lieut.-col. 93 foot 23 March 1826, placed on h.p. 27 July 1838; served in Sicily and Italy 1806, in Egypt 1807 and in the Peninsula 1813–4; lieut.-col. 93 foot 23 March 1826 to 27 July 1838 when placed on h.p.; inspector general of constabulary force, Ireland 1838–58; general 28 Oct. 1864; K.C.B. 28 Dec. 1848 for his services in Ireland; retired from the army Oct. 1877; author of A narrative of the loss of the Kent. By A Passenger 1825, 7 ed. 1860. d. 2 Vanbrugh park, Blackheath, Kent 8 June 1881.