Chapter XXVI: Part 26

MABERLEY, FREDERICK HERBERT (son of Stephen Maberley of London).
_b._ 1781 or 1782; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809; C. of Bourn Cambs.; travelled in a van
all over England distributing protestant tracts about 1812; his
pamphlet in 1818 upon the drowning of an undergraduate called
Lawrence Dundas led to introduction of a system of licensed
lodgings at Cambridge; appeared at the bar of the house of
lords to impeach the duke of Wellington on account of the Roman
Catholic emancipation bill, when he was summarily ejected 1829;
author of The melancholy death of Lawrence Dundas, with an
address on drunkenness 1818; V. of Great Finborough, Suffolk 14
May 1834 to death. _d._ Stowmarket 24 Jany. 1860. _G.M. viii_
511 (1860).

MABERLY, WILLIAM LEADER (son of John Maberly of Shirley house
near Croydon, M.P. for Abingdon 1820–31). _b._ 7 May 1798;
lieut. 7 foot 23 March 1815; lieut. 9 lancers 1817, placed on
h.p. 14 May 1818; major 72 foot 10 Nov. 1825 to 30 Dec. 1826;
lieut.-col. 96 foot 30 Dec. 1826 to 13 Sep. 1827; lieut.-col.
76 foot 13 Sep. 1827, placed on h.p. 9 March 1832; retired 1
July 1881; M.P. Westbury 1819–20, M.P. Northampton 1820–30,
M.P. Shaftesbury 1831–2 and M.P. Chatham 1832–4; contested
Abingdon 10 Dec. 1832; surveyor general of the ordnance 12
Jany. 1831 to Dec. 1832; clerk of the ordnance 1833–4; a comr.
of customs 1834–6; joint secretary of general post office 29
Sep. 1836, permanent secretary Nov. 1846 to April 1854, opposed
all schemes of postal reform; comr. of board of audit April
1854, retired 1866 on pension of £1200; granted additional
pension from the post office of £533 6s. 8d., 1 April 1867.
_d._ 23 Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 6 Feb. 1885. _E.
Yates’s Recollections_, _i_ 96–100 (1884); _A. Trollope’s
Autobiography_, _i_ 59–63 (1883).

M’ADAM, DAVID. Second lieut. R.M. 19 April 1805, lieut.-col. 27
May 1848; col. and 2nd commandant 14 March 1854 to 18 April 1854
when he retired on full pay; M.G. 20 June 1855; was more than
70 times under fire. _d._ Edinburgh 10 June 1859. _G.M. vii_ 86
(1859).

MAC ADAM, JAMES. _b._ Belfast, Jany. 1801; one of the 8 founders
of the natural history and philosophical society of Belfast
1821, pres. to death; one of founders of botanic garden at
Belfast; F.G.S.; lectured On the production of the flax plant
and the modes of preparing its fibre for manufacture 1852. _d._
Belfast 1 June 1861. _Quarterly journal of Geological soc.
xviii_ 37 (1862).

MC ADAM, SIR JAMES NICHOLL (3 son of John Loudon Mc Adam,
introducer of system of road making that bears his name
1756–1836). _b._ 1785; general surveyor of metropolis turnpike
roads to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 26 March 1834
instead of his father who declined the honour. _d._ 17 Finchley
road, St. John’s Wood, London 30 June 1852.

MACADAM, JOHN (son of Wm. Macadam). _b._ Northbank near Glasgow,
May 1827; ed. at univs. of Glasgow and Edinb.; M.D. Glasgow;
lecturer on chemistry and natural science in the Scotch college,
Melbourne 1855; member of Philosophical institution of Victoria,
secretary 1857–63, vice pres. 1863, the institution became royal
society of Victoria 1859, edited the society’s Transactions
vols. 1–5; member for Castlemaine in legislative assembly of
Victoria 1859–64; postmaster general 26 April to 14 Nov. 1861;
lecturer on chemistry in univ. of Melbourne 1861–2; government
officer of health and public analyst to city of Melbourne. _d._
on board the Alhambra on his way to New Zealand 2 Sep. 1865.

MC ADAM, WILLIAM (eld. son of Wm. Mc Adam _d._ 23 Feb. 1836
the eld. son of J. L. Mc Adam 1756–1836). _b._ 1803; surveyor
general of turnpike roads in England to death; K.H. 1834. _d._
the Park, Bath 28 Aug. 1861. _Observations sur les routes dites
Mac Adam. Par Auguste Jones suivies d’une réponse de W. Mac Adam
etc._ 1861.

MACALESTER, CHARLES ARCHIBALD (son of colonel Archibald
Macalester). _b._ 1790; ensign 35 foot 19 Sep. 1795, major 13
June 1811, placed on h.p. 8 June 1826; brevet lieut.-col. 12
Aug. 1819; served in the campaigns of Egypt, Calabria, Belgium
and France, at the capture of Malta and the Ionian Islands;
chief of civil government of Island of Cerigo 1809–12; K.H.
1833. _d._ Loup cottage, Axminster, Devon 25 Aug. 1869.

MACALISTER, ARTHUR. _b._ Glasgow 1818; educated for a solicitor;
solicitor at Ipswich, New South Wales 1850; M.P. Ipswich in
the parliament of Queensland 10 May 1860 to 1871 and 1873–6;
secretary for lands and works 21 March 1862 to Feb. 1866;
premier 1 Feb. to 20 July 1866, 7 Aug. 1866 to Aug. 1867 and 8
Jany. 1874 to 5 June 1876; secretary of works and goldfields
28 Jany. 1869 to 3 May 1870; speaker for session of 1870–1;
colonial secretary 8 Jany. 1874 to 5 June 1876; agent general
for Queensland in London 22 June 1876 to 16 Nov. 1881; C.M.G.
13 March 1876. _d._ at the residence of his sister, Sunnyside,
Uddington near Glasgow 23 March 1883.

M’ALL, ROBERT WHITAKER (son of Robert Stephens M’All,
independent minister, _d._ 1838). _b._ 1821; independent
minister Sunderland; with his wife established the Mc All
non-sectarian mission in Paris for teaching the ‘lapsed masses’
Jany. 1872, which before his death had 43 meeting places in
Paris, 89 in the provinces of France and 6 in Algeria and
Tunis; received a medal from the Encouragement du Bien society;
received a testimonial on the 20 anniversary of the mission
1892; member of legion of honour July 1892; author of Letter
and symbol, a lecture on the personal reign theory, in Ebenezer
chapel, Sunderland 1853. _d._ Auteuil near Paris 11 May 1893.
_The white fields of France or the story of Mr. M’All’s mission.
By H. Bonar_ (1879); _A cry from the land of Calvin and
Voltaire_ (1887).

MC CALL, SAMUEL (younger son of Robert Mc All, minister of the
countess of Huntingdon’s chapel). _b._ St. Ives, Cornwall 5
Oct. 1807; ed. Rotherham coll.; pastor of Hall Gate chapel,
Doncaster 1829–43; pastor at Nottingham 1843–60; principal of
Hackney coll. 1860–80; author of Lectures at the nonconformist
churches in Nottingham 1850; The logic of atheism 1853, 2 ed.
entitled The sceptics credulity 1870; The pastoral care, hints
on the services of congregational churches 1873; Delivery, or
lecture room hints on public speaking 1875. _d._ 2 Goulton road,
Clapton, London 9 March 1888. _Congregational Year book_ (1889)
198–201.

MC ALPIN, WILLIAM. Chief engineer in service of the Viceroy
of Egypt 25 years, _d._ 1 May 1865 aged 61. _bur._ Highgate
cemetery.

MACAN, GEORGE. _b._ 1803; entered Bombay army 1819; lieut.
15 Bombay N.I. 182-, captain 9 Feb. 1829; captain 2nd Bombay
European regiment 1839, lieut.-col. 15 May 1850 to 1855, of 14
N.I. 1855–7, of 3 N.I. 1857–8, of 11 N.I. 1858–60; commandant
Baroda 10 June 1859 to 1860; col. of 25 Bombay light infantry 2
June 1860 to death; M.G. 20 April 1862. _d._ 1 Westbourne st.
Hyde park gardens, London 12 Nov. 1866.

MACAN, HENRY. _b._ 1804; entered Bombay army 1819; lieut. 17
Bombay N.I. 182-, captain 27 Nov. 1834, lieut.-col. 29 Dec. 1846
to 1852; lieut.-col. of 24 N.I. 1852 to 6 Dec. 1856; commandant
Rajcote 10 April 1854 to 24 Nov. 1855; commanded Rajpootana
field force 10 March 1856 to 1857; col. of 17 N.I. 6 Dec. 1856;
general 24 May 1877; C.B. 28 Feb. 1861. _d._ 31 Craven road,
Westbourne terrace, London 20 April 1885.

MACAN, JOHN. Called to Irish bar 1815; Q.C. 13 July 1835;
bencher of King’s Inns 1841 to death; comr. of court of
bankruptcy 1836–57, judge of the court 1857 to death; _found
dead_ in his bed at 9 Mountjoy sq. north, Dublin 5 June 1859.

MACANDREW, JAMES. _b._ Aberdeen 1820; in business in London till
1850; went to Otago, New Zealand 1850; a ship builder; a member
of the N.Z. parliament from the establishment of responsible
government 1854 to death; minister of lands Oct. 1877, minister
of public works 1878; superintendent of the Otago province
1860–76; the first to establish steam communication between New
Zealand and England; founder of Otago university; author of
Address to the people of Otago. Dunedin 1875. _d._ from effects
of a carriage accident 24 Feb. 1887. _W. Gisborne’s New Zealand
rulers_ (1886) 269–70, _portrait_.

M’ARDLE, JOHN FRANCIS. _b._ Liverpool 1842; ed. R.C. institute
Maryland st., and St. Cuthbert’s coll. Ushaw; journalist in
England and Ireland; connected with the Northern Press, now
The Catholic Times, Liverpool; wrote Taffy’s triumph, a farce,
and The Talisman, a burlesque, theatre royal Liverpool 10 Aug.
1874; Round the globe, a spectacle, Alexandra theatre 29 March
1875; The musical marionettes, a comedy, and Zampa, a burlesque,
Prince of Wales’ 6 and 9 Oct. 1876; Round the clock, a dramatic
folly, Alexandra 25 March 1878; Olivia’s love, drama, Royal
6 May 1878; Flint and steel, a farce, Alexandra, Sheffield,
May 1881; Fluff or a clean sweep, an absurdity, Opera house,
Leicester 1 Aug. 1881; wrote The wicked Welshman 1878, She’s a
daisy 1881, You have often heard of my complaints 1882 and other
songs. _d._ at the res. of his mother, Flint st. Liverpool 21
Feb. 1883. _bur._ Ford cemetery 6 miles from Liverpool 24 Feb.

MACARTE, REGINA (sister of George Ginnett, equestrian). Pupil
of Andrew Ducrow, proprietor of Astley’s amphitheatre; appeared
before the court at Brighton with Ducrow’s company; one of the
most accomplished equestriennes of her time; retired about 1857.
_d._ in United States of America 3 Sep. 1892.

M’ARTHUR, DAVID CHARTERIS. _b._ 1809; in service of North
British insurance co. Edinb. 1826–35; clerk in bank of
Australasia, Sydney, N.S.W. 1835, sent to open a branch
in Melbourne, Victoria 1837, manager till 1860, general
superintendent of the bank’s colonial establishments 1868,
retired from active service 1885, local director of the
Melbourne branch till death; member of a committee for enquiring
into the finances of Victoria, who recommended abolition of the
imprest system 1854. _d._ Melbourne 15 Nov. 1887.

M’ARTHUR, DUNCAN. _b._ Glasgow 1773; surgeon R.N.; M.D. of
Aberdeen 1 March 1810; F.L.S. 1810; physician to the fleet 27
April 1812; physician naval hospital, Deal; F.R.C.P. Lond. 10
Feb. 1841; C.B. 17 Aug. 1850. _d._ Deal or Walmer, Kent 16 Jany.
1855. _Proc. Linnean Soc. ii_ 414 (1855).

MACARTHUR, SIR EDWARD (eld. child of John Macarthur 1767–1834,
of Camden park, one of founders of Australian merino wool
industry). _b._ Bath 1789; taken by his parents to New South
Wales 1790; ensign 60 foot 27 Oct. 1808; lieut. 39 foot 1809,
captain 8 Feb. 1821, placed on h.p. as major 10 June 1826;
served in the Peninsula 1812–14; secretary in lord chamberlain’s
office, house of lords 1830–7; A.A.G. in Ireland 1837–41; D.A.G
in Australia 1851–5; commanded the troops in Australia 1855–60;
acting governor of Victoria 1 Jany. to 31 Dec. 1856; col. of
100 foot 28 Sep. 1862 to death; L.G. 14 June 1868; C.B. 17 July
1857, K.C.B. 23 July 1862; author of Colonial policy of 1840 and
1841 as illustrated by the governor’s despatches 1841. _d._ 27
Prince’s gardens, London 4 Jany. 1872. _I.L.N. lx_ 51 (1872).

MACARTHUR, HANNIBAL HAWKINS (son of the succeeding). _b._
Plymouth 16 Jany. 1788; emigrated to New South Wales 1805;
assisted his relatives in the merino wool trade; police
magistrate at Parramatta some years; member for Parramatta in
first parliament of N.S.W. 18 July 1842. _d._ Norwood, Surrey 6
March 1861.

MACARTHUR, JAMES (brother of sir E. Macarthur 1789–1872). _b._
Parramatta, New South Wales 1798; took part in his father’s
agricultural enterprises; member of legislative council of
N.S.W. 1839, member for Camden 1848–53; declined knighthood
1859; assisted in exploring Gippsland 1840; member of
international statistical congress in London 1860; comr. for
N.S.W. at London exhibition 1862; author of New South Wales, its
present state and future prospects 1837. _d._ Sydney 21 April
1867.

MACARTHUR, SIR WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). _b._
Parramatta, Dec. 1800; assisted his father in his various
projects 1817; brought over six German vine-dressers to improve
the vine culture at Camden 1839; elective member of legislative
council of N.S.W. 1849–55; a representative comr. for colony
of N.S.W. at Paris exhibition 1855; an officer of the legion
of honour 1855; knighted at St. James’s palace 12 March 1856;
member of legislative council of N.S.W. 1864; author of Letters
on the culture of the vine, fermentation and the management of
wine in the cellar. By Maro 1844. _d._ Sydney, N.S.W. 29 Oct.
1882. _A voyage round the world. By the Marquis de Beauvoir_,
_i_ 246–9 (1870).

M’ARTHUR, SIR WILLIAM (5 child of John M’Arthur, Wesleyan
minister, _d._ 1840). _b._ Malin, barony of Innishowen, co.
Donegal 6 July 1809; ed. at Stranorlar, co. Donegal; apprenticed
to Hugh Copeland of Enniskillen, woollen draper 1821–5; woollen
draper with Joseph Cather at Londonderry 1831–5, and alone from
15 Nov. 1835 to 1857; merchant in Australian trade 18–19 Silk
st. Cripplegate, London, having with his brother Alexander
M’Arthur, M.P., houses in Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland 1857;
contested Pontefract, July 1865; M.P. Lambeth 1868–85; contested
West Newington 1885; leader of the movement in favour of the
annexation of Fiji 1872; a great supporter of the Wesleyan
methodist connection; sheriff of London 1867–8, alderman of ward
of Coleman st. 3 Sep. 1872 to death, lord mayor 1880–1; master
of spectacle makers’ company 6 Oct. 1875; K.C.M.G. 17 Nov. 1882.
_d._ in a carriage at the Praed st. station of Metropolitan
railway, London 16 Nov. 1887. _bur._ Norwood cemet. 21 Nov. Will
proved for £120,937 2s. 5d., which did not include his estate
in the colonies. _T. Mc Cullagh’s Sir W. M’Arthur_ (1891),
_portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxvii_ 448 (1880), _portrait_; _Graphic
xxii_ 436 (1880), _portrait_; _J. E. Ritchie’s Famous city men_
(1884) 85–95.

MACARTHY or CARTER, JOHN or THOMAS, known as Macarte and
Massarti. _b._ Cork 1838; a servant in Bell’s circus 1862, when
passing the lions’ cage in Bell’s menagerie, Crosshall st.
Liverpool, a lioness seized him by the left arm, he was rescued
by Batty and being removed to the Northern hospital his fore-arm
was amputated 13 Nov. 1862; lion tamer in Bell and Myers’s
circus 1862; lion tamer in Rosina Manders’s menagerie Jany.
1871 to death; attacked by 4 lions at Market square, Bolton
3 Jany. 1872. _d._ in infirmary, Bolton 3 Jany. 1872. _bur._
Bolton cemetery 6 Jany. _Times 17 Nov. 1862 p._ 12; _Illust. sp.
and dr. news_, _ii_ 209 (1874); _Baily’s Mag. xliii_ 16–17, 20
(1885); _T. Frost’s Circus Life_ (1876) 293–6.

MACAULAY, THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY, 1 Baron (eld. child of
Zachary Macaulay, philanthropist 1768–1838). _b._ Rothley
Temple, Leics. 25 Oct. 1800; began residence at Trin. coll.
Camb. Oct. 1818, a fellow 1 Oct. 1824 to 1831; Craven univ.
scholar 1821; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; D.C.L. Oxford 1853;
barrister L.I. 10 Feb. 1826, bencher Jany. 1850 to death;
contributed to Edinburgh Review, May 1825 to 1845; a comr. in
bankruptcy Jany. 1828 to 1831; M.P. Calne 1830–2, M.P. Leeds
1832–4, M.P. Edinburgh 1839–47 and 18 July 1852 to Jany. 1856;
a comr. of board of control July to Dec. 1832, secretary to the
board 19 Dec. 1832 to 26 Dec. 1833; fifth member of supreme
council of India at Calcutta 4 Dec. 1833 to Dec. 1838; compiled
a criminal code for India 1835–7; began his History of England,
March 1839; secretary at war with a seat in the cabinet 26 Sep.
1839 to 4 Sep. 1841; proposed a copyright of 42 years from
publication, which became law 1842; paymaster general 7 July
1846 to 11 May 1848; lord rector of univ. of Glasgow, Nov. 1848,
installed 21 March 1849; F.R.S. 22 Nov. 1849; fellow of univ.
of London 1850–9; professor of ancient history in royal academy
1850; created baron Macaulay of Rothley, Leicestershire 10 Sep.
1857; high steward of borough of Cambridge 1857, sworn in 11
May 1858; lived at El The Albany, Piccadilly 1840–56, and at
Holly lodge afterwards called Airlie lodge, Campden Hill 1856
to death; author of Critical and miscellaneous essays 5 vols.
1841–4; Lays of ancient Rome 1842; The history of England
5 vols. 1849–61; Speeches 2 vols. 1853; The works of lord
Macaulay. Ed. by lady Trevelyan 8 vols. 1866, portrait. _d._ in
his library at Holly lodge, Campden hill, Kensington 28 Dec.
1859. _bur._ in Poet’s Corner, Westminster abbey 9 Jany. 1860
where is bust, statue by T. Woolner in Trin. coll. Camb. _G. O.
Trevelyan’s Life and letters of Lord Macaulay_ 2 _vols._ (1876),
_portrait_; _Men of the time_ (1857) 489–93; _Illustrated
Review_, _iv_ 1–11 (1873), _portrait_; _Peter Anton’s Masters
in history_ (1884) 123–94; _Jerrold, Tennyson and Macaulay. By
J. H. Stirling_ (1868) 112–71; _Rev. F. Arnold’s Public life of
Lord Macaulay_ (1862); _R. H. Horner’s New spirit of the age_,
_ii_ 33–50 (1844); _D. O. Madden’s Chiefs of parties_, _ii_
113–35 (1859); _Proc. of royal society_, _xi_ 11–26 (1860);
_Traits of character. By A Contemporary_, _ii_ 1–26 (1860);
_Fagan’s Reform club_ (1887) 121, _portrait_.

MACAULAY, BEATA ELIZABETH. _b._ 1800; cousin of lord Macaulay;
contributed much to City Press; translated Domestic worship by
J. H. Merle D’Aubigné 1846. _d._ Gurnard, Cowes, Isle of Wight
15 Jany. 1883.

MACAULAY, CHARLES ZACHARY. _b._ 15 Oct. 1813; assistant to
sir Benjamin Brodie; private secretary to T. B. Macaulay when
secretary at war 1839 to 1841; secretary of the Audit office
1854–65, one of the chairmen 1865–6 when granted pension of
£1200; edited under pseudonym of Conway Morel, Authority and
conscience, a debate on the tendency of dogmatic theology.
London 1871. _d._ 7 Aug. 1886.

MACAULAY, COLIN CAMPBELL (2 son of Aulay Macaulay, V. of
Rothley). _b._ Rothley vicarage 19 Nov. 1799; ed. by his father
and at Rugby; clerk to Thomas Burbidge of Leicester, solicitor
1815–28; admitted an attorney and solicitor; member of firm
of Greaves and Burbidge of Leicester, solicitors 1831 to
death; member of Leicester literary and philosophical society,
president 1847–49, contributed many papers to the transactions.
_d._ Knighton lodge, Leicester 20 Oct. 1853. _bur._ family vault
Rothley. _G.M. xl_ 644 (1853).

MACAULAY, SIR JAMES BUCHANAN (2 son of James Macaulay, inspector
general of hospitals). _b._ Niagara, Ontario, Canada 3 Dec.
1793; ensign 98 foot 14 Dec. 1809; lieut. in Glengarry fencibles
1812–15 when corps was disbanded; fought at Ogdensburg, Oswego,
Lundy’s Lane, and at siege of Fort Erie in the war with America;
admitted to Canadian bar 1822; judge of court of queen’s bench
1829; chief justice of court of common pleas, Dec. 1849 to 1856
when he retired on a pension; judge of court of error and appeal
1859; chairman of commission appointed to revise and consolidate
the statutes of Upper Canada, completed 1858; C.B. 30 Nov. 1858;
knighted by patent 13 Jany. 1859. _d._ Toronto 26 Nov. 1859.

MACAULAY, KENNETH (youngest son of rev. Aulay Macaulay). _b._
Rothley 1815; ed. at Jesus coll. Camb., B.A. 1835, M.A. 1839;
barrister I.T. 3 May 1839, bencher 1850 to death, reader 1864,
treasurer 1865; Q.C. Feb. 1850; leader of Midland circuit; M.P.
borough of Camb. 9 July 1852, unseated by committee of house
of commons Aug. 1854; M.P. Camb. 28 March 1857 to 6 July 1865.
_d._ Shaftesbury road, Brooklands, Cambridge 29 July 1867. _Law
Times_, _xliii_ 224 (1867); _I.L.N. xxii_ 152 (1853), _portrait_.

MC AULEY, JEREMIAH. _b._ Ireland 1839; went to New York 1852; a
thief and prize-fighter; sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for
highway robbery 1858, released March 1864; entered the Methodist
church and in Oct. 1872 opened a mission called the Helping Hand
in Water st. New York; opened the Cremorne mission with his wife
Maria 1882; began publication of a weekly paper called Jerry
Mc Auley’s Newspaper, June 1883. _d._ New York 18 Sep. 1884.
_Jerry Mc Auley, an autobiography ed. by R. M. Offord. New York_
(1885), _portraits of himself and wife_.

MACBAIN, SIR JAMES (youngest son of Smith Macbain of
Invergordon). _b._ Kinrhives, Rossshire, April 1828; apprenticed
to Andrew Smith of Inverness, warehouseman 1845–50; traveller
for firm of Milligan & Co. of Bradford; clerk in bank of
New South Wales at Melbourne 1853–7; managing partner for a
branch of firm of Gibbs, Ronald & Co. mercantile and squatting
agents Melbourne 1858, partner in the London house 1863, the
Australian mortgage, land and finance co. bought the business
1865, chairman of the Australian directorate 1865–90; member for
Wimmera district of legislative assembly of Victoria 1864–80;
member for the Central province, to the legislative council
1880–3; a cabinet minister Aug. 1881 to March 1883; member for
South Yarra 1884; pres. of the legislative council 27 Nov. 1884;
chairman of Victorian comrs. at Amsterdam exhibition 1883; pres.
of executive commission of Melbourne centennial exhibition 1888;
knighted by patent 21 June 1886; K.C.M.G. 24 May 1889. _d._
Scotsburn near Toorak, Melbourne 4 Nov. 1892.

MACBEAN, ARCHIBALD. _b._ 1793; second lieut. R.A. 13 Dec. 1810,
lieut.-col. 1 Nov. 1848 to 11 June 1850 when he retired on full
pay; L.G. 2 Feb. 1868. _d._ 1 Lancaster terrace, Regent’s park,
London 1 Feb. 1871.

MACBEAN, FREDERICK. Ensign 6 foot 9 June 1803, captain 16 May
1816; served in the Peninsula 1812–13 and in Upper Canada 1815;
major 7 foot 18 July 1826; lieut.-col. 84 foot 2 Nov. 1838 to 10
Dec. 1847 when he sold out; K.H. 1835. _d._ 15 March 1865 aged
78.

M’BEAN, JAMES. _b._ 1795; presbyterian minister; librarian to
univ. of St. Andrews 1839–70. _d._ 8 Queen st. St. Andrews 26
April 1886.

MACBEAN, SIR WILLIAM (son of Wm. Frederick Macbean, lieut.-col.
6 foot). _b._ Southampton 1782; cadet in service of Seven united
provinces 1794; ensign 6 foot 20 Feb. 1796, captain 25 Oct.
1804; major on Portuguese and Spanish staff 16 Feb. 1809, brevet
lieut.-col. 1811, placed on h.p. 1814; lieut.-col. 100 foot 7
Dec. 1815, regiment was made 99 foot and disbanded at Chatham 2
Sep. 1818 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. 54 foot 5 Oct. 1820,
placed on h.p. 1 Oct. 1829; colonel of 92 foot 31 May 1843 to
death; general 20 June 1854; K.T.S. 1812; C.B. 4 June 1815,
K.C.B. 13 Sep. 1831. _d._ St. John’s road, Fulham near London 24
May 1855.

M’BEAN, WILLIAM. Ensign 93 foot 10 Aug. 1854, lieut.-col. 29
Oct. 1873 to 16 Feb. 1878 when he retired on a pension; M.G. 16
Feb. 1878; V.C. for killing eleven of the enemy with his own
hand in the main breach of the Begum Bagh at Lucknow 11 March
1858. _d._ Herbert hospital, Shooter’s hill, Woolwich 23 June
1878. _I.L.N. lxiii_ 4 (1878), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xviii_
116 (1878), _portrait_.

MACBEAN, WILLIAM FORBES. _b._ 5 June 1821; ensign 86 foot 7
July 1837; lieut. St. Helena regt. 7 Jany. 1842, lieut.-col.
1 May 1859; lieut.-col. 5 West India regt. 23 June 1863 to 1
April 1865 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. 13 foot 1 July
1865; lieut.-col. brigade depot 1 April 1873; M.G. 1 Aug. 1869;
placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 Oct. 1882. _d._
Ashbourne, Derbyshire 26 Feb. 1890.

MACBETH, JAMES. _b._ Ayr; ed. Glasgow univ., took Thomas
Campbell’s silver medal for poetry; minister Arbroath 1837;
minister Norfolk st. Free church, Laurieston; author of The
Bible argument for a Free church 1843; The church and the
slave-holder 1850; A calm review of the debate in the Free
assembly on slavery; Morrisonianism refuted. _John Smith’s Our
Scottish clergy_ (1848) 266–71.

MACBETH, NORMAN (son of James Macbeth of Greenock, officer of
excise). _b._ Greenock 1821; apprenticed to an engraver in
Glasgow 7 years; studied in London and Paris; portrait painter
at Greenock 1845–8 and 1856–61, at Glasgow 1848–56, at Edinburgh
1861–85; exhibited at R.S.A. from 1845; A.R.S.A. 1870, R.S.A. 10
Feb. 1880; removed to London about 1885; exhibited 24 portraits
at R.A. 1837–77. _d._ 10 Belsize avenue, Hampstead, London 27
Feb. 1888.

MACBRIDE, JOHN ALEXANDER PATERSON (son of Archibald Macbride of
Cambeltown, Argyllshire). _b._ Feb. 1819; pupil of Wm. Spence
of Liverpool, sculptor; pupil of and manager for Samuel Joseph,
sculptor, London; associate of Liverpool academy 1848, member
1850, secretary 1851 and 1852; showed many important works
at Liverpool academy from 1836; executed many portrait-busts
and monuments in and near Liverpool; executed the full-size
statues of the four seasons in front of Garswood hall for Lord
Gerard; exhibited 3 pieces of sculpture at R.A. 1848–53. _d._
Southend-on-Sea 4 April 1890. _Graphic 3 May 1890 p._ 508,
_portrait_.

MACBRIDE, JOHN DAVID (only son of John Macbride, admiral, _d._
1800). _b._ Plympton, Devon 28 June 1778; ed. at Cheam in Surrey
and Exeter coll. Oxf., fellow 30 June 1800 to 19 July 1805;
B.A. 1799, M.A. 1802, B.C.L. and D.C.L. 1811; lord almoner’s
reader in Arabic 15 Feb. 1813 to death; principal of Magdalen
hall, Oxf. 18 Oct. 1813 to death, the society of Magdalen hall
was moved in 1822 from near Magdalen college to Catte st.,
the jubilee of his headship was celebrated by foundation of
a Macbride scholarship 1863; F.S.A. 1805; author of Lectures
explanatory of the Diatessaron. Oxford 1835; Lectures on the
articles of the united church of England and Ireland. Oxford
1853; The Mohammedan religion explained 1857; Lectures on the
acts of the apostles and on the epistles. Oxford 1858. _d._
Magdalen hall, Oxford 24 Jany. 1868.

M’BRIDGE, JAMES. _b._ 1831; huntsman to R. C. Hill 1866–9,
at Berkeley castle 1869 and to the Quorn under Mr. Coupland
1870–80; commanded the parade at the hound show, Birmingham;
huntsman at Meath 1880–4, and to the Shropshire hounds under
Hulton Harrop 1884, received a testimonial; first whip and
kennel huntsman to Mr. Corbet in Cheshire to death. _d._
Addesley, Shropshire, May 1886. _Baily’s Mag. June 1886 p._ 76.

M’CABE, EDWARD. _b._ Dublin 14 Feb. 1816; ed. at Maynooth
1833–9; curate of Clontarf, June 1839; C. of cathedral parish,
Marlborough st. Dublin 1851, then administrator; refused the
bishopric of Grahamstown, Africa 1854; a canon of Timothan;
parish priest of St. Nicholas Without, Dublin 1856–65 where he
built a new church and schools; vicar general of Dublin diocese;
parish priest of Kingstown 1865–77; consecrated bishop of Gadara
in partibus as assistant to Paul Cullen archbishop of Dublin 25
July 1877, succeeded him as archbishop 23 March 1879, enthroned
4 May 1879; created a cardinal priest 12 March 1882; member of
senate of royal univ. of Ireland 1880 to death. _d._ 3 Eblana
avenue, Kingstown 11 Feb. 1885. _bur._ Glasnevin. _Memoir of
Edward M’Cabe, archbishop_ (1879); _Saturday Review_, _lix_
243; _Graphic_, _xxv_ 521 (1882), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxx_ 372
(1882), _portrait_.

MACCABE, JOSEPH. _b._ Dublin 22 Feb. 1863; partner with Frank
Hilton as knockabout performers on the music hall stage 1882–93,
they were well known as the Two Macs; partner with Daniel
Kennedy 1893; played in pantomime of Jack and Jill, at Prince’s
theatre, Manchester 1883–4; performed in U.S. of America 1884;
played in pantomime of Cinderella, at T.R. Birmingham 1886–7
and in Miss Esmeralda, at Gaiety theatre, London 8 Oct. 1887;
(_m._ 27 June 1887 Alice Maydue, burlesque actress); performed
at Pavilion and Tivoli music halls, London 5 Jany. 1893. _d._ of
gastric catarrh at Stag House, Tooting Bec road, Tooting, Surrey
11 Jany. 1893. _bur._ St. Mary’s R.C. cemetery, Kensal Green 17
Jany.

NOTE.--The original Two Macs who introduced the knockabout business to England were called Frank Hilton and J. P. Macnally.

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).

NOTE.--His champion ox Black Prince shown at Smithfield in 1866 was by command sent to Windsor to be inspected by the Queen. On 12 July 1867 she visited Tillyfour farm.

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.