Chapter XXVII: Part 27

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.