Chapter XXVIII: Part 28

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

MACGEORGE, ANDREW. _b._ Port-Glasgow 6 Sep. 1774; writer in
partnership with William Bogle at Glasgow 1797–1807; extractor
in the burgh court 1807; writer by himself with a large practice
in all the courts; connected with passing of Lord Aberdeen’s
act; a member of the Coul club; a writer of verses; member of
municipal council 1832. _d._ Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire 2 Oct.
1857. _Maclehose’s Glasgow men_, _ii_ 197–8 (1886), _portrait_.

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

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

M’GEORGE, THOMAS. _b._ 1840; deputy starter for the Jockey
club at Epsom, Chester, Ascot and Goodwood 1862, starter in
succession to his father 1863 to death, no one ever had the
jockeys and the horses under better control and it was rarely
that an owner was able to complain that his horse was beaten by
a bad start. _d._ Oatlands park hotel, Weybridge 23 Feb. 1885.
_Baily’s Mag. March 1885 p._ 443; _Illust. Sport. and Dram. News
28 Feb. 1885 p._ 584, _7 March p._ 609, _portrait_.

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

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

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

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

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

M’GILL, JAMES. _b._ 1795; minister of Reformed presbyterian ch.;
author of The four centuries or christianity and the military
profession. Glasgow 1857. _d._ Bournemouth, Oct. 1883.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MC GOUGAN, EUGENE MALCOLM. _b._ 1828; in general post office,
London to 1853; attendant in British museum library 1853–92; a
great friend of the costermongers of London, and of institutions
for the blind in north of London. _d._ St. Albans 21 July 1893.
_Civil Service prayer union Oct. 1893 p. 3._

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

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

MAC GREGOR, ARTHUR TREVOR. _b._ 1799 or 1800; lieut. R.N. 22
Oct. 1823; captain 8 Aug. 1857, retired 7 March 1868; retired
admiral 7 April 1885. _d._ Ardmore, Cheltenham 21 Dec. 1886.

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

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

NOTE.--While major of 31 regt. on board the Kent East Indiaman, she took fire 1 March 1825 in the Bay of Biscay, and he was instrumental in saving the lives of the passengers.

MACGREGOR, SIR GEORGE HALL (son of general John A. P. Macgregor
_d._ 1868). _b._ 1810; ed. Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery
16 June 1826, lieut.-col. 18 May 1856, retired 22 Dec. 1858;
political assistant and military sec. to sir W. H. Macnaghten,
envoy to Shah Soojah 1838, present at capture of Ghuznee 1839;
assisted in capturing Hyder Khan; political agent with Sale’s
brigade 1841, present at capture of Cabul; assistant to sir
Henry Lawrence at Lahore 1846; brigade general during the mutiny
1857, present at capture of Lucknow 1858; had 3rd class of the
Douranee empire 1839 and second class 1840; major general on
retired list 18 March 1859; C.B. 10 Oct. 1842, K.C.B. 24 June
1861. _d._ Glencarnock, Torquay 2 Jany. 1883. _C. R. Low’s
Soldiers of the Victorian age_, _i_ 141–207 (1880).

M’GREGOR, JAMES. _b._ Liverpool 1808; manager of Liverpool
commercial bank many years; chairman South Eastern railway
co. 1848 to death; contested Banbury 31 July 1847; M.P.
Sandwich 1852–6; contested Sandwich 28 March 1857; resided at
25 Eccleston sq. London. _d._ of paralysis in house of Robert
Douglas, hair dresser 23 New Bond st. London 5 Sep. 1858.

MC GREGOR, JOHN (eld. son of David Mc Gregor of Drynie,
Rosshire). _b._ Stornoway, Rosshire 1797; emigrated to Prince
Edward island 1802, a school teacher, clerk in a store, engaged
in shipbuilding, member of house of assembly; returned to
Europe 1828; one of the joint secretaries of board of trade 24
Jany. 1840 to 6 Aug. 1847; M.P. Glasgow July 1847; accepted
stewardship of manor of Northstead, Feb. 1857; author of
Historical sketches of the colonies of British America 1828; The
resources and statistics of nations 1835, one vol. only; My note
book 3 vols. 1835; The commercial and financial legislation of
Europe and America 1841; Commercial statistics of all nations
5 vols. 1844–50; The progress of America from the discovery by
Columbus 2 vols. 1847; Sketches of the Austrian and Ottoman
empires 1851; The history of the British empire from James I. 2
vols. 1852; one of the founders of Royal British bank opened 17
Nov. 1849, a director, chairman of the board, and the governor,
advanced to himself £13,700 all of which except £700 became a
bad debt, bank failed 3 Sep. 1856 and all the shareholders were
ruined; escaped trial and imprisonment by his death at Boulogne
23 April 1857. _D. Morier Evans’ Facts, failures and frauds_
(1859) 268–390; _I.L.N. xii_ 75 (1848), _portrait_.

MAC GREGOR, SIR JOHN (2 son of Duncan Mac Andrew of Culross,
Perthshire). _b._ 20 Oct. 1791; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; entered
medical department of army as hospital assistant 27 June 1809;
inspector general of hospitals 28 Nov. 1856 to 31 Dec. 1858
when placed on h.p.; hon. physician to the queen 16 Aug. 1859;
K.C.B. 10 June 1859; took by r.l. name of Mac Gregor instead of
Mac Andrew 24 July 1863. _d._ Corstorphine lodge, Ryde, Isle of
Wight 13 Jany. 1866.

MACGREGOR, JOHN (son of Sir Duncan Macgregor 1787–1881). _b._
Gravesend 24 Jany. 1825; saved from Kent East Indiaman 1 March
1825; ed. at King’s school, Canterbury and 6 other schools;
studied at Trin. coll. Dublin 1839–40 and at Trin. coll.
Camb. 1844–7, 34th wrangler 1847; B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850; wrote
and sketched for Punch 1845; barrister I.T. 31 Jany. 1851;
travelled in his canoe the Rob Roy 15 feet long, from France to
Switzerland 1865, the first of his many canoe journeys; always
known as Rob Roy Macgregor; a founder of Shoeblack brigade 1851;
hon. sec. of the Open-Air mission of the Pure literature society
and of the Protestant Alliance 1853; member for Greenwich on
the London school board 28 Nov. 1870 to 1876; the profits of
his books and receipts from his many lectures were all given to
charities; author of Three days in the East 1851; The law of
reformatories 1856; Our brothers and cousins, a tour in Canada
1859; A description of the Rob Roy canoe 1866; A thousand miles
in the Rob Roy canoe 1866, 13 ed. 1891; A voyage alone in the
yawl Rob Roy 1867; The Rob Roy on the Baltic 1867; The Rob
Roy on the Jordan, Red Sea and Gennesareth 1869, 6 ed. 1880.
_d._ Lochiel, Boscombe near Bournemouth 16 July 1892. _bur._
Bournemouth cemet. 20 July. _Leisure Hour_, _xx_ 248, 782,
_portrait_.

MC GREGOR, JOHN ALEXANDER PAUL. _b._ 1780; entered Bengal army
1795; lieut. 2 Bengal N.I. 30 Oct. 1797, major 12 July 1814;
lieut.-col. commandant 22 N.I. 1824, col. 5 June 1829 to 1 Nov.
1830; military auditor general 1830 to 1845; col. of 37 N.I. 1
Nov. 1830, of 61 N.I. 1833, of 28 N.I. 1836 to 27 Aug. 1847,
of 54 N.I. 27 Aug. 1847 to death; general 20 June 1854. _d._ 7
Sussex place, Hyde park gardens, London 5 March 1868.

MACGREGOR, JOHN MURRAY. _b._ 12 May 1819; entered Madras army
1 March 1838; engaged in important operations in Central India
1842 and 1843; served during the Indian mutiny; placed on
unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; general 22 Jany.
1889. _d._ 17 Castle hill avenue, Folkestone 18 Dec. 1891.

MACGREGOR, ROBERT. _b._ Ardchattan, Bonar near Oban, Argyleshire
1810; ed. at Glasgow univ., M.D. 1842; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1833;
superintendent and apothecary in Glasgow royal infirmary, where
his investigations into nature of diabetes acquired for him
an European reputation, then physician; fellow of faculty of
physicians and surgeons, Glasgow 1837; lecturer on chemistry in
Portland street school of medicine; physician to Glasgow royal
infirmary to death; author of An enquiry into the state of urea
in healthy and diseased urine and the formation of sugar in
diabetes 1836. _d._ 93 West Regent st. Glasgow 20 March 1855.
_bur._ Ardchattan 29 March. _Glasgow Medical Journal_, _iii_
126–8 (1856).

M’GRIGOR, ALEXANDER BENNET. _b._ 1827; head of firm of M’Grigor,
Donald and Co. writers, 172 St. Vincent st. Glasgow; he carried
through parliament scheme for city of Glasgow Union railway
1863–4; connected with speedy liquidation of City of Glasgow
bank, originated the Assets company by means of which the
creditors of the bank were promptly paid off; member of supreme
court of univ. of Glasgow; one of the most prominent citizens of
Glasgow; author of Contributions towards an index of passages on
the topography of Jerusalem 1876; The British parliament, its
history and functions 1887. _d._ Glasgow 22 March 1891.

MC GRIGOR, SIR JAMES (eld. son of Colquhoun Mc Grigor of
Aberdeen, merchant, _d._ 1800). _b._ Lethendrey in Strathspey,
Invernesshire 9 April 1771; ed. at gr. sch. and Marischal coll.
Aberdeen, M.A. 1788, M.D. 20 Feb. 1804; studied medicine at
Aberdeen and Edinb. to 1793; surgeon 88 foot 13 Sep. 1793;
surgeon to royal horse guards 9 Feb. 1804 to 18 July 1805;
inspector general of hospitals 25 Aug. 1809; chief of medical
staff under lord Wellington in the Peninsula 10 Jany. 1812,
retired 1814; physician of Portsmouth garrison 13 June 1811 to
death; director general of army medical department 13 June 1815,
retired on pension 1851; founded Museum of natural history and
pathological anatomy at Fort Pitt, Chatham; K.T.S.; baronet 30
Sep. 1831; K.C.B. 16 Aug. 1850; L.R.C.P. 26 June 1815 and fellow
25 June 1825; physician extraord. to the sovereign 30 March 1821
to death; lord rector of univ. of Aberdeen 1826, 1827 and 1841;
F.R.S. 14 March 1816; fellow of univ. of London 1836 to death;
author of Medical sketches of the expedition to Egypt from
India 1804; A letter to the commissioners on military enquiry
1808. _d._ 3 Harley st. Cavendish sq. London 2 April 1858. _The
autobiography of Sir J. Mc Grigor_ (1861), _portrait_; _Munk’s
Royal college of physicians_, _iii_ 309–13 (1878); _Illustrated
news of the world_, _i_ 204 (1858), _portrait_; _Proc. Royal
society_, _ix_ 532–34 (1858); _Pettigrew’s Medical portrait
gallery_, _iv_ (1840), _portrait_.

MC GRIGOR, JAMES (son of Charles Mc Grigor, barrackmaster at
Nottingham, _d._ 1841). _b._ 1819; ed. at Addiscombe; ensign
21 Bombay N.I. 24 Feb. 1835, captain 24 Jany. 1845, most
courageously disarmed his regiment for mutiny 16 Sep. 1857 for
which he received the thanks of the government; major of 30
Bombay N.I. 20 July 1858; lieut.-col. 15 Bombay N.I. 1 Jany.
1862 to death; _drowned_ while bathing at Aden 28 June 1863.

MC GUFFOG, SAMUEL. M.D. Aberdeen 10 Nov. 1804; licentiate
of college of physicians 5 Dec. 1814; physician to the
English embassy at Constantinople, April 1816 to death.
_d._ Constantinople 15 June 1856. _Munk’s Royal college of
physicians_, _iii_ 129 (1878).

MC GUIRE, JOHN HERON. _b._ Ireland; C. of St. Ann’s, Manchester;
V. of St. Luke’s, Chorlton-upon-Medlock 1843–57; a great
opponent of the Unitarians and the Roman Catholics. _d._
Taymouth terrace, Stepney, London 22 Feb. 1860. _J. Evans’s
Lancashire authors and orators_ (1850) 170–74.

MC HAFFIE, JAMES. _b._ 1777; 2 lieut. 21 foot 7 Sep. 1797,
captain 24 Aug. 1804 to 26 Nov. 1818 when placed on h.p.; L.G.
12 Nov. 1862. _d._ Torhousemuir house, Wigtonshire 22 Nov. 1865.

MAC HALE, JOHN (5 child of Patrick Mac Hale of Tobber-navine,
barony of Tyrawley, co. Mayo, farmer). _b._ Tobber-navine 6
March 1791; ed. at Castlebar and at Maynooth 1807–14; ordained
priest 1814; lecturer and professor of dogmatic theology
in Maynooth college 1814–25; published 32 letters signed
Hierophilos, Feb. 1820 to March 1824; elected bishop of Maronia
in partibus infidelium 31 Jany. 1825, appointed 8 March,
consecrated 5 June and became coadjutor bishop of Killala and
priest of Crossmolina; bishop of Killala 20 May 1834; visited
Rome 1831 and 1854; archbishop of Tuam 21 July 1834, consecrated
26 Aug., helped by a coadjutor bishop from 1878; preached often
in the Irish language; the most popular man after D. O’Connell
who called him ‘the lion of St. Jarlath’s’ and ‘the lion of
the fold of Judah’; opposed Newman’s residence in Ireland
1854; author of The evidences and doctrines of the catholic
church 1827, 2 ed. 1842; The letters of J. Mac Hale under their
respective signatures of Hierophilos, John bishop of Maronia,
bishop of Killala, and archbishop of Tuam 1847; Sermons and
discourses 1883, and many works in the Irish language 1842–73.
_d._ St. Jarlath’s, Tuam 7 Nov. 1881. _B. O’Reilly’s J. Mac
Hale_ 2 _vols._ _New York_ (1890), 2 _portraits_; _Brady’s
Episcopal succession_, _ii_ 148–50 (1876); _Burke’s History of
catholic archbishops of Tuam_ (1882) 240–374; _I.L.N. xvii_ 225
(1850), _portrait_; _Biograph iv_ 85–91 (1880).

M’HARDY, JOHN BUNCH BONNEMAISON. _b._ 3 Dec. 1801; entered
navy 25 May 1812; captain 1 Jany. 1840; chief constable Essex
constabulary 11 Feb. 1840 to Nov. 1881; admiral on half pay 1
April 1870. _d._ Clan lodge, Bath 19 Dec. 1882.

M’HENRY, JAMES. _b._ 1816 or 1817; merchant Liverpool; the
originator of the provision trade between Liverpool and U.S.
America; submitted first samples of Indian corn as food to sir
R. Peel during the Irish famine 1846; contractor for the western
extension of the railway under facilities afforded by the
government, disagreements arose, and it took him 20 years to
substantiate his claims, which were not paid when he died. _d._
25 Addison road, Kensington, London 26 May 1891.

M’IAN, ROBERT RONALD (son of Robert M’Ian, sheep farmer). _b._
Inverness 1805; ed. Liverpool and Resscliff; apprentice to a
nurseryman at Dingwall; a soldier in 42 regt.; scene painter
Glasgow theatre; a provincial actor in Penley’s companies; acted
at Bath and Bristol 1827–31; a good swordsman; his best part was
the Dougal Creature, in Sir Walter Scott’s Two Drovers; first
appeared in London at Lyceum theatre in Lo Zingaro 1834; acted
at Covent Garden 1838, at Drury Lane 1839; was the jester at
Eglinton tournament 28 to 30 Aug. 1839; painter of historical
subjects 1835 to death; exhibited 13 pictures at R.A., 13 at
B.I. and 13 at Suffolk st. 1835–47; A.R.S.A. 1852; illustrated
J. Logan’s 3 works, The clans of the Scottish highlands 1845,
new ed. 1857, Gaelic gatherings 1848, Highlanders at home 1863;
and E. A. H. Ogilvy’s A book of highland minstrelsy 1846, 2 ed.
1848; (his wife Fanny M’Ian was also an historical painter and
mistress of school of design at Somerset House, exhibited 10
pictures at R.A., 10 at B.I. and 13 at Suffolk st. 1835–47); he
lived latterly at 36 Charlotte st. Portman sq. London, and _d._
Heath Mount, Hampstead 13 Dec. 1856. _The Era 21 Dec. 1856 p._
11; _Actors by gaslight_ (1838) 185–6, _portrait_.

MACILWAIN, GEORGE (son of an Irish country surgeon). _b._
1797; M.R.C.S. 1818, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon to Finsbury
dispensary 20 years; surgeon to City of London truss society;
M.R.I.A.; author of A treatise on stricture of the urethra 1824,
2 ed. entitled Surgical observations on diseases of the mucous
canals of the body 1830; Remarks on the unity of the body 1836;
The general nature and treatment of tumours 1845; Memoirs of
John Abernethy 2 vols. 1853, 3 ed. 1 vol. 1856. _d._ Matching
near Harlow, Essex 22 Jany. 1882.

MAC INNIS, JOHN. _b._ 1779; entered Bengal army 1798; lieut. 2nd
European regiment 4 March 1800; lieut. 20 (or Marine) Bengal
N.I. 1803, major 3 June 1816; lieut.-col. commandant 61 N.I. 13
May 1825, col. 5 June 1829 to 1831; col. of 73 N.I. 1831 to 23
June 1842, of 40 N.I. 23 June 1842 to 1843, of 59 N.I. 1843 to
30 Sep. 1845, of 24 N.I. 30 Sep. 1845 to 1851, of 64 N.I. 1851
to 1855, of 1 European fusiliers (right wing) 1855 to death;
general 4 July 1856. _d._ Hale-end, Woodford, Essex 12 March
1859.

MACINTIRE, ANDREW WILLIAM. _b._ 24 Feb. 1815; 2 lieut. Madras
artillery 9 June 1831; col. R.A. 6 May 1867, col. commandant
19 June 1884 to death; commanded Southern district brigade in
Madras 1869–74; commanded Hyderabad subsidiary force 1874–81;
placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; general 31
March 1883; C.B. 16 Nov. 1858. _d._ 14 Leinster sq. London 26
Feb. 1885.

MACINTOSH, ALEXANDER FISHER. _b._ 1795; cornet 14 light dragoons
31 Oct. 1811; captain 79 foot 17 June 1819; lieut.-col. 15 foot
15 Dec. 1825 to 8 April 1834 when placed on h.p.; col. of 90
foot 4 March 1857, col. of 93 foot 3 June 1862 to death; general
27 Dec. 1864; K.H. 1833. _d._ Oatlands park, Walton-on-Thames 28
Aug. 1868.

M’INTOSH, CHARLES (son of a gardener). _b._ Abercairny,
Perthshire, Aug. 1794; in charge of Abercairny gardens; gardener
to marquis of Breadalbane at Taymouth castle, then to sir Thomas
Baring at Stratton park, Hants.; under Mr. Horner laid out and
planted grounds of Colosseum, London 1824; gardener to prince
Leopold at Claremont many years; remodelled royal gardens at
Laecken, Brussels; gardener to duke of Buccleuch at Dalkeith
1838–58, where he planned the grounds and conservatories; a
landscape gardener and garden architect 1858 to death; A.L.S.;
edited The British year book for the country 1856; author of
The practical gardener 2 vols. 1828–9; Flora and pomana, or the
British fruit and flower garden 1829; The greenhouse, hothouse
and stove 1838; The orchard 1839; The new and improved practical
gardener 1839; The book of the garden 2 vols. 1853–5; The larch
disease 1860. _d._ Newcome villa, Murray field, Scotland 9 Jany.
1864. _Proc. of Linnæan society 1864 p. xlii._

MC INTYRE, ÆNEAS JOHN (only son of Æneas Mc Intyre of Hackney,
LL.D.) _b._ 1821; barrister M.T. 20 Nov. 1846, bencher 6 May
1873 to death; Q.C. 8 Feb. 1872; county court judge of circuit
12 (West Riding of Yorkshire) 1 Jany. 1889 to death; member of
the bar committee 1883 to death; M.P. Worcester, April 1880 to
18 Nov. 1885; contested North Hackney, Dec. 1885; a well known
Freemason, _d._ Mirfield near Dewsbury, Yorkshire 19 Sep. 1889.
_Masonic Portraits. By J.G._ (1876) 32–6.

MC INTYRE, COLIN CAMPBELL. _b._ 1806 or 1807; ensign 78 foot 9
April 1825, lieut.-col. 28 Oct. 1864, retired on full pay 2 Oct.
1866; L.G. 4 March 1880; hon. general 1 July 1881; C.B. 24 March
1858. _d._ Grandholm, Teignmouth 24 Aug. 1887.

MC INTYRE, MARTIN. _b._ Eastwood, Notts. 15 Aug. 1847;
professional bowler with the Germanstown club, Philadelphia
1869–70; in the Nottingham eleven 1871–5; engaged by the Hull
club, Yorkshire 1871; first appeared at Lords in the match
Gentlemen _v._ Players 3–5 July 1871 when he bowled G. F. Grace
out with his first ball; a very fast round-arm bowler; played in
Australia as one of W. G. Grace’s eleven 1873–4. _d._ Moorgreen,
Eastwood 28 Feb. 1885. _W. G. Grace’s Cricket_ (1891) 342–3;
_Bell’s Life in London 7 March 1885 p._ 2.

MAC INTYRE, WILLIAM. _b._ 1792; M.D. Edinb. 1811; F.R.C.P.
London 1851; practised at 84 Harley st. London and then at
Brighton; wrote On apoplectic affections. Lancet 1841; On the
gastric origin of diabetes. London Med. Journ. 1850; author of
Case of mollities and fragilitas ossium 1850. _d._ 21 Clifton
road, Brighton 4 March 1857.

M’INTYRE, WILLIAM. First appeared in London at Surrey theatre
as Paul in The idiot of the mountain 18 Nov. 1861; played at
the Lyceum and at Drury Lane under Falconer and Chatterton’s
management; acted Black Mullins in Falconer’s Peep o’ Day at
Lyceum, and Mogg a convict in Halliday’s The Great City at Drury
Lane 22 April to 17 Aug. 1867; played Strozzi in Bernard’s Doge
of Venice, at Drury Lane 2 Nov. 1867; acted Jenkinson in The
Vicar of Wakefield, at Standard theatre 1 Nov. 1870, Claudius
in Hamlet at Gaiety 31 July 1871, Gurth in Halliday’s Rebecca
at Drury Lane 23 Sep. 1871; played Hickory in Merritt’s Rough
and Ready at Adelphi 31 Jany. 1874, Black Jack in Janet Pride
at Princess’s 1 Aug. 1874, Simon Legree in Lemon and Taylor’s
Slave life or Uncle Tom’s Cabin at Adelphi 11 Feb. 1875, and
Spreadeagle in Round the world in eighty days at Princess’s 15
March 1875; acted Ham in Little Emly at Adelphi 30 Oct. 1875,
Corry Kinchela in The Shaughraun at Adelphi 18 Nov. 1876, Sir
John Murray in Willing’s Under two reigns at Park theatre 3 May
1879, Hallo in Simpson and Templar’s Zillah at Lyceum 2 April
1879, Silas Swayne in Buchanan’s The Exiles of Erin at Olympic
7 May 1881, and Varney in Amy Robsart at Sadler’s Wells 10 Dec.
1881. _d._ 5 Aldine st. Shepherd’s Bush, London 8 May 1885.

MC INTYRE, WILLIAM (brother of Martin Mc Intyre 1847–85). _b._
Eastwood, Notts. 24 May 1844; a fine fast round-arm bowler;
played in the Notts. eleven 1869–71; played in the Lancashire
eleven 1872–81; first played at Lord’s in North _v._ South 6 and
7 June 1870; the Lancashire county committee gave him a benefit
on his retirement in 1881 which realised over £1000. _d._
Prestwich asylum, Lancs. 13 Sep. 1892. _bur._ Bolton 15 Sep.

MAC IVOR, JAMES. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1839,
fellow 1844 to death; B.A. 1842, M.A. 1848, B.D. and D.D.
1857; professor of moral philosophy 9 Nov. 1872 to 1878; R.
of Ardstraw, Derry 1858 to death; author of An essay upon the
versification of Homer 1839; Dis-endowment or co-endowment 1869;
Some papers on intermediate education in Ireland 1869; Religious
progress, its criterion, instruments and laws, sermons 1871.
_d._ Ardstraw 17 July 1886.

MC KANE, JOHN (son of J. Mc Kane of Belfast, linen manufacturer
at Ballymena). Ed. at Queen’s coll. Belfast; LL.D. Queen’s
univ. Ireland; called to Irish bar 1864; professor of civil law
Queen’s coll. Belfast to 1885; M.P. Mid Armagh, Dec. 1885 to
death. _d._ 64 Lower Leeson st. Dublin 11 Jany. 1886.

MACKARNESS, GEORGE RICHARD (2 son of John Mackarness of
Islington, West India merchant, then of Bath, _d._ 2 Jany.
1870). _b._ London 1823; ed. at Merton coll. Oxf., postmaster
1841–5; B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848, D.D. 10 March 1874; fellow of
St. Columba’s coll. Ireland 1846–7; C. of Chilton Foliatt,
Wilts. 1846–47; C. of Barnwell, Northants. 1848–54; V. of Ilam,
Stafford 1854–74; chaplain to bishop of Oxford 1870–74; fellow
of St. Chad’s coll. Denstone 1872; bishop of Argyll and the
Isles 14 Jany. 1874 to death, consecrated 25 March; edited Ilam
anastatic drawing society, vol. xi 1868. _d._ 43 Marine parade,
Brighton 20 April 1883.

MACKARNESS, JOHN FIELDER (the elder brother of the preceding).
_b._ Islington, London 3 Dec. 1820; ed. at Eton and Merton
college Oxf., postmaster 1840–4; rowed in the Merton boat when
it bumped every college boat but one; president of the Oxford
Union; B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847, D.D. 1869; fellow of Exeter coll.
30 June 1844 to 11 Aug. 1846; V. of Tardebigge, Worcs. 1845 to
1855; hon. canon of Worcester 1847–58; R. of Honiton, Devon, and
head master of gram. sch. 1855–69; preb. of Exeter 1858–69; V.
of Monkton, Devon 1867–70; proctor in convocation for diocese of
Exeter 1865–9; bishop of Oxford 15 Dec. 1869, resigned 17 Nov.
1888, consecrated 25 Jany. 1870; chancellor of order of the
Garter 5 Feb. 1870 to 1888; refused to allow proceedings to be
taken against canon Carter rector of Clewer, his decision upheld
in court of appeal 23 March 1880; edited Eighteen years of a
clerical meeting, minutes of Alcester clerical association 1862;
author of A few words to the country parsons on the election
for Oxford university. By One of themselves 1840; A plea for
toleration in answer to the No Popery cry 1850; May or must, a
letter on a case in the court of queen’s bench 1879 _i.e._ The
Clewer case. _d._ Angus house, Eastbourne 16 Sep. 1889. _bur._
Sandhurst churchyard, Berkshire 21 Sep., memorial window in the
new schoolroom of All Hallows’ school Honiton, opened 10 Dec.
1892. _C. C. Mackarness’s Memorials of the episcopate of J. F.
Mackarness_ (1892), _portrait_; _C. M. Davies’s Orthodox London_
(1875) 129–34, 394; _Church portrait journal_, _iii_ 65 (1882),
_portrait_; _Illust. Times 26 Jany. 1870 p._ 73, _portrait_;
_I.L.N. lvi_ 13, 14 (1870), _portrait_.

MACKARNESS, MATILDA ANNE (younger dau. of James Robinson
Planché, Somerset herald 1796–1880). _b._ 1826; author of Old
Jolliffe not a goblin story 1845; A trap to catch a sunbeam
1849, 42 ed. 1882; Thrift or hints for cottage housekeeping
1855; Minnie’s love 1860; Sunbeam stories 2 vols. 1860; The
naughty girl of the family 1866; A peerless wife 3 vols. 1871;
A mingled yarn 3 vols. 1872; The young lady’s book 1876; Sweet
flowers, ten stories 1877; A woman without a head 1892, and 50
other books for young people; (_m._ Henry Smith Mackarness,
vicar of Ash, Kent 1857, he _d._ 26 Dec. 1868). She _d._ 1 Royal
crescent, Margate 6 May 1881. _bur._ in churchyard of Ash.

MACKAY, MRS. _b._ Strathy, Sutherlandshire; (_m._ sergeant
Mackay of the 42 highlanders); went with the army to the Crimea
1854; one of the first nurses enlisted by Florence Nightingale
for service in the Crimea 1854. _d._ Golspie, Scotland, Oct.
1890.

MACKAY, ALEXANDER. _b._ Scotland 1808; conducted a newspaper in
Toronto; resided in Canada several years; on the staff of the
Morning Chronicle in London to 1849; barrister M.T. 7 May 1847;
sent by chambers of commerce of Manchester, Liverpool, Blackburn
and Glasgow to inquire into cultivation of cotton in India
1851; author of Electoral districts 1848; The Western world, or
travels in the United States 3 vols. 1849; The crisis in Canada
1849. _d._ at sea on his way home from India 15 April 1852.

MACKAY, ALEXANDER MURDOCH (son of Alexander Mackay, free church
minister of Rhynie, Aberdeenshire, D.D., residing at Ventnor).
_b._ Rhynie 13 Oct. 1849; studied engineering in Edinb. univ.
1870–3; draughtsman with an engineering firm in Berlin 1873,
chief of the locomotive department to Sep. 1875; sailed from
Southampton as missionary to Uganda 27 April 1876, made a road
from the coast to Mpwapwa 1877, arrived at Uganda Nov. 1878,
where he resided to July 1887, driven away by Arab traders
12 Oct., went to the Great Lake 1887; taught the people of
Uganda and converted many to christianity, reduced the language
to writing and made translation of portions of scripture;
prepared reading sheets by which many learnt to read, worked
the printing presses himself; built houses, boats, &c. for the
king of Uganda; sent constant news to England about Emin Pasha;
recovered and sent bishop Hannington’s diary to England, Oct.
1886; with R. P. Ashe translated St. Matthew’s Gospel into
Ganda 1888. _d._ Usambiro 8 Feb. 1890. _A. M. Mackay, pioneer
missionary of the church missionary society in Uganda. By his
sister_ (1890) _portrait_; _The story of Mackay of Uganda. By
his sister_ (1891), _portrait_; _I.L.N. 26 April 1890 p._ 515,
_portrait_.

MACKAY, ANGUS (son of Murdoch Mackay of the 78th highlanders
and a settler in Sydney). _b._ Aberdeen 26 Jany. 1824; taken
to New South Wales 1827; ed. at Australian college, Sydney; a
schoolmaster; edited The Atlas newspaper 1847–50; manager of
a general business for sir Henry Parkes at Geelong 1850–1; a
digger in Victoria 1853; proprietor and editor of the Bendigo
Advertiser 1854; founded Riverina Herald in Echuca; started the
Sydney Daily Telegraph 1879, manager to 1883; sat for Sandhurst
burghs in Victorian legislature Feb. 1868 to 1879 and 1883;
minister of mines 9 April 1870 to June 1871 and June 1872 to
July 1874; minister for education May to July 1874; minister of
mines and education July 1874 to Aug. 1875; played against the
All England eleven 1865; author of The great goldfield, a tour
through the first discovered gold district of New South Wales
1853; A visit to Sydney and the Cudgegong diamond mines 1870;
The semi-tropical agriculturalists and colonists’ guide 1875.
_d._ Sandhurst 7 July 1886.

MC KAY, ARCHIBALD. _b._ Kilmarnock 1801; apprenticed to a
handloom weaver; a bookbinder at Kilmarnock to death; kept a
circulating library in King st. Kilmarnock; author of Droathy
Tam 1828, many editions; Poems 1830; Recreations of leisure
hours 1832, 2 ed. 1844; A history of Kilmarnock 1848, 3 ed.
1864; Ingleside lilts 1855. _d._ Kilmarnock 14 April 1883. _C.
Rogers’s Modern Scottish Minstrel_, _v_ 85–90 (1857).

MACKAY, CHARLES. _b._ High st. Edinb. 31 Oct. 1787; private in
Argyll militia 1803–15; first appeared Greenock theatre as Don
Pedro in The Wonder, Feb. 1816; first seen in Edinb. at theatre
royal as Mr. Russell in The Jealous Wife 26 Dec. 1818, then as
Baillie Nicol Jarvie in Rob Roy, Sir Walter Scott witnessing
the representation on 15 Feb. 1819, one of the most popular
characters on the stage; was also good in Old Dornton in the
Road to Ruin, and in Sir Peter Teazle; played Baillie Nicol
Jarvie at Drury Lane 3 July 1821, an engagement for 6 nights;
ceased to be a member of regular company of the T.R. Edinb. 21
April 1841 after 22 years’ service; played Baillie Nicol Jarvie
at Prince’s theatre, Glasgow 4 Feb. 1852 being the 1134th time
of his acting the part; played the Baillie the last time and his
final appearance 25 Jany. 1853; the most important of the actors
in the Waverley dramas. _d._ 17 Lutton place, Edinburgh 2 Nov.
1857. _bur._ in the Calton burying ground. _The British Stage_,
_v_ 224, 241, 249 (1821), _portrait_; _Dibdin’s Edinburgh Stage_
(1888) 285–92, 320, 379, 401–3, 416–7, 436, 450–1, _portrait_;
_The Scotsman 4 Nov. 1857 p._ 2; _The Era 8 Nov. 1857 p._ 10;
_Lockhart’s Life of sir W. Scott_ (1845) 389, 789.

NOTE.--He was the original representative in the following dramas founded on Scott’s works, John Dumbie in The Heart of Midlothian 23 Feb. 1820; Edie Ochiltree in The Antiquary 20 Dec. 1820; Dugal Dalgetty in The Legend of Montrose 13 March 1822; Caleb Balderston in The Bride of Lammermoor 1 May 1822; Tony Foster in Kenilworth 1 July 1822; Richie Moniplies in George Heriot 6 Feb. 1823; Sir Geoffrey Peveril in Peveril of the Peak 12 April 1823; Friar Tuck in Ivanhoe 24 Nov. 1823; the baron of Brawardine in Waverley 22 May 1824; Meg Dodds in St. Ronan’s Well 5 June 1824; Peter Peebles in Redgauntlet 28 May 1825; and Hughie Morrison in The Two Drovers 10 Nov. 1828.

MACKAY, CHARLES (son of George Mackay of the royal artillery).
_b._ Perth 27 March 1814; ed. at Woolwich 1822, in London 1825
and in Brussels 1828; sec. to William Cockerill, mechanician,
Seraing 1830–2; on staff of Morning Chronicle 1835 to July
1844; edited the Glasgow Argus, Sep. 1844 to July 1847; LL.D.
of Glasgow univ.; political and literary editor of Illustrated
London News 1848–52 and manager 1852 to Dec. 1859; lectured
on poetry and song in the United States and Canada, Oct. 1857
to May 1858; editor of The London review and weekly journal
which appeared 7 July 1860; correspondent for the Times in New
York, March 1862 to Dec. 1865; granted civil list pension of
£100, 19 June 1862; presented with testimonial of £770 at St.
James’s hall, London 27 Dec. 1877; author of A history of London
1838; The Thames and its tributaries 2 vols. 1840; Memoirs of
extraordinary popular delusions 3 vols. 1841, 4 ed. 1892; Songs
of Scotland 1857; The collected songs of C. Mackay 1859; The
Jacobite songs of Scotland 1861; Forty years recollections of
life, literature and public affairs 2 vols. 1877; Luck or what
came of it, a tale 3 vols. 1881; The poetry and humour of the
Scottish language 1882; Through the long day, or memorial of
a literary life 2 vols. 1887. _d._ 47 Longridge road, Earl’s
Court, London 24 Dec. 1889. _Biograph_, _Aug. 1879 pp._ 145–8;
_The Critic_, _xvii_ 752 (1858), _portrait_; _T. Powell’s
Pictures of living authors of Britain_ (1851) 146–49; _I.L.N.
xviii_ 180, 181 (1851) _portrait_, _xx_ 68 (1852) _portrait_;
_Pictorial World 2 Jany. 1890 pp._ 21, 23, _portrait_;
_Reynolds’s Miscellany_, _xxvii_ 105 (1862), _portrait_.

M’KAY, DAVID. _b._ near Brechin 1810; a shoemaker at Lochee near
Dundee 1828 to death; wrote verses for Chambers’ Journal and the
local papers; greatly promoted the welfare of Lochee; chairman
of Burns’ centenary festival Lochee 1859; Lochee correspondent
of Dundee Advertiser 1864. _d._ Lochee 19 Dec. 1868. _Norrie’s
Dundee celebrities_ (1873) 331–3.

MACKAY, GEORGE. L.F.P.S. Glasgow 1833; M.D. Glasgow 1835;
L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1841; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1860; senior assist.
surgeon to H.M. ships in attack on Bogue forts, Canton river
1841; senior medical officer of Agamemnon before Sebastopol
1854; staff surgeon and medical storekeeper, royal hospital,
Plymouth, June 1855; deputy inspector general Hong Kong 29 Dec.
1860 and at Haslar hospital 1865; hon. surgeon to the queen to
death; retired inspector general of hospitals 26 Oct. 1870;
wrote Notes on the cholera at Varna, in Edinb. Med. Journal
1857, and on Medical arrangement in naval actions, in Medical
Times 1854. _d._ Sutherland house, Wellington 26 April 1879.
_The Lancet 3 May 1879 p._ 640.

MACKAY, GEORGE R. ABERIGH (son of James Aberigh Mackay, D.D.,
senior British chaplain, Paris). _b._ 1849; junior professor
government coll. Delhi; on staff of the Pioneer newspaper;
principal of Rájkumár college, Indore; sent newspaper
correspondence to Vanity Fair 1878, Ali Baba letters 1879, and
Baby in partibus 1880; a correspondent of the Bombay Gazette
under name of Political Orphan; author of Notes on Western
Turkistan, Calcutta 1875; The chiefs of Central India 1879, vol.
1 only; The prince’s guide book. The Times of India, handbook
of Hindustan 1875; Twenty-one days in India, being the tour of
Sir Ali Baba 1880, 3 ed. 1881; Serious reflections and other
contributions 1881. _d._ Calcutta 13 Jany. 1881. _Vanity Fair_
(1881) 80, 90, 118; _S. W. O’Neil’s Preparation for death.
Funeral sermon_ (1881).

MACKAY, JAMES TOWNSEND. _b._ Kirkcaldy, Fifeshire 1775; trained
as a gardener; went to Ireland 1803; curator of botanical garden
of Trin. coll. Dublin 1806 to death; A.L.S. 2 Dec. 1806; LL.D.
Dublin 1850; discovered several species of plants new to the
British Isles; contributed much to Sir J. E. Smith’s English
Botany 1790–1814 and to Trans. Royal Irish academy; M.R.I.A.;
author of Flora Hibernica 1836. _d._ 1 Dawson grove, Beggar’s
bush road, Dublin 25 Feb. 1862.

MC KAY, JOHN. _b._ 19 Feb. 1823; served in the ranks 1841–54;
ensign and quartermaster school of musketry 25 Aug. 1854; lieut.
41 foot 1855–9; major 12 foot 1 Aug. 1867, lieut.-col. 1 May
1871, placed on h.p. 10 April 1878; D.A.A.G. school of musketry,
Hythe 1 April 1856 to 30 Sep. 1867; commanded the brigade depot
for counties of Suffolk and Cambridge at Bury St. Edmund’s,
April 1878; awarded distinguished service reward; retired on
pension with rank of M.G. 1 April 1882. _d._ 13 Gwendwr road,
West Kensington, London 14 Oct. 1887.

MACKAY, JOSEPH REILLY (son of rev. Joseph William Mackay
1819–91). _b._ 1849; an artist in black and white; wrote largely
in prose and verse; wrote Peggy 3 act drama produced at Royalty
theatre 14 Feb. 1881; wrote with H. Agoust, Macfarlane’s Will,
pantomime vaudeville in 3 acts produced Imperial theatre 26
Dec. 1881; The Novel Reader, an adaptation by Joseph Mackay
and Sydney Grundy of Meilhac and Halévy’s La Petite Marquise,
was privately performed at Globe theatre 28 Sep. 1882 the lord
chamberlain having refused to license the piece, but on the 25
April 1887 it was produced under title of May and December at
Criterion theatre. _d._ 16 Waterford road, Fulham near London 18
Dec. 1889.

M’KAY, JOSEPH WILLIAM. _b._ Shinrone, King’s county, Ireland 21
May 1819; Wesleyan Methodist minister 1840; D.D. of Victoria
univ. Coburg, Canada; minister at Belfast 1843–5, 1853–6, 1862–5
and from 1871 to death; minister at Dublin 1850–3, 1859–62 and
1868–71; at Cork 1856–9; senior assist. sec. of the conference
1855–70, secretary of the conference 1870–80, vice president
of the conference 1870, 1876 and 1886; representative of the
Irish conference in general conference America 1872, and at the
œcumenical conference London 1881; president Methodist coll.
Belfast 1880 to death; professor of systematic theology to
death. _d._ Belfast college 6 Feb. 1891. _bur._ City cemet. 9
Feb. _Daily Graphic 12 Feb. 1891 p._ 5, _portrait_; _Belfast
News-letter 7 Feb. 1891 p._ 5, _10 Feb. p._ 7.

MACKAY, MACKINTOSH (son of captain Alexander Mackay of
Duard Beg, Sutherlandshire). _b._ 1800; minister of Laggan,
Invernessshire 1825–32; LL.D. Glasgow; minister of Dunoon
1832–43; of Free church, Dunoon 1843–54; moderator of Free
church assembly 1849; minister of the Gaelic church at Melbourne
1854–6 and at Sydney 1856 etc.; minister of Free church at
Tarbett, Harris, Scotland to death; edited Dictionarium
Scoto-Celticum 1828; Songs and poems in Gaelic by R. Mackay.
Inverness 1829; author of Memoirs of J. Ewing, provost of
Glasgow 1866. _d._ 1873.

MACKAY, ROBERT WILLIAM (only son of John Mackay of St. James’,
London). _b._ Piccadilly, London 27 May 1803; ed. at Winchester
and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1828; barrister L.I.
25 Nov. 1828; an original member of Athenæum club, London 1824;
author of The progress of the intellect as exemplified in the
religious development of the Greeks and Hebrews 2 vols. 1850;
A sketch of the rise and progress of Christianity 1854; The
Tübingen school and its antecedents, a review of modern theology
1863; translated The Sophistes of Plato 1868, and Plato’s Meno
1869. _d._ 41 Hamilton terrace, London 23 Feb. 1882. _Athenæum 4
March 1882 p._ 283.

M’KEAN, R. _b._ 1849; manager Royal Albert music hall, Glasgow
1865 and of Alexandra, Victoria, Folly and Britannia music
halls; partner with H. T. Rossborough in the Britannia music
hall at time of death. _d._ 81 London st. Glasgow 8 May 1885.
_bur._ Southern Necropolis 12 May.

MACKELLAR, JOHN (eld. son of general Patrick Mackellar, chief
engineer in north America and Minorca, _d._ 1779). _b._ Minorca
about 1768; entered navy 6 Jany. 1781; captain 27 April 1799;
agent for prisoners of war and transports and governor of naval
hospital at Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 1804 to about May 1810;
rear admiral 27 May 1825, admiral 26 July 1847; awarded a
service pension 1 July 1851. _d._ Cheltenham 14 April 1854.
_Georgian Era_, _ii_ 241 (1833).

MACKELLAR, MARY (dau. of Allan Cameron of Fort William, baker).
_b._ 1 Oct. 1834; (_m._ John Mackellar, captain of a coasting
vessel, obtained a judicial separation about 1877); visited
many places in Europe with her husband, settled in Edinburgh
1876; bard to the Gaelic society of Inverness; author of Poems
and songs, Gaelic and English 1880; The tourist’s handbook of
Gaelic and English phrases for the Highlands 1880, 3 ed. 1882; A
guide to Lochaber; translated into Gaelic, Queen Victoria’s More
leaves from the journal of a life in the Highlands 1886. _d._
Edinburgh 7 Sep. 1890. _bur._ Kilmallie, Argyllshire.

MACKELVIE, WILLIAM. _b._ Edinburgh 7 March 1800; apprentice to
a draper at Leith; studied at univ. of Edinb. from Nov. 1809,
then at Glasgow; licensed to preach by presbytery of Stirling
and Falkirk 7 March 1827; minister of Balgedie, Kinross-shire 16
April 1829 to death; one of earliest promoters of union between
secession and relief churches which took place 13 May 1847;
moderator of synod of 1856; D.D. Hamilton, Ohio; originated the
Dick club 1835; author of Lochleven and other poems by Michael
Bruce, with a life of the author 1837; Annals and statistics
of the united presbyterian church. The biographical notices
by W. Mackelvie 1873. _d._ Balgedie 10 Dec. 1863. _Sermons by
Wm. Mackelvie_ (1875), _memoir by J. Macfarlane pp._ 7–64,
_portrait_.

MAC KENNA, STEPHEN JOSEPH. _b._ Dublin 1837; ed. Downside;
ensign 28 foot 30 March 1860, sold out 8 Aug. 1865; sub-editor
of Evening News, London to death; author of Off parade 3 vols.
1872; King’s beeches, stories of old chums 1873; Plucky fellows,
a book for boys 1873, 2 ed. 1874; At school with an old dragoon
1874; A child of fortune 3 vols. 1875; Handfast to strangers
3 vols. 1876; Brave men in action 1878, 2 ed. 1889; The
tradesman’s club 1880. _d._ 8 Shalcombe st. Chelsea 5 Jany. 1883.

M’KENNA, THEOBALD. Called to Irish bar 1821; Q.C. 2 Nov. 1842;
assistant under secretary for Ireland to death. _d._ 1856.

MACKENZIE, SIR ALEXANDER, 2 Baronet (eld. son of Roderick
Mackenzie). _b._ 1771; ed. in Edinburgh and at military academy,
Angers; ensign 1 foot 30 June 1787; lieut. 42 foot 1791;
major 78 foot 24 July 1793; raised 2nd battalion of 78 foot,
lieut.-col. 10 Feb. 1794; lieut.-col. 36 foot 22 May 1797 to
23 May 1816; second in command at capture of Cape of Good Hope
1795; commanded a division in expedition against Naples 1808
and afterwards the troops in the two Calabrias; general 19 July
1821; G.C. of order of St. Januarius; G.C.H. 1817; succeeded his
uncle as 2 Baronet 21 Aug. 1820. _d._ Bath 17 Oct. 1853.

MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER. Second viola player in orchestra of
theatre royal, Edinburgh 1833, first violin player 1835, leader
of the orchestra Feb. 1846 to death, this orchestra was for its
size the first in the kingdom, it made successful annual visits
to London. _d._ 7 Oct. 1857.