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MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER (3 son of Alexander Mackenzie, builder,
_d._ 1836). _b._ Logierait near Dunkeld, Perthshire 28 Jany.
1822; learnt trade of a stonemason; a journeyman builder at
Kingston, Ontario 1842; a builder and contractor at Sarnia
1848; editor of the ‘Lambton Shield’ at Sarnia 1852; member for
Lambton in the provincial parliament 1861–7 and in the dominion
house of commons 1867–82; member for East York, July 1882 to
death; formed a ministry 7 Nov. 1873, becoming himself minister
of public works, resigned Sep. 1873; resigned leadership of the
liberals 1880; presented with freedom of Irvine, Dundee and
Perth 1875 and of Inverness 1881. _d._ St. Alban’s st. Toronto
17 April 1892. _bur._ Lake View cemetery near Sarnia. _Speeches
of A. Mackenzie. Toronto_ (1876), _memoir pp._ 1–13, _portrait_.

M’KENZIE, ALEXANDER. _b._ Auldcarn, Nairnshire 18 June 1829;
captain hon. artillery company of London 8 March 1879, retired
into the veteran company with hon. rank of major 8 March 1884;
a skilled expert in all matters of forestry; superintendent of
Epping Forest under corporation of London 1880 to death. _d._
The Warren, Loughton, Essex 27 March 1893. _City Press 29 March
1893 p._ 4, _1 April p._ 5.

MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER MACKAY. _b._ 1827; entered Bengal army;
raised 8th regiment of irregular cavalry and was second in
command 10 Oct. 1854 to 1859 when it mutinied; commandant of
Meywar Bheel corps 18 March 1863 to 1874; M.G. 25 Nov. 1874.
_d._ 41 Queensborough terrace, London 27 May 1879.

MACKENZIE, CHARLES (3 son of John Mackenzie of Torridon, N.B.)
_b._ 28 Feb. 1807; ed. Merchant Taylors’ sch. and Pemb. coll.
Oxf., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; head master of St. Olave’s gram.
sch. Southwark 1832–55; V. of St. Helen, Bishopgate 1836–46;
R. of St. Benet, Gracechurch st. with St. Leonard, Eastcheap
1846–66, and of same united with All Hallows’, Lombard st. and
St. Dionis Backchurch 1866 to death; preb. of St. Paul’s 1852
to death; principal of Westbourne coll. London 1855–64; founder
of metropolitan evening classes for young men 1848; founder
of city of London coll. for young men 1862; author of Crosby
place, a lecture 1842; History of the church of Christ 1842;
Tabular views of the contents of the pentateuch 1850; The young
christian’s glossary 5 ed. 1852; Westbourne college, Bayswater
road, an inaugural address 1855. _d._ 35 Woburn sq. London 16
April 1888.

MACKENZIE, CHARLES FREDERICK (youngest son of Colin Mackenzie
of Portmore, Peeblesshire). _b._ Harcus cottage, Portmore 10
April 1825; ed. at Edinb. acad. and Grange sch. near Sunderland;
pensioner St. John’s coll. Camb. Oct. 1844, migrated to Caius
coll. Easter 1845, 2nd wrangler 1848, B.A. 1848, M.A. 1851;
fellow of Caius coll., tutor; one of secretaries to Cambridge
board of education 1848–55; C. of Haslingfield, Cambs. Oct.
1851 to 1854; archdeacon of Pieter-Maritzburg, Natal 1854–59;
chaplain to the troops in Natal 1858–9; bishop of the mission
to the tribes dwelling in neighbourhood of Lake Nyassa and
river Shire, Africa 1860 to death; consecrated in cathedral
at Cape Town 1 Jany. 1861; author of Holiday’s at Linmere, or
our Lord’s miracles explained 1855. _d._ Malo island, Central
Africa 31 Jany. 1862. _Harvey Goodwin’s Memoir of bishop
Mackenzie_ (1865), _portrait_; _G. H. Smyttan’s Tribute to
bishop Mackenzie_ (1862); _Frances Awdry’s An elder sister and
her brother the missionary bishop_ (1878); _In Zululand, the
story of the Mackenzie memorial mission_ (1872); _Thomas Pelham
Dale’s A life’s motto_ (1869) 308–41; _C. M. Yonge’s Pioneers
and founders_ (1871) 285–316.

MACKENZIE, CHARLES KENNETH. _b._ Scotland 1788; received degree
of doctor in both law and medicine; aide de camp to duke of
Wellington; accompanied British commission to Mexico 1823, being
appointed consul for Vera Cruz 10 Oct. 1823; consul general to
Hayti 27 Dec. 1825 to 10 Oct. 1828; comr. of arbitration to
mixed commission at Havana 20 Feb. 1830 to Nov. 1834; returned
to England and contributed to reviews and to the Encyclopædia
Britannica; leader-writer on a London conservative journal; lost
his life by burning of a hotel in New York 6 July 1862. _F.O.
List_, _July 1864 p._ 166.

MACKENZIE, COLIN (son of Kenneth Francis Mackenzie, attorney
general in island of Grenada, _d._ 1831). _b._ London 25 March
1806; cadet H.E.I.C. 1825; ensign 48 Madras N.I. 8 Jany. 1826;
cantonment magistrate at Palaveram 1835–6; present at the
murder of sir William Macnaughton; sent on an embassy from
Akbar to Jellalabad 1842; raised 4th regt. frontier brigade
1848–9; employed in annexing Berar 1853; in mutiny of 1856–7;
lieut.-col. staff corps 18 Feb. 1861; superintendent of army
clothing for all India 4 March 1862 to 24 Nov. 1864; L.G. 1 Oct.
1877; C.B. 13 March 1868. _d._ The Hitchel, St. Margaret’s road,
Edinburgh 23 Oct. 1881. _H. Mackenzie’s Storms and sunshine,
life of C. Mackenzie_ 2 _vols._ (1884), _portrait_; _I.L.N.
lxxix_ 464 (1881), _portrait_.

MACKENZIE, COLIN A. _b._ 1779; sent by government to Morlaix to
negotiate an exchange of prisoners with Napoleon 1810; appointed
by government to receive and entertain prince Lucien Bonaparte
taken prisoner of war 1810; presided over commission for
investigation of British claims on French government to 1828;
sent to Portugal to adjust some political differences 1828; one
of founders of Travellers’ Club, Pall Mall, London 1815; left
part of his property to found a museum at Dingwall. _d._ 5 Hyde
park place, London 24 Nov. 1851. _G.M. xxxvii_ 96–7 (1852).

MACKENZIE, DONALD. _b._ in north of Scotland 15 June 1783; in
employment of North-west fur co. Montreal 1801–9; one of 5
promoters of The Pacific fur co. 23 June 1810; established a fur
trading post at Asteria on Columbia river, Capt. Black of H.M.S.
Racoon took possession 30 Nov. 1813 and renamed it Fort George,
restored to U.S. America 1814; chief factor of Hudson bay co.
March 1821 and governor 1825, retired 1833. _d._ Mayville,
Chautauque county, New York 20 Jany. 1851. _W. Anderson’s
Scottish nation_, _iii_ 724–5 (1863); _Appleton’s American
biography_, _iv_ 133 (1888).

MACKENZIE, DONALD. Wholesale chemist at Islington, London; an
elder of Edward Irving’s ch. in Regent sq. 1824, followed him
on his expulsion 1832; angel of Catholic Apostolic church,
Islington to 1835; the 12th apostle of the C.A. church, Albury,
Surrey 14 July 1835 and had Norway and Sweden assigned to him as
his sphere; disapproved of the apostles taking precedence over
the prophets and retired from the Apostolic college in 1840 and
never afterwards took any part in the work. _d._ 1855. _Miller’s
Irvingism i_ 90, _ii_ 418 (1878).

MACKENZIE, DONALD (only son of Donald Mackenzie, captain 21
foot). _b._ 1818; L.R.C.P. 1839, F.R.C.S. 1839, in practice at
Lasswade near Edinb.; called to Scotch bar 1842; advocate depute
1854–58 and 1859–61; sheriff of Fife 26 Jany. 1861 to 14 March
1870; judge of court of session with title of Lord Mackenzie 14
March 1870 to death. _d._ Maulside, Dulwich wood park, Surrey,
residence of major general Stuart 19 May 1875. _Journal of
jurisprudence_, _xix_ 316 (1875); _Law mag. and law review_,
_iv_ 815–818 (1875).

MC KENZIE, DOUGLAS. Ed. St. Alban’s school and Peterhouse,
Camb., scholar, 33 wrangler 1864; B.A. 1864, M.A. 1867, D.D.
1886; 2 master Crewkerne gram. sch. and C. of Chaffcombe,
Somerset 1864–6; C. of Rounds, Northants. 1866–9; V.P. of Trin.
coll. Peterborough 1869–71; V. of St. Mary, Wolverton 1871–2;
vice principal of St. Andrew’s coll. Grahamstown, South Africa
1873; principal of St. Andrew’s diocesan coll. Bloemfontain
1874–9; canon of Bloemfontain 1877–80; archdeacon of Harrismith
1879–80; bishop of Zululand 1880 to death, consecrated at Cape
Town 30 Nov. 1880. _d._ of fever in Zululand before 15 Jany.
1890. _W. M. Cameron’s D. Mc Kenzie_ (1890); _Times 16 Jany.
1890 p._ 5, _17 Jany. p._ 9.

MACKENZIE, EDWARD (2 son of Alexander Mackenzie, canal engineer
1765–1836). _b._ 1 May 1811; civil engineer and contractor;
purchased manor and estate of Fawley court near Henley, Bucks.
from Wm. Peere Williams Freeman 1853; sheriff of Bucks. 1862.
_d._ Fawley Court, Bucks. 27 Sep. 1880, personalty sworn under
£1,000,000 Oct. 1880. _Times 30 Sep. 1880 p._ 9 _col._ 6.

MACKENZIE, FRANCIS JAMES NAPIER. _b._ 19 Oct. 1837; ensign 52
Bengal N.I. 25 May 1855; major Bengal staff corps 17 March
1875, lieut.-col. 17 March 1881; retired with hon. rank of
colonel 13 July 1882; buried for seven hours among ruins at
the Casamicciola earthquakes, Ischia 28 July 1883; wrote The
destruction of La Piccola Sentinella at Ischia 28 July in The
Times 10 Aug. 1883 pp. 2–3. _d._ Rome 18 Nov. 1884.

MACKENZIE, FRANCIS LEWIS (son of Joshua Henry Mackenzie, lord
Mackenzie _d._ 1850). _b._ Belmont near Edinb. 16 Sep. 1833;
ed. at Edinb. academy 1843, at Glasgow coll. 1849, and at Trin.
coll. Camb. 1852 to death; very talented and much interested in
Sunday schools etc. _d._ Trinity coll. Cambridge 15 March 1855.
_bur._ Madingley near Camb. 21 March. _C. P. Miles’s Memoir of
F. L. Mackenzie_ (1857), 2 _portraits_.

MACKENZIE, FREDERICK (son of Thomas Mackenzie, linen draper).
_b._ 1787; made architectural and topographical drawings for
John Britton and others; exhibited 11 drawings at R.A. 1804–28;
associate of Society of painters in water-colours 4 Feb.
1813 to 1817, member 1823, treasurer 30 Nov. 1831 to death;
published Etchings of landscapes for the use of students 1812;
Architectural antiquities of St. Stephen’s chapel, Westminster
1844; Observations on the construction of the roof of King’s
college chapel, Cambridge 1846. _d._ 43 Stanhope st. Hampstead
road, London 25 April 1854. _bur._ Highgate cemet. _Roget’s
History of the old water-colour society_, _i_ 371, _ii_ 84, 455
(1891).

MACKENZIE, FREDERICK WILLIAM. _b._ New South Wales 1816 or
1817; ed. at Univ. college school and hospital, London; fellow
and member of council of univ. college; M.D. Lond. 1841;
M.R.C.P. 1855; physician to Queen Charlotte’s lying-in hospital;
consulting physician and accoucheur to Westbourne dispensary;
author of The pathology of phlegmasia dolens, Lettsonian
lectures 1862. _d._ 11 Chester place, Hyde park square, London 3
April 1865. _Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. v_ 159 (1867).

MACKENZIE, GEORGE. _b._ Sutherlandshire 1777; tenant of a large
farm; served in Perthshire militia till it was disbanded; began
to keep a register of atmospheric changes 1802; author of The
system of the weather of the British islands. Edinburgh 1818;
Manual of the weather for 1830, including a brief account of the
cycles of the winds and weather. Edinburgh 1829; Elements of the
cycles of the winds, weather and prices of corn. Perth 1843.
_d._ County Place, Perth 13 May 1856.

MACKENZIE, GEORGE HENRY. _b._ Bellefield, Rossshire 24 March
1837; ensign 60 rifles 9 May 1856, lieut. 21 May 1858, sold out
16 April 1861; served in war in U.S. of America in northern army
July 1863, and became a captain; chess player in Dublin 1860;
settled in New York 1865; played in London chess tournament
1862, won 10 games, drew 2 and lost 2; won first prize in each
of New York chess club annual tournaments 1865, 6, 7 and 8; won
first prizes in second American chess congress Dec. 1871 and in
third congress 1874; played in tournaments Paris 1878, Berlin
1881, Vienna 1882, London 1883 and Hamburg 1885; at Frankfort
in 1887 won 15 out of 20 games, first prize and champion chess
player of the world; _found dead_ in his bed at an hotel, New
York 14 April 1891. _Westminster papers 1 Oct. 1878 p._ 125,
_portrait_; _Fortnightly Review_, _Dec. 1886 p._ 758; _Times 16
April 1891 p._ 6; _Appleton’s American biography_, _iii_ 133
(1888), _portrait_.

MACKENZIE, HENRY (youngest son of John Mackenzie, merchant,
_d._ 1820). _b._ King’s Arms’ yard, Coleman st. City of London
16 May 1808; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school 1815 etc.; engaged
in commerce; entered Pembroke coll. Oxf. 1830, B.A. 1835, M.A.
1838, D.D. 1869; C. of Wool and Lulworth, Dorset 1834; English
chaplain at Rotterdam 1835–6; C. of St. Peter’s, Walworth
1836–7; master of Bancroft’s hospital, Mile End 1837–40; Inc.
of St. James’s, Bermondsey 1840–4; V. of Great Yarmouth 1844–8;
R. of St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, London 1848–55; R. of Tydd
St. Mary near Wisbech 1855–66; preb. of Lincoln 1858–64; sub
dean and canon residentiary of Lincoln 1864 to death; archdeacon
of Nottingham 1866–70; R. of South Collingham near Newark
1866–71; bishop suffragan of Nottingham 22 Jany. 1870 to 1878,
consecrated at St. Mary’s, Nottingham 2 Feb. 1870; select
preacher at Oxford 1871; P.C. of Scofton near Worksop 1871–3;
member of convocation 1857; author of The life of Offa, king
of Mercia 1840; A short commentary on the gospels and acts
1847; Thoughts for hours of retirement 1864; Hymns and verses
for Sundays and holydays 1871. _d._ The subdeanery, Lincoln 15
Oct. 1878. _bur._ at South Collingham. _I.L.N. xxiv_ 401 (1854)
_portrait_, _lvi_ 157, 188, 253 (1870) _portrait_.

MACKENZIE, HOLT (son of Henry Mackenzie, author of The man of
feeling 1745–1831). _b._ 1787; entered H.E.I.C.S. as a writer
July 1807; sec. to government in territorial department May
1817; returned to England 1831, retired on the annuity fund
Oct. 1833; one of comrs. of board of control 28 July 1832 to
20 Dec. 1834; P.C. 11 July 1832; author of Note addressed to
Mr. Pennington on the importation of foreign corn 1841. _d._
28 Wimpole st. London 31 March 1876. _I.L.N. lxviii_ 359, 575
(1876).

MACKENZIE, JAMES. Entered Bengal army 1820; major 8 Bengal
light cavalry 10 Aug. 1850, lieut.-col. 28 Nov. 1854 to 1858;
lieut.-col. 5 European light cavalry 1858 to death; commandant
6 irregular cavalry 2 Sep. 1840 to 26 Feb. 1853; commandant at
Ferozepore 18 Dec. 1857 to death; col. in the army 28 Nov. 1854.
_d._ Simla 15 Aug. 1859.

MACKENZIE, SIR JAMES THOMPSON, 1 Baronet (son of George
Mackenzie of Aberdeen, merchant 1773–1852). _b._ 27 Dec.
1818; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch.; went to India 1835 where he
made a fortune; returned to England 1850, became a successful
financier; purchased the estates of Kintail and Glenmuick near
Ballater and there entertained the Shah on his visit to England
1889; created baronet 21 March 1890. _d._ Brighton 12 Aug. 1890.
_London Figaro 18 Jany. 1890 p._ 9, _col._ 2, _portrait_.

MACKENZIE, JOHN (2 son of sir Alexander Mackenzie of Gairloch,
3 baronet _d._ 1770). _b._ 19 Dec. 1763; lieut. 73 foot 1 Jany.
1778; captain in an independent company 13 Feb. 1782, placed on
h.p. 1783; captain on formation of 78 highlanders 10 March 1793,
lieut.-col. 15 July 1795, placed on h.p. 1802; general 10 Jany.
1837. _d._ Inverness 14 June 1860. _bur._ in Gairloch tomb at
Beauly priory.

NOTE.--He was known by sobriquet of Fighting Jack, and was at time of his death the oldest officer in British army.

MACKENZIE, JOHN. Entered Bengal army 1805; major 3 Bengal light
cavalry 1 Nov. 1838 to 30 Oct. 1848; lieut.-col. 9 Bengal light
cavalry 30 Oct. 1848 to 1852; lieut.-col. 7 Bengal light cavalry
1852 to death. _d._ Simla 5 May 1856.

MACKENZIE, JOHN CAMPBELL. _b._ 1804; connected with editorial
department of Galignani’s messenger since 1840, edited it
latterly. _d._ 65 Rue St. Anne, Paris 6 Dec. 1879.

MACKENZIE, JOHN FRANCIS CAMPBELL. _b._ Scotland; sub-lieutenant
R.N. 30 Aug. 1841; first lieut. of the Miranda during the
Russian war serving in the White Sea and at Sebastopol 1854–5;
served with a scaling ladder party at attack on Redan 1855;
inspecting officer of coast guard at Swanage 1855, and at Ryde;
captain 1 Oct. 1861, retired 31 March 1866; retired admiral 18
Oct. 1887; queen’s harbour master Holyhead 1872–92; connected
with all the philanthropic movement in Anglesea; a knight of the
legion of honour. _d._ of influenza, Holyhead 11 Jany. 1892.
_bur._ with military honours 15 Jany. _Times 12, 13, 16, 22
Jany. 1892._

MACKENZIE, JOHN KENNETH (younger son of Alexander Mackenzie).
_b._ Yarmouth, Norfolk 25 Aug. 1850; clerk in a merchant’s
office at Bristol 1865; entered Bristol medical school, Oct.
1870; M.R.C.S. Lond. 1874; L.R.C.P. Edinb. 1874; appointed by
London missionary society superintendent of medical station
at Hankow, China, arrived there 8 June 1875; removed to
Tien-tsin March 1879, where he founded a medical school for
native students, obtained funds for erection of a new hospital
at Tien-tsin, opened 2 Dec. 1880; edited The China medical
missionary journal 1887. _d._ of small-pox at Tien-tsin 1 April
1888. _Mrs. Bryson’s J. K. Mackenzie, medical missionary in
China_ (1891), _portrait_.

MACKENZIE, JOSHUA HENRY, Lord Mackenzie (eld. son of Henry
Mackenzie, author of The man of feeling 1745–1831). _b._ 1777;
passed advocate 19 Jany. 1799; sheriff of Linlithgow 1811; judge
of court of session 14 Nov. 1822 to 1851 with courtesy title of
lord Mackenzie; judge of court of justiciary 1824–51; one of
comrs. of tentative jury court 1825–51. _d._ Belmont near Edinb.
17 Nov. 1851. _G.M. xxxvii_ 93–4 (1852).

MACKENZIE, KENNETH DOUGLAS (only son of Donald Mackenzie). _b._
1 Feb. 1811; ensign 92 foot 25 Nov. 1831, captain 1844, major 26
Dec. 1857, placed on h.p. 15 Feb. 1861; deputy assistant A.G. in
Dublin; deputy assistant Q.M.G. in the Crimea 1855, assistant
A.G. at head quarters before Sebastopol 1855; assistant A.G. in
Dublin during Fenian disturbances 1865–6; assistant Q.M.G. at
the horse guards 1 April 1870 to death; C.B. 1 March 1861. _d._
on bank of river Meavy near Roborough, Devon 24 Aug. 1873 after
being upset in a gig crossing the river Meavy. _A.R._ (1873) 79,
148.

MACKENZIE, SIR MORELL (eld. son of Stephen Mackenzie, surgeon,
_d._ 1851). _b._ Leytonstone, Essex 7 July 1837; clerk in Union
Assurance company’s office 1853; studied at London hospital;
M.R.C.S. 1858, M.B. London 1861, and M.D. 1862; assistant
physician London hospital 5 Sep. 1866, phys. 1873, resigned
1873; chief founder of Hospital for diseases of the throat in
King st. Golden sq. 1863; the first Englishman who became expert
in operations on the larynx; attended at Berlin from 18 May 1887
to 13 June 1888 crown prince of Germany, afterwards the emperor
Frederick III. who died from cancer in the throat 15 June 1888;
published Oct. 1888 The fatal illness of Frederick the Noble,
of which 100,000 copies were circulated, and for which he was
censured by royal college of surgeons 10 Jany. 1889, returned
his diploma to the college; knighted at Balmoral 7 Sep. 1887;
granted grand cross of Hohenzollern order 1888; edited The
pharmacopia of the hospital for disease of the throat 1872, 4
ed. 1881; The journal of laryngology 1887; author of Treatment
of hoarseness and loss of voice 1863, 3 ed. 1871; Essays on
growths in the larynx 1871; The use of the laryngoscope
1865, 3 ed. 1871; Diphtheria, its nature and treatment 1879;
A manual of diseases of the throat and nose 2 vols. 1880–4;
Hay fever, its etiology and treatment 1884, 5 ed. 1889. _d._
19 Harley st. London 3 Feb. 1892. _bur._ in graveyard of St.
Mary’s church, Wargrave, Berkshire 8 Feb. _H. R. Haweis’s Sir
M. Mackenzie_ (1893), _portrait_; _Sir M. Mackenzie’s Essays_
(1893), _portrait_; _Journal of laryngology_, _vi_ 95–108
(1892), _portrait_; _Strand Mag. ii_ 371 (1891), 5 _portraits_;
_Victoria Mag. xxxiii_ 185 (1879), _portrait_; _Provincial
Medical Journal 1 April 1886 pp._ 145–6, _portrait_.

MC KENZIE, PETER. _b._ Dumbarton 1799; a writer at Glasgow about
1825; a volunteer in The Glasgow sharpshooters 1819; established
and edited The Loyal reformers’ gazette 7 May 1831, renamed
it The Reformers’ gazette 12 May 1832, it ran as a weekly and
then as a monthly to May 1836 and forms 6 vols., Northern Notes
and Queries 4 vols. 1852–4 were compiled from the columns
of this newspaper; imprisoned for publishing an unstamped
newspaper; exposed Richmond the Glasgow spy; brought to light
the fraudulent design of The Independent West Middlesex Fire
and life insurance co.; author of An exposure of the spy-system
pursued in Glasgow. Ed. by a Ten-Pounder 1833; The life of
Thomas Muir, with a report of his trial 1831; Reminiscences
of Glasgow and the west of Scotland 3 vols. _d._ while on a
visit to his daughter in London 17 March 1875. _bur._ Glasgow
necropolis. _W. C. Maclehose’s Glasgow men_, _ii_ 199–202
(1886), _portrait_.

MACKENZIE, RICHARD JAMES (4 son of Richard Mackenzie of
Dolphington, deputy keeper of her majesty’s signet). _b._
Edinburgh 31 March 1821; ed. at the new academy 1829–36;
apprenticed to Adam Hunter, F.R.C.S. 1838; M.D. 1 Aug. 1842;
M.R.C.S. 1841, F.R.C.S. 1844; studied in London, Paris, Hamburg,
Vienna and Berlin 1842–4; practised in Edinburgh 1844–9;
assistant surgeon in royal infirmary 1848, surgeon there 1850;
lecturer on systematic surgery in Extra Academical sch. 1849;
with the army in the Crimea attached to 79 regt. 1849, performed
27 operations after the battle of the Alma. _d._ of cholera
on the heights of Bornoo, Crimea 25 Sep. 1854. _Begbie and
Struthers’ Memoir of R. J. Mackenzie_ (1855), _portrait_.

MACKENZIE, ROBERT (son of a parish schoolmaster). _b._ Barry,
Forfarshire 1823; reporter to the Northern Warder at Dundee
about 1843, then sub-edited the paper; partner in mercantile
firm of Mackenzie, Ramsay & Co. Dundee, which failed 1857;
frequently visited America; agent for Westinghouse brake co.;
author of The United States of America 1870; The nineteenth
century 1880; America, a history 1882. _d._ Magdalen yard road,
Dundee 2 Feb. 1881.

MACKENZIE, ROBERT SHELTON (2 son of Kenneth Mackenzie, captain
in the army, author of books in Gaelic). _b._ Drew’s court,
Limerick 22 June 1809; apprentice to an apothecary in Cork
1822 and passed his medical examination 1825; opened a school
at Fermoy 1825; newspaper reporter; editor of a newspaper at
Hanley, Staffs. 1829; wrote memoirs for The Georgian Era, London
1830–1; editor of Liverpool journal; English correspondent
of New York Evening star 1834–51, being the first European
correspondent for the American press; editor of a railway
journal, London 1845; official assignee in commissioner
Skirrow’s bankruptcy court, Manchester, dismissed from office
25 Oct. 1852; went to U.S. of America 1852; book and foreign
editor of Philadelphia Press 1857; LL.D. of Glasgow univ. 1834;
author of Lays of Palestine 1828; Titian, a romance of Venice 3
vols. 1843; Partnership en commandité 1847; Mornings at Matlock
3 vols. 1850; Life of C. Dickens 1870; Sir Walter Scott, the
story of his life 1871; compiled, edited and issued many works
in America 1854–71. _d._ Philadelphia 30 Nov. 1880. _Law Times
30 Oct. 1852 pp._ 66–7.

MACKENZIE, THOMAS (son of Kenneth Mackenzie). _b._ 1793; a
writer to the signet 4 March 1816; M.P. Ross and Cromarty
1837–47. _d._ Heriot row, Edinburgh 9 June 1856.

MACKENZIE, THOMAS, Lord Mackenzie (son of George Mackenzie,
tradesman, Perth). _b._ Perth 16 April 1807; ed. at St. Andrew’s
and Edinb.; called to Scottish bar 1832; sheriff of Ross and
Cromarty 28 June 1851; solicitor general 10 Jany. 1855; a lord
of session with title of Lord Mackenzie 29 Jany. 1855, retired
1864; author of Studies in Roman law, with comparative views of
the laws of France, England and Scotland 1862, 6 ed. 1886. _d._
24 Heriot row, Edinb. 26 Sep. 1869. _Journal of Jurisprudence_,
_Nov. 1869 pp._ 609–10; _Law mag. and law rev. xxix_ 271–3
(1870).

MACKENZIE, WILLIAM. _b._ Burnley, Lancs. 20 March 1794;
apprenticed to Thomas Claphan, lock carpenter of Leeds and
Liverpool canal 1811; resident engineer on Birmingham canal to
1832, where his works are still considered finest of the kind in
Great Britain; made a great many railways in France with Thomas
Brassey 1840–48; M.I.C.E. 1837. _d._ 19 Oct. 1851. _Min. of
proc. of Instit. of C.E. xi_ 102–5 (1852).

MACKENZIE, WILLIAM (son of James Mackenzie, muslin manufacturer,
_d._ 1800). _b._ Queen st. Glasgow 29 April 1791; ed. Glasgow
univ., M.D. 1833; studied in France and Italy 1816; learnt
ophthalmology under Beer in Vienna 1817; M.R.C.S. 1818, F.R.C.S.
1843; surgeon in London 1818, and in Glasgow 1819 to death;
with George Monteath established an eye infirmary, Glasgow
1824; Waltonian lecturer and lecturer on diseases of the eye,
Glasgow univ. 1828; edited Glasgow medical journal vols. 1 and
2, 1828–9; surgeon occulist to the queen in Scotland 1838;
author of An essay on the diseases of the excreting parts of the
lachrymal organs 1819; Practical treatise of the diseases of the
eye 1830, 4 ed. 1854, which gave him an European reputation; The
cure of strabismus by surgical operation 1841; The physiology of
vision 1841. Outlines of ophthalmology 3 ed. 1856. _d._ Bath st.
Glasgow 30 July 1868. _Maclehose’s Memoirs of Glasgow men_, _ii_
203–4 (1886), _portrait_; _Glasgow Medical journal_, _i_ 6–13
(1868).

MACKENZIE, WILLIAM. Ed. Edinb. univ.; presbyterian minister
Poolewe 1827; minister at Comrie 1829, at Dunblane 1841–3;
minister North Leith Free ch. 1844; author of Gershom, or the
33,000 words of Jesus Christ, the central fountain of truth,
unity and healing. Edinb. 1847; Christ’s own teaching, in
portions for all the days in the year 1847. _Scott’s Fasti_, _ii
pt._ 2 _p._ 754 (1869).

MACKENZIE, WILLIAM BELL (son of James Mackenzie _d._ 1822).
_b._ Sheffield 7 April 1806; studied at Magd. hall Oxf. 1830–4,
B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; C. of St. James’s, Bristol 1834–8; V. of
St. James’s, Holloway, London 1838 to death; one of the first
to start special services in St. Paul’s cathedral; author of
Bible characters 2 vols. 1854–5; Gleanings from the gospel story
1860; Handbook for the sick 1859, 4 ed. 1861; Married life,
its duties, trials and joys 1861, 3 ed. 1890; Saul of Tarsus,
his life and lessons 1864; Bible studies for family reading
1867 and 35 other books. _d._ Ramsgate 22 Nov. 1870. _bur._
Highgate cemetery 30 Nov. _Gordon Calthrop’s Memorials of W. B.
Mackenzie_ (1872), _biographical sketch pp. ix–xci_, _portrait_.

MACKENZIE, WILLIAM FORBES (brother of Charles Frederick
Mackenzie 1825–62). _b._ Portmore, Peebleshire 18 April 1807;
ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf.; called to the bar 1827; M.P.
Peeblesshire 1837–52; a lord of treasury April 1845 to Feb.
1846, joint secretary to treasury Feb. to Dec. 1852; M.P.
Liverpool 9 July 1852, unseated on petition 21 June 1853;
contested Derby 28 March 1857; unpaid comr. and chairman of
general board of comrs. in lunacy for Scotland 13 June 1859 to
death; author of the act for the regulation of public-houses in
Scotland 16 & 17 Vict. c. 67, 15 Aug. 1853 known as the Forbes
Mackenzie’s act which provides for the closing of public-houses
on Sundays and at ten p.m. on weekdays. _d._ The Glen,
Peeblesshire 24 Sep. 1862.

MACKENZIE, WILLIAM LYON (son of Daniel Mackenzie _d._ 1795).
_b._ Springfield, Dundee 12 March 1795; kept a store at Alyth
1814–17; emigrated to Canada 1820; established a book store at
Queenstown 1823; removed to Toronto where he established the
Colonial Advocate, May 1824, discontinued 1834, revived under
name of The Constitution 1836; member for county of York in
legislative assembly of Upper Canada 1828, expelled for his
violent language 1831, re-elected twice in 1831, re-expelled
twice, finally excluded by disfranchisement of co. York; chosen
mayor of Toronto, May 1834; re-elected for co. York Oct. 1834,
and allowed to take his seat which he lost in 1836; publicly
proclaimed establishment of a provisional government 25 Nov.
1837; appeared at head of 800 rebels near Toronto 4 Dec. 1837,
utterly defeated by the government troops at Montgomery’s
Tavern 7 Dec., escaped to Navy Island on the Niagara river
where he tried to prolong the insurrection but was condemned
to 12 months’ imprisonment for breaking the neutrality laws
1839; contributed to New York Tribune some years; returned to
Canada on proclamation of amnesty 1849; member of legislature
of the united provinces 1850–8; started a journal ‘Mackenzie’s
Message,’ which failed; author of Sketches of Canada and the
United States 1833; The lives and opinions of R. F. Butler and
J. Hoyt 1845; The life and times of M. Van Buren 1846. _d._
Toronto 28 Aug. 1861. _C. Lindsey’s Life of W. L. Mackenzie.
Toronto_ 2 _vols._ (1862), _portrait_; _Morgan’s Bibliotheca
Canadensis_ (1867) 241; _Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873)
201; _G.M. xi_ 566–8 (1861).

MC KERROW, JOHN. _b._ Mauchline, Ayrshire 15 May 1789; ed. at
Glasgow univ. 1803–7, and divinity hall of Secession ch. at
Selkirk 1807–12; minister of Ecclefechan and Bridge of Teith
1813 to death; D.D. Washington college, U.S.A. 1841; author
of History of the Secession church 1839, new ed. 1841; The
office of ruling elder in the Christian church 1846; History of
the foreign missions of the Secession and united presbyterian
churches 1867. _d._ at Bridge of Teith 13 May 1867. _John
Smith’s Our Scottish clergy 3 series_ (1851) 297–303; _United
Presbyterian Mag. Sep. 1867 p._ 285.

MC KERROW, WILLIAM (son of William Mc Kerrow _d._ 1851,
wheelwright and turner). _b._ Kilmarnock 7 Sep. 1803; ed. at
Glasgow univ. and at theological hall of Secession ch.; minister
of Lloyd st. chapel, Manchester 1827 to 1869; moderator of the
synod 1877; wrote a series of letters in Manchester Times on
church establishments 1834 which were published as pamphlets,
and led to formation of Manchester Voluntary church association
1839; projected the Manchester Examiner 1846 and was one of
the four proprietors; a founder of United Kingdom alliance,
vice pres. 20 years; member of Manchester school board 1870 to
death; D.D. Heidelberg 1851; author of On solid reading and its
advantages, a lecture 1853. _d._ Springfield, Bowdon, Cheshire
4 June 1878. _Memoir of Wm. Mc Kerrow, D.D. By His son_ (1881),
_portrait_; _John Evans’s Lancashire authors_ (1850) 178–82.

MACKESON, FREDERICK (son of Wm. Mackeson). _b._ Hythe, Kent 28
Sep. 1807; ensign 14 Bengal N.I. 4 Dec. 1825, captain 24 Jany.
1845 to death; superintendent of the Cis-Sutlej territory 16
March 1846; comr. at Peshawur 1851 to death; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842;
_assassinated_ when sitting in his verandah at Peshawur by a
fanatic from Koner 10 Sep. 1853.

MACKESON, WILLIAM WYLLYS (2 son of John Mackeson of Blue
Mountain, Jamaica). _b._ 1813; ed. at Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A.
1836; barrister I.T. 1 Feb. 1836, bencher 28 April 1868 to
death, treasurer 1884; edited The supreme court of judicature
acts 1873 and 1875. 1875; edited 4th ed. of The law of mortgage.
By R. H. Coote 1880, and with H. A. Smith 5th ed. of same book 2
vols. 1884. _d._ Laurel Bank, Lancaster 4 March 1892.

MACKESY, THOMAS LEWIS. _b._ Waterford 1790; assist. surgeon
in artillery at battle of Corunna; in practice at Waterford;
M.R.C.S. Lond. 1809; F.R.C.S. Ireland 1844; M.D. Dublin univ.
1863; lecturer at Leper hospital Waterford; president of R.
coll. of surgeons, Ireland 1862, the first provincial surgeon
ever elected to the presidency, member of council 1863 to death;
last mayor of Waterford under the old regime. _d._ 47 Lady lane,
Waterford 9 April 1869.

MC KEWAN, DAVID HALL (son of David Mc Kewan). _b._ London 16
Feb. 1816; pupil of David Cox the elder; associate of royal
institute of painters in water-colours 1848, member 1850;
exhibited 22 landscapes at R.A., 2 at B.I. and 20 at Suffolk st.
1836–53; author of Lessons on trees in water-colours 1859; made
the drawings for R. P. Leitch’s Landscapes and other studies in
sepia 1870. _d._ 11 Upper Park road, Haverstock hill, London 2
Aug. 1873. _Baines’s Hampstead_ (1890) 396–7.

MACKIE, IVIE. _b._ 1805; of firm of Findlater, and Mackie,
Manchester; represented Exchange ward in city council 1847–56
and New Cross ward from 1856, alderman 1856, mayor 1857–60;
presented city with clock in steeple of St. Peter’s church; a
munificent contributor to local charities. _d._ Manchester 23
Feb. 1873.

MACKIE, JAMES (eld. son of John Mackie, M.P., _d._ 1858). _b._
18 May 1821; ed. at Rugby and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1844, M.A.
1847; advocate at Scottish bar 1847; M.P. Kirkcudbrightshire 3
April 1857 to death. _d._ Ernespie, Kirkcudbrightshire 28 Dec.
1867.

MC KIE, JAMES. _b._ Kilmarnock 7 Oct. 1816; bookseller at
Saltcoats to 1844; publisher at Kilmarnock in the shop from
which first edition of Burns’ poems was issued 1844; started
the Kilmarnock Journal and Kilmarnock Weekly Post; published
Bibliotheca Burnsiana 1866; Poems chiefly in the Scotch
dialect. By R. Burns, facsimile ed. 1869; Burns’ Calendar 1874;
The bibliography of Robert Burns 1881 and other books about
Burns; his own library of nearly 800 vols. concerning Burns
was purchased by subscription for £350 and is in museum of the
Burns’ Monument at Kilmarnock. _d._ Kilmarnock 26 Sep. 1891.
_Kilmarnock Standard 3 Oct. 1891_, _portrait_.

NOTE.--He was twice publicly entertained, once on the jubilee of his business and again on the transfer of his library to the museum.

MACKIE, JOHN (son of James Mackie of Bargaly,
Kirkcudbrightshire). M.P. Kirkcudbrightshire 1850–7. _d._
Bargaly 3 July 1858.

MACKIE, ROBERT BOWNAS (son of Robert J. Mackie). _b._ Wakefield
1829; ed. Wesley coll. Sheffield; partner in firm of Robert
Mackie and Sons, corn merchants, Wakefield; contested Wakefield
2 Feb. 1874 and 6 May 1874; M.P. Wakefield 1880 to death. _d._
35 Hertford st. Mayfair, London 18 June 1885.

M’KILLOP, HENRY FREDERICK. Sub-lieutenant R.N. 10 Aug. 1847;
captain R.N. 24 Nov. 1862, retired 1 April 1870; retired
R.A. 9 March 1878; C.B. 2 June 1877; captain of the port
and comptroller general of ports and lighthouses in Egypt to
death; knight of legion of honour; received 1st class Medjidie
1875; raised to rank of Fereek by the Khedive 1877; author of
Reminiscences of twelve months’ service in New Zealand as a
midshipman 1849. _d._ Ramlet, Alexandria, Egypt 5 June 1879.

MC KIM, ROBERT. _b._ co. Tyrone 24 May 1816; apprenticed to a
stone-mason; emigrated to U.S. of America; a stone-mason at
Philadelphia, then at Madison, Indiana 1837–55; a coal merchant
1855; purchased and mounted in his observatory one of the best
telescopes in America; presented to observatory of De Pauw univ.
a complete astronomical outfit at cost of over 10,000 dollars.
_d._ Madison 9 May 1887.

MC KINLAY, JOHN. _b._ Sandbank on the Clyde 1819; emigrated to
New South Wales 1836 where he took up several runs near the
South Australian border; commanded expedition sent to trace
the fate of Burke and Wills by South Australian government,
left Adelaide 16 Aug. 1861, proved that Lake Torrens did not
exist but found several new lakes, explored the country between
Eyre’s Creek and Central Mount Stuart; reached Port Denison 25
Sep. 1862; voted £1000 by the government of S. Australia 1862;
explored northern part of S. Australia 1865–6. _d._ 31 Dec.
1872, monument erected at Gawler, S. Australia. _Mackinlay’s
Journal of exploration in the interior of Australia_ (1862);
_J. Davis’s Tracts of Mc Kinlay across Australia_ (1863); _W.
Howilt’s History of discovery in Australia_, _ii_ 254–83 (1865);
_J. E. T. Wood’s History of discovery of Australia_, _ii_ 475–91
(1875); _I.L.N. xlvi_ 36 (1865), _portrait_.

M’KINLEY, GEORGE. _b._ Devonport 1766; entered navy 5 Aug.
1773; captain 20 Oct. 1801; superintendent of royal navy asylum
Greenwich, April 1821 to 22 July 1830; admiral on h.p. 11 June
1851, pensioned 16 Sep. 1851. _d._ Anglesey near Gosport 17
Jany. 1852.

MACKINNON, DANIEL HENRY (youngest son of Daniel Mackinnon of
Binfield, Berkshire, barrister). _b._ 18 Sep. 1813; ed. at Trin.
coll. Dublin; cornet 16 lancers 1 July 1836; captain 6 dragoon
guards 12 Nov. 1847; paymaster of 43 foot 27 Oct. 1848, placed
on h.p. 6 June 1851; staff officer of pensioners Feb. 1854 to 1
Nov. 1877 when he retired on full pay with hon. rank of M.G.;
author of Military services and adventures in the far east 2
ed. 2 vols. 1849; British military power in India. _d._ 7 Jany.
1884.

MACKINNON, DONALD (son of rev. John Mackinnon, minister of
Strath, _d._ 1856). Presbyterian minister Fearn near Tain,
Rossshire 1846–56 and minister of Strath 1856 to death, the
grandfather, father and son held Strath 110 years; arbiter
among his flock, his decisions being accepted as final. _d._
Kilbridge, Skye 3 Jany. 1888. _The Times 10 Jany. 1888 p._ 5.

MACKINNON, KENNETH M. _b._ 1805; assistant surgeon Bengal army
19 Nov. 1826, surgeon 1 March 1843, retired 11 Jany. 1857;
apothecary general Bengal 1853–7; author of A treatise on the
public health, climate, hygiene and diseases of the north-west
provinces. Cawnpore 1848. _d._ Edinburgh 13 Feb. 1861.

MACKINNON, LAUCHLAN (brother of Donald Mackinnon _d._ 1888).
_b._ Kilbride, Isle of Skye 26 Feb. 1817; ed. Aberdeen;
emigrated to Australia 1838; came overland with cattle from
Sydney to Adelaide, the first journey of the kind made 1839;
settled in Avoca, Victoria as a squatter; member of N.S.W.
legislative assembly for Port Philip district 1848; member for
Belfast and Warrnambool in legislative council of Victoria; the
great opponent to the introduction of English convicts into
Australia; with Edward Wilson one of the proprietors of The
Argus a Melbourne daily journal 1852; returned to England in
1868 and lived in Devonshire. _d._ Torquay 21 March 1888.

MACKINNON, LAUCHLAN BELLINGHAM (2 son of Wm. Alexander Mackinnon
1789–1870). _b._ Portswood park, Southampton 21 April 1815;
entered navy 1 Oct. 1829, commander 1 Nov. 1847, retired captain
1 July 1864; M.P. Rye 1865–8; author of Some account of the
Falkland islands 1840; Steam warfare in the Parana 2 vols. 1848;
Atlantic and transatlantic sketches 2 vols. 1852. _d._ Ormley
lodge, Ham common, Surrey 10 July 1877.

MACKINNON, LIONEL DANIEL (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1825;
ensign and lieut. Coldstream guards 30 May 1843, capt. and
lieut.-col. 20 Oct. 1854; advancing in front of his regiment
at Inkerman was shot and fell mortally wounded and _died_ soon
after being brought in 5 Nov. 1854. _G. Ryan’s Our heroes of the
Crimea_ (1855) _pp._ 77–80.

MACKINNON, SIR WILLIAM (son of Duncan Mackinnon). _b._
Campbeltown, Argyleshire 1823; trained to business in Glasgow to
1847; partner with Mr. Mackenzie in a general store at a town on
the Ganges 1847, removed the business to Calcutta 1855; senior
partner in Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co. East India merchants;
commenced a trade with Burmah 1855 which developed into the
British India steam navigation co., one of the greatest shipping
companies in the world, having 110 vessels, 1300 officers and
10,000 European and native seamen etc.; the means of annexing
part of Zanzibar to Great Britain; the chief adviser of the
government on granting the charter to the Imperial British East
Africa co. of which he was chairman to his death; obtained
funds for the Emim relief expedition under Stanley; contested
Argyleshire 4 Dec. 1885; C.I.E. 23 May 1882; cr. a baronet 15
July 1889. _d._ of quinsy, Burlington hotel, 30 Old Burlington
st. London 22 June 1893, personalty sworn at £560,563 Oct. 1893.
_Black and White 1 July 1893 p._ 3, _portrait_; _I.L.N. 1 July
1893 p._ 7, _portrait_.

MACKINNON, WILLIAM ALEXANDER (eld. son of Wm. Mackinnon of
Mackinnon). _b._ 2 Aug. 1789; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; student at Lincoln’s Inn; M.P. Dunwich
1819–20; M.P. Lymington 1831–2 and 1835–52; M.P. Rye 1853–65;
brought in bills for the amendment of the patent laws, to
prevent intramural interments in populous places and to abate
the smoke nuisance; a comr. for colonization of South Australia;
F.S.A. 1820; F.R.S. 14 June 1827; author of On public opinion
in Great Britain and other parts of the world 1828, anon.,
published subsequently as The history of civilisation 2 vols.
1846. _d._ Belvidere, Broadstairs, Kent 30 April 1870. _I.L.N.
xv_ 44 (1849), _portrait_.

MACKINTOSH, ANGUS (son of John Mackintosh of Holme, Inverness,
_d._ 1847). _b._ 1826; ed. Edinb. acad.; matric. from univ.
coll. Oxf. 15 May 1845; led a dissipated life; became very
violent in London, April and May 1852, attracted great attention
at one of the Queen’s drawing rooms, his name was consequently
dropped from the list of presentations, applied for redress to
the lord chamberlain in vain; confined in Saughton Hall asylum,
Edinburgh from 13 June to 20 July 1852 when he escaped; brought
an action for illegal detention against Dr. John Smith and Dr.
Lowe proprietors of the asylum, verdict given against him 29
July 1859, began another action against them May 1863, verdict
given in their favour after a 7 days’ trial in Edinburgh 12 Feb.
1864; resided at Holme, Invernesshire. _A.R._ (1864) 19–22.

MACKINTOSH, CHARLES CALDER (son of Dr. Angus Mackintosh _d._
Tain 1831). _b._ Tain 5 Oct. 1806; ed. at Aberdeen and Glasgow;
co-pastor of Tain 1828, and minister 1831–43; minister of Free
ch. Tain 1843 and of Free ch. Dunoon 1854 to death; a very
popular revival preacher; D.D. of Union coll. Shenectady, Sep.
1850. _d._ Pau 24 Nov. 1868. _W. Taylor’s Memorials of C. C.
Mackintosh_ (1871), _biographical sketch pp._ 23–51, _portrait_;
_Scott’s Fasti_, _iii pt. i p._ 310 (1870).

MACKINTOSH, DANIEL (son of the owner of a water-power mill).
_b._ Blairgowrie, Perthshire 1815; lecturer on astronomy,
geology and physical geology in England; contributed to Quart.
Journ. of Geological Soc. and to Geological Mag.; F.G.S. 1861,
received grant from the Lyell fund 1886; took an active part
in the controversies on marine denudation; made researches on
glacial geology and on erratic blocks and boulders; received
4 grants from Royal Society in aid of original research;
presented with Kingsley medal of Chester Soc. of natural
science 1881; president of Liverpool Geological Society 1881–3;
author of Supplement to the Bridgewater treatises. The highest
generalizations in geology and astronomy illustrating the
greatness of the creator 1843; The scenery of England and Wales,
its character and origin 1869. _d._ Birkenhead 19 July 1891.
_bur._ Flaybrick cemetery, Birkenhead. _Geol. Mag. Sep. 1891 p._
432.

MACKINTOSH, MACKAY. Presbyterian minister at Laggan to 1831 and
at Dunoon 1831–43; moderator of the Free general assembly 24 May
1849; minister of Melbourne Gaelic ch. Australia 1854–6, and to
a congregation in Sydney 1856–61; minister of Free ch. Tarbert,
Harris, Scotland 1862; superintended and corrected press of
Gaelic Dictionary 1828; author of Memoir of Rob. Don 1829;
Four sermons. Liverpool 1833; Sermons on the christian warfare
1836; The treasure, selections from the Olney hymns, in Gaelic;
Practical exposition of Matthew V. 1845; Sermon on rev. Roderick
Macleod with memorials 1869. _Scott’s Fasti_, _iii pt. i p._ 19
(1870).

MACKMURDO, GILBERT WAKEFIELD. _b._ 1799; M.R.C.S. 1824,
F.R.C.S.; practised at 7 New Broad, city of London; surgeon
St. Thomas’s hospital, London; consulting surgeon and lecturer
on ophthalmic surgery royal London ophthalmic hospital. _d._
Chigwell-row, Essex 26 Aug. 1869.

MACKNESS, JAMES (elder son of Thomas Mackness a lace man).
_b._ Wellingborough, Northamptonshire 31 March 1804; member of
College of Surgeons 22 Dec. 1824; practised at Turvey near
Bedford 1827, then at Northampton 1831–7; M.D. St. Andrew’s
15 May 1840; physician at Hastings 1840 to death; phys. to
Hastings dispensary Nov. 1840; L.R.C.P. Jany. 1843; author of
Hastings considered as a resort for invalids 1842, 2 ed. 1850;
The moral aspects of medical life 1846; Dysphonia clericorum
or clergyman’s sore throat 1848. _d._ Wellington sq. Hastings
8 Feb. 1851. _Memorials of J. Mackness. By Miss M. M. Howard_
(1851).

MACKONOCHIE, ALEXANDER HERIOT (3 son of George Mackonochie,
retired colonel). _b._ Farnham, Hants. 11 Aug. 1825; ed. at
Bath, Exeter, Edinb. univ. and Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1848,
M.A. 1851; C. of Westbury, Wilts. 1849–52; C. of Wantage,
Berkshire 1852; C. of St. George’s-in-the-East, London
1858–62; C. in charge of St. Alban’s, Holborn, London 1862,
church was consecrated 21 Feb. 1863; his advanced ritualistic
practices were the cause of a long series of law suits by the
Church Association; suspended for 3 months 25 Nov. 1878 for
disobedience to judgment of privy council given against him
1868, a fresh suit was commenced 1874, on 12 June 1875 he was
suspended for six weeks, and on 1 June 1878 for three years;
resigned his living 1 Dec. 1882 but worked there unofficially
Dec. 1883 to death; domestic chaplain to lord Eliot Nov. 1870;
V. of St. Peter’s, London Docks, Jany. 1883, resigned 23 Dec.
1883; author of First principles _v._ Erastianism, sermons
1876; went on a visit to the bishop of Argyll and the Isles at
Ballachulish 10 Dec. 1887, _found dead_ in the deer forest of
Manore 15 Dec. 1887. _bur._ in the ground of St. Alban’s Guild,
Working 23 Dec. _E. A. Towle’s A. H. Mackonochie, a memoir_
(1890), _portrait_; _Church portrait journal n.s. iii_ 49–56
(1882), _portrait_; _Judgment delivered by Sir Robert Phillimore
in the cases of Martin v. Mackonochie and Flamank v. Simpson.
By W. G. F. Phillimore_ (1868); _Legal Ritual. By J. Mc Dale_
(1871).

MACKONOCHIE, JAMES (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1823;
advocate at Scotch bar 1845; barrister I.T. 6 June 1855; a
revising barrister 1873–88; recorder of Winchester, Jany. 1880
to Dec. 1888; judge of county court, circuit 55 (Hants. and
Dorset), Nov. 1888 to death. _d._ Kenilworth, Cavendish road,
Bournemouth 18 Dec. 1892.

MC KOWEN, JAMES. _b._ Lambeg near Lisburn, co. Antrim 11 Feb.
1814; employed at bleach works of Richardson, Sons & Owden,
Belfast about 1833 to death; contributed many racy poems to
Northern Whig and other Ulster papers from about 1840, generally
under pseudonym of Kitty Connor; one of his pieces The old Irish
cow, became very popular in Ulster, and another The ould Irish
jig, is known throughout Ireland; 9 of his poems are in The harp
of Erin. Dublin 1867; resided at Millbrook. _d._ Beechside,
Lisburn 22 April 1889. _bur._ Lambeg 25 April. _The Northern
Whig 24 April 1889 pp._ 1, 5.

MACKWORTH, SIR DIGBY, 4 Baronet (eld. son of sir Digby
Mackworth, 3 bart. 1766–1838). _b._ Oxford 13 June 1789; ed. at
Westminster; lieut. 7 fusiliers 9 July 1807; carried the colours
at Talavera 27 and 28 July 1809; one of lord Hill’s aides de
camp; captain 13 light dragoons 31 Dec. 1818 to 23 Oct. 1823
when placed on h.p.; brevet colonel 11 Nov. 1851; K.H. 1832 for
his assistance in suppressing riots in forest of Dean 1830 and
at Bristol 1831; succeeded his father as 4 bart. 2 May 1838;
sheriff of Monmouthshire 1843; chief founder of National club,
London 1845; contested Derby 1846 and Liverpool 1847. _d._ Glen
Uske, Monmouthshire 23 Sep. 1852. _G.M. xxxviii_ 524–26 (1852);
_I.L.N. xxi_ 282 (1852).

NOTE.--He was in that charge at Albuera 16 May 1811 in which out of the 1500 men composing the 7 and 23 regiments only 150 escaped; the brigade going into action under three colonels and coming out under only one captain and with 3 battalions each commanded by a lieutenant. There was no parallel slaughter of British officers and soldiers during the war.

MACKWORTH, HUBERT FRANCIS. _b._ Trinidad 27 Sep. 1823; ed. at
King’s college, London; inspector of mines and collieries in
southern district of England and Wales 1851 to death; F.G.S.;
author of Lectures in connection with the educational exhibition
of the Society of arts 1854; The ventilation, underground gases
and sanitary condition of mines. Bristol 1859. _d._ Clifton wood
house, Bristol 13 July 1858.

MACLACHLAN, ALEXANDER. _b._ 1789; 2 lieut. R.A. 3 Dec. 1803,
col. 11 Nov. 1851, col. commandant 19 May 1863 to death; served
in Spain 1813 and 1814; L.G. 22 June 1860; knight of St. Maurice
and Lazare. _d._ Dublin 26 Feb. 1866.

MACLACHLAN, ARCHIBALD. Ensign 69 foot 6 May 1795; captain
O’Conner’s recruiting corps 1 Dec. 1797, placed on h.p. 1799;
major 69 foot 4 June 1813 to 25 Nov. 1816 when placed on h.p.;
L.G. 20 June 1854. _d._ Rockstone place, Southampton 29 Dec.
1854.

MACLACHLAN, DANIEL. _b._ Glasgow 1807; M.R.C.S. Edinb. 1827;
F.R.C.P. 1859; M.D. Glasgow; army hospital assistant on coast of
Africa 1827; assist. surgeon 79 highlanders 1828–40; physician
and surgeon Chelsea hospital 8 May 1840 to 1863; author of A
practical treatise on the diseases and infirmities of advanced
life 1863. _d._ Claremont, Ventnor, Isle of Wight 15 June 1870.
_Proc. Med. and Chir. Soc. vi_ 350 (1871).

MAC LACHLAN, JOHN. _b._ 1789; senior partner in firm of Mac
Lachlan and Stewart, publishers and university booksellers,
Edinburgh. _d._ Blackford Brae, Oswald road, Edinburgh 9 Nov.
1876. _Scotsman 10 Nov. 1876 p._ 8.

MAC LACHLAN, JOHN. _b._ 1827; ordained in Rome 1850; R.C. bishop
of Galloway 29 Jany. 1878 to death, consecrated in Glasgow
cathedral 23 May 1878. _d._ Dumfries 16 Jany. 1893.

MACLAGAN, ALEXANDER (1 son of Thomas Maclagan). _b._ Bridgend,
Perth 3 April 1811; apprentice to a plumber 1823–9, then a
journeyman; contributed to Edinburgh literary journal 1829;
manager of a plumbery in Dunfermline 1833; junior clerk in
inland revenue office, Edinb. 1850; entertained at a public
dinner in the hall of Burns’ cottage 1851; granted civil list
pension of £30, 29 Sep. 1856; author of Sketches from nature
and other poems 1851; Ragged school rhymes 1851, new ed. 1871;
National songs and ballads 1878. _d._ Edinburgh 20 April 1879.
_C. Rogers’ Modern Scottish minstrel_, _v_ 226–40 (1857).

MACLAGAN, DAVID. _b._ Edinburgh, Feb. 1785; ed. Edinb. univ.,
M.D. 1805; M.R.C.S. Edinb. 1804; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1807, F.R.C.S.
1816; assistant surgeon to 91 regt. 10 Sep. 1807, served at
Walcheren; staff surgeon 9 Portuguese brigade 1811 and served
in Spain to 1814; phys. in the army 26 May 1814, placed on h.p.
1816; in practice at Edinb. 1816 to death; pres. of R.C.S. 1826;
pres. R.C.P. 1856; surgeon in ordinary to the queen in Scotland
1838 to death; F.R.S. Edinb. _d._ 129 George st. Edinb. 6 June
1865. _Proc. Royal Soc. of Edinb. v_ 476–7 (1866).

MACLAGAN, DAVID (son of the preceding). Actuary at 9 Royal
circus, Edinburgh; manager of Edinburgh life insurance co.
1873–83; F.R.S. Edinb. 1872; author of St. George’s, Edinburgh,
a history of St. George’s church and of St. George’s Free church
1876. _d._ Mentone 30 March 1883.

MACLAGAN, PHILIP WHITESIDE (son of David Maclagan, M.D., _d._
1865). L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1839; M.D. Edinb. 1840; assistant
surgeon in the army 15 Jany. 1841; assistant surgeon royal
Canadian rifle regiment 19 Dec. 1845; surgeon 20 foot 24 Sep.
1850, resigned 3 Dec. 1853; much interested in philanthropic
movements; botanist. _d._ Berwick 26 May 1892; memorial fountain
unveiled in High st. Berwick 14 June 1893. _Daily Graphic 17
June 1893 p._ 5, _view of fountain_.

MACLAINE, SIR ARCHIBALD (2 son of Gillean Maclaine of Scalasdale
in the Isle of Mull, _d._ 23 Nov. 1778 aged 64). _b._ 13 Jany.
1773; ensign 94 foot 16 April 1794; held Matagorda an outwork of
Cadiz with 155 men against 8000 French under marshal Soult 22
Feb. to 22 April 1810; major 87 foot 4 Oct. 1810; lieut.-col.
7 West India regiment of foot 25 Jany. 1813 to 25 April 1816;
lieut.-col. 14 foot 9 Aug. 1821 to 4 Nov. 1822; lieut.-col. 17
foot 4 Nov. 1822 to 30 July 1829 when placed on h.p.; colonel
of 52 foot 8 Feb. 1847 to death; C.B. 4 June 1815; knighted at
St. James’s palace 19 Oct. 1831; K.C.B. 6 April 1852; knight of
order of Charles the Third of Spain 1816; general 5 June 1855.
_d._ 68 Cumberland st. Hyde park, London 9 March 1861. _bur._
Highgate cemet.

MACLAINE, HECTOR (1 son of William Osborne Maclaine). _b._
Murtle, Aberdeenshire 24 Nov. 1851; ed. Eton and Woolwich;
lieut. R.A. 6 Jany. 1872 to death; in India 1873–4, returned
to India 1879, on service in Kandahar 1880, in the action at
Maiwand 27 July 1880 showed great bravery and energy in working
his guns under fire; while in search of water on 28 July was
taken prisoner, was returned as killed or missing and name
taken out of army list in Aug.; imprisoned at Kokaran from 30
July; _murdered_ by his captors at Kandahar 1 Sep. 1880 and his
body soon after found by 92nd highlanders. _bur._ Kandahar with
military honours. _Shadbolt’s Afghan Campaign_ (1882) 131–4,
_portrait_.

MAC LAREN, ARCHIBALD. _b._ 1819; proprietor of the Gymnasium,
Alfred st. Oxford to death; the British army is trained on his
principles and in gymnasia which he invented; wrote Systematized
exercise, expansion and developement of the chest. Macmillan’s
Mag. Nov. 1890 pp. 35–40; author of A military system of
gymnastic exercises for the use of instructors 1862, 2 ed. 1868;
A system of fencing for the use of instructors in the army
1864; A system of physical education, theoretical and practical
1866; Training in theory and practice 1866, 2 ed. 1874. _d._
Summertown near Oxford 19 Feb. 1884.

MACLAREN, CHARLES (only child of a small farmer). _b._
Ormiston, Haddingtonshire 7 Oct. 1782; clerk to several firms
at Edinburgh; established with others The Scotsman 25 Jany.
1817, joint editor 1817–18 and 1820–45; a clerk in the custom
house 1818–20; edited 6th ed. of Encyclopædia Britannica 20
vols. 1822, for which he wrote articles America, Europe,
Greece, Physical geography and Troy; F.R.S. Edinb. 1837; F.G.S.
1846, pres. of Geol. Soc. of Edinb. 1864 to death; author of
A dissertation on the topography of the plain of Troy, 1822,
reissued as The plains of Troy described 1863; A sketch of the
geology of Fife and the Lothians 1839, 2 ed. 1866. _d._ Moreland
cottage, Edinburgh 10 Sep. 1866. _R. Cox and J. Nicol’s Select
writings of C. Maclaren_ 2 _vols._ (1869), _portrait_.

MC LAREN, DUNCAN (son of John Mc Laren, farmer). _b._ Renton,
Dumbartonshire 12 Jany. 1800; a draper in a shop opposite St.
Giles’s ch. Edinb. 1824; member of town council Edinb. 1833,
baillie, treasurer, lord provost 1851–4; chairman of Edinburgh
chamber of commerce; contested Edinb. 1852, M.P. Edinb. 1865–81,
used to be called in the house the Member for Scotland;
established the Heriot free schools, Edinb. 1836; author of
History of the resistance to the annuity tax under each of the
four church establishments for which it has been levied 1836, 4
ed. 1851; Facts regarding the seat rents of the city churches of
Edinburgh 1840. _d._ Newington house, Edinburgh 26 April 1886,
portrait in council chamber, Edinb. _J. B. Mackie’s Life and
works of D. Mc Laren_ 2 _vols._ (1888), 2 _portraits_.

M’LAREN, JAMES. _b._ Polmont, Stirlingshire 1829; general
superintendent North British railway co. 1843 to death, the
oldest official connected with the company. _d._ Edinburgh 30
Oct. 1893.

M’LAREN, JOHN H. _b._ Scotland 1827; assistant secretary to
Royal insurance company at Liverpool about 1855, general manager
1872 to death; effected amalgamations with other companies, that
with the Queen insurance co. in 1891 being the greatest. _d._
Claughton, Birkenhead 13 Nov. 1893.

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