Chapter XXX: Part 30

MC LAUCHLAN, HENRY. _b._ 1791; surveyor in connection with the
manors commission, and resident at Truro for some years; F.G.S.
1832; employed on ordnance trigonometrical survey 1830; wrote
Notes to accompany geological map of forest of Dean, in Trans.
Geol. Soc. v. pt. 1; Memoir made during a survey of the Watling
street from the Tees to the Scotch border 1852; The Roman wall
and vestiges of Roman occupation in the North of England 1857;
Memoir written during a survey of the Roman wall 1858. _d._ 14
Liston road, Clapham, Surrey 4 Jany. 1881. _Quart. Journ. Geol.
Soc. xxxviii proceedings p._ 53 (1882); _Boase and Courtney’s
Bibl. Cornub._ (1874) 333.

MACLAUCHLAN, THOMAS (youngest son of James Maclauchlan, minister
of Moy, Inverness). _b._ Moy, Jany. 1816; ed. at Aberdeen univ.,
M.A. 1833, LL.D. 1864; colleague to his father at Moy 1837–43;
Free church minister at Stratherrick, Loch Ness, Invernessshire
1844–9 and at Free St. Columba’s, Edinb. 1849; convener of
committee on highlands and islands 1850; moderator of Free
church assembly 1876; F.S.A. Scotland 1856, member of council
1875–8, vice pres. 1879–82; author of The depopulation system in
the Highlands 1849; The way to God, or the doctrine of Christ’s
mediatorship explained 1853; The poems of Ossian 1859 in Gaelic;
Celtic gleanings, history and literature of the Scottish Gaels
1857; The early Scotch church 1865. _d._ Edinburgh 21 March 1886.

MC LAUGHLAN, JOHN (son of a Highland Scotchman). _b._ Dovenby
near Cockermouth 1791; a labourer known as Clattan; tallest man
in Cumberland, 6 feet 6 inches in height; appeared as a wrestler
at Carlisle 1817, threw all his competitors; thrown by Wm.
Wilson at Keswick 1819; carried off prizes at Whitehaven, Aug.
1825, at Workington races Aug. 1828, and at Keswick, Sep. 1828;
umpire at Dovenby races June 1829; gained prize at Cockermouth,
Aug. 1830, and at Liverpool 1837; thrown by John Selkirk at
Liverpool 1840; made a tour with the pugilists Tom Molyneaux and
Jack Carter in England and Scotland lasting 5 years; landlord of
The Highlandman or Rising Sun in Market place, Whitehaven many
years to 1839; employed about the docks in Liverpool several
years. _d._ Liverpool, Oct. 1876. _J. Robinson and S. Gilpin’s
Wrestling_ (1893) 208–218.

MC LAUGHLIN, HUBERT. _b._ 1805; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A.
1828, M.A. 1832; chaplain at Nice; R. of Burford, Salop, 1st
portion, 9 March 1838 to death; rural dean of West division of
Burford 1843 to death; preb. of Hereford 1857 to death; author
of A tract on church extension 1851; Biographical sketches of
ancient Irish saints 1874. _d._ Boraston rectory 15 Dec. 1882.
_Times 21 Dec. 1882 p._ 4 _col._ 4.

MACLAY, ARCHIBALD. _b._ Killearn near Glasgow 14 May 1776;
ed. Edinb. univ.; presbyterian minister Kirkcaldy 1802–1805;
minister of a congregational ch. in New York 1805–1809; pastor
of a baptist ch. New York 1809–38; general agent of American
and foreign Bible soc. 1838; an organizer of Bible translation
soc. of England, and in forming American Bible union 1850, of
which he became general agent and then president; obtained an
endowment for Maclay baptist coll. Canada; author of A selection
of hymns. New York 1816; An address at Hope st. Baptist chapel,
Glasgow 1840. _d._ New York city 2 May 1860. _Appleton’s
American biography iv_ 141–2 (1888).

MACLAY, MIKLUOHO (of Scottish and Cossack parentage). _b._ 1846;
ed. at St. Petersburg univ. and in Germany in 1860; a traveller
and explorer in New Guinea 1866 etc.; known as the king of the
Papuans; proposed to the Russian government to found a colony in
New Guinea 1887. _d._ Wylie’s hospital, St. Petersburg 15 April
1888.

MACLEA, CHARLES GASCOIGNE. _b._ 1793; member of firm of Maclea
and March, machine-makers, Dewsbury road, Leeds; had an European
fame as a maker of flax-spinning and other machinery; retired
from business Jany. 1843; chairman of Leeds and Yorkshire
insurance co. 1847–63; alderman of Leeds 1842–62, mayor 1846; a
juror for tools and manufacturing machines at Great Exhibition
1851; presented a font to St. Mark’s ch. Woodhouse. _d._
Blenheim terrace, Leeds 24 May 1864. _R. V. Taylor’s Biographia
Leodiensis_ (1865) 516–8; _Mayhall’s Annals of Yorkshire_, _i_
641, _ii_ 251–2 (1878).

MACLEAN, ALEXANDER (son of David Maclean of Glasgow,
manufacturer). _b._ Nov. 1840; in business at Glasgow to 1861;
studied painting at Rome, Florence and Antwerp; exhibited 7
pictures at R.A. 1872–7; his best pictures are Covent Garden
Market 1874, Looking Back 1876, At the railings, St. Paul’s,
Covent Garden 1877. _d._ St. Leonard’s-on-Sea 30 Oct. 1877.

MACLEAN, ALLAN THOMAS (2 son of Archibald Maclean of
Penny-cross, co. Argyle). _b._ 1791; cornet 13 hussars 23 Aug.
1810, lieut.-col. 11 July 1834 to 1 Aug. 1840 when placed on
h.p.; col. 13 hussars 12 Nov. 1860 to death; L.G. 20 Dec. 1861;
served in Peninsular war from Dec. 1810 until wounded and taken
prisoner at Conches, March 1814; received silver war medal with
6 clasps. _d._ Oxford sq. London 9 Dec. 1868. _Reg. and mag. of
biog. i_ 113, 358, 525 (1869).

MC LEAN, ARCHIBALD (son of Neil Mc Lean of Mull, Scotland, a
member of legislative council of Canada). _b._ St. Andrew’s,
April 1791; in Canadian army 1812; A.Q.M.G., and on the staff;
a prisoner at Lundy’s Lane till end of the war; barrister at
York, Canada; a representative for Stormont and Cornwall in
legislative assembly of Upper Canada, and twice elected speaker;
judge of court of King’s bench 1837–56; chief justice of Upper
Canada 1856, president of the court of error and appeal to
death. _d._ Toronto 1865. _Appleton’s American biography_, _iv_
142–3 (1888).

MACLEAN, ARCHIBALD. Rear admiral in German navy. _d._ Berlin 7
Nov. 1884.

MC LEAN, CHARLES. Carver and gilder at 181 Fleet st. London
1838, afterwards at 78 and 79 Fleet st. to 1869; manager of
Commercial plate glass co. at 78 and 79 Fleet st.; started Fun
in 1861 and Banter at 183 Fleet st. 2 Sep. 1867, ran to 4 Nov.
1867; Charles Mc Lean junior published Fun at 80 Fleet st. _d._
1869.

MACLEAN, SIR CHARLES FITZROY, 9 Baronet (son of sir Fitzroy
Jeffries Grafton Maclean, 8 baronet _d._ 5 July 1847). _b._ 14
Oct. 1798; ed. at Eton; ensign Scots fusilier guards 10 Oct.
1816; captain 81 foot 7 Aug. 1823, lieut.-col. 16 March 1832,
placed on h.p. 25 Oct. 1839; military secretary at Gibraltar;
colonel 9 Nov. 1846. _d._ West Cliff house, Sandgate road,
Folkestone 27 Dec. 1883.

MACLEAN, DONALD (brother of sir C. F. Maclean 1798–1883). _b._
1800; ed. at Eton and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1823, M.A.
1827, D.C.L. 1844; took a leading part in formation of the
Union society; barrister L.I. 9 Feb. 1827; M.P. city of Oxford
1835–47. _d._ Rome 21 March 1874.

MC LEAN, SIR DONALD (4 son of John Mc Lean). _b._ Kilmonaig near
Tiree, Argyllshire 27 Oct. 1820; employed in a merchant’s office
at Sydney 1837–9; learnt the Maori language; clerk in office of
protector of the aborigines, New Zealand 1840; local protector
for the Taranaki district 1844, inspector of police for Taranaki
1845; comr. for negotiating purchases of lands from the natives
5 March 1847 to 1863; resident magistrate Taranaki 1850–63; the
first native secretary 1856–63; member of provincial council
and superintendent of Hawke’s Bay province 4 March 1863; member
of legislative assembly 1866; native minister and minister for
colonial defence June 1869 to Dec. 1876; C.M.G. 28 July 1870,
K.C.M.G. 23 July 1874. _d._ New Zealand 5 Jany. 1877. _W.
Gisborne’s New Zealand rulers_ (1886) 163, 248, 289, _portrait_.

MACLEAN, SIR GEORGE (eld. son of Wm. Maclean of Dysart,
Fifeshire). _b._ Dysart 1795; ed. at Edinburgh; entered
commissariat service 1812; commissary general 29 Dec. 1849,
placed on h.p. 20 Oct. 1856; knighted at St. James’s palace 9
June 1854; K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856 _d._ Southampton 29 May 1861.

MC LEAN, HECTOR (3 son of John Donald Mc Lean of Sydney, New
South Wales). Matric. from New coll. Oxf. 26 Jany. 1885 aged 20;
rowed in the University boat against Cambridge 1886 and 1887;
captain of the Oxford university boat club 1887. _d._ of typhoid
fever at Oxford 20 Jany. 1888.

NOTE.--The Clinker Fours, a race between the colleges of the second division which takes place annually in the month of March were instituted in his memory.

MACLEAN, HENRY DUNDAS (5 son of Alexander Maclean of Ardgour,
Argyleshire 1764–1855). _b._ 1800; ed. at Harrow; lieut. 90 foot
27 Jany. 1820; captain 95 foot 6 Nov. 1824, major 20 April 1832,
placed on h.p. 17 Nov. 1840, brevet lieut.-col. 9 Nov. 1846;
sheriff of Cumberland 1848. _d._ Lazonby hall, Cumberland 8 Dec.
1863.

MACLEAN, JOHN (son of Charles Maclean of Portsoy, Banffshire).
_b._ 1828; bursar at King’s coll. Aberdeen 1847, M.A. 1851; in
a counting-house in London; ordained by bishop of Ripon 1858;
assistant to bishop of Huron in St. Paul’s cathedral, London,
Toronto 1858–66; warden and divinity professor of St. John’s
college, R. of St. John’s cathedral, Winnipeg and archdeacon of
Assiniboia or Manitoba 1866–74; bishop of Saskatchewan, Rupert’s
Land 1874 to death; consecrated at Lambeth 3 May 1874; secured
a permanent endowment for his see and for Emanuel college at
Alberta which became an university; D.C.L. Trinity college,
Toronto 1871. _d._ Alberta, Rupert’s Land 13 Nov. 1886. _The
Guardian 17 Nov. 1886 p._ 1720.

MACLEAN, JOHN. _b._ 1810; chief comr. for British Kaffraria,
Sep. 1852, lieut. governor Dec. 1860 to 27 March 1865 when
British Kaffraria was reunited to Cape Colony by 28 and 29 Vict.
cap. 5; lieut. governor of Natal 6 Oct. 1864 to Nov. 1866; C.B.
25 Aug. 1857. _d._ East London, British Kaffraria 2 Dec. 1874;
his widow Katharine Louisa Georgina was granted civil list
pension of £100, 19 June 1875 and _d._ 5 Jany. 1878 aged 60.

MACLEAN, JOHN. _b._ London 31 March 1836; gave dramatic
readings; first appeared on the stage at T.R. Plymouth 1859 and
played the King in Hamlet there 1860; acted in Jersey, Guernsey
and Birmingham; appeared at Surrey theatre, London as Peter
Purcell in the Idiot of the mountain 7 Sep. 1861; the original
Mr. Gibson in Tom Taylor’s Ticket-of-Leave man, Olympic theatre
27 May 1863; the original Saunders in Wills’s Man o’ Airlie, at
Princess’s 20 July 1867; acted at Gaiety theatre 21 Dec. 1868 to
1871 and 1872–9, at Olympic 1879–80, at Vaudeville 1881; played
at opening of Princess’s theatre 18 Jany. 1884; played Adam in
As you like it at St. James’s 24 Jany. 1885, and Camillo in the
Winter’s Tale at Lyceum 10 Sep. 1887; acted with Mary Anderson
in U.S. of America 1888; last appeared at Strand theatre as the
Old French nobleman in My Brother’s sister 15 Feb. 1890; founder
and first preceptor of the Logic club of Freemasons. _d._ at his
lodgings, Percy st. Tottenham court road, London 15 March 1890.
_bur._ Paddington cemet. 19 March where memorial monument of red
granite 9 ft. 6 in. in height was unveiled 3 May 1892. _Pascoe’s
Dramatic List_ (1880) 255; _Illust. sp. and dr. news_, _vi_ 575,
592, 593 (1877) _portrait_, _xxii_ 537 (1885) _portrait_, _and
22 March 1890 p._ 44 _portrait_; _The Era 22 March 1890_.

M’LEAN, JOHN DONALD (younger son of Donald M’Lean of Aird, Isle
of Skye). _b._ Aird 1821; emigrated to New South Wales 1837;
grazier and squatter at Westbrook on the Darling downs 1851, was
interested in 40 stations; went to reside near Sydney about Dec.
1859; member of legislative assembly Queensland 1860, colonial
treasurer and member of executive council 21 July 1866 to death.
_d._ Westbrook, Queensland by a fall from his horse 16 Dec.
1866. _Australian men of mark_, _ii_ 87–92 (1889), _portrait_.

M’CLEAN, JOHN ROBINSON (son of Francis M’Clean of Belfast) _b._
1813; ed. at royal academical institution Belfast and Glasgow
univ.; M.I.C.E. 15 June 1844, member of council 1848, vice
pres. 1858–64, pres. 1864–5; lieut.-col. engineer and railway
volunteer staff corps 21 Jany. 1865 to death; chairman Anglo
American telegraph co.; F.R.S. 3 June 1869; contested Belfast 3
April 1857; M.P. East Staffordshire 17 Nov. 1868 to death. _d._
Stonehouse near Ramsgate 13 July 1873.

M’LEAN, ROBERT. _b._ 29 July 1857; ed. at Dr. Adams’ school,
Victoria park, Manchester and at Fettes coll. Edinb. 1870–5;
articled to Hall, Son and Lord, Manchester 1876–81; New Inn
prizeman at examination June 1881; practised at Manchester 1881,
and in London with Albert Gibson 1888 to death; author of A
lesson well learnt and of other dramas and of Diversions of an
articled clerk 1892; edited with A. Gibson and Arthur Weldon,
Law Notes, a monthly magazine for students 1888 to Feb. 1893;
author with A. Gibson of The student’s conveyancing 1885, 3 ed.
1892; Student’s Equity 1887; Student’s practice of the courts
1882, 4 ed. 1889; wrote the libretto of Eric the Dane, a cantata
performed at one of Sir Charles Halle’s concerts. _d._ Richmond
house, High st. Oxford road, Manchester 2 Feb. 1893. _Law
Notes_, _March 1893_, _portrait_.

M’LEAN, THOMAS. _b._ 1788; a publisher of engravings 69
Haymarket, London 1825, retired in favor of his eldest son;
brought out prints of sir E. Landseer’s pictures of The Stag at
bay, Dignity and impudence, Laying down the law, and Be it ever
so humble there’s no place like home; published the Political
sketches of H. B. [_i.e._ J. Doyle] No. 1–757, a series of
coloured lithographic prints 1829–43; published Illustrated
description of the works of J. Gillray 1830; Humorous
engravings, sporting prints 1835. _d._ Selhurst, Surrey 9 March
1875.

MACLEAR, SIR THOMAS (eld. son of James Maclear). _b._ Newton
Stewart, Tyrone 17 March 1794; ed. Winchester; studied at Guy’s
and St. Thomas’s hospitals; M.R.C.S. 1815; house surgeon of
Bedford infirmary 1815; practised at Biggleswade 1823–33, where
he erected an observatory 1828; astronomer royal at Cape of Good
Hope 5 Jany. 1834 to 1870; F.R.A.S. 1828; F.R.S. 8 Dec. 1831,
royal medallist 1869; Lalande medal of the Academy of sciences
1867; knighted by patent 24 May 1860; granted civil list pension
of £100, 18 June 1863; became totally blind 1867; contributed to
Memoirs of R. Astronom. soc. 1835 etc.; author of Observations
of Halley’s comet made at Cape of Good Hope 1837; Astronomical
observations made under the direction T. Maclear 1840;
Contributions to astronomy and geodesy 2 vols. 1851 and 1853;
Verification and extension of La Caille’s arc of meridian 1866;
Catalogue of 4810 stars from observation made by sir T. Maclear
1884. _d._ Grey villa, Mowbray, Capetown 14 July 1879. _bur._ in
the observatory grounds. _Monthly notices of R.A.S. xl_ 200–204
(1880); _Proc. of royal society_, _xxix_ 17–18 (1879); _Nature
14 Aug. 1879 p._ 365.

MACLEAY, SIR GEORGE (son of Alexander Macleay, colonial sec.
N.S.W., _d._ 1848). _b._ 29 July 1809; educ. Westminster 1822
etc.; went to N.S.W. and accompanied capt. Charles Sturt in
his expedition down the Murrumbidgee and Murray rivers 1829–30;
member of legislative council of N.S.W. and speaker 1843–6;
member for the Murrumbidgee to the first legislative assembly of
N.S.W. 22 May 1856; C.M.G. 30 June 1869, K.C.M.G. 5 March 1875;
settled at Pendell court, Bletchingley, Surrey. _d._ Chalet des
Rosiers, Mentone 24 June 1891.

MACLEAY, JAMES ROBERT (brother of preceding). _b._ 15 April
1811; ed. Westminster 1822, king’s scholar 1825; sec. to
legation in Chili 1838; registrar of commission at Cape of Good
Hope for suppression of slave trade 24 Jany. 1843; retired upon
superannuation allowance of £166, 1 May 1858. _d._ 49 Queen’s
gate gardens, Kensington 28 Oct. 1892.

MACLEAY, KENNETH (son of Kenneth Macleay of Glasgow, physician).
_b._ Oban 4 July 1802; entered Trustees’ academy, Edinb. 26
Feb. 1822; miniature painter on ivory; painter in oils and
water-colours on paper; an original member of Royal Scottish
academy 1826; his full-length portrait of Helen Faucit was
lithographed; executed for the queen a series of full-length
figures illustrative of costumes of the highland clans, 31 of
these were lithographed, hand-coloured and published under title
of Highlanders of Scotland 2 vols. 1870. _d._ 3 Malta terrace,
Edinburgh 3 Nov. 1878, his dau. M. F. L. Macleay was granted
civil list pension of £100, 16 March 1880. _R. Brydall’s Art in
Scotland_ (1889) 444–5.

MACLEAY, SIR WILLIAM (2 son of Kenneth Macleay of Newmore,
Rossshire). _b._ Caithness 13 June 1820; ed. at new academy and
univ. of Edinb.; emigrated to New South Wales 1839, a sheep
farmer on the Murrumbidgee 1839–54; member of legislative
assembly of N.S.W. for the Lachlan and Lower Darling 1854–75;
the first president of Entomological Soc. of N.S.W. established
at Sydney 17 April 1862, name changed to Linnean Soc., gave
funds for endowment of the society and a house at Elizabeth Bay;
expended interest on £40,000 on research fellowships in univ.
of N.S.W. to which he also gave his entomological museum; in
the Chevert at his own cost made an exploring expedition in New
Guinea, May to Sep. 1875; member of legislative council 1875;
knighted by patent 22 June 1889; author of Description of twenty
new species of Australian coleoptera 1862. d. Sydney 7 Dec.
1891. _The Australian portrait gallery_ (1885) 93–8, _portrait_.

MACLEAY, WILLIAM SHARP (brother of James Robert Macleay
1811–92). _b._ London 30 July 1792; ed. at Westminster 1806–10
and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1814, M.A. 1818; attaché at embassy
in Paris 1814; secretary to board for liquidating British claims
in France on the peace of 1815, returned to England 1819; F.L.S.
1821; comr. of arbitration to mixed British and Spanish court
for abolition of slave trade at Havannah 1 Aug. 1825, commissary
judge in same court 20 Feb. 1830, and judge of mixed court under
treaty of 1835, April 9, 1836; retired on a superannuation
allowance 1 Feb. 1837; went to New South Wales 1859; author of
Horæ Entomologicæ or essays on annulose animals 2 vols. 1819–21;
Annulosa Javanica, insects of Java 1825, No. 1 only; The
Annulosa of South Africa 1838; History of the skeleton of the
new sperm whale 1851. _d._ Elizabeth Bay, Sydney 26 Jany. 1865.
_F.O. List_, _Jany. 1865 p._ 116.

MACLEHOSE, JAMES (son of Thomas Maclehose, weaver). _b._ Govan
16 March 1811; apprentice to George Gallie, bookseller, Glasgow
1823–30; with Messrs. Seeleys, London 1833–8; bookseller with R.
Nelson in Glasgow 1838, alone 1841–81 and with his sons 1881 to
death; had the largest retail book business out of London; his
circulating library commenced in 1841 held 20,000 volumes; his
binding business begun in 1863 became well known; had upwards
of 50 writers in his employment and published many books;
bookseller to Glasgow univ. 1864, publisher 1871; author of Old
county houses of the old Glasgow gentry; Memoirs and portraits
of one hundred Glasgow men 2 vols. 1886; great friend of David
Livingstone and Daniel Macmillan the publisher. _d._ 18 Victoria
crescent, Downhill, Glasgow 20 Dec. 1885. _Maclehose’s Memoirs_,
_ii_ 343–6 (1886), _portrait_.

MC LELAN, ARCHIBALD WOODBURY. _b._ 1824; member of provincial
assembly of Nova Scotia 1858–69; member of the senate of the
Dominion 1869; member of Canadian cabinet 1881; president of the
privy council to 1881; minister of marine and fisheries 1881;
minister of finance Dec. 1885 and postmaster general 1887; comr.
for Canada at international fisheries exhibition 1883; lieut.
governor of Nova Scotia 9 July 1888 to death. _d._ Nova Scotia
25 June 1890.

M’LELLAN, ARCHIBALD (son of a coachbuilder). _b._ Glasgow
1795; a partner with his father as a coachbuilder; an heraldic
draughtsman; deacon of the incorporation of hammersmen; deacon
convener of the Trades’ house 1831 and 1834; gave land for a
new western approach to Glasgow cathedral; member of Glasgow
town council 30 years; his paintings, sculptures, gold and
silver plate and library and his house in Sauchiehall st.
purchased by the Glasgow town council for £44,500 in 1854;
author of An essay on the cathedral church of Glasgow 1833;
Catalogue of books and music in library of A. M’Lellan 1839.
_d._ Mugdock castle, Stirlingshire 22 Oct. 1854. _bur._ in the
High church burying-ground at Glasgow. _Maclehose’s Glasgow
men_, _ii_ 205–6 (1886), _portrait_; _Waagen’s Treasures of
art_, _iii_ 286–91 (1854); _Waagen’s Galleries of art_ (1857)
457–62.

M’LENNAN, DONALD (3 son of John M’Lennan, insurance agent).
_b._ Inverness 1833; ed. Aberdeen univ., M.A.; editor of South
Shields gazette to 1864; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1864; assisted
his brother in the preparation of Primitive marriage 1865 and
Studies in ancient history 1876; published The patriarchal
theory, based on the papers of the late J. F. Mac Lennan.
Edited and completed by Donald Mac Lennan 1884. _d._ 2 Vicarage
gardens, Campden hill, Kensington, May 1891.

MC LENNAN, JOHN. Assistant surgeon Bombay army 7 May 1821,
surgeon 15 Nov. 1833; physician general Bombay 1 Jany. 1849,
retired 26 Jany. 1855. _d._ 5 April 1874.

MC LENNAN, JOHN FERGUSON (brother of Donald Mc Lennan 1833–91).
_b._ Inverness 14 Oct. 1827; ed. at King’s coll. Aberdeen, M.A.
1849, and at Trin. coll. Camb., 25th wrangler 1853; advocate
in Edinb. Jany. 1857; secretary to Scottish law amendment
soc. 1858; parliamentary draughtsman for Scotland 1871;
LL.D. Aberdeen 1874; the best authority on ancient marriage
ceremonies; author of Primitive marriage, an enquiry into the
origin of the form of capture in marriage ceremonies 1865;
Memoir of Thomas Drummond 1867; Studies in ancient history 1876;
Studies in ancient history, comprising a reprint of Primitive
marriage 1876, new ed. 1886. _d._ Hawthorndene, Hayes Common,
Kent 16 June 1881.

MACLEOD, ALEXANDER. _b._ Nairn 17 Oct. 1817; entered Glasgow
univ. 1835, studied at the Relief theological hall 1839–44;
presbyterian minister at Strathaven, co. Lanark 20 Feb. 1844;
transferred to John st. ch. Glasgow 11 Oct. 1855; the first
pastor of Trinity ch. Claughton, Birkenhead 17 March 1864 to
death; D.D. Glasgow 9 Feb. 1865; moderator of presbyterian
church of England 1889; author of Christus consolator, or the
social mission of the pulpit 1870; Talking to the children
1872, 8 ed. 1880; Bob, some chapters of his early life 1877;
Days of heaven upon earth 1878; William Logan 1879; The gentle
heart 1881; The children’s portion 1884. _d._ Birkenhead 13
Jany. 1891. _In memoriam. Rev. Alexander Macleod, D.D._ (1891);
_J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1851) 375–80.

M’LEOD, SIR CHARLES. Entered Madras army 1794; lieut. 11 Madras
N.I. 1 Jany. 1800; captain 21 N.I. 21 Sep. 1804, major 25 Oct.
1815; lieut.-col. commandant 12 N.I. 31 May 1827 to 5 June 1829;
col. 34 N.I. 5 June 1829 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 23
July 1823, K.C.B. 30 June 1852. _d._ Seymour st. Portman sq.
London 15 April 1853.

MACLEOD, DONALD. Entered Madras army 1812; lieut.-col. of 6
Madras light cavalry 1840, of 5 Madras light cavalry 18 Feb.
1845 to 1846; col. 3 light cavalry 11 Sep. 1848 to 1860; col. 4
light cavalry 1860–69; L.G. 2 Oct. 1862; commander of Nagpore
subsidiary force 20 Sep. 1848 to 17 June 1851, of Ceded district
28 March 1854 to 28 March 1859. _d._ 29 Greenhill gardens,
Morningside, Edinburgh 7 Feb. 1870.

MC LEOD, SIR DONALD FRIELL (son of Duncan Mc Leod 1780–1856).
_b._ Fort William, Calcutta 6 May 1810; entered Bengal civil
service 1829; administrator of Saugor and Nerbudda 1831–40;
collector and magistrate at Benares 1843–9; comr. at Jellunder
of the Trans-Sutlej States 1849–54; financial comr. of the
Punjab 1854–9 and 1860–5; lieut. governor of the Punjab, Jany.
1865, retired 1870; chairman of the Scinde, Punjab and Delhi
railway; C.B. 18 May 1860; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1866. _d._ St.
George’s hospital, London 28 Nov. 1872 from an accident on the
Metropolitan railway at Gloucester road station same day. _E. J.
Lake’s Memoir of sir D. F. Mc Leod_ (1873), _portrait_; _I.L.N.
lxi_ 550, 565 (1872), _portrait_.

MACLEOD, DUNCAN (son of Donald Macleod). _b._ Torbat, co. Ross
20 Feb. 1780; entered Bengal army Feb. 1797; lieut. Bengal
engineers 13 Feb. 1803, col. 18 June 1831 to death; built the
palace at Moorshedabad 1825–36; left India, Feb. 1841; A.I.C.E.
1842; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ London 8 June 1856. _Minutes of
proc. of Instit. of C.E. xvi_ 163–66 (1857).

MACLEOD, SIR GEORGE HUSBAND BAIRD (3 son of Norman Macleod
1783–1862). _b._ 1828; studied medicine at Glasgow, M.D. 1853;
at Paris and Vienna; senior surgeon of civil hospital at
Smyrna, Feb. 1854 to 1856; surgeon at Glasgow 1856 to death;
surgeon in Glasgow royal infirmary, and lecturer on surgery
at Anderson’s college; regius professor of surgery in Glasgow
univ. 1869; crown member of general council of medical education
15 Sep. 1887 to death; surgeon in ordinary to the queen in
Scotland 10 Sep. 1877; LL.D. St. Andrews; knighted at Osborne
12 Aug. 1887; author of Notes on the surgery of the war in the
Crimea 1858; Outlines of surgical diagnosis 1864; Note book for
sir G. Macleod’s clinical class 5 ed. 1890; wrote articles in
S. Cooper’s Surgical dictionary 1861. _d._ Woodside crescent,
Glasgow 31 Aug. 1892. _bur._ Campsie churchyard. _I.L.N. 10 Sep.
1892 p._ 326, _portrait_.

MACLEOD, SIR JOHN (son of Donald Macleod of Bernaray, co.
Inverness). Ensign 78 highlanders 9 March 1793, lieut.-col. 12
May 1808 to Jany. 1826; L.G. 10 Jany. 1837; colonel of 77 regt.
17 Feb. 1840 to death; C.B. 4 June 1815; K.C.H. 4 July 1832;
knighted at St. James’s palace 4 July 1832. _d._ 18 Montague st.
Portman sq. London 3 April 1851.

M’LEOD, JOHN LYONS. Entered R.N. 26 Nov. 1841; when a midshipman
he captured the slaver Venus after an action of 20 minutes
13 Feb. 1845 for which promoted to be lieut.; British consul
at Mozambique 15 Feb. 1856 to 31 Dec. 1858, when he exposed
the slavery system known as the engagés libres; consul for
districts bordering on rivers Niger and Chadda 26 June 1866,
consulate abolished 13 May 1869, granted compensation allowance
1 July 1869; author of Travels in Eastern Africa 2 vols. 1860;
Madagascar and its people 1865. _d._ 25 Oct. 1893.

MACLEOD, SIR JOHN MACPHERSON (eld. son of Donald Macleod,
colonel in Madras army). _b._ Ardarden, Dumbartonshire 1792;
ed. at Haileybury and at univ. of Edinb.; writer Madras civil
service 1811; assistant sec. to government of Madras 1814–20 and
sec. 1823; comr. for government of Mysore 1832; member of Indian
law commission 1835, retired 1841; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1866; P.C. 24
March 1871; author of Remarks on some popular objections to the
income tax 1849. _d._ 1 Stanhope st. Hyde park, London 1 March
1881.

MACLEOD, JOSEPH ADDISON (eld. son of Joseph Addison Macleod of
city of London, solicitor). _b._ 1839; ed. Trin. hall, Camb.,
LL.B. 1861; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1863; Q.C. 18 Jany. 1882.
_d._ 27 Leinster gardens, Hyde park, London 14 April 1883.
_bur._ Hulton, Essex 18 April.

MACLEOD, NORMAN (son of Norman Macleod, minister of Morven,
Argyllshire). _b._ Morven, Dec. 1783; minister at Kilbrandon,
Argyllshire 1806–8; minister at Campbeltown, Argyllshire 12
June 1808; minister at Campsie, Stirlingshire, Aug. 1825; D.D.
Glasgow 30 July 1827; minister of Gaelic chapel of ease, St.
Columba’s, Glasgow 31 Oct. 1835 to death; moderator of general
assembly of church of Scotland 1836; chaplain in ord. to the
queen 2 Oct. 1841; one of the deans of chapel royal 1841; author
of Gaelic collection for the use of schools 1828; The Gaelic
messenger 2 vols. 1831; The psalms of David in Irish; author
with D. Dewar of A dictionary of the Gaelic language 1831. _d._
Glasgow 25 Nov. 1862. _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1848)
103–7; _Hew Scott’s Fasti_, _ii_ 32–3, 55 _and iii_ 37.

MACLEOD, NORMAN (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ Kirk st.
Campbeltown, Argyllshire 3 June 1812; ed. at Glasgow and
Edinburgh univs.; minister of Loudoun, Ayrshire 15 March 1838 to
1843; minister of Dalkeith near Edinburgh 15 Dec. 1843 to 1851;
sent by general assembly to British North America, June 1845;
member of general assembly 1849; minister of Barony church,
Glasgow 27 Feb. 1851, inducted July 1851; dean of the chapel
royal; one of H.M. chaplains for Scotland 26 Dec. 1857; hon.
D.D. Glasgow 30 April 1858; dean of the order of the thistle 26
July 1869; visited the mission stations in India 1867; moderator
of the general assembly 1869; edited The Edinburgh christian
magazine 1850–9; Good words 1860 etc.; Good words for the young
1868–70; author of Deborah or fireside readings for servants
1857; The home school, or hints on home education 1856; Parish
papers 1862; Reminiscences of a highland parish 1867; The
starling, a Scottish story 2 vols. 1867; Eastward, a visit to
Egypt and the Holy Land 1866; Peeps at the far east, a visit
to India 1871 and 25 other books. _d._ Glasgow 16 June 1872.
_bur._ Campsie 20 June. His statue erected in Glasgow and two
windows placed by the queen to his memory in Crathie church. _D.
Macleod’s Memoir of N. Macleod_ (1877), _portrait_; _Cartoon
portraits_ (1873) 86–7, _portrait_; _J. Smith’s Our Scottish
clergy_ (1851) 313–23; _More leaves from the journal of a life
in the highlands_ (1884) 209–37; _Illustrated Review_, _iv_
33–7 (1872), _portrait_; _Maclehose’s Glasgow men_, _ii_ 207–12
(1886), _portrait_.

MACLEOD, RODERICK. _b._ Scotland; ed. at univ. of Edinb., M.D.
1 Aug. 1816; surgeon in the army; settled in London; L.R.C.P.
22 Dec. 1821; F.R.C.P. 9 July 1836, Gulstonian lecturer 1837,
consiliarius 1839; editor and proprietor of London Medical
Gazette, number one 8 Dec. 1827, a weekly journal; physician St.
George’s hospital 13 Feb. 1833 to 1845; author of On rheumatism
1842. _d._ Chanonry, Old Aberdeen 7 Dec. 1852. _Munk’s College
of physicians_, _iii_ 243–4 (1878).

MACLEOD, RODERICK. _b._ 1786; M.P. Cromarty and Nairn 1818–20;
M.P. co. Sutherland 1831–7 and M.P. Inverness district of burghs
1837–40; lord lieutenant of Cromarty 8 May 1833 to death. _d._
Invergordon castle, Rossshire 13 March 1853.

M’LEOD, RODERICK (son of the minister of Snizort). _b._
Glen-Haltin, Isle of Skye 1794; presbyterian minister at
Lynedale, Skye to 1823, at Bracadale 1823–38 and at Snizort
1838–43; minister of the Free church, often preaching on hill
sides and in snow storms 1843, itinerated in Skye to his death;
moderator of Free ch. general assembly 1863; author of Report
of the proceedings of the general assembly in the case of the
suspension of R. M’Leod 1826. _d._ 1868. _Wylie’s Disruption
Worthies_ (1881) 383–8, _portrait_.

MACLEOD, RODERICK BANNATYNE. _b._ 18 Feb. 1823; entered Bengal
army; cornet 4 European light cavalry 27 Sep. 1843, captain 6
Sep. 1851; captain 3 European light cavalry to 1862; major 21
hussars 30 July 1862, lieut.-col. 4 March 1868 to 8 Dec. 1877
when he retired as M.G. _d._ Golden manor court near Hanwell,
Middlesex 24 Feb. 1881.

MACLEOD, WILLIAM COUPERUS. Entered Madras army 1821; lieut.
30 Madras N.I. 8 Sep. 1826, lieut.-col. 14 May 1853 to 1856;
lieut.-col. of 29 N.I. 1856–7, of 14 N.I. 1857–9, of 40 N.I.
1859–60, of 14 N.I. 1860–3 and of 1 N.I. 1863 to 1 Aug. 1864;
commandant at Jaulnah 16 Aug. 1859 to 9 July 1861; commandant at
Malabar and Canara 9 July 1861 to 15 Jany. 1862; commandant of
Nagpore subsidiary force 15 Jany. 1862 to 2 June 1863; commanded
Pegu division 2 June 1863 to 27 April 1864; commanded Ceded
district 27 April 1864 to 30 May 1868; col. of 30 Madras N.I.
12 March 1865 to 1869; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 62 Gloucester
gardens, London 4 April 1880.

M’LERIE, JOHN. _b._ Ayrshire 1809; private in fusilier guards;
an orderly clerk in war office; ensign 58 foot 28 Dec. 1838,
adjutant 1838–48, lieut. 27 June 1841, sold out 7 June 1850;
served in Tasmania and N.S.W.; was in Maori war of 1845;
paymaster and adjutant of the mounted patrol, Sydney; principal
gaoler at Darlinghurst; police magistrate and superintendent of
police, Sydney 1850; inspector general of police 1856 when he
suppressed bush-ranging. _d._ 6 Oct. 1874. _Heaton’s Australian
Dict. of dates_ (1879) 140.

M’LETCHIE, JAMES. _b._ Maybole, Ayrshire 24 Dec. 1800;
apprentice to a surgeon at Maybole; ed. Glasgow univ., D.D.;
presbyterian minister at Larkhall 1837, at Gartsherrie to 1841,
at St. Thomas’, Leith 1841, at Blackfriars’ parish, Glasgow
1842; minister of the second charge, High ch. Edinb. 1843 to
death. _d._ Edinburgh 18 Sep. 1866. _bur._ Grange cemetery 24
Sep. _Sermons by J. M’Letchie_ (1871) _memoir pp. vii–xxvii_,
_portrait_.

MACLISE, DANIEL (2 child of Alexander Mc Lish of Cork, tanner).
_baptized_ in presbyterian ch. Princes st. Cork 2 Feb. 1806
but he always said he was _b._ 25 Jany. 1811; student at Cork
academy opened 1822; opened a studio in Patrick st. 1825;
entered schools of the R.A. London 20 April 1828, gained the
gold medal for historical composition 1829; contributed 80
character portraits to Fraser’s Mag. latterly under nom de plume
of Alfred Croquis, June 1830 to 1838; exhibited 83 pictures
at R.A., 20 at B.I. and 21 at Suffolk st. 1829–71; altered
spelling of his name to Maclise 1835; A.R.A. 1835, R.A. 1840;
for his great mural paintings of Wellington and Blucher 1858–61
and The death of Nelson on board the Victory 1861–4, in the
royal gallery Westminster, he was paid £7,000; designed the
Swiney cup for the Society of arts, the medal for International
Exhibition 1862, and the Turner medal for the R.A.; illustrated
The princess by A. Tennyson 1860 and took part in illustrating
many other works. _d._ 4 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea 25 April 1870.
_bur._ Kensal Green cemetery in his father’s vault, portrait by
E. M. Ward in National portrait gallery. _W. J. O’Driscoll’s
Memoir of D. Maclise_ (1871), _portrait_; _The Mask_ (1868)
100, _portrait_; _J. Sherer’s Gallery of British artists_,
_ii_ 15–19; _Sandby’s History of royal academy_, _ii_ 161–64
(1862); _Walford’s Photographic portraits of living celebrities_
(1859), _portrait_; _Fine art. By W. M. Rossetti_ (1867) 245–54;
_Maclise Portrait gallery_ (1883) 448–63, _portrait_; _I.L.N.
vi_ 293 (1845) _portrait_, _iii_ 169, 170 (1868), _portrait_;
_Illust. Times 4 May 1870 p._ 313, _portrait_; _Dublin univ.
mag. May 1847 p._ 594, _portrait_.

MACLIVER, PETER STEWART (son of David Macliver of Kilchoman,
Islay, Scotland). _b._ Edinburgh 1820; ed. High sch. and univ.
of Glasgow; on staff of Tyne mercury at Newcastle 1845; started
the Newcastle Guardian; founder and proprietor of Western Daily
Press, Bristol 29 June 1858, built at great cost new offices
1889; M.P. Plymouth 1880–85; great advocate of cause of post
office officials; liberal candidate for Doncaster division
of Yorkshire 1890. _d._ Cotham park, Brighton 19 April 1891.
_Michell’s Newspaper Press directory_ (1892) 78, _portrait_;
_Congregationalist_, _Dec. 1881 pp._ 977–82, _portrait_.

MACLOUGHLIN, DAVID. _b._ 1784; ed. Edinb. univ., M.D. 1810;
L.R.C.S. 1809; assistant surgeon in the army 22 June 1815;
served during Peninsular war, taken prisoner; in charge of a
French hospital; Napoleon made him a member of the Legion of
honour, the first Englishman so honoured; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1859;
in practice at 36 Bruton st. London; author of Result of an
enquiry into the existence of premonitory diarrhœa in cholera
1854; Consultation médico-légale sur paralysies vraies. Paris
1841, 2 ed. 1845; Result of an enquiry whether cholera can
be conveyed by intercourse 1856; Proofs of the non existence
of a specific enthetic disease 1863; Letter to the duke of
Somerset relative to the question, Is there a syphilitic virus
1864; Pathological facts as to the means for the prevention of
contagious disease 1864. _d._ 22 Maddox st. London 26 Feb. 1870.

MACLURE, ROBERT. Ed. Edinb. acad.; head classical and
mathematical master of a district sch. in connection with King’s
coll. London; a candidate for Greek chair in Edinb. univ. Dec.
1851; professor of humanity Marischal coll. and univ. Aberdeen
1852 to 15 Sep. 1860; professor of humanity in Aberdeen univ. 15
Sep. 1860 to 1881. _Testimonials of Dr. Maclure, candidate for
the Greek chair_ (1852).

MACMAHON, SIR CHARLES (3 son of sir Wm. Macmahon, master of the
rolls in Ireland). _b._ Fortfield, co. Dublin 10 July 1824;
ensign 71 Highlanders 4 Aug. 1843; cornet 10 hussars 3 April
1846, lieut. 2 Feb. 1847, sold out 8 Aug. 1851; a member of
the police force, Melbourne, Australia, Jany. 1853, assist.
commissioner 1856, then chief commissioner, resigned 1858;
member of legislative assembly West Bourke 1861, a member of the
cabinet 1861–63; contested West Bourke 1863; member legislative
assembly, West Melbourne 1866–78 and 1880–86; speaker of the
assembly 1871–4, 1874–7 and 1880; knighted by patent 29 Sep.
1875. _d._ East Melbourne 28 Aug. 1891. _Mennell’s Australian
Biog._ (1892) 305–6.

MC MAHON, PATRICK. _b._ 1813; barrister G.I. 8 June 1842, went
Oxford circuit; M.P. co. Wexford 1852–65 and M.P. New Ross
1868–74; junior counsel for defence of Tichborne claimant
1872–3; author of articles in Dublin Review. _d._ 19 Dec. 1875.
_I.L.N. xxx_ 499 (1857) _portrait_, _lxviii_ 43 (1876).

MAC MAHON, PATRICK WILLIAM. Ensign 81 foot 6 Nov. 1835; captain
44 foot 17 May 1845, lieut.-col. 28 Aug. 1857 to 28 Dec. 1866;
lieut.-col. 36 foot 28 Dec. 1866 to death; col. in the army 4
May 1861; C.B. 1 March 1861. _d._ Brighton 14 Oct. 1871.

MC MAHON, SIR THOMAS, 2 Baronet (younger son of John Mc Mahon,
patentee comptroller of port of Limerick, _d._ 22 May 1789).
_b._ 27 Dec. 1779; ensign 22 foot 2 Feb. 1797; lieut.-col. 17
foot 20 June 1811 to 4 Nov. 1822; succeeded brother as 2 bart.
12 Sep. 1817; colonel 94 foot 28 March 1838 to 28 Sep. 1847;
colonel 10 foot 28 Sep. 1847 to death; commander in chief at
Bombay 16 Oct. 1839 to 13 Jany. 1847; general 20 June 1854;
K.C.B. 18 Jany. 1827, G.C.B. 20 June 1859. _d._ 10 Great
Cumberland st. Hyde park, London 10 April 1860.

MACMAHON, SIR THOMAS WESTROPP, 3 Baronet (eld. son of
preceding). _b._ 14 Feb. 1813; cornet 16 lancers 24 Dec. 1829;
cornet 6 dragoons 1830, captain 1838–42; captain 9 light
dragoons 1842, placed on h.p. 13 July 1847; in Sutlej campaign,
present at Sobraon 1846; major 5 dragoon guards 24 Nov. 1854,
lieut.-col. 12 Dec. 1854, placed on h.p. 15 Feb. 1861; military
secretary Bombay 14 Feb. 1840 to April 1847; A.Q.M.G. in Crimea
8 March to 20 Dec. 1854, present at Alma, Balaklava, Tchernaya
and at siege of Sebastopol; M.G. cavalry brigade Aldershot, and
inspector general of cavalry in Great Britain 14 June 1871 to
31 July 1876; col. of 18 hussars 6 Jany. 1874 and of 5 dragoon
guards 1885 to death; general 12 April 1880; C.B. 5 July 1855.
_d._ The Sycamores, Farnborough, Hampshire 23 Jany. 1892.

MACMANUS, TERENCE BELLEW. _b._ co. Fermanagh about 1823; a
shipping agent at Liverpool; a member of the ’82 club in Ireland
1844; joined the physical force movement 1848; took part in the
Tipperary civil war 1848; tried for high treason by special
commission at Clonmel with Smith O’Brien 9 Oct. 1848, sentenced
to death and confined in Richmond Bridewell, his sentence was
commuted to transportation for life, transported to Van Diemen’s
Land, reached there July 1849; escaped to San Francisco 1852
where he became a shipping agent but failed. _d._ San Francisco
1860. _bur._ Glasnevin cemetery near Dublin 10 Nov. 1861.

MAC MASTER, GILBERT. _b._ Saintfield, Ireland 13 Feb. 1778;
at Jefferson coll. Philadelphia 1791–3; licensed to practise
medicine 1805; pastor of Reformed presbyterian ch. Duanesberg,
New York 1808–40, and of Princetown ch. Indiana 1840–6; D.D.
of Union univ. 1828; author of An essay in defence of some
fundamental doctrines of christianity. Utica 1815; An apology
for the book of Psalms 1818; The moral character of civil
government with reference to the institutions of the United
States. Albany 1832; Thoughts on the union of the church.
Cincinnati 1846. _d._ New Albany, Indiana 15 March 1854.
_Appleton’s American biography_, _iv_ 148 (1888).

MC MASTER, VALENTINE MUNBEE. _b._ 1835; assist. surgeon 78 regt.
27 March 1855, surgeon 14 March 1868; served in Persian war
1857, in Indian mutiny, wounded at Lucknow; Victoria cross for
exposing himself to the fire of the enemy in bringing in and
attending to the wounded at Lucknow 25 Sep. 1857, decorated 18
June 1858. _d._ the barracks, Belfast 22 Jany. 1872. _Medical
Times_, _i_ 115 (1872).

MC MASTER, WILLIAM. _b._ Tyrone, Ireland 24 Dec. 1811; in
mercantile house of Robert Cathcart, Toronto, Canada 1833; a
merchant at Toronto; member of legislative council of Canada
1862–7 when he was called to the senate; gave 12,000 dollars to
Canadian literary institute, Woodstock; built at cost of 100,000
dollars Mc Master hall, the baptist college, Toronto; with his
wife gave 80,000 dollars to Jarvis st. baptist ch. Toronto;
chairman of Canada board of G. W. Railway; president Canadian
bank of commerce; while speaking at Mc Master hall, Toronto,
fainted and remained unconscious till his _death_ next morning
22 Sep. 1887. _Appleton’s American biography_, _iv_ 149 (1888).

M’MICHAEL, NEIL. _b._ 1808; minister of Gillespie church,
Dunfermline 1835 to death; professor of divinity, united
presbyterian church 1847–; D.D.; author of Hildebrand and his
age 1853; The pilgrim psalms an exposition of the songs of
degrees 1860. _d._ Dunfermline 3 April 1874. _John Smith’s Our
Scottish clergy_ (1851) 390–93.

MACMILLAN, ANGUS. _b._ Glenbrittle, Skye 1810; went to New South
Wales 1829, worked on sheep stations to 1839; in company with
one black man explored the country south-west of Sydney 28 May
1839 etc.; discovered Gippsland 1840–1 which was originally
called by him Caledonia Australis; author of On the preservation
of sight 1859; settled down on a sheep-run of his own on the
Avon where he _d._ May 1865. _Mc Combie’s History of the colony
of Victoria_ (1858) 79, 80; _Mennell’s Australian biography_
(1892) 306.

MACMILLAN, DANIEL (3 son of Duncan Macmillan of Upper Corrie,
island of Arran, farmer _d._ 1823). _b._ Upper Corrie 13 Sep.
1813; apprenticed to Maxwell Dick of Irvine, bookseller 1 Jany.
1824 for 7 years; worked for Mr. Atkinson of Glasgow, bookseller
1831–33; shopman to Mr. Johnson of Cambridge 1833–37; employed
by Messrs. Seeley of Fleet st. London, publishers 1837–43;
bookseller and publisher at 57 Aldersgate st. Feb. 1843; bought
business of Mr. Newby of Trinity st. Cambridge 1843 where
he issued his first university catalogue March 1844; issued
Kingsley’s Westward Ho! 1855 and Tom Brown’s school days 1857;
gave up his business in London end of 1843. _d._ Cambridge
27 June 1857. _T. Hughes’ Memoir of D. Macmillan_ (1882),
_portrait_; _A bibliographical catalogue of Macmillan and Co.’s
publications_ (1891), _portrait_.

MACMILLAN, JAMES. _b._ 1815; editor of the Worcester Herald 1836
to death; projector and founder of Worcestershire association
for promotion of science; the regenerator of the Worcester
races. _d._ Worcester 3 Feb. 1868. _Newspaper Press_, _ii_ 69
(1868).

MACMILLAN, JOHN. _b._ Byreflat, parish of Keir, Dumfriesshire 9
June 1802; ed. at gr. sch. Dumfries and univ. of Edinb., M.A.
1829; master in Watson’s hospital, Edinb. March 1827 to Jany.
1831; rector of Dumfries gr. sch. Jany. 1831 to April 1837; one
of classical masters in Glasgow high sch. April 1837 to Nov.
1844; one of classical masters in high school of Edinb. Nov.
1844 to 1867, examiner 1867–72. _d._ 1872. _W. S. Dalgleish’s
Memorials of high school of Edinburgh_ (1857) 48.

M’MINNIES, JOHN GORDON (son of John M’Minnies). _b._ Lancaster
1817; alderman of Warrington; senior partner in W. Bashall
and Co. cotton manufacturers, Farington near Preston; M.P.
Warrington 1880–85. _d._ Summer house, Warrington 1 Feb. 1890.

MC MULLEN, JOHN. _b._ Ballinahinch, co. Down 8 March 1833; ed.
St. Mary’s college, Chicago to 1854; studied at Urban coll.
Rome 1854, priest and D.D. 1858; president of the univ. of St.
Mary of the Lake, Chicago 1861–4, building destroyed in the
fire 1871; in charge of the cathedral of the Holy Name, Chicago
1870, vicar general of the diocese 1877; bishop of the diocese
of Davenport, Iowa 1880 to death. _d._ Davenport 3 July 1883.
_Appleton’s American Biography_, _iv_ 150 (1888).

MC MULLEN, RICHARD TURRILL. _b._ Surrey 10 Jany. 1830; sailed in
a 3 ton cutter the Leo in a voyage to the Eddystone 1868; in the
Sirius 11 tons circumnavigated Scotland; sailed with 2 seamen
from Greenhithe to Cherbourg, but as they sulked and mutinied
he henceforth sailed alone; had a 16 ton yacht the Orion; he
skirted most of the currents and races between the Pentland
Firth and the Channel islands and tried most of the anchorages
between the Galloper Sands and the Land’s End; author of Down
channel from London to the Land’s End in the Leo 3 tons, and
from London to the Scilly islands in the Orion 16 tons 1869;
Infidelity, its cause and antidote 1879; Orion, or how I came to
sail alone in a 19 ton yacht 1879; An experimental cruise single
handed in the Procyon 7 ton lugger 1880; Whither do they ascend?
1881; Priestly pretensions and God’s word 1885; _found dead_
sitting alone in his boat the Perseus in mid channel June 1891.
_R. T. Mc Mullen’s Down channel_ (1893); _The Times 10 Oct. 1893
p._ 5.

MC MURDIE, HENRY. _b._ London 21 May 1822; in a mercantile
house in Liverpool; became a Romanist; educated at Mount St.
Mary seminary, Emmettsburg, U.S. America; ordained priest 1854;
professor of dogmatic theology and moral philosophy in Mount
St. Mary, and then the director of the seminary; the ablest
theologian and metaphysician of the R.C. ch. in U.S. of America.
_d._ Emmettsburg 20 Jany. 1880. _Appleton’s American biography_,
_iv_ 150 (1888).

MACNAB, SIR ALLAN NAPIER, 1 Baronet (son of Allan Macnab,
lieut. 71 foot). _b._ Newark now Niagara, Ontario 19 Feb. 1798;
served against the Americans in their invasion of Canada 1813;
midshipman on board H.M.S. Wolfe short time 1813; a volunteer
with the 100th foot 1813; ensign 49 foot 3 March 1814, served in
the American war, at end of which he left the army 1814 or 1815;
articled clerk in office of attorney general; called to Canadian
bar 1826, practised at Hamilton 1826; member for Wentworth in
house of assembly 1830, speaker of the house 1837–41 and 1844–8;
at the head of a band of volunteers defeated the Canadian rebels
1837–8 and for his services was knighted by patent 14 July
1838; a queen’s counsel; leader of the conservatives 1841–4 and
1848; formed a coalition ministry with Augustin Norbert Morin
1854–6; settled near Brighton, Sussex 1857; contested Brighton
30 April 1859; created baronet 5 Feb. 1858; returned to Hamilton
and elected member again 1860; a militia A.D.C. to the queen and
hon. col. in the army; col. commandant of 7th military district
in Upper Canada; chosen speaker again 1862. _d._ Hamilton,
Toronto 8 Aug. 1862. _Appleton’s American Biography_, _iv_ 151–2
(1888), _portrait_.

M’NAB, DUNCAN. _b._ South Knapdale, Argyleshire 1807; ed.
Glasgow univ.; assist. minister to Dr. Mackintosh Mackay
at Dunoon 1835; assist. to the second charge at Campbelton
1839 and to the first charge 1841–3; joined the Free church
1843, minister at Campbelton, assisted in organising many
congregations; minister of Free Renfield congregation, Glasgow
1856 to death; author of Discourses. Ed. by A. S. Patterson.
With biographical sketch pp. ix–xv by W. Trail (1864), portrait.
_d._ at house of his brother-in-law in London 12 June 1863.
_Scott’s Fasti_, _iii pt. i p._ 39 (1870).

MC NAB, WILLIAM RAMSAY (only son of James Mc Nab _b._ 1810,
curator of Edinb. botanical gardens, _d._ 20 Nov. 1878). _b._
Edinburgh, Nov. 1844; M.D. Edinb. 1866, began practice 1867;
professor of natural history in royal agricultural college,
Cirencester 1870–2; introduced the facts and methods of Julius
Von Sachs in teaching botany 1871; professor of botany in royal
college of science, Dublin, March 1872 to death; scientific
superintendent of royal botanic gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin 1880
to death; Swiney lecturer on fossil botany at British Museum
1888 to death; author of Outlines of morphology and physiology
1877, new ed. 1881; Outlines of classification of plants 1877.
_d._ 2 Montrose, Cabra road, Dublin 3 Dec. 1889; a subscription
raised for his wife and children. His collection of coleoptera
is in the Dublin museum of science and art. _Nature_, _Dec. 1889
pp._ 112, 159, _Feb. 1890 p._ 347.

MACNAGHTEN, AGNES (dau. of James Eastmont of St. Berner’s near
Edinb.) An associate of British archæological assoc. 1845;
resided at Bittern manor near Southampton the ancient Roman
Clausentum, preserved the Roman remains found on the spot and
made a collection of the coins discovered there; (_m._ first
Lewis Shedden captain 15 hussars; _m._ secondly 1848 Stewart
Macnaghten of Invertrossachs, Perthshire, barrister M.T. 1839).
_d._ Bittern manor 28 April 1863. _Journal of British Archæol.
Assoc. xx_ 168 (1864).

MACNAGHTEN, SIR EDMUND CHARLES WORKMAN, 2 Baronet (1 son of
sir F. W. Macnaghten, 1 bart. 1763–1843). _b._ Dublin 1 April
1790; succeeded 22 Nov. 1843; M.P. Antrim 1847–52; author of The
elements of political economy. Coleraine 1854. _d._ Dundarave,
Bushmills, co. Antrim 6 Jany. 1876. _I.L.N. lxviii_ 95, 623
(1876).

MACNAGHTEN, ELLIOT (4 son of sir F. W. Macnaghten, 1 bart.
1763–1843). _b._ 1 April 1807; ed. Rugby 1818 etc.; officer of
supreme court, Calcutta; director H.E.I.Co. 1842–58, deputy
chairman 1854–5, chairman 1855–6; member of council for India
21 Sep. 1858 to Oct. 1871 and V.P. 1866. _d._ Ovingdean near
Brighton 24 Dec. 1888.

MC NAIR, WILLIAM WATTS. _b._ 13 Sep. 1849; in Indian survey
department 1 Sep. 1867 to death; a good plane-tabler and an
accomplished surveyor; accompanied the Khyber column of the
Afghan field force 1879–80 when he explored the Lughman valley
and the route to Kafiristan, of which he made maps; surveyed in
Beluchistan 1881–9; visited Kafiristan disguised as a native
doctor and speaking Urdu, April to June 1883, read an account of
this expedition before the Royal Geographical Soc. in London 10
Dec. 1883, and was awarded the Murchison grant. _d._ of typhoid
fever at Mussooree 13 Aug. 1889. _J. E. Howard’s Memoir of W. W.
Mc Nair_ (1889), 2 _portraits_.

NOTE.--Mc Nair was officially reprimanded by Lord Ripon for crossing the Afghan frontier against all regulations, but congratulated in private on the success of his visit to Kafiristan.

MACNAMARA, SIR BURTON (youngest son of Francis Macnamara of
Doolin castle, co. Clare). _b._ Doolin castle 1794; entered navy
26 July 1808; served on the lakes in Canada 1814–5; inspecting
commander of coast guard 1825–32; captain 16 Nov. 1833; R.A. on
h.p. 21 July 1856; admiral on h.p. 20 March 1867; knighted by
Marquess of Normanby 1839; a candidate for the borough of Ennis
1841. _d._ 22 Merrion sq. north, Dublin 12 Dec. 1876.

MACNAMARA, FRANCIS. _b._ 1802; M.P. Ennis 1832–5; sheriff of co.
Clare 1839; lieut.-col. Clare militia 4 Nov. 1854 to 10 Nov.
1871. _d._ 27 June 1873.

MACNAMARA, HENRY TYRWHITT JONES (2 son of Frederick Hayes
Macnamara, officer in 47 foot). _b._ 1820; ed. at Ealing and
Lichfield gr. sch.; pupil of Wm. Alexander Dow, special pleader;
a founder of Hardwicke debating soc. which first met at George’s
hotel, Strand, the first president; a special pleader 1841–9;
barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1849; went Oxford circuit 1849–72;
had many pupils; much employed as an arbitrator; recorder of
Reading, Aug. 1864 to Oct. 1870; a revising barrister 1867–72;
judge of county court, circuit 43 (Brentford, Brompton and
Marylebone), 1 April 1872 to Aug. 1873; legal member of court
of the railway comrs. 2 Aug. 1873 to death; wrote some light
pieces for the stage; author of Tournaments, or the days of
chivalry 1839; Peace, permanent and universal, its consistency
with divine revelation 1841, an essay which gained prize of
100 guineas awarded by the Society for promotion of permanent
and universal peace 1 Jany. 1841; A practical treatise on
nullities and irregularities in law 1842; A practical treatise
on the counts and pleas allowed in civil proceedings 1844; R.
P. Collier’s Railway consolidation acts 2 ed. 1847; Leonora,
a love story 3 vols. 1848, anon.; The complete practice of
the law of England 1855; Paley’s Law and practice of summary
convictions 4 ed. 1856 and 5 ed. 1866. _d._ 34 Linden gardens,
Bayswater, London 2 Feb. 1877. _bur._ Willesden cemetery 8 Feb.
_H. T. J. Macnamara’s The christian code: rules for the conduct
of human life_ (1878); _Graphic_, _xv_ 236 (1877), _portrait_;
_Solicitors’ Journal_, _xxi_ 732–34 (1877).

MACNAMARA, JAMES AUSTIN. _b._ 1777; bookseller Cork, a
bookseller in Dublin 1813, bankrupt 1814, returned to Cork 1815;
he brought out The holy catholic bible, containing the whole of
the books in the sacred scriptures, translated from the Latin
Vulgate. Cork, printed for the proprietor J. A. Macnamara 1818,
quarto. _d._ suddenly in the street, London 21 Dec. 1860. _H.
Cotton’s Rhemes and Doway_ (1855) 110–16, 210–13.

MC NAMARA, THOMAS. _b._ near Slane, co. Meath 1808; ed. at Navan
seminary and Maynooth college, ordained Maynooth 1833; one of
the founders of Castleknock college, co. Dublin 1834, affiliated
with the Congregation of the Mission 1839, gave missions
throughout Ireland; founded with others the Catholic institution
for deaf and dumb mutes at Cabra near Dublin 1846; superior of
Castleknock college and visitor of the Irish province of the
Congregation of the Mission 1864; rector of the Irish college in
Paris 1868–89; author of Programmes of sermons and instructions.
Dublin 1881; Sacred rhetoric, or the art of rhetoric as applied
to the preaching of the word of God. Dublin 1882. _d._ St.
Joseph’s, Blackrock, co. Dublin 8 March 1892. _bur._ in cemetery
at Castleknock 11 March. _College Chronicle_ (_Castleknock_),
_June 1892 pp._ 5–6.

MACNAMARA, WILLIAM NUGENT (brother of sir Burton Macnamara
1794–1876). _b._ 1776; second of Daniel O’Connell in his duel
with J. N. D’Esterre at Bishop’s Court, co. Kildare 1 Feb. 1815;
M.P. co. Clare 1830 to 1852. _d._ Ennistymon, co. Clare 11 Nov.
1856.

MACNAUGHT, JOHN (son of John Macnaught of Clarendon, Jamaica).
_b._ 1826; ed. Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1847, M.A. 1852; P.C.
St. Chrysostom, Everton, Lancashire 1853, Hugh M’Neill’s
opposition to Macnaught’s broad doctrine caused him to resign
in 1861; minister of Laura chapel, Bath 1867–71; incumbent of
Holy Trinity ch. Conduit st. London 1871–5 when chapel was
pulled down; V. of St. Mary’s, Northend, Fulham 1881–6; author
of Peter, confession and absolution, three essays 1851; The
doctrine of inspiration of holy writ 1856, 2 ed. 1857, to which
many replies were made; Free discussion versus intolerance, or
the Liverpool clerical society’s method of expelling a brother
clergyman 1856; Christianity and its evidences 1863; Cœna Domini
1878. _d._ 2 Rutland gate, Kensington, London 13 May 1890,
cremated. _Pictorial World 21 May 1890 p._ 697, _portrait_.