Chapter XXXI: Part 31

MACNAUGHTAN, JOHN. _b._ Greenock; minister of Scotch
congregation, Crown court, Drury Lane, London 1831; minister
of high church, Paisley 1832–43; pastor of free high church,
Paisley 1843; minister at Belfast 1849; author of A discourse
preached in the High church, Paisley 1837; Sketch of the life of
William Perry; Slander against the Free church met and answered
1846; The interdicted farewell sermon. Paisley 1849. _Scott’s
Fasti vol. ii pt. i p._ 207 (1868); _J. Smith’s Our Scottish
clergy_ (1848) 215–22.

M’NAUGHTEN, DANIEL (son of Daniel M’Naughten a turner). A turner
at Glasgow from age of 15; imagined that he was persecuted
and always watched by order of the Tories; came to London and
near the Salopian coffee house, Charing Cross, fired twice at
and killed Edward Drummond private sec. to sir Robert Peel,
mistaking him for the baronet, 20 Jany. 1843; tried at central
criminal court 3 March 1843 and acquitted as being insane;
confined in Bedlam, then removed to criminal lunatic asylum,
Broadmoor, where he _died_ 3 May 1865, inquest held same day,
verdict death from natural causes. _W. C. Townsend’s Modern
state trials_, _i_ 314–402 (1850); _Fraser’s Mag. April 1843
pp._ 444–54; _Annual Register_ (1843) 6–9 _and_ 345–62; _Law
Journal 12 Sep. 1891 pp._ 583–4; _I.L.N. ii_ 80, 151 (1843),
_portrait_; _The Globe 5 May 1865 p._ 1.

NOTE.--Mr. Drummond was _b._ 30 March 1792 and became a clerk in the treasury at an early age, he was _bur._ at Charlton near Woolwich 31 Jany. 1843.

MC NAUGHTON, JAMES. _b._ Kenmore, Scotland 10 Dec. 1796; ed.
Edinb. univ., M.D. 1816; settled as a physician at Albany, U.S.
America 1817; lectured at College of physicians and surgeons at
Fairfield, New York 1818–38; professor of theory and practice
of medicine, Albany medical coll. 1840 to death; president of
Albany county medical soc. 1848–9; president of medical and
surgical staff of Albany hospital. _d._ Paris, France 12 June
1874. _Appleton’s American biography_, _iv_ 153 (1888).

MACNEE, SIR DANIEL (son of Robert Macnee). _b._ Fintry,
Stirlingshire 1806; ed. at Glasgow, LL.D. 27 April 1876;
apprenticed to John Knox, landscape painter 1819–23; drew and
coloured plates for W. H. Lizars the engraver at Edinb. 1825;
A.R.S.A. 1830, contributed to its exhibitions from 1825, pres.
9 Feb. 1876; resided in Kent painting portraits 1832; portrait
painter at Glasgow 1832–77, at Edinb. 1877 to death; exhibited
97 paintings at R.A. London 1840–80; pres. of West of Scotland
academy 1866–76; knighted at Osborne 21 July 1876; painted many
subject pictures, his picture The Bracelet is now in National
gallery of Scotland; his portrait of Dr. Wardlaw was awarded
a gold medal at Paris international exhibition 1855. _d._ 6
Learmonth terrace, Edinburgh 17 Jany. 1882. _Maclehose’s Glasgow
men_, _ii_ 213–17 (1886), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xiii_ 199, 200
(1876), _portrait_; _Armstrong’s Scottish Painters_ (1888) 46.

MAC NEECE, THOMAS (1 son of James Mac Neece). _b._ near
Markethill, co. Armagh 4 Jany. 1807; sizar at Trin. coll. Dublin
1825, univ. scholar 1828, B.A. 1830, M.A. 1838, B.D. and D.D.
1848, fellow June 1836 to death; tutor, lecturer and examiner
1836–42; archbishop King’s lecturer in divinity 1842 to death;
R. of Arboe, Armagh 1842 to death; author of On faith, two
sermons 1850; Sermons preached in the chapel of Trinity college,
Dublin 1863. _d._ Boulogne 26 Sep. 1862. _bur._ Arboe. _Sermons
by T. Mac Neece_ (1863), _memoir pp. ix–xxi_, _portrait_.

MACNEIL, RODERICK (elder son of Roderick Macneil of Barra,
Invernessshire). _b._ 1790; ensign in army 17 March 1808;
captain 60 foot 1 Dec. 1814; captain 1 life guards 1 July
1819; major 84 foot 9 Aug. 1821; major 2 life guards 29 Dec.
1821, placed on h.p. 17 June 1828; lieut. col. 91 foot 16 July
1841; lieut.-col. 78 Highlanders 15 April 1842 to 9 Nov. 1846;
commanded a division of the army in Madras 1846–51; granted
distinguished service reward 1 Sep. 1848; colonel of 8 foot 18
March 1855 to 3 June 1860; colonel of 78 highlanders 3 June
1860 to death; general 21 Dec. 1862. _d._ 35 Hyde park gardens,
London 22 Oct. 1863.

MC NEILE, EDMUND HUGH (son of the succeeding). _b._ 1841; ed.
Trin. coll. Camb., scholar; 32 wrangler and B.A. 1863, M.A.
1866; C. of Emmanuel ch. Liverpool 1865; C. of Steeple Claydon,
Bucks. 1866; V. of St. Paul’s, Prince’s park, Liverpool 1867 to
death; hon. canon of Liverpool 1880 to death; chaplain to bishop
of Chester 1877–84. _d._ St. Paul’s vicarage, Liverpool 8 Jany.
1893.

MC NEILE, HUGH (son of Alexander Mc Neile, sheriff of Antrim).
_b._ Ballycastle, co. Antrim 15 July 1795; ed. Trin. coll.
Dublin, B.A. 1815, M.A. 1821, B.D. and D.D. 1847; served his
terms at King’s inns, Dublin, and at Lincoln’s inn; C. of
Stranorlar, Donegal 1820; R. of Albury, Surrey 1822–34; P.C.
of St. Jude, Liverpool 1834–48; hon. canon of Chester cath.
1845–68; P.C. of St. Paul, Prince’s park, Liverpool 1848–67;
canon residentiary of Chester cath. July 1860; dean of Ripon
9 Sep. 1868, resigned Oct. 1875; author of Seventeen sermons
1825, 2 ed. 1828; Popular lectures on the prophecies 1830;
The church and the churches 1846, 3 ed. 1867; The collected
works of Dean Mc Neile 1877, vol. i. _d._ Bournemouth 28 Jany.
1879. _bur._ Bournemouth cemetery 1 Feb. _J. R. Dix’s Pulpit
portraits_ (_Boston_ 1854) 228–55; _John Evans’s Lancashire
authors and orators_ (1850) 182–9; _Orators of the age. By G.
H. Francis_ (1847) 406–15; _J. Grant’s Portraits of public
characters_ (1841) 239–50; _E. M. Roose’s Ecclesiastica_ (1842)
420–4; _Church of England photographic portrait gallery_ (1859),
_portrait_ 36; _Christian cabinet illustrated almanack for
1860 p._ 30; _Drawing room portrait gallery 3 series_ (1860),
_portrait_ 11; _Dublin univ. mag. xxix_ 462, _portrait_; _I.L.N.
lxxiv_ 105 (1879), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xix_ 241 (1879),
_portrait_.

M’NEILL, ALEXANDER DUNCAN (1 son of Alexander M’Neill,
advocate). _b._ Edinburgh 1829; ed. Edinb. high sch. and univ.;
an actor in the English provinces; played at Drury Lane, at
Lyceum and at Birmingham; manager of old Theatre royal, Aberdeen
1862 and lessee 1869; manager of Royal Princess’ Edinb. 14 Sep.
1868 to death; first appeared as Richelieu 28 Sep., and first
time in Edinb. as Rob Roy 7 Nov. 1868; also directed Theatres
royal Dumfries and Dundee, and the Gaiety theatre Glasgow; a
good actor as Rob Roy, as Jacques in As you like it, and as sir
John Falstaff; made his last appearance as Rob Roy at Lyceum,
Edinb. 21 July 1884; wrote The gloamin’ and the mirk, a story
of modern Athens, a drama at the Princess’ 8 Feb. 1869. _d._ 4
Buccleuch place, Edinb. 7 Nov. 1884. His son W. A. M’Neill was
lessee of the Princess’ Nov. 1884 to 22 May 1886 when the house
closed. _J. C. Dibdin’s Edinburgh stage_ (1888) 482–7.

M’NEILL, ARCHIBALD (5 son of John M’Neill of Colonsay,
Argyllshire). _b._ Colonsay, Sep. 1803; writer to the signet
18 June 1829; director and principal clerk at chancery office
Edinb. 24 March 1843 to 1858; one of the principal clerks of
session 6 July 1858 to death; took great interest in the breed
of the deer hounds possessed by his family, and contributed
to W. Scrope’s Days of deer stalking 1883, An account of the
original Scotch greyhounds and details of deer coursing; author
of Notes on the authenticity of Ossian’s Poems. By a member of
the Society of antiquaries of Scotland 1868. _d._ Edinburgh 2
June 1870. _Journal of jurisprudence_, _July 1870 p._ 375.

M’NEILL, ARCHIBALD. _b._ 1852; ed. at Baptist theological coll.
near Birmingham; connected with Birmingham Daily Mail, and
Birmingham Morning News; leader writer and dramatic critic on
Newcastle chronicle; came to London 1878, writer and dramatic
critic on The Sportsman from 1882; sent on 18 Dec. 1887 to
Rouen to report the prize fight between James Smith and Jake
Kilrain 19 Dec., missed at Boulogne on 20 Dec., found drowned on
the beach near the jetty on 6 Jany. 1888 having probably been
murdered. _I.L.N. 21 Jany. 1888 pp._ 57, 58, _portrait_; _Daily
Graphic 10 Dec. 1891 p._ 9, _view of house where he is said to
have been murdered_.

MC NEILL, SIR JOHN (brother of Archibald Mc Neill 1803–70).
_b._ Colonsay, Aug. 1795; ed. at univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1814;
assistant surgeon Bombay army 6 Sep. 1816, surgeon 1 May 1824,
retired 4 June 1836; attached to H.E.I.Co.’s legation in Persia
1824–35; secretary of special embassy at Teheran 30 June 1835;
minister plenipotentiary to shah of Persia 9 Feb. 1836, envoy
and min. plenipo. 25 May 1836 to 5 Aug. 1842; notwithstanding
his protests Herat was besieged by the Persians Nov. 1837 to
Sep. 1838; he concluded a treaty of commerce with Persia 11 Oct.
1841; F.R.S. 5 April 1838; chairman of board of supervision
entrusted with working of Scottish poor law act of 1845,
1845–68; sent to the Crimea with A. M. Tulloch, Feb. 1855, to
report on the commissariat department, &c., their final report
was signed in London, Jany. 1856; knight of Persian order of the
Sun and Lion 1835; G.C.B. 15 April 1839; P.C. 6 May 1857; the
last survivor of original members of Royal Asiatic Society 1823;
F.R.S. Edinb. 1840; D.C.L. 24 June 1857; author of Progress and
present position of Russia in the East 1836, another ed. 1854.
_d._ Cannes 17 May 1883, bust in National portrait gallery,
Edinb. _Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea 6 ed. vol. vii passim_
(1877); _I.L.N. lxxxii_ 549 (1883), _portrait_; _Sir A. M.
Tulloch’s Crimean Commission_ (1880) _with preface by Mc Neill
pp. v–xiv_.

MACNEILL, SIR JOHN BENJAMIN (son of Torquil P. Macneill).
_b._ Mount Pleasant, Dundalk 1794; lieut. in Louth militia
29 April 1811; one of principal assistants to Thomas Telford
the engineer, having the turnpike roads in north of England
entrusted to him; a consulting engineer in London and Glasgow
about 1834; constructed the Wishaw and Coltness railway and
other small lines in Scotland; conducted a series of important
experiments in canal-boat traction; made known his system of
sectio-planography 1837, adopted for railway plans by standing
orders of house of commons; surveyed North of Ireland for the
Irish railway commission; professor of civil engineering,
Trinity college, Dublin 1842–52; completed the Dublin and
Drogheda railway; completed first section to Kildare of Great
southern and western railway 1844 for which he was knighted by
earl de Grey 1844; F.R.S. 5 April 1838; author of Tables for
calculating the cubic quantities of earthwork in the cuttings
for canals, railways and turnpike roads 1833, 2 ed. 1846;
translated C. L. M. H. Navier’s On the means of comparing the
advantages of different lines of railway 1836. _d._ 186 Cromwell
road, South Kensington, London 2 March 1880. _Min. of proc. of
instit. of C.E. lxxiii_ 361–7 (1883).

MAC NICHOLAS, PATRICK. Professor of Greek in Maynooth college;
bishop of Achonry 23 Feb. 1818 to death, consecrated 17 May
1818. _d._ Ballaghadareen, co. Mayo 13 Feb. 1852.

MC NICOLL, THOMAS (5 son of rev. David Mc Nicoll). _b._ 1822;
M.R.C.S. Eng.; editor of London Quarterly Rev. 1853 and a
contributor to its pages to death; conducted The Planet. London
1862, four numbers; author of Essay on English literature 1861.
_d._ 102 Crown street, Liverpool 1 March 1863. _London Quarterly
Review_, _xxxix_ 270, 419 (1863).

MACONOCHIE, ALEXANDER, Lord Meadowbank (eld. son of Allan
Maconochie, Scottish judge 1748–1816). _b._ 2 March 1777;
admitted advocate 2 March 1799; one of the lord advocates depute
1807; sheriff of Haddingtonshire 28 April 1810; solicitor
general 13 Feb. 1813; lord advocate July 1816; M.P. Yarmouth,
Isle of Wight, Feb. 1817 to March 1818; M.P. Kilrenny district
of burghs, March 1818 to June 1819; an ordinary lord of session
and a lord of justiciary with title of lord Meadowbank 1 July
1819 to Nov. 1843; entertained the archduke Nicholas afterwards
emperor of Russia at Meadowbank 1816; succeeded to estates of
Garvock and Pitliver, June 1854, when he assumed additional
surname of Welwood. _d._ Meadowbank house 30 Nov. 1861. _Kay’s
Series of portraits_, _ii_ 21, 353, 432–4, 444, 450, 451 (1877),
2 _portraits_; _Omond’s Lord advocates of Scotland_, _ii_ 225,
231–55 (1883).

MACONOCHIE, ALEXANDER. _b._ 1787; entered R.N. Aug. 1803,
midshipman March 1804; served in West Indies, while on the
Grasshopper taken prisoner by the Dutch 24 Dec. 1811; commander
8 Sep. 1815, retired as a captain 17 Feb. 1855; K.H. 4 May 1836;
in Van Diemen’s Land 1837; governor of Norfolk island 6 March
1840 to 1845; invented the mark system of prison discipline
1846; sec. to London geographical society; sec. to lieut.
governor of Van Diemen’s Land 1849; governor of Birmingham
gaol Oct. 1849 to 17 Oct. 1851; author of Thoughts on convict
management and the Australian penal colonies. Hobart Town 1838,
3 ed. 1839; Crime and punishment, the mark system framed to
mix persuasion with punishment 1846; Emigration with advice
to emigrants 1848; Norfolk island 1847; The principles of
punishment on which the mark system is advocated 1850. _d._
Morden, Surrey 25 Oct. 1860. Mary his widow granted civil list
pension of £60, 14 Feb. 1868.

MACONOCHIE, ALLAN ALEXANDER (1 son of preceding). _b._ 1806;
professor of civil law and law of Scotland in Univ. of Glasgow
1842–55. _d._ Meadowbank house, Kirknewton, Edinburgh 29 May
1885.

MACONOCHIE, ROBERT BLAIR (brother of preceding). _b._ 21 May
1814; ed. Edinb. univ.; writer to the signet 23 Nov. 1837,
partner with Allan Menzies to 1856; clerk of lieutenancy of
Midlothian; clerk and treasurer to trustees of the Dick bequest
1856 to death. _d._ Gattonside near Melrose 4 Oct. 1883.
_Journal of jurisprudence_, _Nov. 1883 p._ 600.

M’OSCAR, WILLIAM. _b._ Lochwinnock, Renfrewshire 7 May 1807;
taught classics and modern languages at Paisley some years;
edited the Ayrshire news letter at Irvine; founded the Glasgow
theatrical review; wrote most of his verse in London, where
he resided over 20 years; assisted in compilation of The
Renfrewshire annual 1841 and contributed The Dominie’s goat,
a tale. _d._ Kilbarchan 11 Jany. 1877. _W. M’Oscar’s Poetical
Works_ (1878), _memoir pp. ix–xiii_, _portrait_.

MACPHERSON, ALEXANDER. _b._ Gairloch 1781; ed. univ. and King’s
coll. Aberdeen, M.A. 1803, D.D. 1849; R. of the Academy at Tain
1814–6; minister of Golspie 5 March 1816 to death; author of On
the perspicuity, perfection and power of the holy scriptures.
Edinb. 1836. _d._ Golspie 6 Aug. 1861. _H. Scott’s Fasti_, _iii
part i_, _pp._ 336–7 (1870).

MC PHERSON, DUNCAN. _b._ 1778; entered Bengal army 1794; lieut.
10 Bengal N.I. 3 Oct. 1796, major 1 Oct. 1815; lieut.-col.
commandant 67 N.I. 182-, col. 5 June 1829 to 8 Oct. 1836;
col. of 16 N.I. 8 Oct. 1836 to death; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846. _d._
Cheltenham 24 Nov. 1853.

MACPHERSON, DUNCAN. Assistant surgeon in Madras army 1836,
surgeon 11 Dec. 1852; served with 37 grenadier regiment in
China 1840–2; served with the irregular horse in the Hyderabad
contingent; head of the medical staff of the Turkish contingent
1855–6; inspector general of medical service of Madras 8 Jany.
1858 to 1 Aug. 1864; hon. phys. and surgeon to the queen 1861
to death; author of Two years in China 1842, 3 ed. 1843;
Antiquities of Kertch and researches in the Cimmerian Bosphorus
1857. _d._ Merkára, Coorg 8 June 1867.

MACPHERSON, DUNCAN (1 son of Cluny Macpherson 1804–85). _b._ 9
March 1833; ensign 42 foot 25 June 1852, lieut.-col. 29 Sep.
1877, placed on h.p. 10 Jany. 1883; brevet col. 1 April 1879;
served in Indian mutiny and in Ashantee war; wounded at battle
of Amodful; C.B. 31 March 1874; granted service reward 13 Sep.
1882; chief of the clan Macpherson 1885 to death. _d._ Cluny
castle, Kingussie 3 Oct. 1886.

MACPHERSON, EWEN, known as Cluny Macpherson (1 son of Duncan
Macpherson 1750–1817, lieut.-col. of 3 foot guards). _b._ 24
April 1804; became chief of the clan Macpherson 1817; ensign
1 foot 13 Nov. 1823, lieut. 5 Nov. 1825, placed on h.p. as
captain 1 Oct. 1826; lieut.-col. Invernessshire highland rifle
volunteers 3 June 1861 to 2 Nov. 1882, hon. col. 2 Nov. 1882
to death; permanent steward of Northern athletic meetings; his
piper always played during his meal time; first chief of the
Gaelic soc. 1871, served again in 1872; kept up breeds of pure
highland cattle and black faced sheep; made a fine collection of
arms and Scottish relics at Cluny castle; C.B. 24 May 1881. _d._
Cluny castle, Kingussie 11 Jany. 1885. _Biograph_, _April 1881
pp._ 337–41; _I.L.N. lxxix_ 189 (1881), _portrait_.

MACPHERSON, GERARDINE (elder child of Mr. Bate of London,
artist). _b._ 1830 or 1831; discovered Michael Angelo’s picture
The Entombment at Rome, and sold it to the National gallery,
London 1868; executed the etchings for the second edition of
Mrs. Jameson’s Legends of the Madonna 1857; wrote Memoirs of
the life of Anna Jameson, which was published in 1878 after her
death; gave lessons in English, worked as an amanuensis and as
a newspaper correspondent in Rome; (_m._ 4 Sep. 1849 Robert
Macpherson, artist, who settled in Rome as a painter, then as
a photographer, and _d._ there 1873). _d._ Rome 24 May 1878.
_Macpherson’s Memoirs of Anna Jameson_ (1878), _memoir of G.
Macpherson pp. xiii–xvii_, 360.

MACPHERSON, SIR HERBERT TAYLOR (son of Duncan Macpherson, major
78 foot). _b._ Ardersier, co. Inverness 27 Feb. 1827; ensign 78
foot 28 Feb. 1845, captain 5 Oct. 1857; captain 82 foot 26 Feb.
1859; captain Bengal staff corps 18 Feb. 1861, lieut.-col. 28
Feb. 1871; obtained V.C. 18 June 1858 for his conduct at defence
of Lucknow 25 Sep. 1857; brigadier general Bengal 15 April
1876 to 9 Nov. 1878; commanded first brigade of first division
of Khyber column in Afghan war 1878–9; M.G. Bengal 1880–5;
commanded the Indian contingent in expeditionary force to Egypt
4 Aug. to Oct. 1882; C.B. 30 Aug. 1869, K.C.B. 22 Feb. 1881;
K.C.S.I. 17 Nov. 1882; M.G. 1 July 1882; commander-in-chief at
Madras 1 March 1886, assumed command of force of 30,000 men in
Burmah 9 Sep. 1886. _d._ on board steamer Irrawaddy directly
after leaving Prome for Rangoon 20 Oct. 1886. _J. F. Maurice’s
Campaign in Egypt_ (1887) _p._ 208; _Graphic xxvi_ 553 (1882),
_portrait_.

MACPHERSON, HUGH. _b._ 1768; a surgeon in the army; professor of
Greek in univ. and King’s coll. of Aberdeen 1797 to death, and
sub-principal 1817 to death; proprietor of the island of Eigg,
Invernessshire. _d._ Old Aberdeen 12 March 1854.

MACPHERSON, SIR JAMES DUNCAN (brother of Sir H. T. Macpherson
1827–86). _b._ 1811; ed. at King’s coll. Aberdeen; ensign Bengal
army 4 Dec. 1828; brigade major during Punjaub campaign 1848–49;
military sec. to government of the Punjaub 1852–8; commanded
Agra brigade 20 Aug. 1862; commissary general of Bengal army 5
March 1864 to 22 July 1869; M.G. 24 Jany. 1867; C.B. 27 July
1858, K.C.B. 24 May 1873. _d._ 31 Belsize park gardens, London
29 May 1874. _I.L.N. lxiv_ 547 (1874).

M’PHERSON, JOHN. _b._ Blairnamarrow, Strathavon, Lanarkshire
29 Aug. 1801; in Paris from 1818 where he was ordained a R.C.
priest 9 June 1827; professor at Aquhorties coll. Scotland
1827–32; priest of the Meadows ch. Dundee 1832, erected St.
Andrew’s ch. in the Nethergate where he remained to 1847;
president of Blair coll. for training the priesthood 1847–58;
created D.D. at Rome 1857; vicar general of the district
1858–61; priest at New abbey 1861, and at Perth 1864–9 where he
founded a convent for ladies teaching the schools and visiting
the prisons; priest of St. Mary’s, Dundee 1869 to death. _d._
Dundee 16 July 1871. _W. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities_ (1873) 366.

MACPHERSON, JOHN (son of Hugh Macpherson, professor of Greek
in univ. of Aberdeen 1768–1854). _b._ Old Aberdeen 1817; ed.
at Aberdeen gr. sch. and univ., M.A., hon. M.D. 1845; studied
medicine in London, Bonn, Vienna and Berlin; M.R.C.S. Oct.
1839; surgeon H.E.I.C.S. 1840–64; civil surgeon of Howrah near
Calcutta 1843–6; assist. surgeon European general hospital,
Calcutta 1846; presidency surgeon and superintendent general
of vaccination to 1864; retired 1864 after 24 years of service
without taking any furlough; in practice 35 Curzon st. London
1864 to 1890; made a fine collection of engravings; with J. Mc
Clelland conducted The Calcutta journal of natural history,
vols. 6–8, 1841; author of The mineral waters of India. Calcutta
1854; Cholera in its home 1866; The baths and wells of Europe
1869, 3 ed. 1888; Our baths and wells, the mineral waters of
the British islands 1871; Annals of cholera from the earliest
periods 1884. _d._ 35 Curzon st. London 17 March 1890. _I.L.N. 5
April 1890 p._ 419, _portrait_; _Pictorial World 27 March 1890
pp._ 399, 408, _portrait_.

MACPHERSON, PHILIP. _b._ 1790; ensign 43 foot 2 Nov. 1809; aide
de camp and military sec. to sir Charles James Napier in the
operations in Scinde; captain 17 foot 26 Nov. 1829, lieut.-col.
3 Dec. 1852 to 7 Sep. 1855; C.B. 4 July 1843; commanded 1
brigade of 4 division in the Crimea 18 Dec. 1854 to 15 June
1855; M.G. 24 Dec. 1858; colonel 13 foot 15 Aug. 1863 to death.
_d._ Clifton, York 2 Feb. 1864. _T. Carter’s Historical record
of thirteenth light infantry_ (1867) _p._ 194.

MACPHERSON, ROBERT BARCLAY. _b._ 1775; ensign 88 foot 3 June
1795, major 17 March 1808 to 28 Nov. 1816 when placed on h.p.;
colonel 73 foot 29 July 1852 to 11 Feb. 1857; colonel 88 foot 11
Feb. 1857 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854; C.B. 4 June 1815; K.H.
1835. _d._ Viewfield lodge, Stirling 23 Dec. 1858.

MACPHERSON, SAMUEL CHARTERS (brother of John Macpherson
1817–90). _b._ King’s college, Old Aberdeen 7 Jany. 1806;
studied at college of Edinb. 1822–3 and at Trin. coll. Camb.
1823–5; ensign 8 Madras N.I. 28 Feb. 1827, captain 18 Jany.
1845 to death; principal assistant to the collector and agent
in Gangam 1842–5; conquered the Gumsur Khond county by the
use of moral influences 1842–4; governor general’s agent for
suppression of Meriah or human sacrifice and female infanticide
in hill tracts of Orissa, Nov. 1845, but was superseded 1847;
agent at Benares, Aug. 1853, agent at Bhopal 1853; political
agent at Gwalior, capital of Scindhia 13 June 1854 to death;
brevet major 20 June 1854; gazetted C.B. 18 May 1860 after his
death; author of Account of the religion of the Khonds in Orissa
1852. _d._ in his brother’s house at Calcutta 15 April 1860.
_Memorials of service in India from the correspondence of major
S. C. Macpherson. Ed. by W. Macpherson_ (1865), _portrait_.

MACPHERSON, WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). _b._ Aberdeen 19
July 1812; ed. at Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1834,
M.A. 1838; barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1837; practised at Calcutta
bar 1846; master of equity in supreme court of Calcutta 1848 to
March 1859; edited the Quarterly Review in London, Oct. 1860 to
Oct. 1867; secretary of Indian law commission Dec. 1861 to Dec.
1870; legal adviser to India office June 1874, secretary in the
judicial department Sep. 1879, retired 20 Feb. 1882; author of
A treatise on the law relating to infants 1842; The procedure
of the civil courts of the East India Company. Calcutta 1850, 5
ed. 1871; Outlines of the law of contracts as administered in
the courts of British India 1860; The practice of the judicial
committee of her majesty’s privy council 1860, 2 ed. 1873. _d._
3 Kensington gardens square, London 20 April 1893.

M’PHUN, WILLIAM RAE. _b._ 1801; publisher at Glasgow; published
Mc Phun’s Glasgow magazine 1824; Mc Phun’s Guide through
Glasgow 1833, 4 ed. 1837; Mc Phun’s Catechism of phrenology,
34th thousand 1850; Mc Phun’s Catechism of useful knowledge 2
parts 1857–9; Twenty thousand geographical facts 1857, another
ed. 1885; Mc Phun’s New pocket lawyer 2 parts 1860–1. _d._
Greenpoint cottage, Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire 15 Sep. 1877.
_Bookseller_, _March 1877 p._ 216.

MACQUEEN, DONALD JOHN. Ensign 74 foot 14 July 1800, major 23
Oct. 1830, sold out 3 Oct. 1834; served in the Peninsula, Feb.
1810 to 1814, severely wounded several times; received silver
war medal with 9 clasps; K.H. 1835; barrack master at Dundee and
Perth some time; a military knight of Windsor about July 1865 to
death. _d._ Windsor castle 20 Jany. 1866 aged 79.

MACQUEEN, JAMES. _b._ Crawford, Lanarkshire 1778; manager of a
sugar plantation in Grenada, West Indies 1796 etc.; settled at
Glasgow 1821, became editor and part-proprietor of the Glasgow
Herald; projected and organised the Colonial bank and the
Royal mail steam packet company; settled in London, wrote in
newspapers and magazines; F.R.G.S.; author of A geographical
and commercial view of northern central Africa. Edinburgh 1821;
The West India colonies: the calumnies and misrepresentations
circulated against them examined and refuted 1824; General
statistics of the British empire 1836; A geographical survey of
Africa 1840; A new map of Africa 1841, the first map approaching
correctness. _d._ 10 Norton st. Kensington 14 May 1870. _Proc.
of Royal Geog. Soc. xiv_ 301–2 (1870).

M’QUEEN, JAMES (son of John M’Queen of Braxfield, _d._ 1837).
_b._ 1798; ensign 80 foot 31 March 1814, lieut. 1819; lieut. 3
light dragoons 9 Nov. 1820, placed on h.p. 25 Oct. 1821; lieut.
6 dragoons 16 May 1822; captain 4 light dragoons 26 March 1829;
major 15 light dragoons 18 June 1841, placed on h.p. 14 June
1842; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Tintoch house, Barton fields,
Canterbury 25 Nov. 1883.

MACQUEEN, JOHN FRASER (8 son of Donald Macqueen of Corrybrough,
Invernessshire, _d._ 1813). _b._ 1803; barrister L.I. 8 June
1838, bencher 13 March 1861 to death; sec. of the divorce
commission Jany. 1851, the first report was made 1853; official
reporter of Scottish and divorce appeals in the house of lords
1860; Q.C. 25 Feb. 1861; author of A practical treatise on the
appellate jurisdiction of the house of lords and privy council
1842; The rights and liabilities of husband and wife at law
and in equity 1848, 3 ed. 1885; Reports of Scotch appeals and
writs of error in the house of lords 1851–1865, 4 vols. 1855–66;
A practical treatise on divorce and matrimonial jurisdiction
under the act of 1857. 1858, 2 ed. 1860. _d._ 4 Upper Westbourne
terrace, Hyde park, London 6 Dec. 1881.

MACRAY, JOHN. _b._ Aberdeen 1796; employed by Messrs. Treuttel
and Wurtz of Soho square, London, foreign booksellers; then
by John Henry Parker of Oxford; librarian of the Taylor
institution, Oxford 1847–71. _d._ Ducklington rectory,
Oxfordshire 13 Aug. 1878. _Bookseller 3 Sep. 1878 p._ 816.

MACREADY, CATHERINE FRANCES BIRCH (2 dau. of W. C. Macready
1793–1873). _b._ Elm place, Elstree, Herts. 21 July 1835, much
devoted to the poor at Cheltenham; author of Leaves from the
Olive mount 1860; Cowl and cap or the rival churches, and minor
poems 1865; Devotional lays 1868. _d._ and _bur._ at sea on
her voyage from Madeira to England 24 March 1869. _Macready’s
Reminiscences_, _i_ 425, _ii_ 445, 465, 467 (1875).

MACREADY, SARAH (dau. of Mr. Desmond). _b._ Newcastle 16 Feb.
1790; an actress at theatre royal, Bristol, where she played
Lady Macbeth, Hermione in the Winter’s Tale, Emilie in Othello,
the Widow Cheerly, Meg Merrilies, Helen Macgregor and queen
Elizabeth; (_m._ as his second wife William Macready manager
of the Bristol theatre and father of W. C. Macready. William
Macready _d._ Queen sq. Bristol 11 April 1829, _bur._ in the
cath.); lessee of Bristol theatre 1829 to death; lessee of Bath
theatre 2 Sep. 1845 to death; had a residence at Queen sq.
Bristol. _d._ at residence of her son in law J. H. Chute, Bath 8
March 1853. _bur._ Bristol cath. 14 March. _B. S. Penley’s Bath
stage_ (1892) 145–9; _The Bristol Mercury 12 March 1853 p._ 8.

MACREADY, WILLIAM CHARLES (son of William Macready _d._ 11 April
1829). _b._ Mary st. Tottenham court road, London 3 March 1793;
ed. at Rugby 1803–8; first appeared at Birmingham as Romeo 7
June 1810; his portrait by De Wilde exhibited at Royal academy,
London 1812; first appeared in London at Covent Garden as
Orestes in the Distressed mother 16 Sep. 1816; played Richard
III. at Covent Garden 25 Oct. 1819; the original in London of
S. Knowles’ Virginius 17 May 1820; starred at Covent Garden
1816–23 and at Drury Lane 1823–34; first appeared in America at
Park theatre, New York as Virginius 2 Oct. 1826; played Joseph
Surface in The school for scandal at Drury Lane 27 Nov. 1832;
assaulted Alfred Bunn at Drury Lane theatre 29 April 1836 who
obtained sum of £150 damages in the Sheriff’s court 29 June
1836; lessee Covent Garden theatre 30 Sep. 1837 to 17 July 1839;
produced the Lady of Lyons, playing Claude Melnotte 15 Feb.
1838 and Richelieu 7 March 1839; elected member of Athenæum
club 21 June 1838; C. Dickens dedicated Nicholas Nickleby to
him 1839; played at Haymarket 16 March 1840 to 13 March 1841,
played Evelyn in Money 8 Dec. 1840 to 13 March 1841; manager
of Drury Lane theatre 27 Dec. 1841 to 14 June 1843; acted in
America 25 Sep. 1843 to 14 Oct. 1844, and in Paris, Dec. 1844
to Jany. 1845; in America again 4 Oct. 1848 to 10 May 1849 when
the great riot at Astor place theatre, New York took place;
made his last appearance on stage at Drury Lane 26 Feb. 1851
as Macbeth, Samuel Phelps being the Macduff; a public reader
and lecturer; lived at 5 Clarence terrace, Regent’s park,
London 1840–50, at Sherborne house, Sherborne, Dorset 1850–60
and at Cheltenham 1860 to death; author of The poetical works
of Alexander Pope revised and arranged for young people 1849;
with J. S. Knowles produced The Bridal, a tragedy altered from
The Maid’s Tragedy by Beaumont and Fletcher, Haymarket 26 June
1837; _m._ (1) 24 June 1824 Catherine Frances Atkins actress
_b._ 11 Nov. 1806, _d._ Plymouth 18 Sep. 1852; _m._ (2) 3 April
1860 Cecile Louise Frederica (5 dau. of Henry Spencer). _d._ 6
Wellington sq. Cheltenham 27 April 1873. _bur._ Kensal green
4 May. _Sir F. Pollock’s Macready’s Reminiscences_ 2 _vols._
(1875), 4 _portraits_; _Juliet Pollock’s Macready as I knew him_
(1884); _W. Marston’s Our recent actors_, _i_ 25–109 (1888);
_G. Sharf’s Recollections of scenic effects at Covent Garden_
(1839); _T. Marshall’s Lives of the most celebrated actors_
(1847) 1–36; _A. Brereton’s Some famous Hamlets_ (1884) 36–9;
_J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters_, _ii_ 215–36 (1841);
_R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age_, _ii_ 104–28 (1844);
_Metropolitan Mag. xvii_ 81–5 (1836); _Tallis’s Dramatic Mag._
(1851) 148, 229–34, 3 _portraits_; _Tallis’s Drawing room table
book parts_ 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 17, 18 _and_ 21, 8 _portraits_.

MACREDIE, PATRICK BOYLE MURE (son of Thomas Mure). _b._
Warriston near Edinb. 28 Sep. 1800; ed. Edinb. univ.; an
advocate Edinb. 1822 to death; took the name of Macredie 1835;
engaged in the Dreghorn parish presentation case 1830–4; F.R.S.
Edinb.; an elder in the General assembly 1832; joined the Free
church 1843; carried on mines and fire clay works and built
improved dwellings for his workmen. _d._ Edinburgh 15 April
1868. _Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 377–82.

MACROBIN, JOHN. L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1826; M.D. Edinb. 1827;
professor of medicine in Marischal coll. and univ. of Aberdeen
1839 to 15 Sep. 1860, emeritus professor 1860 to death;
represented univ. of Aberdeen on general medical council 19 Dec.
1868 to 19 Oct. 1873; author of An introduction to the study of
practical medicine 1835. _d._ Aberdeen 4 Jany. 1879.

MACROSSAN, JOHN MURTAGH (son of a farmer). _b._ Donegal 1832;
went to Australia 1853; on the gold fields of Victoria, New
Zealand, New South Wales and Queensland 1853–73; chosen member
for the Kennedy electorate to the legislative assembly by the
miners of Charters Town, Queensland 1873; sec. for public works
and mines 21 Jany. 1879 to 13 March 1883, and 13 June 1888
with additional office of colonial sec. Jany. 1890, retired
Aug. 1890; member for Townsville 1888 to death; a delegate for
Queensland to Australian federation convention in Sydney 1891.
_d._ Sydney, N.S.W. 30 March 1891; the Queensland parliament
voted £2000 to his widow.

MC SHERRY, THOMAS. Entered Bengal army 1816; lieut. 15 Bengal
N.I. 1 Aug. 1818; captain 30 N.I. 12 May 1827, major 1 Dec. 1839
to 1845; lieut.-col. of 30 N.I. 1846–47, of 1 N.I. 1847–55,
brevet col. 20 June 1854. _d._ 1856.

MC TAGGART, SIR JOHN, 1 Baronet (1 son of John Mc Taggart of
Ardwell, Stranraer, Wigtonshire). _b._ Wigtonshire 15 March
1789; a merchant in London; contested Wigton 1832; M.P. Wigton
district of burghs 1835–57; created a baronet 23 Aug. 1841. _d._
Ardwell 13 Aug. 1867. _G.M. iv_ 392 (1867).

MC TAVISH, CHARLES CARROLL (son of Charles Mc Tavish). _b._ U.S.
of America; M.P. Dundalk 6 Aug. 1847, unseated on petition 20
March 1848; governor of Rupert’s Land, Canada. _d._ Liverpool
3 days after his return 23 July 1870. _Appleton’s Annual
Cyclopædia for 1870_, _x_ 592 (1873).

MACTIER, WILLIAM. Entered Bengal army 1810; major 4 Bengal light
cavalry 12 Jany. 1842 to 6 Sep. 1851; lieut.-col. 1 Bengal light
cavalry 6 Sep. 1851 to 1853; lieut.-col. 2 Bengal light cavalry
1853 to death; colonel in the army 20 June 1854; C.B. 3 April
1846. _d._ Juanpore, Bengal 17 Sep. 1855.

MACVICAR, JOHN GIBSON (2 son of Patrick Macvicar, minister of
St. Paul’s, Dundee). _b._ Dundee 16 March 1800; ed. at univs.
of St. Andrews and Edinb.; licensed as a preacher by presbytery
of Dundee; lecturer in natural history at St. Andrew’s univ.
1827–31 when he became professor; assistant to Dr. Candlish in
St. George’s parish, Edinb.; pastor of a branch of the Scottish
church in Ceylon 1839–52; minister of Moffat, Dumfriesshire,
July 1853 to death; edited the Quarterly journal of agriculture
1828; author of Elements of the economy of nature 1830, 2 ed.
1856; On the beautiful, the picturesque and the sublime 1837,
reproduced as The philosophy of the beautiful 1855; An enquiry
into human nature 1853. _d._ the manse of Moffat 12 Feb. 1884.

MC WHINNIE, ANDREW MELVILLE. _b._ south of England 1808;
M.R.C.S. 1830, F.R.C.S. 1843; lecturer on comparative anatomy at
St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London 1839–60 and assist. surgeon
1854–60; translated J. G. Cloquet’s Anatomical description of
the parts concerned in inguinal and femoral hernia 1835; author
of Malformation of the bladder 1854; and with T. Wormald of
A series of anatomical sketches 1838. _d._ The Crescent, New
Bridge st. Blackfriars, London 27 Feb. 1866.

MC WILLIAM, JAMES ORMISTON. _b._ Dalkeith, Scotland 1808; L.C.S.
Edinb. 1827; assistant surgeon in the navy 1829; surgeon to
the Scout on west coast of Africa 1836–9; M.D. Edinb. 1840;
senior surgeon to the Albert which left England 12 May 1841 and
entered the Niger 13 Aug., a malignant fever broke out 4 Sep.,
the Albert turned back 4 Oct. and reached England 19 Nov.; sent
on a special mission to Cape de Verde Islands 1844 to inquire
into origin of yellow fever at Boa Vista; medical officer to
the Custom House 1847 to death; F.R.S. 9 June 1848; C.B. 6 Sep.
1858; member of Epidemiological Soc., secretary several years;
presented with a service of plate by naval medical officers
1858; author of Medical history of the expedition to the Niger
1843; Dr. Mc William’s remarks on Dr. Gilbert King’s Report
on the fever at Boa Vista 1848; Exposition of the case of the
assistant surgeons of the royal navy 3 ed. 1850. _d._ 14
Trinity sq. Tower hill, London 4 May 1862. _bur._ Woking cemet.
10 May. _Proc. of royal soc. xii_ 59–61 (1863).

MADAN, GEORGE (5 son of Spencer Madan of Lichfield, Staffs.)
_b._ 1808; ed. Charterhouse and Ch. Ch. Oxf., student 1829–37,
B.A. 1830, M.A. 1832; V. of Cam, Gloucs. 1838–52; V. of St. Mary
Redcliffe, Bristol 1852–65; hon. canon of Bristol 1851–8; R. of
Dursley 1865–87; hon. canon of Gloucester cath. 1887 to death;
author of A few plain words on the use of the church burial
service for dissenters 1850; The question discussed, Are private
confession and priestly absolution chargeable with blasphemy and
profanity? 1859; and Letters and Sermons to his parishioners.
_d._ Bearland house, Gloucester 30 June 1891.

MADAN, SPENCER (eld. son of Spencer Madan, rector of Ibstock,
Leics., canon of Lichfield 1812). _b._ the Friary, Lichfield 6
Oct. 1791; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf., student 1812–25,
B.A. 1814, M.A. 1816; tutor to Duke of Richmond’s sons at
Brussels a year and a half; C. of Seale, Leics. 1816–24; canon
of Lichfield 4 Dec. 1817 to death; V. of Batheaston, Somerset
3 Oct. 1824 to death; V. of Twerton, Somerset 6 Oct. 1825 to
death; chaplain to the Sovereign 24 July 1830 to death. _d._
the Close, Lichfield 27 Aug. 1851. _bur._ west side of north
transept of Lichfield cathedral 3 Sep. _G.M. Jany. 1852 pp._
97–9.

MADDEN, DANIEL OWEN (only son of Owen Madden of Cork, merchant).
_b._ Mallow 1815; student of the Inner Temple, London; settled
in London in connection with The Press newspaper 1842; called
himself D. O. Maddyn; author of Ireland and its rulers since
1829. 3 parts anon. 1843–4, 2 ed. 1845; The age of Pitt and
Fox 1846; Wynville, or clubs and coteries, a novel 3 vols.
1852; Revelations of Ireland in the past generation 1848; The
speeches of H. Grattan 1853, 2 ed. 1854; The game of brag or the
Batterary boys, a comic novel 2 vols. 1853; The Mildmayes, or
the clergyman’s secret. By Danby North 1856; Chiefs of parties,
past and present 2 vols. 1859; and with T. Davis, The life of J.
P. Curran and a memoir of H. Grattan 1846. _d._ Dublin 6 Aug.
1859. _bur._ Upper Shandon, Cork 9 Aug. _The Athenæum_, _ii_
209, 246 (1859).

MADDEN, _Sir Frederic_ (7 son of Wm. John Madden, captain
R.M.) _b._ Portsmouth 16 Feb. 1801; assisted in preparation
of classified catalogue of printed books in British Museum
1826–8; assistant keeper of manuscripts in Br. Mus. Feb. 1828,
keeper of the manuscript department 18 July 1837 to July 1866;
one of first hundred members selected for the Athenæum club
12 June 1830; F.R.S. 2 Feb. 1832; K.H. July 1832; knighted at
St. James’s palace 13 March 1833; M.R.I.A.; a gentleman of the
privy chamber to Wm. IV. and to Victoria 26 Nov. 1834 to death;
a member of the Star club 1833; had a grant of arms from the
office of Ulster, king of arms, Dublin 1839; ed. for Bannatyne
club, Syr Gawayne, a collection of romance poems 1839; ed. for
British Museum, Catalogue of the manuscript music 1842; Lists of
additions to the manuscripts 1843 etc.; ed. for Roxburghe club,
The ancient romance of Havelok 1828; The romance of William
and the Werwolf 1832; The Gesta Romanorum 1838; also edited
Privy purse expenses of the princess Mary daughter of Henry the
eighth 1831; How the good wif thaught his doughter 1838; Matthæi
Parisiensis, historia Anglorum 1858; ed. with Josiah Forshall,
Wiclif’s Bible 1850, for which 65 manuscripts were consulted.
_d._ 25 St. Stephen’s sq. London 8 March 1873. _Memorials of the
Star club_ (1860), _coloured plate of his arms_; _I.L.N. lxii_
259, 415 (1873).

NOTE.--He made a collection of 27,500 printed ballads and songs in 25 vols. royal folio; his books and MSS. were sold at Sotheby’s, Aug. 1873 for £1519 14s. By his will he directed that his private letters and MSS. were to be sealed up and given to the Bodleian library and not to be opened until 1 Jany. 1920.

MADDEN, JOHN B. _b._ Galway, Ireland 1823; went to U.S. of
America 1846; member for Queen’s county to State assembly; chief
justice of Long Island, city of New York to death. _d._ Long
Island 1875. _Appleton’s American Cyclopædia for 1875 p._ 581
(1877).

MADDEN, JOHN MILLS. _b._ 10 July 1809; entered Madras army 1825;
ensign 51 Madras N.I. 8 Sep. 1826, lieut.-col. 29 May 1857 to
31 Dec. 1861; retired M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. _d._ 57 Elsham road,
Kensington 17 July 1877.

MADDEN, MICHAEL. _b._ 1827; a pugilist; beat John Walker near
Woking 10 Oct. 1848; fought Jack Grant for £25 a side on Woking
common 12 Dec. 1848, they fought 140 rounds in 5 hours and 45
minutes when darkness came on and battle was drawn; beaten by
Wm. Hayes at Edenbridge 17 July 1849, fight was for £100 a side
and lasted 6 hours in 185 rounds, being the longest fight on
record; beat Jack Jones of Portsmouth £50 a side, 23 rounds
in 69 minutes at Long Reach 11 Dec. 1855, Jones fell with his
head against a stake and was killed; tried for manslaughter at
Maidstone 14 March 1856 and acquitted; received £50 forfeit from
James Mace who refused to fight 20 Oct. 1857; received £15
forfeit from James Mace who bolted the morning of the fight 10
May 1858; beaten by Robert Travers £100 a side, 45 rounds in 97
minutes near Ashford 5 April 1859; landlord of the Little Bell,
78 St. John st. Smithfield, London 1859–63; kept the Rising Sun,
128 Kent st. Southwark 1863–4, the Ben Jonson, 24 Great Wild st.
1864–5, and the Phœnix tavern, 12 Stacey st. Soho 1872. _d._ of
bronchitis at the Phœnix tavern 22 Nov. 1872. _bur._ Brompton
cemet. 28 Nov. _Bell’s Life in London 23 Nov. 1872 p._ 3.

MADDEN, RICHARD ROBERT (youngest son of Edward Madden of Dublin,
silk manufacturer 1739–1830). _b._ Wormwood gate, Dublin 22
Aug. 1798; studied medicine in Paris 1820, Naples 1821 and
London 1822; a reporter on the Morning Herald 1822; travelled
in the Levant 1824–7; M.R.C.S. 1828, F.R.C.S. 1855; a surgeon
in Curzon st. Mayfair 1829–33; a magistrate in Jamaica 1833–4;
superintendent of liberated Africans, and judge arbitrator in
mixed court of commission, Havana 1836–40; a comr. of inquiry
on western coast of Africa 1841–3; special correspondent at
Lisbon of the Morning Chronicle 1843–6; colonial secretary of
Western Australia 1847–50; secretary to the Loan fund board,
Dublin Castle 1850–80; author of Travels in Turkey 2 vols.
1829; The Mussulman 3 vols. 1830; A twelve months’ residence
in the West Indies 2 vols. 1835; The United Irishmen, their
lives and times 7 vols. 1842–6, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1858; The life
and martyrdom of Savonarola 2 vols. 1853, 2 ed. 1854; The
literary life and correspondence of the Countess of Blessington
3 vols. 1855, 2 ed. 1855 and of 18 other books. _d._ 3 Vernon
terrace, Booterstown, co. Dublin 5 Feb. 1886. _bur._ Donnybrook
graveyard. _Memoirs of R. R. Madden. Ed. by his son T. M.
Madden, M.D._ (1891), _portrait_; _Dublin univ. mag. lxxxvii_
272–8 (1876), _portrait_.

MADDEN, SAMUEL ALEXANDER (son of rev. Samuel Madden of Kell’s
Grange, Kilkenny). _b._ 5 July 1824; ensign 51 foot 7 July
1843, lieut.-col. 24 July 1869, placed on h.p. 20 March 1880;
lieut.-col. of brigade depot at Perth 20 March 1880, retired
5 July 1883 with hon. rank of M.G.; served during Burmese war
1852–3; in the Umbeyla expedition commanded his regiment in
the Jowaki campaign 1877 and received medal with clasp; headed
his regiment throughout Afghan war of 1878–79 and was present
at taking of Ali Masjid; C.B. 19 July 1879. _d._ Freelands,
Wherwell, Hants. 13 March 1888.

MADDEN, SAMUEL OWEN (son of Owen Madden of Mallow, co. Cork).
_b._ Mallow 1831; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1854, M.A. 1861,
B. and D.D. 1883; C. of Buttevant 1857–8; C. of St. Peter,
Cork 1858; vicar choral Cork cath. 1867; R. of St. Paul, Cork
1869–75; R. of Ch. Ch. Cork 1875–8; dean of Cork and R. of St.
Fin Barre cath. 1878 to death; preb. of St. Patrick’s cath. 1890
to death. _d._ the deanery, Cork 25 June 1891. _I.L.N. 18 July
1891 p._ 71, _portrait_.

MADDICK, GEORGE WILLIAM. _b._ 1824; printer at 3a Savoy st.
Strand, London 1852–3, then at 11 Red Lion court, Fleet st.
1853–4; founder of Court Circular 26 April 1856; original
promoter of Sporting Life 16 March 1859, and of English mechanic
and world of science 31 March 1865. _d._ 12 Mostyn road,
Brixton, Surrey 6 July 1881. _bur._ Highgate cemetery 9 July.

MADDOCK, SIR THOMAS HERBERT (eld. son of rev. Thomas Maddock,
preb. of Chester, _d._ 12 Feb. 1825). _b._ 1792; ed. Manchester
gram. sch. and Haileybury; entered Bengal civil service 1811;
political resident at Lucknow 1829; sec. to government of India
in the legislative, judicial and revenue departments 1838–43;
knighted by patent 25 April 1844; deputy governor of Bengal
and pres. of council of India, Sep. 1845 to Feb. 1849; M.P.
Rochester 1852–7. _d._ 10 Grosvenor mansions, Victoria street,
Westminster 15 Jany. 1870. _I.L.N. 29 Jany. 1870 p._ 130.

MADDOX, JOHN MEDEX, stage name of John Medex. _b._ 1789;
managed the Colosseum in Regent’s park, London 1840; lessee of
Princess’s theatre, Oxford st. 26 Dec. 1842 to Easter 1850;
produced Scribe’s Don Cæsar de Bazan, Oct. 1844; Charlotte
Cushman first appeared in England at Princess’s as Bianca in
Fazio 14 Feb. 1845; produced many operas by Balfe and Linley,
and Loder’s Night Dancers, Oct. 1846; wrote A curious case, a
drama Princess’s 1846; The first night, a drama Princess’s 1
Oct. 1849; Infanticide or the Bohemian mother, a melo-drama
Royal Coburg theatre; A.S.S. a farce, Lyceum 23 April 1853;
A fast train, Lyceum 25 April 1853; Chesterfield Thinskin, a
farce, Princess’s 1853; Frederick the Great; Death of Mary queen
of Scots; and Is it a lie. _d._ 7 Pelham crescent, Brompton,
London 5 March 1861. _H. B. Baker’s London Stage_, _ii_ 161–71
(1889); _Era Almanac_ (1876) 1–2.

MADDOX, WILLIS. _b._ Bath 1813; painted The Annunciation and
other sacred pictures for Wm. Beckford; exhibited 13 pictures
at R.A., 5 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. 1844–53; many of his
portraits are at Bath and Bristol; painted several portraits
for the Sultan at Constantinople; published Views of Lansdowne
tower, Bath, by E. F. English, from drawings by W. Maddox 1844.
_d._ Pera near Constantinople 26 June 1853.

MADDY, JOHN (son of Joseph Maddy). _b._ Dorston, Hereford 1765
or 1766; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf., B.A. 1788, M.A. 1791, B.D.
and D.D. 1812; admitted D.D. Camb. 10 Dec. 1835; educated the
sons of many nobility and gentry at their houses in London; R.
of Somerton, Suffolk 1799 to death; R. of Hartest with Boxted
17 Feb. 1819 to death; R. of Stansfield 22 Nov. 1820 to death;
canon of Ely 6 March 1835 to death; chaplain in ordinary to the
Sovereign 24 July 1830 to death; F.S.A.; F.R.S. 12 June 1817.
_d._ Somerton, Bury St. Edmund’s 17 June 1853. _G.M. xl_ 208
(1853).

MADDY, WATKIN. _b._ Herefordshire about 1798; ed. at Hereford
gr. sch. and St. John’s coll. Camb., 2nd wrangler 1820, B.A.
1820, M.A. 1823, B.D. 1830; fellow of St. John’s coll. 18
March 1823 to March 1834; taught mathematics in London to
death; author of The elements of the theory of plane astronomy.
Cambridge 1826, new ed. 1832. _d._ Sutton Coldfield near
Birmingham 13 Aug. 1857.

MADGE, THOMAS. _b._ Plymouth 1786; ed. Crediton gram. sch.;
studied medicine under his relative Thomas Hugo at Crediton;
with rev. Timothy Kenrick at Exeter 1804 and at York coll.
1805–9; Unitarian minister Churchgate st. chapel, Bury St.
Edmunds 1810; co-pastor of Octagon chapel, Norwich 1811–25;
minister Essex st. chapel, Strand, London 1825 to May 1860;
chaplain to sheriff of London 1857–8; presented with a thousand
guineas and a silver salver May 1860; author of The salvation of
man by the free grace of God asserted 1812, 2 ed. 1815; Lectures
on high church principles 1844; Prayers for morning and evening
1866; Discourses on christian faith and life 1867 and 20 other
works. _d._ 20 Highbury terrace, London 29 Aug. 1870. _bur._
Abney park cemet. 3 Sep. _W. James’ Memoirs of T. Madge_ (1871),
_portrait_; _Diprose’s St. Clements_, _ii_ 27–8 (1868).

MADGE, TRAVERS (son of the preceding). _b._ Thorpe near Norwich
12 Oct. 1823; ed. univ. coll. London, matriculated 1840; student
Manchester coll. 1840; town missionary at Norwich 1845–7; an
itinerant preacher; teacher of the Lower Mosley street schools,
Manchester 1848–50 and 1859–61. _d._ Norwich 23 March 1866. _B.
Hereford’s Travers Madge_ (1867); _W. James’s Memoirs of Thomas
Madge_ (1871) 179–80, 266–8; _J. Evan’s Lancashire authors_
(1880) 161–6.

MADIGAN, EGGIE. One of the best vaulters in the profession;
a principal performer with Hengler’s, Boswell’s, Cooke’s and
Myers’ circuses; well known throughout the continent and India;
met with many accidents during his career. _d._ 2 King Alfred’s
place, Birmingham 7 July 1892 aged 34.

MADOX, HENRY. _b._ 1784; cornet 6 dragoons 14 March 1800,
lieut.-col. 18 Jany. 1833, placed on h.p. 1 June 1838; brevet
colonel 28 June 1838; K.H. 1832. _d._ 28 Great Pulteney st. Bath
18 March 1865.

MAEDER, CLARA (4 dau. of George Frederick Fisher, auctioneer).
_b._ London 14 July 1811; singer; first appeared as lord Flimnap
in D. Corri’s version of Garrick’s Lilliput 10 Dec. 1817 at a
London house; acted Richard III in pantomime of Gulliver at
Covent Garden 8 March 1818; first appeared in U.S. America at
Park theatre, New York, as Albina Mandeville in the comedy
of The Will 11 Sep. 1827; acted in operettas, burlesques and
extravaganzas in which she made rapid changes of costume; sang
Scotch heroic songs and ballads throughout the United States,
becoming so popular that children were named after her and young
ladies affected her lisp and manner 1830; (_m._ 6 Dec. 1834 J.
G. Maeder 1809–76); appeared in opera but was a failure 1835;
made her last appearance in New York 1851. _Appleton’s American
biography iii_ 464 (1887).

MAEDER, JAMES GASPARD. _b._ Dublin 1809; went to United States
of America 1833 where he became a distinguished musician,
composer, musical director, teacher and theatrical manager;
composer of The Swiss quadrilles. Dublin 1830; The song of
home. London 1852, 3 ed. 1878; The unwilling bride 1858;
The daughter’s dream, a romance, New York 1864; The fair
enchantress, a barcarolle 1874. _d._ Chelsea, Massachusetts 28
May 1876. _Era 25 June 1876 p._ 11.

MAGEE, DAVID. Founded a brewery in Bolton, Lancs. 1853; erected
the Crown brewery, Bolton 1866. _d._ 1875. _Barnard’s Noted
breweries_, _iv_ 221–6 (1891), _view of brewery_.

MAGEE, JAMES (son of John Magee, Irish journalist and lottery
broker, _d._ Nov. 1809). Editor and proprietor of the Dublin
Evening Post about 1815; a police magistrate at Dublin. _d._
Sep. 1866. _Trial of an action for deceit in which J. Magee was
plaintiff and N. P. O’Gorman defendant. Dublin_ (1816).

MAGEE, JOHN. _b._ Borris, co. Carlow 1812; ed. Carlow coll.
and at Maynooth; professor of theology Carlow coll. 1839–62
and V.P. 1856–62; priest of Stradbally, Queen’s county 1862 to
death. _d._ Stradbally 15 Oct. 1881. _Comerford’s Collections of
Kildare_ (1883) 228.

MAGEE, THOMAS PERCIVAL (son of Wm. Magee 1766–1831, archbishop
of Dublin). Ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820, LL.B.
and LL.D. 1827; preb. of Ch. Ch. Dublin 1826; preb. of St.
Patrick’s, Dublin 1826 to death; archdeacon of Kilmacduagh 13
April 1830 to death; R. of St. Thomas’s, Dublin 1843 to death;
author of An enquiry into the nature and origin of the visible
church 1822; A short explanation of the gospel of St. Luke 1823.
_d._ 16 Dec. 1854.

MAGEE, WILLIAM CONNOR (eld. son of John Magee, V. of Drogheda,
_d._ 1837). _b._ in apartment next library of Cork cathedral
18 Dec. 1821; ed. at Kilkenny coll. and at Trin. coll. Dublin,
scholar 1838; B.A 1842, B.D. 1854, D.D. 1860, Donnellan lecturer
1865; C. of St. Thomas, Dublin 1844–6; C. of St. Saviour’s,
Bath 1848–50; chaplain of Octagon chapel, Bath 1850–60; preb.
of Wells cath. May 1859 to 1861; P.C. of Quebec chapel,
London 1860–1; R. of Enniskillen 1861; dean of Cork 1 Feb.
1864 to Oct. 1868; dean of the chapel royal, Dublin 1866–9;
commenced erecting Cork cath.; bishop of Peterborough 14 Oct.
1868, consecrated at Whitehall chapel 15 Nov. 1868; D.C.L.
of Oxf. univ. 21 June 1870; made a noted speech against the
disestablishment of the Irish church; president of the Church
congress at Leicester, Oct. 1880; select preacher univ. of Oxf.
1880–2; archbishop of York 30 Jany. 1891, enthroned in York
minster 17 March; one of the greatest orators of his day; author
of Sermons at St. Saviour’s, Bath 1854; Sermons at the Octagon
chapel, Bath 1852; The gospel and the age 1884; The Atonement
1886 and 40 other works. _d._ at an hotel in Suffolk st. Pall
Mall, London 5 May 1891. _bur._ burial ground Peterborough
cathedral 9 May, a cenotaph bearing his effigy unveiled in
Peterborough cathedral 9 Oct. 1893. _F. Arnold’s Our bishops
and deans_, _ii_ 139–46 (1875); _Contemporary Review_, _Oct.
1892 pp._ 534–46; _Church portrait journal_, _vol. ii_ (1878),
_portrait as frontispiece_; _Dublin univ. mag. lxxxvii_ 168–80
(1876), _portrait_; _Northamptonshire Biographical notices.
W. C. Magee_ (1892), _portrait_; _The Biograph_, _vi_ 598–606
(1881); _I.L.N. liii_ 401 (1868) _portrait_, _2 Dec. 1893 p._
695, _view of cenotaph_; _Graphic 9 May 1891 p._ 519, _portrait_.

MAGENIS, SIR ARTHUR CHARLES (5 son of col. Richard Magenis of
Warringstown, Downshire 1763–1831, M.P. Enniskillen). _b._
Ireland 1801; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1821; attached
to mission at Berlin 26 Aug. 1825; minister plenipotentiary to
Swiss confederation 27 Jany. 1851; envoy extraord. and min.
plenipo. to king of Wurtemberg 12 Feb. 1852, to king of Sweden
and Norway 20 May 1854 and to king of Portugal 11 Nov. 1859 to
June 1866 when he retired upon a pension; K.C.B. 30 Sep. 1856,
G.C.B. 6 July 1866. _d._ 13 Grosvenor place, London 14 Feb. 1867.

MAGENIS, HENRY ARTHUR (brother of preceding). _b._ July 1795;
lieut. 7 foot 4 March 1813; captain 82 foot 30 Sep. 1824, placed
on h.p. 20 Nov. 1827; major 87 foot 25 Feb. 1831, lieut.-col. 18
April 1845; lieut.-col. 27 foot 23 March 1849 to 1 April 1852;
inspecting field officer York recruiting district 1 April 1852.
_d._ York 14 Nov. 1852.