part in reduction of Kastro Morea 30 Oct. 1828 for which he was
nominated chevalier of orders of St. Louis and the Redeemer,
of Greece; captain 28 Oct. 1829; superintendent of Indian navy
Nov. 1848 to 23 March 1852; captain of the Albion, July 1852;
commanded naval brigade on shore at siege of Sebastopol 1855;
R.A. 4 July 1855; lieut. governor of Greenwich hospital 17 May
1862 to 2 Dec. 1865; admiral on h.p. 2 Dec. 1865; K.C.B. 5 July
1855, G.C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._ Oak lodge, Thornton Heath,
Surrey 28 May 1877.
LUSHINGTON, STEPHEN GEORGE (eld. son of the succeeding). Comr.
of customs 3 Jany. 1825 to death. _d._ Norton court, Faversham,
Kent 15 Feb. 1853.
LUSHINGTON, STEPHEN RUMBOLD (2 son of James Stephen Lushington,
V. of Newcastle and preb. of Carlisle, _d._ 1801). _b._ Bendish
house, Bottesham, Cambs. 6 May 1776; ed. at Rugby; D.C.L.
of Oxf. univ. 12 June 1839; entered Madras civil service 4
Sep. 1790; assistant in the military, political and secret
department, Madras 1792; collector at Tinnevelly 1801; registrar
of Sudder and Foujdarry Adowlut 14 Jany. 1803, left the service
1807; M.P. Rye 1807–12; M.P. Canterbury 1812–30 and 1835–7;
chairman of committees in house of commons to 1814; joint
secretary of the treasury 1814 to 19 April 1827; P.C. 30 June
1827; governor of Madras 18 Oct. 1827 to 25 Oct. 1832; author
of The life and services of general lord Harris 1840. _d._
Norton hall near Faversham, Kent 5 Aug. 1868. _An account of the
refusal of church rates by S. R. Lushington_ (1841).
LUTHER, ROBERT. _b._ 1800; farmed 1000 acres under earl Powis
at Acton to death; a judge of Hereford and Shropshire cattle;
huntsman of the Union hunt for Mr. Frank Beddows from about 1830
to death; in his last hours he sent for some of his hounds to
come to his bedside. _d._ Acton 7 Sep. 1862. _Sporting Review_,
_xlviii_ 412–13 (1862).
LÜTHY, ROBERT (son of Victor Lüthy a veterinary surgeon, and
one of a family of 21 children). _b._ Solothurn, Switzerland
24 Sep. 1840; draughtsman to R. and L. R. Bodmer, London 1862;
in service of Hick, Hargreaves & Co. of Bolton 1864 to death;
designed hydraulic cotton presses and balanced valves 1863;
experimented on cold air machines for freezing meat 1876, went
to Australia in connection with the business of shipping frozen
meat 1883; member Instit. Mechanical engineers 1878. _d._ Bolton
3 July 1884. _Proc. of instit. of mechanical engineers_ (1884)
403–4.
LUTTON, ANNE (youngest child of Ralph Lutton). _b._ Ireland 16
Dec. 1791; held meetings for women 1818; an Italian and Spanish
scholar; held drawing room meetings; head of a class meeting at
Bristol 1834; held religious meetings in England and Ireland;
author of Poems on moral and religious subjects. Dublin 1829, 2
ed. 1842. _d._ Bristol 22 Aug. 1881. _bur._ Arno’s Vale cemetery
27 Aug. _Memorials of a consecrated life_ (1883), _portrait_;
_Light on the christian’s daily path, compiled from the
unpublished letters of A. Lutton, ed. by A. S. Webb_ (1886).
LUTTRELL, ALEXANDER FOWNES (4 son of John Fownes Luttrell, M.P.
1752–1816). _b._ 1793; ed. at Eton; matric. from Ex. coll. Oxf.
6 May 1812; R. of East Quantoxhead, Somerset 2 May 1818 to
death, having been rector 70 years. _d._ 12 Oct. 1888.
LUTTRELL, HENRY (natural son of Henry Lawes Luttrell, 2 earl
Carhampton 1743–1821). _b._ 1771; M.P. Clonmines, co. Wexford in
Irish parliament 1798; managed his father’s estates in the West
Indies about 1802; introduced to London society by the duchess
of Devonshire, a great talker and diner-out, a frequent guest
at Holland House where he uttered many of his best mots, Gronow
calls him the last of the conversationists; author of Letters to
Julia in rhyme, 3 ed. 1822; Advice to Julia, a letter in rhyme
1820. _d._ 31 Brompton crescent, London 19 Dec. 1851, portraits
of him at Holland House and at White’s club. _Clayden’s Rogers
and his contemporaries_ (1889) _passim_; _St. James’s Mag. Jany.
1878 pp._ 43–52.
LUTTRELL, HENRY ACLAND FOWNES (1 son of Alexander F. Luttrell
1793–1888). _b._ 1826; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A.
1850, M.A. 1852; ensign Rifle brigade 11 Feb. 1855, lieut. 8
June 1855, sold out 1857 or 1858; lieut.-colonel 3 Somerset
rifle volunteers 1860–89, hon.-col. 1889 to death; major West
Somerset yeomanry 1858–80; a fine judge of horses and in great
request at exhibitions of horses; instrumental in reviving
the Bath and West of England agricultural soc.; sheriff of
Somerset 1881; C.B. 1887. _d._ Badgworth court, Axbridge,
Weston-Super-Mare 7 July 1893.
LUTTRELL, HENRY FOWNES (2 son of John F. Luttrell 1752–1816,
M.P.) _b._ 7 Feb. 1790; ed. Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1812;
M.P. Minehead 1816–22; a comr. of audit board 1822–49. _d._
Dunster castle, Somerset 6 Oct. 1867.
LUTWIDGE, ROBERT WILFRED SKEFFINGTON (2 son of Charles Lutwidge
of Holmrook, Cumberland). _b._ London 1802; ed. at St. John’s
coll. Camb., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; barrister L.I. 3 July 1827;
commissioner in lunacy 1842–5 and 24 Dec. 1855 to death;
secretary to lunacy commission 1845; comr. of inquiry into state
of lunatic asylums in Ireland, Sep. 1856. _d._ Salisbury 28 May
1873. _bur._ Brompton cemetery 3 June. _Law Times_, _lv_ 127
(1873).
LUXFORD, GEORGE. _b._ Sutton, Surrey 7 April 1807; apprenticed
to Mr. Allingham a printer at Reigate 1818, stopped with him to
1834; removed to Birmingham 1834; a printer in London 1838–44;
sub-editor of Westminster Review some years; lecturer on botany
at St. Thomas’s hospital 1846–51; a compositor and reader in
Mr. Newman’s printing establishment 1851 to death; edited The
Phytologist 1841 to death; A.L.S. 1836; author of A flora of the
neighbourhood of Reigate, flowering plants and ferns 1838. _d._
Hill st. Walworth, London 12 June 1854. _Proc. of Linnæan Soc.
ii_ 426 (1855).
LUXMOORE, CHARLES SCOTT (eld. son of John Luxmoore, bishop
of Hereford and St. Asaph, _d._ 21 Jany. 1830 aged 73). _b._
1792; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1815, M.A.
1818; R. of Bromyard 2nd portion 1815 to death; R. of Cradley,
Herefordshire 1816 to death; R. of Darowen, co. Montgomery 1819
to death; canon of Hereford 30 Oct. 1815 to death; preb. of St.
Asaph 16 Oct. 1816 to 1842; dean of St. Asaph 26 June 1826 to
death. _d._ Cradley 27 April 1854. _bur._ in St. Asaph cathedral.
LUXMOORE, THOMAS CORYNDON. _b._ 1795; second lieut. R.E. 1 Jany.
1814, lieut.-col. 1 July 1849 to 1 April 1852 when placed on
retired list; general 8 June 1871; wrote On the groins used in
Sussex for preventing encroachment of the sea, in Papers of
Corps of Engineers vol. i (1884). _d._ Tunbridge Wells 26 Nov.
1878.
LYALL, ALFRED (youngest son of John Lyall of Findon, Sussex,
_d._ 1805). _b._ 1795; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A.
1818; C. of Findon 1829–32; V. of Godmersham, Kent 1837–45;
R. of Harbledown, Kent 1845 to death; contributed to the
Encyclopædia Metropolitana; edited the Annual Register 1822–7
and 1837–8; author of Rambles in Madeira and Portugal 1827; A
review of the principles of truth in reference to the doctrines
of Hume and Reid 1830; Agonistes or philosophical strictures
1856. _d._ Llangollen, Wales 11 Sep. 1865. _bur._ Harbledown.
LYALL, GEORGE (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1784; succeeded
his father as a merchant and shipowner 1805; chairman of the
Shipowners’ Society committee several years; instrumental in
forming company which made Shoreham harbour; a director of
East India Co. 1830–51, deputy chairman 1840, chairman 1841;
contested City of London 12 Dec. 1832 and 5 Jany. 1835; M.P.
City of London 1833–5 and 1841–7; introduced and carried the
Merchant Seamen’s Widows’ bill 1834; retired from public life
1847. _d._ 17 Park crescent, Regent’s park, London 1 Sep. 1853.
_Portraits of eminent conservatives. Second series_, _portrait_
26 (1846).
LYALL, GEORGE. _b._ London 29 Aug. 1819; ed. at Winchester 1832
and Geneva 1835; M.P. Whitehaven 1857–65; a director of bank
of England 1857 to death, deputy governor 1869–71, governor
1871–73. _d._ Cleve hill, Downend, Bristol 12 Oct. 1881.
LYALL, WILLIAM ROWE (brother of George Lyall 1784–1853). _b._
London 11 Feb. 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., scholar, B.A.
1810, M.A. 1816; C. of Fawley, Hampshire 1812–15; chaplain to
St. Thomas’s hospital 1817; assistant preacher at Lincoln’s Inn;
exam. chaplain to bishop of London 1822; R. of Weeley, Essex
1823–33; archdeacon of Colchester 4 June 1824; Warburtonian
lecturer Lincoln’s Inn 1826; R. of Fairsted, Essex 1827–33; R
of Hadleigh 1833–42; archdeacon of Maidstone 11 June 1841 to
1845; preb. of Canterbury 11 June 1841 to 1845; R. of Great
Chart, Kent 1842–52; dean of Canterbury 26 Nov. 1845 to death;
edited The British Critic 1816–7; reorganised the Encyclopædia
Metropolitana 1820 and contributed to its pages; edited with
St. J. Rose the Theological Library vols. i–xiv 1832–46; author
of Propædia Prophetica, a view of the use and design of the Old
Testament 1840, 3 ed. 1885. _d._ the deanery, Canterbury 17 Feb.
1857. _bur._ Harbledown churchyard 26 Feb. _G.M. April 1857 pp._
491–2.
LYCETT, SIR FRANCIS (son of Philip Francis Lycett of Worcester).
_b._ Worcester 1803; ed. at Dr. Simpson’s, Worcester; in his
father’s glove works; manager for Dent and Allcroft, glovers,
London 1832, a partner 1845–65, acquired a large fortune and
retired; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1866–67; knighted at
Osborne 3 Aug. 1867; contested Woodstock 17 Nov. 1868, Liskeard
11 May 1869 and St. Ives 30 Dec. 1874; a great friend to the
Wesleyan Methodist connexion; member of London school board,
Finsbury division, Nov. 1870. _d._ 18 Highbury grove, London
29 Oct. 1880. _Christian Miscellany_, _Jany. 1881 pp._ 15–18,
_portrait_.
LYDE, SAMUEL. _b._ 1825; ed. at Jesus coll. Camb., fellow, B.A.
1848, M.A. 1859; author of The Ansyreeh and Ismaeleeh, a visit
to the secret sects of Northern Syria 1853; The Asian mystery
illustrated in the history of the Ansaireeh or Nusairis of Syria
1860. _d._ Alexandria 1 April 1860 aged 35.
LYE, THOMAS. _b._ Spinney-gate, Deansgate, Manchester 1795;
well known jockey; often mentioned by Alfred Highflyer in the
Sporting Mag.; won the Oaks on Lilias 1826, on Queen of Trumps
1835 and on Our Nell 1842; won the St. Leger on Queen of Trumps
1835 and on Blue Bonnet 1842. _d._ Middleham 27 May 1866.
_Sporting Review_, _lvi_ 79–80 (1866).
LYELL, SIR CHARLES, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Charles Lyell of
Kinnordy, Fifeshire, botanist 1767–1849). _b._ Kinnordy 14 Nov.
1797; ed. at Ringwood, Salisbury, Midhurst and Ex. coll. Oxf.,
B.A. 1819, M.A. 1821, hon. D.C.L 1855; F.L.S. 1819; F.G.S. 1819,
secretary 1823–6, foreign sec. 1826, pres. 1835–6 and 1849–50,
Wollaston medallist 1866; F.R.S. 1826, royal medallist 1835,
Copley medallist 1858; barrister L.I. 17 May 1822; professor of
geology King’s college, London, Oct. 1831 to 1833 or 1834; gave
7 lectures at Royal Institution 1832; knighted at Balmoral 19
Sep. 1848; baronet 22 Aug. 1864; pres. of British Assoc. at Bath
1864; presented with freedom of Turners’ company 25 June 1874;
author of Principles of geology, being an attempt to explain
the former changes of the earth’s surface by reference to
causes now in operation 3 vols. 1830–33, 12 ed. 1875; Elements
of geology 1838, 6 ed. 1865; Travels in North America 2 vols.
1845; A second visit to the United States of North America 2
vols. 1849; The geological evidences of the antiquity of man
1863, 4 ed. 1873; The students’ elements of geology 1871, 3 ed.
1878. _d._ 43 Harley st. London 22 Feb. 1875. _bur._ in nave of
Westminster abbey 27 Feb. _Life of Sir Charles Lyell 2 vols._
(1881), 2 _portraits_; _Quarterly Journal of Geol. soc. xxxii_
53–69 (1876); _Proc. of Royal soc. xxv_ 11–14 (1877); _Nature_,
_xii_ 325 (1875), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xlvi_ 227, 230 (1865),
_portrait_.
LYGON, EDWARD PYNDAR (youngest son of 1 Earl Beauchamp
1747–1816). _b._ about 1786; sub lieut. 2 life guards 1 June
1803, commanded 2 life guards at Waterloo, lieut.-col. 14 April
1818 to 10 Jany. 1837; inspector general of cavalry to death;
colonel 13 light dragoons 29 Jany. 1845 to death; general 20
June 1854; C.B. 22 June 1815. _d._ Upper Brook st. Grosvenor sq.
London 11 Nov. 1860.
LYLE, _Acheson_ (2 son of Samuel Lyle of the lodge, co.
Londonderry 1761–1815). _b._ 13 March 1795; ed. at Trin. coll.
Dublin, B.A. 1815, M.A. 1832; called to the Irish bar 1818;
assistant barrister for the Queen’s county; second remembrancer
of court of exchequer, Ireland 1835–44, chief remembrancer 1844;
bencher of King’s inns, Dublin 1837; a master in chancery,
Ireland, Nov. 1852; lord lieut. co. Londonderry, April 1860 to
death. _d._ The Oaks, Londonderry 22 April 1870. _Irish law
times 30 April 1870 p._ 326.
LYLE, THOMAS. _b._ Paisley 10 Sep. 1792; ed. at Glasgow univ.,
took diploma of surgeon 1816; practised at Glasgow and Airth,
Stirlingshire; returned to Glasgow 1835; collected ancient airs
and songs; wrote the beautiful song ‘Let us haste to Kelvin
Grove, bonnie lassie, O,’ first published anonymously in the
Harp of Renfrewshire 1820; contributed to R. A. Smith’s Irish
Minstrel; edited Ancient ballads and songs 1827. _d._ Glasgow
19 April 1859. _Grant Wilson’s Poets of Scotland_, _ii_ 129–30
(1877); _Brown’s Poets of Paisley_, _i_ 269.
LYNCH, DAVID (son of David Lynch of Dublin, merchant). _b._
1812; ed. at the Feinaglian institution Luxembourg and Trin.
coll. Dublin, B.A. 1831; called to bar in Ireland 1833; leader
of Leinster circuit; Q.C. 13 Feb. 1849; bencher of King’s inns
1860; chairman of quarter sessions co. Louth 1857–59; judge of
bankruptcy court 1859 to Jany. 1867; judge of landed estates
court Jany. 1867 to death. _d._ 27 Merrion sq. Dublin 18 Dec.
1872. _bur._ Prospect cemetery, Glasnevin 21 Dec. _Irish law
times_, _vi_ 647, 662 (1872).
LYNCH, DAVID. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1864; called to
bar in Ireland 1865; Q.C. 5 July 1884. _d._ Somerville, Howth 27
Oct. 1889 aged 47.
LYNCH, HENRY BLOSSE (3 son of Henry Blois Lynch of Partry house,
Ballinrobe, co. Mayo, major in the army, _d._ 1843). _b._ 24
Nov. 1807; joined Indian navy as a volunteer 1823, lieut. 1829,
Persian and Arabic interpreter to the Persian Gulf squadron
1829–33; second in command of expedition despatched to explore
Euphrates route to India 1834–7, commander of it 1837; commanded
the steamer Tigris which foundered 21 May 1836; completed map
of the river Tigris 1839; commanded a flotilla off mouth of
the Indus 1843; assistant to superintendent of Indian navy
1843–51; founded the Indian navy club at Bombay; captain 13 Sep.
1847; commodore in command of a squadron in second Burmese war
1851–3; retired from the service 13 April 1856; C.B. 3 Dec.
1853; resided in Paris 1856 to death; conducted negotiations
with Persian plenipotentiary which resulted in treaty of Paris
4 March 1857, for which the Shah nominated him to the highest
class of the Lion and Sun. _d._ 6 Rue royal, Faubourg St.
Honoré, Paris 14 April 1873.
LYNCH, PATRICK NIESEN. _b._ Clones, Ireland 10 March 1817;
taken to U.S. of America 1819; ed. at coll. of the propaganda,
Rome, D.D. 1840; assist. pastor of Charlestown cath. 1840–44;
pastor of St. Mary’s ch. 1844–55; administrator of the see
of Charlestown 1855–58, and bishop 14 March 1858 to death,
cathedral and residence burnt down 1861; sent on a mission to
the Pope with a letter from Jefferson Davis 1862; ruined and
involved in debt by the civil war 1865; attended on the yellow
fever patients in 1848 and 1871; author of Miraculous existence
of the church. A sermon at Second plenary council, Baltimore
1866. _d._ Charlestown 26 Feb. 1882. _Appleton’s American
Biography_, _iv_ 64 (1888).
LYNCH, THEODORA ELIZABETH (dau. of Arthur Foulks of Jamaica,
sugar-planter). _b._ Dale park, Sussex 1812; _m._ 28 Dec. 1835
Henry Mark Lynch, 2 son of John Lynch of Kingston, Jamaica,
_b._ Kingston 29 Oct. 1814, barrister M.T. 12 June 1840, _d._
Kingston 15 July 1845; author of Lays of the sea and other poems
By Personne 1846, 2 ed. 1850; The cotton tree, or Emily the
little West Indian 1847, another ed. 1853; The family sepulchre,
a tale of Jamaica 1848, and 14 other stories for children. _d._
81 St. John’s Wood terrace, London 27 June 1885.
LYNCH, THOMAS KERR (younger brother of Henry Blosse Lynch
1807–73). _b._ 1818; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; served with
his brother during second Euphrates expedition 1837–42; set up
in business at Baghdad; bore the expense of trading-steamers
constructed for the rivers Euphrates and Tigris; travelled in
Mesopotamia and Persia; an Arabic and Persian scholar; consul
general for Persia, in London 1869–75; knight of the Lion and
Sun on the Shah’s visit to England 1873; author of A visit to
the Suez canal 1866; F.R.G.S. _d._ 31 Cleveland sq. London 27
Dec. 1891. _Times 29 Dec. 1891 p._ 5.
LYNCH, THOMAS TOKE (10 child of John Burke Lynch, surgeon,
_d._ 1820). _b._ Dunmow, Essex 5 July 1818; ed. at a school
in Islington, London, afterwards an usher in the school; a
Sunday school teacher and preacher 1841; pastor of Highgate
independent church 1847–9; pastor of a congregation in Mortimer
st. London 1849, which migrated to Grafton st. Fitzroy sq.
1852, resigned 1859; pastor of independent church in Gower st.
1860, which removed to Mornington crescent, Hampstead road
1862 to death; author of Thoughts on a day 1844; Memorials of
Theophilus Trinal 1850, 4 ed. 1882; Essays on some of the forms
of literature 1853; The Rivulet, a contribution to sacred song
1855, 3 ed. 1868; these hymns said to be pantheistic, gave rise
to a long discussion known as The Rivulet controversy, Lynch
replied to his opponents in The ethics of quotation 1856 and
Songs Controversial 1856, both issued under pseudonym of ‘Silent
Long’; A Christmas address 1856, 3 ed. 1872. _d._ 76 Arlington
st. Mornington crescent 9 May 1871. _White’s Memoirs of T. T.
Lynch_ (1874), _portrait_; _A critical and descriptive notice
of Rev. T. T. Lynch_ (1859); _Miller’s Singers and songs of the
church_ (1869) 560–61; _Waddington’s Congregational history_,
_v_ 134–69 (1880); _J. E. Ritchie’s London Pulpit_, _2 ed._
(1858) 101–10 _and his Religious Life in London_ (1870) 187–92.
LYNCH, WILLIAM WILTSHIRE. _b._ 1 April 1831; ensign 70 foot
17 Sep. 1850; captain 2 foot 1858, major 1873 to 1875 when
placed on h.p.; brigade major Chatham 1866–70; deputy judge
advocate 1875–6; lieut.-col. 10 foot 3 May 1876 to 3 May 1881;
lieut.-col. regimental district 1881–6; M.G. 1 April 1887; M.G.
Bengal 31 March 1888 to death. _d._ of cholera at Allahabad 4
Aug. 1888.
LYNCH-BLOSSE, HENRY (elder son of sir Robert Lynch-Blosse, 8
bart. 1784–1818). _b._ 11 Feb. 1813; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin,
B.A. 1835, M.A. 1860; V. of Newcastle, Glamorganshire, with
V. of Bettws, C. of Laleston and C. of Tythegston 1839–77;
archdeacon and canon of Llandaff 17 June 1859 to 1877; dean of
Llandaff 1877 to death. _d._ Llandaff deanery 28 Jany. 1879.
LYNDHURST, JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY, 1 Baron (eld. son of John
Singleton Copley of Boston, U.S., afterwards of London, painter,
1737–1815). _b._ Boston 21 May 1772; brought to England, June
1775; pensioner at Trin. coll. Camb. 8 July 1790, 2 wr. and
Smith’s prizeman 1794; B.A. 1794, M.A. 1796; junior fellow
of his coll. 2 Oct. 1795, senior fellow 5 July 1797 to 1804;
travelling bachelor of Camb. univ. 1795–8, high steward of the
univ. 1840; member of Lincoln’s inn 19 May 1794; practised as
a special pleader; barrister L.I. 8 June 1804; serjeant at law
6 July 1813; leader of Midland circuit 1816; M.P. Yarmouth,
Isle of Wight 1818; M.P. Ashburton 1818–26; M.P. univ. of Camb.
1826–7; king’s serjeant and chief justice of Chester Dec. 1818
to July 1819; solicitor general 24 July 1819, knighted Oct.
1819; attorney general 9 Jany. 1824 to 14 Sep. 1826; master of
the rolls 13 Sep. 1826 to April 1827; recorder of Bristol, Sep.
1826 to April 1827; lord chancellor 20 April 1827 to 22 Nov.
1830; lord chief baron of the exchequer 18 Jany. 1831 to 1834,
lord chancellor again 21 Nov. 1834 to 23 April 1835, and 3 Sep.
1841 to 4 July 1846; created baron Lyndhurst of Lyndhurst in the
county of Southampton 25 April 1827. _d._ 25 George st. Hanover
sq. London 12 Oct. 1863. _bur._ Highgate cemetery 17 Oct.
1863. _Sir T. Martin’s Life of Lord Lyndhurst 2 ed._ (1884),
_portrait_; _W. S. Gibson’s Brief memoir of Lord Lyndhurst_
(1869); _Lord Campbell’s Lives of the lord chancellors_,
_viii_ 1–212 (1869); _Misrepresentations in Campbell’s Lives
of Lyndhurst and Brougham. Corrected by St. Leonards_ (1869);
_Maclise portrait gallery_ (1883) 394–7, _portrait_; _W. H.
Bidwell’s Imperial Courts of France, England and Austria. New
York_ (1863) _pp._ 173–79; _Law Magazine_, _liv_ 321–68 (1856);
_Portraits of eminent conservatives and statesmen 1st series_
(1836), _portrait_; _Jerdan’s National portrait gallery_, _ii_
(1831), _portrait_; _Orators of the age. By G. H. Francis_
(1847) 142–59; _H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches 4 ed._
(1876) 100–107.
NOTE.--He was sketched under name of Lord Harderly in The life of a
lawyer. Written by himself [By Sir James Stewart] 1830. In 1831 he
heard the equity case of Small _v_ Attwood, which occupied a greater
number of hours than the trial of Warren Hastings, he delivered 1
Nov. 1832 by all accounts the most wonderful judgment ever heard in
Westminster Hall. No Chancellor received the Great Seal so often from
different sovereigns since the Plantaganet reigns.
LYNDON, PATRICK FRANCIS. _b._ Ireland 1812; ed. R.C. seminary,
Montreal, Canada, and college of St. Sulpice, Paris; a priest
at Boston, U.S. America; in charge of St. Mary’s parish,
Charlestown, Mass. till 1852; pastor of St. Peter and Paul,
south Boston 1853 and vicar general 1866; member of Boston
school committee 7 years. _d._ Boston 19 April 1878. _Appleton’s
Annual Cyclop. for 1878_ (1883) _p._ 641.
LYNE, CHARLES (son of rev. Richard Lyne 1760–1834). _b._ Castle
hill, Liskeard, Cornwall, Aug. 1802; R. of Roche 1834–41; V.
of Tywardreath 1841–47 and 1851–63; prebendary of Exeter 31
March 1843 to death; cr. M.A. of Lambeth 27 May 1843; author
of An old man’s wanderings, a tour through the manufacturing
districts 1845; A tract entitled Little Salem 1850 is attributed
to C. Lyne and led to The Little Salem controversy. _d._ Colby
villa, Dawlish 5 May 1873. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._
(1874–82) 329–30, 1272.
LYNE, FRANCIS (3 son of Joseph Lyne, merchant, Lisbon
1766–1823). _b._ Lisbon 27 Dec. 1800, registered at St. Ive
church, Cornwall, April 1809; F.R.G.S.; father of the rev.
Joseph Leycester Lyne known as Father Ignatius; author of
Tribunals of commerce 5 vols. 1851–76; Dr. Pusey’s Defence of
Father Ignatius 1881. _d._ 54 Montague sq. London 15 May 1888.
NOTE.--Lyne _v._ Sampson Low and others _The Times 17–19 Feb. 1873_.
This was an action respecting the defendants refusing to publish
Tribunals of Commerce, after agreeing to do so, because it contained
libellous matter. The plaintiff was non-suited.
LYNE, LEWIS CLIFTON (son of Charles Lyne, stock-broker
1790–1861). _b._ 8 March 1835; of the Office of Works, London
to 1876; sub-editor of Household Words 1876 to which he
contributed several serial stories; wrote under name of Lewis
Clifton in conjunction with Joseph J. Dilley, Tom Pinch, a
comedy Vaudeville theatre 10 March 1881; Lady Lovelace; La
Rosiere, a comic opera, music by Walter A. Slaughter; Marjorie,
a comic opera, Prince of Wales 18 July 1889. _d._ 38 East st.
Bloomsbury, London 2 Dec. 1889. _bur._ Woking cemetery.
LYNN, SAMUEL FERRIS. _b._ Belfast 1836; student at the R.A.
1854, obtained gold medal there 1859 for a group of Lycaon
and Achilles; exhibited 26 statues at the R.A. 1856–75; his
Evangeline exhibited 1858 was engraved in the Art Journal 1865
p. 372; member of Institute of Sculptors 1861; associate of
Royal Hibernian academy; executed some important public works in
Dublin and Manchester. _d._ Belfast 20 April 1876.
LYNNE, HENRY. Edited a Hampshire paper; acted under Macready at
Drury Lane 1841; starred at the Princess’s with Miss Cushman
and J. W. Wallack 1844–45; first appeared in U.S. of America at
Broadway theatre, New York as Joseph Surface in The school for
scandal 27 Sep. 1847. _d._ St. Louis, Mobile 8 Aug. 1854.
LYON, FRANCIS. _b._ 11 Jany. 1834; 2 lieut. R.A. 17 Dec. 1851,
lieut.-col. 11 June 1877; served in Indian mutiny 1857–8, was at
siege of Lucknow; employed testing the powers of breech loading
guns and the resistance of targets; superintendent of royal
laboratory at Woolwich arsenal 1 April 1880 to death; invented
a sensitive base percussion fuse, during the trial of which at
the military school of gunnery at Shoeburyness the shell burst
and he was so much injured 26 Feb. 1885 that he _died_ same day.
_I.L.N. 21 March 1885 pp._ 303, 304, _portrait_.
LYON, HENRY (son of a house agent). _b._ St. Luke’s, London 15
March 1831; sang at concerts and theatres from 1837; learnt
fencing and imitating the Grecian statues; employed in Clark’s
circus and at shows in fairs; learnt the violin and the harp,
and with his brother performed in the street; a violinist in
Jersey as Mr. Dymont from America; kept a music shop in Bunhill
row, London; became a Wesleyan Methodist; a visitor for the
Strangers’ Friend Society; a gun barrel maker in the Enfield
works; a French polisher; a street preacher; a porter under
Pickford & Co.; a preacher in The Christian Community; with his
wife performed sacred music in the streets and sang hymns; a
preacher and singer in Southampton in 1865. _The life of Henry
Lyon_ (1865).
LYON, THOMAS EATON. _b._ Woolton near Liverpool 17 Oct. 1812;
first appeared in London at Adelphi theatre as Miles Bertram
in the Wreck ashore 29 Sep. 1836; acted Jonathan Wild in Jack
Sheppard there 28 Oct. 1839; played at the Surrey, at the City
of London, at the National Standard; last appeared on the stage
at City of London theatre as Job Thornbury in John Bull 28 Aug.
1867; one of the five originators of General theatrical fund
1839. _d._ White Hart tavern, 197 High st. Shoreditch, London 23
Jany. 1869. _bur._ Abney park cemetery 27 Jany. _Era 31 Jany.
1869 p._ 10.
LYON, WILLIAM (5 son of David Lyon of Jamaica and Portland
place, London). _b._ 1807; cornet 8 hussars 17 July 1823,
captain 30 Dec. 1826, placed on h.p. 2 Aug. 1833; M.P. for
Seaford 1831–2; contested Lewes 1837, Marylebone 1859,
Canterbury 1862 and 1865, and Shoreham 1874; member of bench
of Middlesex magistrates, always opposed the license of Argyle
Rooms; was in appearance exactly like the 2 baron Panmure; (_m._
1860 Louisa Maria Sporle elder dau. of Henry Valentine Smith
known as H. V. Swanborough, lessee of Strand theatre, she was
an actress at Strand theatre to 1860). _d._ Goring hall near
Worthing 5 April 1892.
LYONS, EDMUND LYONS, 1 Baron (4 son of John Lyons of Antigua).
_b._ Burton near Christchurch, Hants. 22 Nov. 1790; ed. at
Hyde Abbey school near Winchester; entered navy June 1801;
took the Dutch fort of Marrach, 74 miles west of Batavia, by
surprise 30 July 1811 without orders to do so; captain 7 June
1814; commanded the Blonde frigate in the Mediterranean 1828,
co-operated with French troops in reduction of Kastro Morea
Oct. 1828 for which he received French order of St. Louis and
Greek order of the Redeemer; K.C.H. 13 Jany. 1835; knighted 23
Jany. 1835; minister and plenipotentiary at Athens 2 July 1835
to Feb. 1849; created baronet 29 July 1840; K.C.B. 10 July 1844,
G.C.B. 5 July 1855; minister to the Swiss confederation 1849–51;
minister at Stockholm 1851–3; R.A. 14 Jany. 1850, V.A. 19 March
1857; second in command of Mediterranean fleet Nov. 1853,
commander-in-chief 14 Feb. 1855 to 22 Feb. 1858; the practical
commander of the fleet throughout the Crimean war 1853–55;
received grand cross of legion of honour and Medjidie of 1st
class; created baron Lyons of Christchurch 23 June 1856; (_m._
18 July 1814 Augusta Louisa 2 dau. of Josias Rogers, captain
R.N., she was author of three novels, Olivia 1848, Sir Philip
Hetherington 1851, The lover upon trial 1853, all published in
the Parlour library, she _d._ 10 March 1852). He _d._ Arundel
Castle 24 Nov. 1858, portrait at the naval exhibition 1891.
_Drawing room portrait gallery 2nd series_ (1859), _portrait_;
_E. H. Nolan’s Illustrated history of war against Russia_, _i_
398 (1857), _portrait_; _Illust. Times 15 March 1862 p._ 164,
portrait.
LYONS, RICHARD BICKERTON PEMELL LYONS, 1 Viscount (elder son
of the preceding). _b._ Lymington, Hampshire 26 April 1817;
midshipman H.M.S. Blonde 1829; ed. at Winchester and Ch. Ch.
Oxf., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1843, hon. D.C.L. 1865; attaché at Athens
Feb. 1839, at Dresden April 1852 and at Florence 1853; sec. of
legation at Rome 1856, envoy extraord. and min. plenipotentiary
to Grand duke of Tuscany 16 June 1858; minister at Washington
13 Dec. 1858, returned to England 6 Dec. 1864, retired 28 Feb.
1865; voted freedom of city of London 28 Feb. 1856, admitted 19
May 1856; ambassador at Constantinople 10 Aug. 1865, at Paris
6 July 1867 to 1887, negotiated renewal of commercial treaty
of 1860, 1873; K.C.B. 11 Dec. 1860, G.C.B. 24 Jany. 1862; P.C.
9 March 1865; G.C.M.G. 24 May 1879; created viscount Lyons of
Christchurch in the county of Southampton 17 Nov. 1881; joined
Church of Rome shortly before his death; his decease prevented
his being created an earl. _d._ Norfolk house, 31 St. James’s
sq. London 5 Dec. 1887. _bur._ Arundel 10 Dec.
LYONS, FRANCIS. _b._ Cork 1797; ed. at univ. of Paris, M.D. 1822
but never practised; M.P. Cork 1859–65. _d._ 1865.
LYONS, HUMPHRY. _b._ 8 July 1802; entered Bombay army 1817;
lieut. 12 Bombay N.I. 9 July 1818; captain 23 N.I. 25 May 1827
to 21 Jany. 1846; major 28 N.I. 21 Jany. 1846, lieut.-col.
26 Oct. 1850 to 1852; lieut.-col. of 6 N.I. 1852–53, of 1
European regiment, right wing 1853–4, of 14 N.I. 1854–5, of
23 N.I. 1855–7; town major, Bombay 2 Dec. 1851 to 5 May 1859;
lieut.-col. of 1 N.I. 1857 to 7 Oct. 1860; col. of 18 N.I. 7
Oct. 1860 to 1869; L.G. 20 May 1871. _d._ Widmore, Bromley, Kent
27 May 1873.
LYONS, JAMES GILBORNE. _b._ England; ordained in the church
of England; R. of St. Mary’s ch. Burlington, New Jersey, U.S.
America 1844; a teacher in Philadelphia 1861; principal of a
classical school, Haverford, Pennsylvania to death; author of
Christian songs, translations and other poems. Philadelphia
1861. _d._ Haverford 2 Jany. 1868.
LYONS, JOHN (eld. son of John Lyons of Lyons, Antigua, and St.
Austin’s, Hants.) _b._ 1 Sep. 1787; entered navy 20 Sep. 1798;
took part in battle of Trafalgar; captain 22 July 1830; employed
for the government in Egypt; retired admiral 2 April 1866. _d._
Worthing 15 Dec. 1872.
LYONS, JOHN CHARLES (only child of Charles John Lyons 1766–96,
captain 12 light dragoons). _b._ 22 Aug. 1792; matric. from
Pemb. coll. Oxf. 21 May 1810; sheriff of Westmeath 1816; author
of Treatise on the management of orchidaceous plants, with a
catalogue of more than one thousand species 2 ed. Dublin 1845;
A book of surveys and distribution of the estates forfeited in
the county of Westmeath in the year 1641. Ledestown 1852; The
grand juries of Westmeath from 1727 to 1853. Ledestown 1853.
_d._ Ledestown, Westmeath 3 Sep. 1874. _bur._ in churchyard of
Mullingar, co. Westmeath.
LYONS, LOUISA, stage name of A. C. Lyons (dau. of a woman who
kept a glove shop in Carlton st. Regent st. London in 1828).
_b._ about 1820; sat for the Madonna to Stephanoff and Chalon
for their quasi-religious pictures; a pupil of royal academy of
music Jany. 1835 to Dec. 1836; sang in the chorus at the Italian
opera and at Exeter hall; first appeared as an actress at the
Queen’s theatre, London 13 June 1839; mistress of the Marquis
of Waterford 1839–42; played Giovanni in Giovanni in London,
at Victoria theatre 23 Sep. 1844; played at the Strand theatre
before 1845 as Miss Lyons her real name; played afterwards
under name of Turner at Olympic and Lyceum; lived in splendid
style at Bayswater; made a first-rate matrimonial match. _Baron
Nicholson’s Autobiography_ (1860) 53, 250.
LYONS, ROBERT SPENCER DYER (2 son of sir Wm. Lyons 1794–1858).
_b._ Cork 1826; ed. at Cork and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. and
M.B. 1848; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1849; the first in Ireland to
lecture on use of microscope in relation to disease; chief
pathological comr. to the army in the Crimea 1855; awarded
Crimean and Turkish medals and clasps for Sebastopol 8 Sep.
1855; investigated pathological anatomy of yellow fever raging
at Lisbon 1857, for which he received cross and insignia of
Ancient Order of Christ; physician and teacher in St. George’s
hospital, Dublin 1858; professor of medicine in R. C. university
medical school; physician to house of industry hospitals;
a comr. of inquiry into treatment of Irish treason-felony
prisoners in English gaols 1870; enquired into treatment of
French political prisoners 1870; a senator of the royal univ.
1880; crown nominee for Ireland in general medical council of
the U.K. 29 Nov. 1881; M.P. city of Dublin 1880–5; author of
An apology for the microscope 1851; A handbook of hospital
practice 1859; A treatise on fever 1861; Forest acres in Europe
and America and probable future timber supplies 1884. _d._ 89
Merrion sq. Dublin 19 Dec. 1886. _Midland medical miscellany
1 Feb. 1884 pp._ 33–5, _portrait_; _Biograph_, _iii_ 396–400
(1880).
LYONS, SIR WILLIAM (2 son of Wm. Lyons of Cork, merchant). _b._
Cork 28 Aug. 1794; a merchant at Cork; sheriff of Cork; mayor of
Cork 1848 and 1849; knighted by the queen on board the ‘Fairy’
yacht at Cork 3 Aug. 1849. _d._ 27 Dec. 1858.
LYSAGHT, ARTHUR. _b._ 22 Nov. 1782; entered navy 30 June 1795;
captain 25 Sep. 1806; R.A. 23 Nov. 1841; admiral on half pay 18
June 1857. _d._ Twickenham 19 March 1859.
LYSLEY, WILLIAM JOHN (only son of William Lysley _d._ 1792).
_b._ 12 Dec. 1791; barrister I.T. 25 Nov. 1825; sheriff of
Herts. 1851; M.P. Chippenham 1859–65; contested Chippenham 12
July 1865; F.S.A. _d._ St. Leonards on Sea 14 Jany. 1873.
LYSONS, SAMUEL (2 son of rev. Daniel Lysons, topographer
1762–1834). _b._ 17 March 1806; ed. at Exeter coll. Oxf., B.A.
1830, M.A. 1836; R. of Rodmarton, Gloucs. 1833 to death; built
St. Luke’s ch. High Orchard, Gloucester, consecrated 21 April
1841; rural dean of Gloucester 1865–76; hon. canon of Gloucester
cath. 24 Dec. 1867 to death; F.S.A. 6 June 1861; author of
Conjectures concerning the identity of the patriarch Job, his
family, the time in which he lived and the locality of the land
of Uz. Oxford 1832; The Romans in Gloucestershire 1860; Claudia
and Pudens, a tale of the first century 1861; The model merchant
of the middle ages, Whittington and his cat 1861; Our British
ancestors, who and what they were 1865. _d._ Hempsted court,
Gloucester 27 March 1877. _Gloucestershire Notes and Queries_,
_ii_ 514–6, 533.
LYSTER, JAMES (eld. son of col. Anthony Lyster of Lysterfield,
co. Roscommon, _d._ 1841). _b._ 7 Sep. 1810; C. of
Edgworthstown; V. of Rufagh and C. of Street; R. of Tashinny,
Ardagh 1851; dean of Leighlin and R. of Wells 1854–64; hon.
LL.D. Dublin 1863; R. of St. George’s cath. Kingston and dean of
Ontario 1863, non-resident by leave of the bishop with consent
of parishioners. _d._ Plas Isaaf, Ruthin, North Wales 2 Sep.
1891.
LYSTER, WILLIAM SAURIN (son of captain Chaworth Lyster of
Greenane, Queen’s co.). _b._ Dublin 21 March 1827; engaged in
the production of operas in the Australian colonies and New
Zealand 1861–81 where the Lyster opera companies were very
well known; up to 1878 had superintended 1750 performances in
Melbourne where he was a proprietor and managing director of the
new Opera House opened 1872. _d._ Melbourne 26 Nov. 1880.
LYTH, JOHN. _b._ York 13 March 1821; Wesleyan Methodist minister
1843; at Gloucester 1847–9, at Nottingham 1851–4, 1877–80, at
Halifax 1854–7, at Liverpool 1868–71, at Sheffield 1871–4,
at Hull 1874–7, at York 1883 to death; the first Wesleyan
missionary in Germany, at Winnenden, Würtemberg 1859–65; D.D.;
author of Wild Flowers 1843; Die Zionsharfe, a collection of
spiritual songs 1863; Der Sontags-Gast, a periodical 3 vols.
1863–5; Kleine Lieder fur kleine Leute 1864; A homiletical
commentary on Isaiah 1867; The homiletical treasury, Romans to
Philippians 1869; Glimpses of early Methodism in York 1885. _d._
Carlton terrace, York, on the anniversary of his birth 13 March
1886.
LYTH, RICHARD BURDSALL. _b._ York 1810; ed. for medical
profession; medical missionary of Wesleyan Methodist soc. to
the Friendly and Fiji islands 1836–55; translated portions of
Old and New Testament into Fijian language, in which he also
composed hymns; established a training institution for native
agents at Lakemba, Fiji; governor of Wesleyan coll. Auckland,
New Zealand 1855–58; Wesl. minister Gibraltar 1869–74. _d._
Fulford barracks, Yorkshire 27 Feb. 1887.
LYTHGOE, THOMAS. _b._ Manchester 1832; inspector of Metropolitan
gas co.; an aeronaut 1850 to death, making 405 successful
ascents; the first person to make an ascent from the crystal
palace about 1860. _d._ Hertford, April 1893.
LYTTELTON, GEORGE WILLIAM LYTTELTON, 4 Baron (eld. son of 3
baron Lyttelton 1782–1837). _b._ Saville row, London 31 March
1817; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., chancellor’s medallist
and bracketed senior classic 1838, B.A. and M.A. 1838, LL.D.
1862; D.C.L. Oxf. 1870; lord lieut. of Worcs. 7 Nov. 1839 to
death; principal of Queen’s coll. Birmingham 1845; the first
pres. of Birmingham and midland institute 1853; a founder
of Diocesan training college for schoolmasters at Saltley
opened 1852, pres. many years; under secretary of state for
the colonies Jany. to July 1846; chairman of the Canterbury
Association 1849 which founded province of Canterbury, New
Zealand 1850, the seaport of Lyttelton near Christchurch, N.Z.
was called after him; a public schools inquiry comr. 1861;
chief comr. of endowed schools 1869–74; F.R.S. 30 April 1840;
chairman of Worcester cathedral restoration committee; P.C.
15 Feb. 1869; K.C.M.G. 30 June 1869; pres. of British chess
association some years; published with W. E. Gladstone a volume
of translations into Greek and Latin entitled Ex voto communi in
memoriam duplicum nuptiarum viii Kal. Aug. MDCCCXXXIX; edited
several of his father’s works and was author of The four Gospels
and the Acts of the Apostles with notes 1856; New Zealand and
the Canterbury colony 1859; The final court of appeal in causes
affecting the doctrine of the church of England 1864; Ephemera
Series 1, 2, 1865–72; Two lectures on a visit to the Canterbury
colony 1868; committed suicide by jumping out of window at 18
Park crescent, London 19 April 1876. _bur._ Hagley churchyard
22 April. _British Medical Journal 29 April 1876 pp._ 542–3;
_I.L.N. xxvii_ 44 (1855), _portrait_, _lxviii_ 421, 430 (1876),
_portrait_; _Graphic_, _xiii_ 416 (1876), _portrait_; _Walford’s
Representative men_ (1868), _portrait_ 12; _Illust. Midland
news_, _i_ 61 (1869), _portrait_.
LYTTELTON, SPENCER (brother of the preceding). _b._ Saville
row, London 19 June 1818; served some years in royal navy;
ensign Scots fusilier guards 24 May 1839, retired 6 Aug. 1841;
attached to legation at St. Petersburg 27 Aug. 1847; marshal
of ceremonies to the Queen 1 Jany. 1847 to Jany. 1877 when he
resigned. _d._ 11 Eaton terrace, London 4 Feb. 1889.
LYTTELTON, WILLIAM HENRY (brother of 4 baron Lyttelton 1817–76).
_b._ 3 April 1820; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A.
1841; C. of Kettering, Northamptonshire 1843–5; R. of Hagley,
Worcs. 1847 to death; hon. canon of Worcester 4 Nov. 1850 to
1880; canon of Gloucester 1880 to death; edited Forms of praise
and prayer in the manner of offices. Oxford 1869; Scripture
revelations of the life after death 1875, 4 ed. 1893; translated
from the French of Frédéric Godet, Studies on the Old Testament,
2 ed. 1882; Lectures in defence of the christian faith 1881, 2
ed. 1883; and from the French of Félix Bovet, Egypt, Palestine
and Phœnicia, a visit to sacred lands 1882. _d._ Malvern 24 July
1884.
LYTTON, EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, 1 Baron
(youngest son of Wm. Earle Bulwer of Heydon hall, Norfolk,
general 1757–1807). _b._ 31 Baker st. London 25 May 1803; ed.
at Rottingdean, Ealing and Trin. coll. and Trin. hall Camb.,
chancellor’s medallist 1825; B.A. 1826, M.A. 1835, hon. LL.D.
1864; hon. LL.D. Oxf. 1853; purchased an ensigncy in the army 19
Oct. 1825, placed on h.p. 27 July 1826, sold out 25 Jany. 1829;
edited the New Monthly Mag. Nov. 1831 to 1832; M.P. St. Ives,
Hunts. 1831–2; M.P. Lincoln 1832–41; contested city of Lincoln
1841 and 1847; M.P. Herts. 1852–66; his plays The duchess de la
Vallière produced 4 Jany. 1837; The Lady of Lyons or love and
pride 15 Feb. 1838; Richelieu or the conspiracy 7 March 1839,
all 3 at Covent Garden; The sea captain or the birthright,
produced at Haymarket 31 Oct. 1839, revived at Lyceum as The
rightful heir 3 Oct. 1868; Money, produced at Haymarket 8 Dec.
1840, which ran for unprecedented number of 80 nights; Not so
bad as we seem, performed by Charles Dickens’s amateur company
at duke of Devonshire’s house in London 27 May 1851; created
baronet 18 July 1838; assumed surname of Lytton by r.l. 10 Feb.
1844; secretary of state for the colonies 31 May 1858 to 18 June
1859, new colony of British Columbia organised 1858, Queensland
separated from New South Wales 1859, a town in each colony is
named Lytton after him; lord rector of Glasgow univ. 1856 and
1858; created baron Lytton of Knebworth, Herts. 14 July 1866;
P.C. 5 June 1858; G.C.M.G. 15 Jany. 1870; author of Ismael, an
Oriental tale with other poems 1820; Pelham, or the adventures
of a gentleman 3 vols. 1828, anon.; Paul Clifford. By E.L.B.
3 vols. 1830; The pilgrims of the Rhine 1834, anon.; The last
days of Pompeii 3 vols. 1834; Rienzi, the last of the tribunes
3 vols. 1835; Athens, its rise and fall 2 vols. 1837; Night
and morning 3 vols. 1841; Zanoni 3 vols. 1842; Lucretia or the
children of night 1846, anon.; King Arthur, a poem 1848; The
Caxtons 3 vols. 1849; My Novel. By Pisistratus Caxton 4 vols.
1853; What will he do with it. By P. Caxton 4 vols. 1859; The
coming race 1871, anon., and about 40 other books; a library
edition of his novels appeared in 43 vols. 1859–63. _d._ Argyll
lodge, Torquay 18 Jany. 1873. _bur._ St. Edmund’s chapel,
Westminster abbey 25 Jany. _Life, letters and literary remains.
By his Son_ 2 _vols._ (1883), 2 _portraits_; _Lord Lytton, a
biography by Thomson Cooper_ (1873); _The Derby ministry_. _By
Mark Rochester i.e. Charles Kent_ (1858) 143–94; _Illustrated
Review 15 June 1871 pp._ 551–5, _portrait_; _Cartoon Portraits_
(1873) 1–5, _portrait_; _J. H. Friswell’s Modern men of letters_
(1870) 243–56; _R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age_, _ii_
189–214 (1844), _portrait_; _J. C. Jeaffreson’s Novels and
novelists_, _ii_ 198–220 (1858); _Madden’s Literary life of
Countess of Blessington_, _iii_ 27–63 (1855); _Graphic_, _vii_
70, 97, 100 (1873), 2 _portraits_.
NOTE.--He gave the ground near Stevenage, Herts., for an institute for
retired members of the Guild of Literature and Art 1851, one side of
the building consisting of 13 dwellings was erected and inaugurated 29
July 1865 but the scheme was a failure. He is satirised by Thackeray
in his Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush as Mistawedward Lytton
Bulwig. _The works of W. M. Thackeray_, _xii_ 404–14 (1869).
LYTTON, EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON, 1 Earl of (only son of
the preceding). _b._ 36 Hertford st. London 8 Nov. 1831; ed.
at Harrow and Bonn; attaché at Washington 1849, at Florence
1852, at Paris 1854, at the Hague 1856, at St. Petersburg 1858,
at Constantinople 1858, at Vienna 1859; secretary of legation
at Copenhagen 1863, at Athens 1864, at Lisbon 1865; secretary
to embassy at Madrid 1868, at Vienna 1868, at Constantinople
1870, at Paris 1872–4; minister at Lisbon 26 Nov. 1874 to 1
March 1876; succeeded as 2 baron Lytton 18 Jany. 1873; declined
governorship of Malta, Jany. 1875; viceroy of India 12 Feb. 1876
to 27 April 1880, installed viceroy 12 April 1876; the Queen
was proclaimed empress of India at Delhi 1 Jany. 1877; G.C.S.I.
12 April 1876, grand master of the order 1876–80; G.C.B. 1
Jany. 1878; created viscount Knebworth of Knebworth and earl
of Lytton 26 April 1880; lord rector of Glasgow univ. 1887;
ambassador at Paris 1 Nov. 1887 to death; edited some of his
father’s works and wrote a continuation to his Autobiography
1883; author of The ring of Amasis, a romance 2 vols. 1863;
Chronicles and characters 2 vols. 1868; Orval or the fool
of time 1869; Julian Fane, a memoir 1871; Fables in song 2
vols. 1874; King Poppy, a story without end. By Horatio 1875;
Glenaveril 1885; After Paradise, or legends of exile 1887; and
under the pseudonym of Owen Meredith, Clytemnestra 1855; The
Wanderer 1859; Serbski Pesme or national songs of Servia 1861;
Lucile 1860; The poetical works of Owen Meredith, new ed. 2
vols. 1867; published with J. C. H. Fane under pseudonyms of
Neville Temple and Edward Trevor, Tannhaüser, or the battle of
the bards, a poem 1861. _d._ at the British embassy, Paris 24
Nov. 1891. _bur._ in mausoleum near Knebworth church 1 Dec. _T.
H. S. Escott’s Pillars of the empire_ (1879) 189–96; _C. Brown’s
Life of Beaconsfield_, _ii_ 28 (1882), _portrait_; _Army and
navy mag. iii_ 99 (1882), _portrait_; _Dublin Univ. Mag. June
1876 pp._ 654–68, _portrait_; _Black and White 28 Nov. 1891 p._
707, _portrait_.
LYTTON, ROSINA ANNE DOYLE (youngest dau. of Francis Massy
Wheeler of Lizzard Connel, Limerick). _b._ Ballywhire near
Limerick 2 Nov. 1802; ed. in Kensington, London; her parents
having separated, she lived with her mother in Guernsey and
Caen; _m._ at St. James’s ch. Piccadilly 29 Aug. 1827 Edward
George Earle Lytton Bulwer afterwards 1 baron Lytton, they
executed a deed of separation 19 April 1836 her allowance
being £400 per annum, which was increased to £500 by deed
dated 1 Oct. 1858; at the hustings at Hertford she exposed
her husband’s cruel treatment of her 8 June 1858; confined by
her husband in R. G. Hill’s lunatic asylum, Inverness lodge,
Brentford 22 June to 17 July 1858; lived at Taunton 1856–74,
at Upper Sydenham 1875 to death; author of Cheveley, the man
of honour 3 vols. 1839, reprinted as Lady Cheveley or the
woman of honour 1839; The budget of the Bubble family 3 vols.
1840; Bianca Capello, an historical romance 3 vols. 1842; The
prince-duke and the page. Ed. by Lady L. Bulwer 3 vols. 1841;
Memoirs of a Muscovite. Ed. by Lady Lytton 3 vols. 1844; The
peer’s daughters 3 vols. 1849; Miriam Sedley, or the tares and
the wheat 3 vols. 1851; The school for husbands, or Molière’s
Life and times 3 vols. 1852; Behind the scenes 3 vols. 1854;
Very successful 3 vols. 1856; Mauleverer’s divorce, a story of
women’s wrongs 3 vols. 1857; The world and his wife, a novel
3 vols. 1858; The household fairy 1870; Where there’s a will
there’s a way 1871, anon.; Shells from the sands of time 1876.
_d._ Glenômera, Upper Sydenham 12 March 1882. _bur._ churchyard
of St. John the Evangelist, Shirley, Surrey. _Life of Rosina,
lady Lytton. By Louisa Devey_ (1887), _portrait_; _Letters of
lord Lytton to lady Lytton. Edited by L. Devey_ (1884), _this
book was suppressed by lord Lytton’s successor 12 Jany. 1885_;
_Thomas Mulock’s British lunatic asylums_ (1858) 47–9; _Lady
Bulwer Lytton’s Appeal to the justice and charity of the English
public_ (1857), _3 ed._ (1857); _The life of E. B. lord Lytton,
by his son_, _ii_ 33 _etc._; _You have heard of them. By Q._
(1854), 31–6; _Daily News 16 March 1882 p._ 5.
LYVEDEN, ROBERT VERNON, 1 Baron (eld. son of Robert Percy Smith
of Cheam, Surrey 1770–1845, judge advocate general in India).
_b._ 23 Feb. 1800; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1822; M.P.
Tralee 1829–31; M.P. Northampton 1831–59; a junior lord of the
treasury 24 Nov. 1830 to 21 Nov. 1834; sec. of board of control
21 April 1835 to 30 Sep. 1839 and president 3 March 1855 to 6
March 1858; under sec. of state for the colonies 1839 to 8 Sep.
1841; P.C. 21 Aug. 1841; dropped the use of his patronymic Smith
by r.l. 5 Aug. 1846; sec. of state for war 6 Feb. to 28 Feb.
1852; cr. baron Lyveden of Lyveden, Northants. 28 June 1859;
G.C.B. 13 July 1872; edited Letters addressed to the countess of
Ossory by Horace Walpole 1848. d. Farming Woods near Thrapstone,
Northamptonshire 10 Nov. 1873, personalty sworn under £250,000,
17 Jany. 1874. _I.L.N. lxiii_ 495 (1873), _lxiv_ 54 (1874).
M
MAAS, JOSEPH. _b._ Dartford, Kent 30 Jany. 1847; a chorister in
Rochester cathedral 1857; a clerk in Chatham dockyard; studied
singing under San Giovanni at Milan 1869–71; sang at St. James’s
hall, London, Feb. 1871; made his début on the stage at Covent
Garden 29 Aug. 1872 as prince Babil in Boucicault’s Babil and
Bijou; sang with the Kellogg English opera co. in America;
principal tenor with the Carl Rosa opera co. in Great Britain
1877–80; sang at Her Majesty’s theatre 1880; sang in Paris 1884,
in Brussels at the Bach and Handel festival 1885; created the
part of the Chevalier des Grieux in Massenet’s opera Manon at
Drury Lane 7 May 1885; almost unrivalled in Handel’s oratorios
and English ballads; sang at Birmingham musical festival 1885.
_d._ of rheumatic fever at 21 Marlborough hill, St. John’s Wood,
London 16 Jany. 1886. _bur._ Child’s Hill cemet. Hampstead,
marble monument with carved portrait unveiled in the cemetery 20
Feb. 1887.
MABERLY, CATHERINE CHARLOTTE (2 dau. of the hon. Francis
Aldborough Prittie of Corville, co. Tipperary 1779–1853). _b._
1805; (_m._ 11 Nov. 1830 W. L. Maberly 1798–1885); author of
Emily, or the Countess of Rosendale 3 vols. 1840; The love match
3 vols. 1841, 3 ed. 1863; Melanthe, or the days of the Medici
3 vols. 1843; Leontine, or the court of Louis the Fifteenth 3
vols. 1846; The present state of Ireland and its remedy 1847, 3
ed. 1847; Fashion and its votaries 3 vols. 1848; The lady and
the priest 3 vols. 1851; Display, a novel 3 vols. 1855; Leonora
3 vols. 1856, 2 ed. 1866. _d._ 7 Feb. 1875.
MABERLEY, FREDERICK HERBERT (son of Stephen Maberley of London).
_b._ 1781 or 1782; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809; C. of Bourn Cambs.; travelled in a van
all over England distributing protestant tracts about 1812; his
pamphlet in 1818 upon the drowning of an undergraduate called
Lawrence Dundas led to introduction of a system of licensed
lodgings at Cambridge; appeared at the bar of the house of
lords to impeach the duke of Wellington on account of the Roman
Catholic emancipation bill, when he was summarily ejected 1829;
author of The melancholy death of Lawrence Dundas, with an
address on drunkenness 1818; V. of Great Finborough, Suffolk 14
May 1834 to death. _d._ Stowmarket 24 Jany. 1860. _G.M. viii_
511 (1860).
MABERLY, WILLIAM LEADER (son of John Maberly of Shirley house
near Croydon, M.P. for Abingdon 1820–31). _b._ 7 May 1798;
lieut. 7 foot 23 March 1815; lieut. 9 lancers 1817, placed on
h.p. 14 May 1818; major 72 foot 10 Nov. 1825 to 30 Dec. 1826;
lieut.-col. 96 foot 30 Dec. 1826 to 13 Sep. 1827; lieut.-col.
76 foot 13 Sep. 1827, placed on h.p. 9 March 1832; retired 1
July 1881; M.P. Westbury 1819–20, M.P. Northampton 1820–30,
M.P. Shaftesbury 1831–2 and M.P. Chatham 1832–4; contested
Abingdon 10 Dec. 1832; surveyor general of the ordnance 12
Jany. 1831 to Dec. 1832; clerk of the ordnance 1833–4; a comr.
of customs 1834–6; joint secretary of general post office 29
Sep. 1836, permanent secretary Nov. 1846 to April 1854, opposed
all schemes of postal reform; comr. of board of audit April
1854, retired 1866 on pension of £1200; granted additional
pension from the post office of £533 6s. 8d., 1 April 1867.
_d._ 23 Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 6 Feb. 1885. _E.
Yates’s Recollections_, _i_ 96–100 (1884); _A. Trollope’s
Autobiography_, _i_ 59–63 (1883).
M’ADAM, DAVID. Second lieut. R.M. 19 April 1805, lieut.-col. 27
May 1848; col. and 2nd commandant 14 March 1854 to 18 April 1854
when he retired on full pay; M.G. 20 June 1855; was more than
70 times under fire. _d._ Edinburgh 10 June 1859. _G.M. vii_ 86
(1859).
MAC ADAM, JAMES. _b._ Belfast, Jany. 1801; one of the 8 founders
of the natural history and philosophical society of Belfast
1821, pres. to death; one of founders of botanic garden at
Belfast; F.G.S.; lectured On the production of the flax plant
and the modes of preparing its fibre for manufacture 1852. _d._
Belfast 1 June 1861. _Quarterly journal of Geological soc.
xviii_ 37 (1862).
MC ADAM, SIR JAMES NICHOLL (3 son of John Loudon Mc Adam,
introducer of system of road making that bears his name
1756–1836). _b._ 1785; general surveyor of metropolis turnpike
roads to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 26 March 1834
instead of his father who declined the honour. _d._ 17 Finchley
road, St. John’s Wood, London 30 June 1852.
MACADAM, JOHN (son of Wm. Macadam). _b._ Northbank near Glasgow,
May 1827; ed. at univs. of Glasgow and Edinb.; M.D. Glasgow;
lecturer on chemistry and natural science in the Scotch college,
Melbourne 1855; member of Philosophical institution of Victoria,
secretary 1857–63, vice pres. 1863, the institution became royal
society of Victoria 1859, edited the society’s Transactions
vols. 1–5; member for Castlemaine in legislative assembly of
Victoria 1859–64; postmaster general 26 April to 14 Nov. 1861;
lecturer on chemistry in univ. of Melbourne 1861–2; government
officer of health and public analyst to city of Melbourne. _d._
on board the Alhambra on his way to New Zealand 2 Sep. 1865.
MC ADAM, WILLIAM (eld. son of Wm. Mc Adam _d._ 23 Feb. 1836
the eld. son of J. L. Mc Adam 1756–1836). _b._ 1803; surveyor
general of turnpike roads in England to death; K.H. 1834. _d._
the Park, Bath 28 Aug. 1861. _Observations sur les routes dites
Mac Adam. Par Auguste Jones suivies d’une réponse de W. Mac Adam
etc._ 1861.
MACALESTER, CHARLES ARCHIBALD (son of colonel Archibald
Macalester). _b._ 1790; ensign 35 foot 19 Sep. 1795, major 13
June 1811, placed on h.p. 8 June 1826; brevet lieut.-col. 12
Aug. 1819; served in the campaigns of Egypt, Calabria, Belgium
and France, at the capture of Malta and the Ionian Islands;
chief of civil government of Island of Cerigo 1809–12; K.H.
1833. _d._ Loup cottage, Axminster, Devon 25 Aug. 1869.
MACALISTER, ARTHUR. _b._ Glasgow 1818; educated for a solicitor;
solicitor at Ipswich, New South Wales 1850; M.P. Ipswich in
the parliament of Queensland 10 May 1860 to 1871 and 1873–6;
secretary for lands and works 21 March 1862 to Feb. 1866;
premier 1 Feb. to 20 July 1866, 7 Aug. 1866 to Aug. 1867 and 8
Jany. 1874 to 5 June 1876; secretary of works and goldfields
28 Jany. 1869 to 3 May 1870; speaker for session of 1870–1;
colonial secretary 8 Jany. 1874 to 5 June 1876; agent general
for Queensland in London 22 June 1876 to 16 Nov. 1881; C.M.G.
13 March 1876. _d._ at the residence of his sister, Sunnyside,
Uddington near Glasgow 23 March 1883.
M’ALL, ROBERT WHITAKER (son of Robert Stephens M’All,
independent minister, _d._ 1838). _b._ 1821; independent
minister Sunderland; with his wife established the Mc All
non-sectarian mission in Paris for teaching the ‘lapsed masses’
Jany. 1872, which before his death had 43 meeting places in
Paris, 89 in the provinces of France and 6 in Algeria and
Tunis; received a medal from the Encouragement du Bien society;
received a testimonial on the 20 anniversary of the mission
1892; member of legion of honour July 1892; author of Letter
and symbol, a lecture on the personal reign theory, in Ebenezer
chapel, Sunderland 1853. _d._ Auteuil near Paris 11 May 1893.
_The white fields of France or the story of Mr. M’All’s mission.
By H. Bonar_ (1879); _A cry from the land of Calvin and
Voltaire_ (1887).
MC CALL, SAMUEL (younger son of Robert Mc All, minister of the
countess of Huntingdon’s chapel). _b._ St. Ives, Cornwall 5
Oct. 1807; ed. Rotherham coll.; pastor of Hall Gate chapel,
Doncaster 1829–43; pastor at Nottingham 1843–60; principal of
Hackney coll. 1860–80; author of Lectures at the nonconformist
churches in Nottingham 1850; The logic of atheism 1853, 2 ed.
entitled The sceptics credulity 1870; The pastoral care, hints
on the services of congregational churches 1873; Delivery, or
lecture room hints on public speaking 1875. _d._ 2 Goulton road,
Clapton, London 9 March 1888. _Congregational Year book_ (1889)
198–201.
MC ALPIN, WILLIAM. Chief engineer in service of the Viceroy
of Egypt 25 years, _d._ 1 May 1865 aged 61. _bur._ Highgate
cemetery.
MACAN, GEORGE. _b._ 1803; entered Bombay army 1819; lieut.
15 Bombay N.I. 182-, captain 9 Feb. 1829; captain 2nd Bombay
European regiment 1839, lieut.-col. 15 May 1850 to 1855, of 14
N.I. 1855–7, of 3 N.I. 1857–8, of 11 N.I. 1858–60; commandant
Baroda 10 June 1859 to 1860; col. of 25 Bombay light infantry 2
June 1860 to death; M.G. 20 April 1862. _d._ 1 Westbourne st.
Hyde park gardens, London 12 Nov. 1866.
MACAN, HENRY. _b._ 1804; entered Bombay army 1819; lieut. 17
Bombay N.I. 182-, captain 27 Nov. 1834, lieut.-col. 29 Dec. 1846
to 1852; lieut.-col. of 24 N.I. 1852 to 6 Dec. 1856; commandant
Rajcote 10 April 1854 to 24 Nov. 1855; commanded Rajpootana
field force 10 March 1856 to 1857; col. of 17 N.I. 6 Dec. 1856;
general 24 May 1877; C.B. 28 Feb. 1861. _d._ 31 Craven road,
Westbourne terrace, London 20 April 1885.
MACAN, JOHN. Called to Irish bar 1815; Q.C. 13 July 1835;
bencher of King’s Inns 1841 to death; comr. of court of
bankruptcy 1836–57, judge of the court 1857 to death; _found
dead_ in his bed at 9 Mountjoy sq. north, Dublin 5 June 1859.
MACANDREW, JAMES. _b._ Aberdeen 1820; in business in London till
1850; went to Otago, New Zealand 1850; a ship builder; a member
of the N.Z. parliament from the establishment of responsible
government 1854 to death; minister of lands Oct. 1877, minister
of public works 1878; superintendent of the Otago province
1860–76; the first to establish steam communication between New
Zealand and England; founder of Otago university; author of
Address to the people of Otago. Dunedin 1875. _d._ from effects
of a carriage accident 24 Feb. 1887. _W. Gisborne’s New Zealand
rulers_ (1886) 269–70, _portrait_.
M’ARDLE, JOHN FRANCIS. _b._ Liverpool 1842; ed. R.C. institute
Maryland st., and St. Cuthbert’s coll. Ushaw; journalist in
England and Ireland; connected with the Northern Press, now
The Catholic Times, Liverpool; wrote Taffy’s triumph, a farce,
and The Talisman, a burlesque, theatre royal Liverpool 10 Aug.
1874; Round the globe, a spectacle, Alexandra theatre 29 March
1875; The musical marionettes, a comedy, and Zampa, a burlesque,
Prince of Wales’ 6 and 9 Oct. 1876; Round the clock, a dramatic
folly, Alexandra 25 March 1878; Olivia’s love, drama, Royal
6 May 1878; Flint and steel, a farce, Alexandra, Sheffield,
May 1881; Fluff or a clean sweep, an absurdity, Opera house,
Leicester 1 Aug. 1881; wrote The wicked Welshman 1878, She’s a
daisy 1881, You have often heard of my complaints 1882 and other
songs. _d._ at the res. of his mother, Flint st. Liverpool 21
Feb. 1883. _bur._ Ford cemetery 6 miles from Liverpool 24 Feb.
MACARTE, REGINA (sister of George Ginnett, equestrian). Pupil
of Andrew Ducrow, proprietor of Astley’s amphitheatre; appeared
before the court at Brighton with Ducrow’s company; one of the
most accomplished equestriennes of her time; retired about 1857.
_d._ in United States of America 3 Sep. 1892.
M’ARTHUR, DAVID CHARTERIS. _b._ 1809; in service of North
British insurance co. Edinb. 1826–35; clerk in bank of
Australasia, Sydney, N.S.W. 1835, sent to open a branch
in Melbourne, Victoria 1837, manager till 1860, general
superintendent of the bank’s colonial establishments 1868,
retired from active service 1885, local director of the
Melbourne branch till death; member of a committee for enquiring
into the finances of Victoria, who recommended abolition of the
imprest system 1854. _d._ Melbourne 15 Nov. 1887.
M’ARTHUR, DUNCAN. _b._ Glasgow 1773; surgeon R.N.; M.D. of
Aberdeen 1 March 1810; F.L.S. 1810; physician to the fleet 27
April 1812; physician naval hospital, Deal; F.R.C.P. Lond. 10
Feb. 1841; C.B. 17 Aug. 1850. _d._ Deal or Walmer, Kent 16 Jany.
1855. _Proc. Linnean Soc. ii_ 414 (1855).
MACARTHUR, SIR EDWARD (eld. child of John Macarthur 1767–1834,
of Camden park, one of founders of Australian merino wool
industry). _b._ Bath 1789; taken by his parents to New South
Wales 1790; ensign 60 foot 27 Oct. 1808; lieut. 39 foot 1809,
captain 8 Feb. 1821, placed on h.p. as major 10 June 1826;
served in the Peninsula 1812–14; secretary in lord chamberlain’s
office, house of lords 1830–7; A.A.G. in Ireland 1837–41; D.A.G
in Australia 1851–5; commanded the troops in Australia 1855–60;
acting governor of Victoria 1 Jany. to 31 Dec. 1856; col. of
100 foot 28 Sep. 1862 to death; L.G. 14 June 1868; C.B. 17 July
1857, K.C.B. 23 July 1862; author of Colonial policy of 1840 and
1841 as illustrated by the governor’s despatches 1841. _d._ 27
Prince’s gardens, London 4 Jany. 1872. _I.L.N. lx_ 51 (1872).
MACARTHUR, HANNIBAL HAWKINS (son of the succeeding). _b._
Plymouth 16 Jany. 1788; emigrated to New South Wales 1805;
assisted his relatives in the merino wool trade; police
magistrate at Parramatta some years; member for Parramatta in
first parliament of N.S.W. 18 July 1842. _d._ Norwood, Surrey 6
March 1861.
MACARTHUR, JAMES (brother of sir E. Macarthur 1789–1872). _b._
Parramatta, New South Wales 1798; took part in his father’s
agricultural enterprises; member of legislative council of
N.S.W. 1839, member for Camden 1848–53; declined knighthood
1859; assisted in exploring Gippsland 1840; member of
international statistical congress in London 1860; comr. for
N.S.W. at London exhibition 1862; author of New South Wales, its
present state and future prospects 1837. _d._ Sydney 21 April
1867.
MACARTHUR, SIR WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). _b._
Parramatta, Dec. 1800; assisted his father in his various
projects 1817; brought over six German vine-dressers to improve
the vine culture at Camden 1839; elective member of legislative
council of N.S.W. 1849–55; a representative comr. for colony
of N.S.W. at Paris exhibition 1855; an officer of the legion
of honour 1855; knighted at St. James’s palace 12 March 1856;
member of legislative council of N.S.W. 1864; author of Letters
on the culture of the vine, fermentation and the management of
wine in the cellar. By Maro 1844. _d._ Sydney, N.S.W. 29 Oct.
1882. _A voyage round the world. By the Marquis de Beauvoir_,
_i_ 246–9 (1870).
M’ARTHUR, SIR WILLIAM (5 child of John M’Arthur, Wesleyan
minister, _d._ 1840). _b._ Malin, barony of Innishowen, co.
Donegal 6 July 1809; ed. at Stranorlar, co. Donegal; apprenticed
to Hugh Copeland of Enniskillen, woollen draper 1821–5; woollen
draper with Joseph Cather at Londonderry 1831–5, and alone from
15 Nov. 1835 to 1857; merchant in Australian trade 18–19 Silk
st. Cripplegate, London, having with his brother Alexander
M’Arthur, M.P., houses in Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland 1857;
contested Pontefract, July 1865; M.P. Lambeth 1868–85; contested
West Newington 1885; leader of the movement in favour of the
annexation of Fiji 1872; a great supporter of the Wesleyan
methodist connection; sheriff of London 1867–8, alderman of ward
of Coleman st. 3 Sep. 1872 to death, lord mayor 1880–1; master
of spectacle makers’ company 6 Oct. 1875; K.C.M.G. 17 Nov. 1882.
_d._ in a carriage at the Praed st. station of Metropolitan
railway, London 16 Nov. 1887. _bur._ Norwood cemet. 21 Nov. Will
proved for £120,937 2s. 5d., which did not include his estate
in the colonies. _T. Mc Cullagh’s Sir W. M’Arthur_ (1891),
_portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxvii_ 448 (1880), _portrait_; _Graphic
xxii_ 436 (1880), _portrait_; _J. E. Ritchie’s Famous city men_
(1884) 85–95.
MACARTHY or CARTER, JOHN or THOMAS, known as Macarte and
Massarti. _b._ Cork 1838; a servant in Bell’s circus 1862, when
passing the lions’ cage in Bell’s menagerie, Crosshall st.
Liverpool, a lioness seized him by the left arm, he was rescued
by Batty and being removed to the Northern hospital his fore-arm
was amputated 13 Nov. 1862; lion tamer in Bell and Myers’s
circus 1862; lion tamer in Rosina Manders’s menagerie Jany.
1871 to death; attacked by 4 lions at Market square, Bolton
3 Jany. 1872. _d._ in infirmary, Bolton 3 Jany. 1872. _bur._
Bolton cemetery 6 Jany. _Times 17 Nov. 1862 p._ 12; _Illust. sp.
and dr. news_, _ii_ 209 (1874); _Baily’s Mag. xliii_ 16–17, 20
(1885); _T. Frost’s Circus Life_ (1876) 293–6.
MACAULAY, THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY, 1 Baron (eld. child of
Zachary Macaulay, philanthropist 1768–1838). _b._ Rothley
Temple, Leics. 25 Oct. 1800; began residence at Trin. coll.
Camb. Oct. 1818, a fellow 1 Oct. 1824 to 1831; Craven univ.
scholar 1821; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; D.C.L. Oxford 1853;
barrister L.I. 10 Feb. 1826, bencher Jany. 1850 to death;
contributed to Edinburgh Review, May 1825 to 1845; a comr. in
bankruptcy Jany. 1828 to 1831; M.P. Calne 1830–2, M.P. Leeds
1832–4, M.P. Edinburgh 1839–47 and 18 July 1852 to Jany. 1856;
a comr. of board of control July to Dec. 1832, secretary to the
board 19 Dec. 1832 to 26 Dec. 1833; fifth member of supreme
council of India at Calcutta 4 Dec. 1833 to Dec. 1838; compiled
a criminal code for India 1835–7; began his History of England,
March 1839; secretary at war with a seat in the cabinet 26 Sep.
1839 to 4 Sep. 1841; proposed a copyright of 42 years from
publication, which became law 1842; paymaster general 7 July
1846 to 11 May 1848; lord rector of univ. of Glasgow, Nov. 1848,
installed 21 March 1849; F.R.S. 22 Nov. 1849; fellow of univ.
of London 1850–9; professor of ancient history in royal academy
1850; created baron Macaulay of Rothley, Leicestershire 10 Sep.
1857; high steward of borough of Cambridge 1857, sworn in 11
May 1858; lived at El The Albany, Piccadilly 1840–56, and at
Holly lodge afterwards called Airlie lodge, Campden Hill 1856
to death; author of Critical and miscellaneous essays 5 vols.
1841–4; Lays of ancient Rome 1842; The history of England
5 vols. 1849–61; Speeches 2 vols. 1853; The works of lord
Macaulay. Ed. by lady Trevelyan 8 vols. 1866, portrait. _d._ in
his library at Holly lodge, Campden hill, Kensington 28 Dec.
1859. _bur._ in Poet’s Corner, Westminster abbey 9 Jany. 1860
where is bust, statue by T. Woolner in Trin. coll. Camb. _G. O.
Trevelyan’s Life and letters of Lord Macaulay_ 2 _vols._ (1876),
_portrait_; _Men of the time_ (1857) 489–93; _Illustrated
Review_, _iv_ 1–11 (1873), _portrait_; _Peter Anton’s Masters
in history_ (1884) 123–94; _Jerrold, Tennyson and Macaulay. By
J. H. Stirling_ (1868) 112–71; _Rev. F. Arnold’s Public life of
Lord Macaulay_ (1862); _R. H. Horner’s New spirit of the age_,
_ii_ 33–50 (1844); _D. O. Madden’s Chiefs of parties_, _ii_
113–35 (1859); _Proc. of royal society_, _xi_ 11–26 (1860);
_Traits of character. By A Contemporary_, _ii_ 1–26 (1860);
_Fagan’s Reform club_ (1887) 121, _portrait_.
MACAULAY, BEATA ELIZABETH. _b._ 1800; cousin of lord Macaulay;
contributed much to City Press; translated Domestic worship by
J. H. Merle D’Aubigné 1846. _d._ Gurnard, Cowes, Isle of Wight
15 Jany. 1883.
MACAULAY, CHARLES ZACHARY. _b._ 15 Oct. 1813; assistant to
sir Benjamin Brodie; private secretary to T. B. Macaulay when
secretary at war 1839 to 1841; secretary of the Audit office
1854–65, one of the chairmen 1865–6 when granted pension of
£1200; edited under pseudonym of Conway Morel, Authority and
conscience, a debate on the tendency of dogmatic theology.
London 1871. _d._ 7 Aug. 1886.
MACAULAY, COLIN CAMPBELL (2 son of Aulay Macaulay, V. of
Rothley). _b._ Rothley vicarage 19 Nov. 1799; ed. by his father
and at Rugby; clerk to Thomas Burbidge of Leicester, solicitor
1815–28; admitted an attorney and solicitor; member of firm
of Greaves and Burbidge of Leicester, solicitors 1831 to
death; member of Leicester literary and philosophical society,
president 1847–49, contributed many papers to the transactions.
_d._ Knighton lodge, Leicester 20 Oct. 1853. _bur._ family vault
Rothley. _G.M. xl_ 644 (1853).
MACAULAY, SIR JAMES BUCHANAN (2 son of James Macaulay, inspector
general of hospitals). _b._ Niagara, Ontario, Canada 3 Dec.
1793; ensign 98 foot 14 Dec. 1809; lieut. in Glengarry fencibles
1812–15 when corps was disbanded; fought at Ogdensburg, Oswego,
Lundy’s Lane, and at siege of Fort Erie in the war with America;
admitted to Canadian bar 1822; judge of court of queen’s bench
1829; chief justice of court of common pleas, Dec. 1849 to 1856
when he retired on a pension; judge of court of error and appeal
1859; chairman of commission appointed to revise and consolidate
the statutes of Upper Canada, completed 1858; C.B. 30 Nov. 1858;
knighted by patent 13 Jany. 1859. _d._ Toronto 26 Nov. 1859.
MACAULAY, KENNETH (youngest son of rev. Aulay Macaulay). _b._
Rothley 1815; ed. at Jesus coll. Camb., B.A. 1835, M.A. 1839;
barrister I.T. 3 May 1839, bencher 1850 to death, reader 1864,
treasurer 1865; Q.C. Feb. 1850; leader of Midland circuit; M.P.
borough of Camb. 9 July 1852, unseated by committee of house
of commons Aug. 1854; M.P. Camb. 28 March 1857 to 6 July 1865.
_d._ Shaftesbury road, Brooklands, Cambridge 29 July 1867. _Law
Times_, _xliii_ 224 (1867); _I.L.N. xxii_ 152 (1853), _portrait_.
MC AULEY, JEREMIAH. _b._ Ireland 1839; went to New York 1852; a
thief and prize-fighter; sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for
highway robbery 1858, released March 1864; entered the Methodist
church and in Oct. 1872 opened a mission called the Helping Hand
in Water st. New York; opened the Cremorne mission with his wife
Maria 1882; began publication of a weekly paper called Jerry
Mc Auley’s Newspaper, June 1883. _d._ New York 18 Sep. 1884.
_Jerry Mc Auley, an autobiography ed. by R. M. Offord. New York_
(1885), _portraits of himself and wife_.
MACBAIN, SIR JAMES (youngest son of Smith Macbain of
Invergordon). _b._ Kinrhives, Rossshire, April 1828; apprenticed
to Andrew Smith of Inverness, warehouseman 1845–50; traveller
for firm of Milligan & Co. of Bradford; clerk in bank of
New South Wales at Melbourne 1853–7; managing partner for a
branch of firm of Gibbs, Ronald & Co. mercantile and squatting
agents Melbourne 1858, partner in the London house 1863, the
Australian mortgage, land and finance co. bought the business
1865, chairman of the Australian directorate 1865–90; member for
Wimmera district of legislative assembly of Victoria 1864–80;
member for the Central province, to the legislative council
1880–3; a cabinet minister Aug. 1881 to March 1883; member for
South Yarra 1884; pres. of the legislative council 27 Nov. 1884;
chairman of Victorian comrs. at Amsterdam exhibition 1883; pres.
of executive commission of Melbourne centennial exhibition 1888;
knighted by patent 21 June 1886; K.C.M.G. 24 May 1889. _d._
Scotsburn near Toorak, Melbourne 4 Nov. 1892.
MACBEAN, ARCHIBALD. _b._ 1793; second lieut. R.A. 13 Dec. 1810,
lieut.-col. 1 Nov. 1848 to 11 June 1850 when he retired on full
pay; L.G. 2 Feb. 1868. _d._ 1 Lancaster terrace, Regent’s park,
London 1 Feb. 1871.
MACBEAN, FREDERICK. Ensign 6 foot 9 June 1803, captain 16 May
1816; served in the Peninsula 1812–13 and in Upper Canada 1815;
major 7 foot 18 July 1826; lieut.-col. 84 foot 2 Nov. 1838 to 10
Dec. 1847 when he sold out; K.H. 1835. _d._ 15 March 1865 aged
78.
M’BEAN, JAMES. _b._ 1795; presbyterian minister; librarian to
univ. of St. Andrews 1839–70. _d._ 8 Queen st. St. Andrews 26
April 1886.
MACBEAN, SIR WILLIAM (son of Wm. Frederick Macbean, lieut.-col.
6 foot). _b._ Southampton 1782; cadet in service of Seven united
provinces 1794; ensign 6 foot 20 Feb. 1796, captain 25 Oct.
1804; major on Portuguese and Spanish staff 16 Feb. 1809, brevet
lieut.-col. 1811, placed on h.p. 1814; lieut.-col. 100 foot 7
Dec. 1815, regiment was made 99 foot and disbanded at Chatham 2
Sep. 1818 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. 54 foot 5 Oct. 1820,
placed on h.p. 1 Oct. 1829; colonel of 92 foot 31 May 1843 to
death; general 20 June 1854; K.T.S. 1812; C.B. 4 June 1815,
K.C.B. 13 Sep. 1831. _d._ St. John’s road, Fulham near London 24
May 1855.
M’BEAN, WILLIAM. Ensign 93 foot 10 Aug. 1854, lieut.-col. 29
Oct. 1873 to 16 Feb. 1878 when he retired on a pension; M.G. 16
Feb. 1878; V.C. for killing eleven of the enemy with his own
hand in the main breach of the Begum Bagh at Lucknow 11 March
1858. _d._ Herbert hospital, Shooter’s hill, Woolwich 23 June
1878. _I.L.N. lxiii_ 4 (1878), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xviii_
116 (1878), _portrait_.
MACBEAN, WILLIAM FORBES. _b._ 5 June 1821; ensign 86 foot 7
July 1837; lieut. St. Helena regt. 7 Jany. 1842, lieut.-col.
1 May 1859; lieut.-col. 5 West India regt. 23 June 1863 to 1
April 1865 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. 13 foot 1 July
1865; lieut.-col. brigade depot 1 April 1873; M.G. 1 Aug. 1869;
placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 Oct. 1882. _d._
Ashbourne, Derbyshire 26 Feb. 1890.
MACBETH, JAMES. _b._ Ayr; ed. Glasgow univ., took Thomas
Campbell’s silver medal for poetry; minister Arbroath 1837;
minister Norfolk st. Free church, Laurieston; author of The
Bible argument for a Free church 1843; The church and the
slave-holder 1850; A calm review of the debate in the Free
assembly on slavery; Morrisonianism refuted. _John Smith’s Our
Scottish clergy_ (1848) 266–71.
MACBETH, NORMAN (son of James Macbeth of Greenock, officer of
excise). _b._ Greenock 1821; apprenticed to an engraver in
Glasgow 7 years; studied in London and Paris; portrait painter
at Greenock 1845–8 and 1856–61, at Glasgow 1848–56, at Edinburgh
1861–85; exhibited at R.S.A. from 1845; A.R.S.A. 1870, R.S.A. 10
Feb. 1880; removed to London about 1885; exhibited 24 portraits
at R.A. 1837–77. _d._ 10 Belsize avenue, Hampstead, London 27
Feb. 1888.
MACBRIDE, JOHN ALEXANDER PATERSON (son of Archibald Macbride of
Cambeltown, Argyllshire). _b._ Feb. 1819; pupil of Wm. Spence
of Liverpool, sculptor; pupil of and manager for Samuel Joseph,
sculptor, London; associate of Liverpool academy 1848, member
1850, secretary 1851 and 1852; showed many important works
at Liverpool academy from 1836; executed many portrait-busts
and monuments in and near Liverpool; executed the full-size
statues of the four seasons in front of Garswood hall for Lord
Gerard; exhibited 3 pieces of sculpture at R.A. 1848–53. _d._
Southend-on-Sea 4 April 1890. _Graphic 3 May 1890 p._ 508,
_portrait_.
MACBRIDE, JOHN DAVID (only son of John Macbride, admiral, _d._
1800). _b._ Plympton, Devon 28 June 1778; ed. at Cheam in Surrey
and Exeter coll. Oxf., fellow 30 June 1800 to 19 July 1805;
B.A. 1799, M.A. 1802, B.C.L. and D.C.L. 1811; lord almoner’s
reader in Arabic 15 Feb. 1813 to death; principal of Magdalen
hall, Oxf. 18 Oct. 1813 to death, the society of Magdalen hall
was moved in 1822 from near Magdalen college to Catte st.,
the jubilee of his headship was celebrated by foundation of
a Macbride scholarship 1863; F.S.A. 1805; author of Lectures
explanatory of the Diatessaron. Oxford 1835; Lectures on the
articles of the united church of England and Ireland. Oxford
1853; The Mohammedan religion explained 1857; Lectures on the
acts of the apostles and on the epistles. Oxford 1858. _d._
Magdalen hall, Oxford 24 Jany. 1868.
M’BRIDGE, JAMES. _b._ 1831; huntsman to R. C. Hill 1866–9,
at Berkeley castle 1869 and to the Quorn under Mr. Coupland
1870–80; commanded the parade at the hound show, Birmingham;
huntsman at Meath 1880–4, and to the Shropshire hounds under
Hulton Harrop 1884, received a testimonial; first whip and
kennel huntsman to Mr. Corbet in Cheshire to death. _d._
Addesley, Shropshire, May 1886. _Baily’s Mag. June 1886 p._ 76.
M’CABE, EDWARD. _b._ Dublin 14 Feb. 1816; ed. at Maynooth
1833–9; curate of Clontarf, June 1839; C. of cathedral parish,
Marlborough st. Dublin 1851, then administrator; refused the
bishopric of Grahamstown, Africa 1854; a canon of Timothan;
parish priest of St. Nicholas Without, Dublin 1856–65 where he
built a new church and schools; vicar general of Dublin diocese;
parish priest of Kingstown 1865–77; consecrated bishop of Gadara
in partibus as assistant to Paul Cullen archbishop of Dublin 25
July 1877, succeeded him as archbishop 23 March 1879, enthroned
4 May 1879; created a cardinal priest 12 March 1882; member of
senate of royal univ. of Ireland 1880 to death. _d._ 3 Eblana
avenue, Kingstown 11 Feb. 1885. _bur._ Glasnevin. _Memoir of
Edward M’Cabe, archbishop_ (1879); _Saturday Review_, _lix_
243; _Graphic_, _xxv_ 521 (1882), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxx_ 372
(1882), _portrait_.
MACCABE, JOSEPH. _b._ Dublin 22 Feb. 1863; partner with Frank
Hilton as knockabout performers on the music hall stage 1882–93,
they were well known as the Two Macs; partner with Daniel
Kennedy 1893; played in pantomime of Jack and Jill, at Prince’s
theatre, Manchester 1883–4; performed in U.S. of America 1884;
played in pantomime of Cinderella, at T.R. Birmingham 1886–7
and in Miss Esmeralda, at Gaiety theatre, London 8 Oct. 1887;
(_m._ 27 June 1887 Alice Maydue, burlesque actress); performed
at Pavilion and Tivoli music halls, London 5 Jany. 1893. _d._ of
gastric catarrh at Stag House, Tooting Bec road, Tooting, Surrey
11 Jany. 1893. _bur._ St. Mary’s R.C. cemetery, Kensal Green 17
Jany.
NOTE.--The original Two Macs who introduced the knockabout business to
England were called Frank Hilton and J. P. Macnally.
M’CABE, RICHARD. Printer Drogheda; foreman of The Examiner,
the Drogheda Argus and the Coleraine Chronicle; manager of the
Dundalk Patriot to 1848; a paragraphist and reporter on Dublin
and Belfast newspapers to death. _d._ Drogheda 27 Jany. 1872.
_bur._ Chord 29 Jany. _Newspaper Press 1 March 1872 p._ 88.
MACCABE, WILLIAM BERNARD. _b._ Dublin 23 Nov. 1801; reporter on
the Dublin Morning register from 1823; edited provincial Irish
newspapers; employed on the Morning Chronicle in London from
about 1833, to which he contributed critical reviews; a reviewer
on the Morning Herald 1835 to about 1850; edited The Telegraph
newspaper in Dublin in the interest of cardinal Wiseman 1852–7;
lived in Brittany many years; translated J. Venedy’s Ireland
and the Irish during the repeal year, 1844, and J. J. I. Von
Doellinger’s The church and the churches 1862; author of A
catholic history of England 3 vols. 1847–54; Bertha, a romance
of the dark ages 3 vols. 1851; Adelaide queen of Italy 1856,
2 ed. 1860; Florine princess of Burgundy 1855, 3 ed. 1873;
contributed to Once a Week, Notes and Queries, and the Dublin
Review. _d._ Donnybrook, co. Dublin 8 Dec. 1891.
M’CALL, ALLAN. _b._ Dumfries 1850; an architect; leader of
Livingstonia mission in Nyasa-Land, travelled between fifteen
and twenty thousand miles in South Africa 1872–8. _d._ Madeira
25 Nov. 1881. _bur._ Leicester cemet. 18 Jany. 1882.
MC CALL, WILLIAM. Ensign 79 foot 29 March 1839, major 12 Dec.
1854 to 5 Aug. 1857 when placed on h.p.; standard bearer to
corps of gentlemen at arms 30 Sep. 1872 to death. _d._ 7 Bruton
st. Berkeley sq. London 20 Dec. 1875.
MACCALL, WILLIAM (eld. son of John Maccall of Largs, Ayrshire,
tradesman). _b._ Largs 25 Feb. 1812; entered Glasgow univ. 1827,
M.A. 1833; Unitarian minister at Bolton, Lancs. 1837–40 and at
Crediton, Devon 1841–6; preacher, lecturer and writer for the
press in London 1846–61; edited The Propagandist 1862; author
of The agents of civilization 1843; Sacramental services 1847;
The elements of individualism 1847; Foreign biographies 2 vols.
1873; Russian Hymns 1878; Moods and memories 1885. _d._ Stanhope
cottage, Woolwich road, Bexley Heath, Kent 19 Nov. 1888.
MAC CALMONT, FREDERICK HAYNES (2 son of rev. Thomas Mac Calmont
of Highfield near Southampton). _b._ Highfield 1846; ed. at Eton
and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1869, B.C.L. and M.A. 1872; barrister
M.T. 30 April 1872; resided at Southampton, member of the school
board, alderman; author of The parliamentary poll book of all
elections 1832–79, 1879, Second ed. 1880, Third ed. 1885. _d._
Radley’s hotel, Southampton 4 Nov. 1880. _Solicitors’ Journal_,
_xxv_ 56 (1880).
M’CALMONT, HUGH (3 son of Hugh M’Calmont of Abbeylands, co.
Antrim, _d._ 1839). _b._ 1809; member of firm of M’Calmont
Brothers & Co., merchants at 15 Philpot Lane, Cannon st. London;
resided at 8 Grosvenor place, London and at Abbeylands, co.
Antrim; bequeathed £100,000 to St. George’s hospital, London.
_d._ 9 Oct. 1887, the value of his personal property was
declared at £3,121,931 7s. 8d., Dec. 1887.
MC CANN, NICHOLAS (son of Thomas Mc Cann of Lismoy house,
co. Longford). _b._ 1802; M.R.C.S. 1827, L.S.A. 1834; M.D.
St. Andrews 1855; L.R.C.P. Edinb. 1859; surgeon to Western
dispensary, London 1831–43; surgeon to royal humane soc. 1837;
fellow of Medical soc. of London; surgeon to A division of
police 1839; examining physician to foreign service messengers
22 Nov. 1858 to death. _d._ 50 Parliament st. London 24 Jany.
1867.
MACCARTHY, SIR CHARLES JUSTIN. _b._ Brighton 1811; auditor
general of Ceylon 1847, colonial secretary there 1851; governor
of Ceylon 23 Aug. 1860 to death; knighted by patent 10 July
1857. _d._ Spa, Belgium 14 Aug. 1864.
M’CARTHY, DANIEL. _b._ near Kenmare, co. Kerry 1823; ed.
Maynooth coll., teacher of rhetoric 1846, professor of
scripture and Hebrew 1854, vice president 1872–8; bishop of
Kerry and Aghadoe, consecrated 25 Aug. 1878; editor of L. F.
Renehan’s Collections on Irish church history 1861; M. Kelly’s
Dissertations on Irish church history 1864; author of Sermons
on the immaculate conception 1880. _d._ Killarney, July 1881.
_Times 28 July 1881 p._ 10.
MACCARTHY, DENIS FLORENCE. _b._ Lower Sackville st. Dublin 26
May 1817; ed. at Dublin and Maynooth; called to Irish bar 1846;
contributed a series of political verse to The Nation newspaper
over signature of Desmond 1842; an original member of the ’82
club formed in 1844, on the council of the confederation 1847;
resided in London 1872–82; contributed poems and humorous prose
papers to periodicals signed Desmond, Vig, Trifolium, Antonio,
S. E. Y. and D. F. M.; his translations of Calderon’s works
appeared in six issues as follows, Justina, a play 1848; Dramas
1853; Love the greatest enchantment 1861; Mysteries of Corpus
Christi 1867; The two lovers of heaven 1870; The wonder-working
musician, &c. 1873; for the six volumes he was granted medal
of royal academy of Spain 1881; granted civil list pension of
£100, 3 Aug. 1870; author of The poets and dramatists of Ireland
1 vol. 1846; Ballads, poems and lyrics 1850; The bell founder
1857; Shelley’s Early life 1872; Poems 1882. _d._ Blackrock near
Dublin 7 April 1882. _Dublin Review_, _April 1883 pp._ 261–93.
MAC CARTHY, HAMILTON WRIGHT (2 son of John James Alexander Mac
Carthy, artist). _b._ 1810; sculptor and poet; exhibited 23
pieces of sculpture at R.A. and 13 at B.I. 1838–67. _d._ 17
Springfield villas, Kilburn, London 2 Feb. 1882.
MC CARTHY, JOHN F. (son of Michael Mc Carthy). _b._ 1862;
provision merchant at Tipperary; M.P. mid division of Tipperary
18 July 1892. _d._ Roscrea, Tipperary 8 Feb. 1893.
MACCARTHY, JOHN GEORGE (son of John Maccarthy of Cork). _b._
Cork, June 1829; founded with Justin Mac Carthy, Cork historical
society 1849; founded Cork Young men’s society 1852; solicitor
at Cork 1853–81; M.P. Mallow 1874–80; assistant comr. under Land
act of 1881, 1881–6; one of the two comrs. under land purchase
act of 1885, 1886 to death; made a knight of the order of St.
Gregory by Leo XIII. Feb. 1880; author of The history of Cork,
a lecture. Cork 1856; Irish land questions plainly stated and
answered 1870; The French revolution of 1792, its causes etc.
Dublin 1884; Henry Grattan, a historical study, Dublin 1886.
_d._ Euston hotel, London 7 Sep. 1892. _bur._ Glasnevin cemet.
Dublin. _Irish Law Times_, _xxii_ 116 (1888).
MC CAUL, ALEXANDER. _b._ Dublin 16 May 1799; entered Trin.
coll. Dublin 3 Oct. 1814, B.A. 1819, M.A. 1831, B.D. and D.D.
1837; tutor to Earl of Rosse; sent to Poland by London Soc. for
promoting Christianity among the Jews 1821; C. of Huntley near
Gloucester 1823; head of the mission to the Jews, and English
chaplain at Warsaw 1823–30; settled in London 1832; published
Old Paths, a weekly pamphlet on Jewish ritual 60 numbers
1836–37; principal of the Hebrew college, London 1840; declined
bishopric of Jerusalem 1841; professor of Hebrew and Rabbinical
literature in King’s college, London 1841–6, professor of
divinity 1846–53, professor of ecclesiastical history Dec. 1853
to 1863; R. of St. James’s, Duke’s place, London 1843–50; preb.
of St. Paul’s 1845 to death; declined bishoprics of Adelaide,
Newcastle and Capetown 1847; R. of St. Magnus, St. Margaret
and St. Michael, Fish st. hill, London 21 Jany. 1850 to death;
proctor for the London clergy in convocation 1852 to death;
author of A Hebrew primer 4 ed. 1836; Lectures on the Prophecies
and The Messiahship of Christ, being Warburtonian lectures 2
series 1846–52; Rationalism and the divine interpretation of
scripture 1850; Some notes on the first chapter of Genesis 1861;
Testimonies to the divine authority of the holy scripture 1862;
An examination of bishop Colenso’s difficulties with regard
to the Pentateuch 2 vols. 1863–4 and 50 other works. _d._ St.
Magnus’s rectory, London 13 Nov. 1863. _bur._ Ilford, Essex 20
Nov. _J. B. Mc Caul’s Memoir of A. Mc Caul_ (1863); _I.L.N.
xxiv_ 400 (1854), _portrait_.
MC CAUL, JOHN. _b._ Dublin 7 March 1807; ed. at Trin. coll.
Dublin, scholar 1824, B.A. 1825, M.A. 1829, LL.B. and LL.D.
1835, classical tutor and examiner; principal of the Upper
Canadian coll. Nov. 1838; V.P. of King’s coll. Toronto and
professor of classics, logic, rhetoric and belles lettres
1842; pres. of univ. of Toronto 1849; pres. of univ. coll. and
V.C. of univ. of Toronto 1853–81; M.R.I.A.; author of Remarks
explanatory and illustrative on the Terentian metres 1828;
The metres of the Greek tragedians explained 1828; Selections
from Lucian, with English notes 1829; Remarks on the classical
studies pursued in the university of Dublin 1834; Scansion
of the Hecuba and Medea of Euripides 1836; Britanno-Roman
inscriptions with critical notes. Toronto and London 1863;
Christian epitaphs of the first six centuries 1869. _d._ 15
April 1887. _H. J. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) 254–5.
MC CAUL, JOSEPH BENJAMIN (son of Alexander Mc Caul 1799–1863).
Ed. King’s coll. London, theological associate 1850; assistant
in British Museum 1846–9 and engaged upon the compilation of
the catalogue March 1851 to 1865; censor, reader and divinity
lecturer, King’s coll. 1852–54; C. of St. Magnus the Martyr,
London 1851–4; C. of All Saints’, Gordon sq. London 1854–5;
C. of St. Edmund the King, Lombard st. 1858–65; chaplain at
Amsterdam 1877–9; R. of St. Michael, Bassishaw 1865 to death;
hon. canon of Rochester 1865 to death; author of The abbé
Migne and the Bibliothèque universelle du clergé 1857; The
ten commandments, the christian’s spiritual instructor 1861;
Bishop Colenso’s Criticism criticised 1862; The epistle to the
Hebrews in a paraphrastic commentary 1871; Dark sayings of old,
an attempt to elucidate certain passages of scripture 1873; A
concise exposition of St. Paul’s epistle to the Romans 1882; The
last plague of Egypt and other poems 1879. _d._ 11 Flander’s
road, Turnham Green near London 3 Feb. 1892.
MC CAUSLAND, DOMINICK (3 son of Marcus Langford Mc Causland of
Roe park, co. Londonderry). _b._ Roe park 20 Aug. 1806; entered
Trin. coll. Dublin 1822, gold medallist for science 1827, B.A.
1827, LL.B. and LL.D. 1859; called to Irish bar 1835, went north
western circuit; a crown prosecutor for co. Fermanagh 1859 to
death; Q.C. 4 July 1860; author of The latter days of the Jewish
church and nation as revealed in the Apocalypse. Dublin 1841;
The times of the Gentiles as revealed in the Apocalypse. Dublin
1852, reissued 1857, both were combined in a 2nd ed. as The
latter days of Jerusalem and Rome 1859; Sermons in stones 1856,
13 ed. 1873; Adam and the Adamite 1864, 2 ed. 1868; Shinar the
confusion of language 1867; The builders of Babel 1871. _d._ 12
Fitzgibbon st. Dublin 29 June 1873. _W. D. Ferguson’s Memoir of
D. Mc Causland_ (1873); _Irish Law Times_, _vii_ 354 (1873).
MC CAUSLAND, JOHN KENNEDY. _b._ 1803; entered Bengal army 1818;
commanded Gwalior district 20 Jany. 1860 to 13 Feb. 1861;
retired L.G. 31 Dec. 1861; C.B. 21 March 1859. _d._ Melrose
villa, Cheltenham 23 July 1879.
MC CAW, WILLIAM. _b._ Antrim; minister of presbyterian church,
Bridge st. Strangeways near Manchester, Nov. 1846; author of
Truth frae ’mang the heather 1856, 5 ed. 1880; The gospel and
total abstinence 1857; Romanism, ritualism and revelation 1876.
_J. Evans’ Lancashire authors_ (1850) 166–70.
MC CLEAN, JOHN ROBINSON. _b._ Belfast 1813; studied at univ. of
Glasgow; a civil engineer in London 1844; constructed harbour,
docks and railways of Barrow in Furness; partner with F. C.
Stileman 1849; engineer of harbours of Dover 1851, Alderney
1862 and St. Catherine’s, Jersey 1862 &c.; sent to Egypt as
comr. to report on the Suez canal route; served on several royal
commissions; retired from practice 1868; contested Belfast 3
April 1857; M.P. east Staffs. 17 Nov. 1868 to death; chairman
of Anglo-American telegraph co.; M.I.C.E. June 1844, member of
council 1848, vice pres. 1858, pres. 1864 and 1865; F.R.S.;
F.G.S.; F.R.A.S. 8 Jany. 1858. _d._ Stonehouse, Isle of Thanet
13 July 1873, personalty sworn under £700,000, 6 Sep. 1873.
_Monthly notices of R.A.S. xxxiv_ 148 (1874); _Min. of proc.
of Instit. of C.E. xxxviii_ 287–91 (1874); _Humber’s Modern
engineering 3rd series_ (1865), _portrait_.
MC CLELLAND, JAMES. _b._ Ayr 18 Jany. 1799; accountant Glasgow,
March 1824, retired 1874, had many apprentices in his business;
president of royal institution of accountants, Glasgow 1853;
great friend of George Combe the phrenologist; removed to
London 1874. _d._ 32 Pembridge sq. London 24 Oct. 1879. _W. C.
Maclehose’s Glasgow men_, _ii_ 185–6 (1886), _portrait_.
MC CLELLAND, JOHN. Surgeon Bengal army 30 Nov. 1846; inspector
general of hospitals 8 Nov. 1860, principal inspector general
1864 to 24 Nov. 1865 when he retired; conducted The Calcutta
journal of natural history 1841; author of Reports on
investigation of coal and mineral resources of India 1838; Some
inquiries in Kemaon relative to geology 1835; Sketches of the
medical topography and soils of Bengal 1859. _d._ 29 Marina, St.
Leonards-on-Sea 31 July 1883.
M’CLINTOCK, JOHN (eld. son of John M’Clintock of Drumcar,
M.P. Enniskillen, _d._ 1799). _b._ 14 Aug. 1770; ed. Trin.
coll. Dublin, B.A. 1790; sheriff of co. Louth 1798; present at
battles of Arklow 10 June 1798 and Vinegar Hill 12 June 1798;
serjeant at arms with his younger brother Wm. Foster M’Clintock
1794 to 1800 when a pension of £2545 was assigned to them in
compensation for the office; M.P. Athlone, Westmeath 24 March
1820 to May 1820 when he was appointed escheator of Munster.
_d._ Drumcar, co. Louth 12 July 1855.
MC CLURE, SIR ROBERT JOHN LE MESURIER (son of Robert Mc Clure,
captain 89 foot, _d._ 1806). _b._ Wexford 28 Jany. 1807; ed.
at Eton and Sandhurst; entered navy 1824; mate of the Terror
in her Arctic voyage 1836–7; commanded the Romney at Havana
1842–6; first lieut. of the Investigator in sir J. C. Ross’s
Arctic expedition 1848–9 and commander of her in Collinson’s
expedition, sailed from Plymouth 20 Jany. 1850, discovered the
north-west passage 26 Oct. 1850, the Investigator was forced
into a bay on the north shore of Banks’ Land 23 Sep. 1851 where
in 1853 she was abandoned; crossed Banks’s Strait to Winter
harbour in Melville Island, April 1852; arrived in England in
the North Star 28 Sep. 1854, tried by court martial for loss
of his ship when honourably acquitted; captain 18 Dec. 1850;
knighted at Windsor Castle 21 Nov. 1855; parliament awarded
£10,000 to officers and crew of the Investigator 1855; captain
of the Esk 1856; commanded a battalion of the naval brigade at
capture of Canton, Dec. 1857; C.B. 20 May 1859; R.A. 20 March
1867, retired V.A. 29 May 1873; awarded good service pension 12
Sep. 1863. _d._ 25 Duke st. St. James’s, London 17 Oct. 1873.
_bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 25 Oct. _The north-west passage.
Capt. Mc Clure’s despatches_ (1853); _S. Osborn’s Discovery of a
north-west passage 4 ed._ (1865); _A. Armstrong’s Discovery of
the north-west passage_ (1857); _S. Cresswell’s Eight sketches
of the voyage of H.M.S. Investigator_ (1854); _Graphic_, _viii_
407, 412 (1873), _portrait_.
MC CLURE, SIR THOMAS, 1 Baronet (son of William Mc Clure,
merchant). _b._ Belfast 4 March 1806; ed. at Belfast royal
academical institution; merchant Belfast; sheriff of Downshire
1864 and vice lieut. 17 June 1872 to 1886; M.P. Belfast 1868–74;
contested Belfast 6 Feb. 1874; M.P. Londonderry 1878–85; cr. a
baronet 20 March 1874. _d._ Belmont near Belfast 21 Jany. 1893.
_Daily Graphic 23 Jany. 1893 p._ 8, _portrait_.
M’COLLUM, THOMAS. Lessee with Wm. Charman of New royal
amphitheatre, Holborn, London, opened 25 May 1867. _d._ 7 Oakden
st. Kennington road, London 22 March 1872 aged 44. _bur._
Brompton cemet. 26 March. _Illust. Times 22 June 1867 p._ 392,
_view of interior of Holborn amphitheatre_.
MC COMB, WILLIAM (son of Thomas Mc Comb of Coleraine,
Londonderry, draper). _b._ Coleraine 17 Aug. 1793; teacher of
Brown st. daily school, Belfast to 1828; bookseller in High st.
Belfast 1828, retired 1864; established Mc Comb’s Presbyterian
Almanac 1840 which ran to 1873; author of The dirge of O’Neill
1817; The school of the Sabbath 1822, 2 ed. 1825; The voice of a
year, or recollections of 1848, with other poems 1849; Poetical
works 1864. _d._ Colin View terrace, Belfast 13 Sep. 1873.
MC COMBIE, WILLIAM (only child of William Mc Combie, farmer).
_b._ Cairnballoch, parish of Alford, Aberdeenshire 8 May 1809;
a labourer on his father’s farm; farmed Cairnballoch to 1867;
contributed to newspapers, to the British Quarterly Review,
and to Journal of sacred literature; joined staff of North of
Scotland gazette 1849; edited the Aberdeen Daily Free press
from first number 6 May 1853 to death; a preacher in John st.
Baptist ch. Aberdeen; author of Hours of thought 1835, 3 ed.
1856; Moral agency and man as a moral agent 1842; Memoirs of
Alexander Bethune 1845; Use and abuse, the relation to labour
of capital, machinery and land 1852; On education, in its
constituents, objects and issues 1857. _d._ Broadford Bank,
Aberdeen 6 May 1870. _Aberdeen Daily Free Press 13 May 1870
p._ 5; _Newspaper Press_, _iv_ 153–4 (1870); _Nicoll’s James
Macdonald, journalist_ (1890) 34–9.
MC COMBIE, WILLIAM (younger son of Charles Mc Combie, farmer,
Tillyfour). _b._ Tillyfour farm, Aberdeenshire 1805; ed. at
Aberdeen univ.; a farmer of 1200 acres and cattle-dealer at
Tillyfour; began to breed black-polled cattle 1840, fatted about
300 oxen a year; the first Scottish exhibitioner of fat cattle
at Birmingham; won over 500 prizes for his cattle; one of the
largest farmers in Aberdeenshire; known as the ‘Grazier King’;
M.P. West Aberdeenshire 1868–76, being the first tenant farmer
returned from Scotland; author of Cattle and cattle breeders
1867; The Mc Combe annual prize for black-polled cattle establed
at Aberdeen 1876. _d._ Tillyfour farm, Aberdeenshire 1 Feb.
1880. _Times 3 Feb. 1880 p._ 5; _Graphic_, _xxi_ 196 (1880),
_portrait_; _W. M’Combie’s Cattle breeders 4 ed._ (1886),
_memoir xi–xviii_; _Aberdeen Daily Free Press 3 Feb. 1880_;
_James Macdonald’s History of polled Angus cattle_ (1882).
NOTE.--His champion ox Black Prince shown at Smithfield in 1866 was by
command sent to Windsor to be inspected by the Queen. On 12 July 1867
she visited Tillyfour farm.
MACCOMO, MARTINI. _b._ Angola, south-west Africa 1839; lion
tamer at circus of Messrs. Stone and Mc Collum, New York 1855;
travelled through the United States; came to England 1857,
engaged by Wm. Manders proprietor of menagerie, first appeared
in England at Deptford 1857; travelled with Manders as the
African Lion King 1857 to death. _d._ from rheumatic fever at
Palatine hotel, Sunderland 11 Jany. 1871. _Era 15 Jany. 1871 p._
11, _col._ 1; _Baily’s Mag. xliii_ 15–16 (1885).
MC CONNELL, WILLIAM. _b._ Warwick st. Regent st. London 29
Sep. 1831; a draughtsman on wood of illustrations to humourous
books; on the original staff of The Train, a magazine 1 Jany.
1856; illustrated Oliver Oldfellow’s Our School 1857; G. F.
Pardon’s The Months 1858; G. A. Sala’s Twice round the clock
1859; J. Rodenberg’s Tag und Nacht in London 1862; Upside down,
or turnover traits with verses by Thomas Hood the younger 1868.
_d._ of consumption at 17 Tavistock st. Bedford sq. London 14
May 1867.
M’COOLE, MICHAEL. _b._ Ireland 12 March 1837; boatman on the
Mississippi river; was 6 feet and ¾ of an inch high and 200
lbs. in weight; beat Wm. Narry at Louisville, Kentuckey, April
1858; beat Tom Jennings near New Orleans 2 May 1861; fought
Joseph Coburn for 2000 dollars and the championship at Cecil
county, Maryland 5 May 1863 when Coburn won; fought Wm. Davis
for 2000 dollars and a champion belt at Rhoads Point near St.
Louis 19 Sep. 1866 when M’Coole won; fought Aaron Jones for
the championship at Busenburk station, Ohio 31 Aug. 1867 when
M’Coole won; fought Tom Allen for 1000 dollars a side and the
championship at Foster’s Island, St. Louis 15 June 1869 when
M’Coole won; fought Allen again at Chateau island, St. Louis 23
Sep. 1873 when Allen won; arrested 29 Oct. 1873 for shooting
Patsy Mavery the pugilist at St. Louis, when put under 20,000
dollars bail; rearrested and found guilty of wilful murder by
the coroner’s jury but the matter was squashed. _d._ New Orleans
17 Oct. 1886. _W. E. Harding’s Champions of the American prize
ring_ (1884) 14, 18–20, _portrait_.
MC CORKINDALE, DUNCAN (son of Duncan Mc Corkindale). _b._
Campbeltown, Argyllshire 2 Feb. 1809; a clerk in Glasgow, then
in London, returned to Glasgow, retired from business 1857;
author of Sketches of genius and other poems 1831; Poems of
early and later years 1863; A raid in the Highlands 1868. _R.
Inglis’ Dramatic writers_ (1868) 134–5.
MACCORMAC, HENRY (son of Cornelius Maccormac an officer in the
navy). _b._ Fairlawn, co. Armagh 1800; studied at Dublin, Paris
and Edinb., M.D. Edinb. 1824; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1824; a physician
at Belfast; phys. to Belfast fever hospital, took charge of
the cholera hospital 1832; visiting phys. to Belfast district
lunatic asylum to death; professor of theory and practice of
medicine in royal Belfast institution; author of A treatise on
the cause and cure of hesitation of speech or stammering 1828;
The philosophy of human nature 1837; On the nature, treatment
and prevention of pulmonary consumption 1855, 2 ed. 1865;
Metanoia, a plea for the insane 1861; Consumption and the breath
rebreathed 1872. _d._ Fisherwick place, Belfast 26 May 1886.
MC CORMICK, ROBERT (son of Robert Mc Cormick, surgeon in the
navy, drowned 1811). _b._ Runham near Great Yarmouth 22 July
1800; studied at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals 1821; M.R.C.S.
6 Dec. 1822, F.R.C.S. 1844; assistant surgeon R.N. 1823; served
in sir E. Parry’s expedition to Spitzbergen in the Hecla 1827;
surgeon in the Terror, relieving ice bound whaling ships 1836;
surgeon of the Erebus in Ross’s expedition to the Antartic
1839–43; surgeon of the William and Mary yacht at Woolwich
1845–8, of the Fisgard flagship at Woolwich 1847 to Dec. 1848;
sent out in the North Star in search of Franklin 1852, when in
the command of an open boat, the Forlorn Hope, in a 3 weeks’
exploration he settled the question of the opening between
Baring bay and Jones’ sound; arctic medal 1857; deputy inspector
of hospitals 20 May 1859, placed on retired list 29 July 1865;
Greenwich hospital pension 3 Sep. 1876; author of Narrative of
a boat expedition up the Wellington channel in the year 1852.
1854. _d._ Hecla villa, Wimbledon, Surrey 28 Oct. 1890. _R. Mc
Cormick’s Voyages in the Arctic and Antartic seas_ 2 _vols._
(1884), _memoir ii_ 183–368, _three portraits_.
MC CORMICK, WILLIAM. _b._ Londonderry 1801; M.P. Londonderry
1860–65; contractor for public works 14 Buckingham st. Strand,
London. _d._ London 12 June 1878.
M’CREA, ROBERT CONTART. _b._ 13 Jany. 1793; entered navy 23 Nov.
1803; present at Trafalgar; commander Scourge revenue cruiser
1818–21; captain 10 Jany. 1837; commander of the Zebra, forcibly
removed the ex-rajah of Queda from his abode at Bruas on the
coast of Perak and carried him a prisoner to Penang, April 1837,
for which he was presented by H.E.I.C. with a piece of plate
value 100 guineas; admiral on h.p. 8 April 1868. _d._ Guernsey
13 Jany. 1875. _United Service mag. March 1875 p._ 407.
M’CREE, GEORGE WILSON. _b._ Newcastle-on-Tyne 28 April 1822;
commenced preaching in village chapels 1839; a missionary in
London working among the poor of the Five dials and the Seven
dials, known as the bishop of St. Giles’ 1848–73; pastor of
the Borough road Baptist chapel, Southwark 1873 to death; sec.
of Band of hope union; an originator of the London temperance
hospital, Hampstead road 1873; edited The band of hope record
4 vols. 1861–4; author of Illustrations of peace principles
1845; Day and night in St. Giles’, a lecture 1862; The pitman’s
prayer, a voice from New Hartley colliery 1862; Shadows of city
life 1873; William Brock, a biography 3 ed. 1876; Thomas Wilson
the silkman 1879; Poets, painters and players 1882; The Queen’s
health, a word for the jubilee year 1887. _d._ 16 Ampton place,
Gray’s inn road, London 25 Nov. 1892. _Black and White 17 Dec.
1892 p._ 696, _portrait_; _Times 28 Nov. 1892 p._ 6.
M’CRIE, THOMAS (eld. son of Thomas Mc Crie, ecclesiastical
historian 1772–1835). _b._ Edinburgh 7 Nov. 1797; ed. at high
sch. and univ. of Edinb.; secession minister of Crieff 1820–8
and of Clola, Aberdeenshire 1828–36; minister of West Richmond
st. meeting-house Edinburgh 1836; a contributor to The Witness;
professor of theology at the Original secession hall, Edinb.
1836; the Seceders joined the Free church of Scotland 1852;
moderator of the Free church assembly 1856; professor of church
history and systematic theology at London college of English
presbyterian church Oct. 1856 to 1866; D.D. Aberdeen and LL.D.
Glasgow; edited The British and foreign evangelical review,
Edinb.; author of Life of Thomas Mc Crie 1840; Sketches of
Scottish church history 1841, 5 ed. 1875; The ancient history
of the Waldensian church 1845; Lectures on Christian baptism
1850; Memoirs of Sir Andrew Agnew 1850, 2 ed. 1851; Thoughts on
union with the free church of Scotland 1852; Annals of English
presbyterianism 1872; The story of the Scottish church from the
reformation to the disruption 1874. _d._ 39 Minto st. Edinburgh
9 May 1875. _Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 349–56,
_portrait_.
MACCULLOCH, HORATIO (son of a weaver). _b._ Glasgow, Nov. 1805,
and named after lord Nelson; apprenticed to a house-painter;
painter of snuff-boxes for Messrs. Smith at Cumnock, Ayrshire
1824; engaged colouring prints in Edinburgh; landscape painter
at Glasgow to 1838, then at Edinb.; exhibited at R.S.A. from
1829, an associate 1834, an academician 1838, exhibited Bothwell
castle on the Clyde 1863; exhibited 2 pictures at R.A. London
and 1 at B.I. 1843–8; the most popular landscape painter of his
day in Scotland; illustrated J. P. Lawson’s Scotland delineated
1847; and with others W. Beattie’s Scotland illustrated 1838.
_d._ St. Colme’s villa, Trinity, Edinburgh 24 June 1867, two
portraits of him by Sir Daniel Macnee are in national gallery
of Scotland. _Fraser’s Scottish landscape, the works of H.
Macculloch_ (1872), _life pp._ 9–39, _portrait_; _Chambers’s
Biog. Dict. of Scotsmen_, _iii_ 11–13 (1875).
MC CULLOCH, SIR JAMES (son of George Mc Culloch). _b._ Glasgow
1819; in office of J. and A. Dennistoun, merchants, Glasgow
1839, became a partner 1853, and going to Melbourne, Australia,
opened a branch establishment there April 1853, firm wound up
1862; founded house of Mc Culloch, Sellar and Co. 1862; nominee
member of Victoria legislative council 1854; elected for Wimmera
to first legislative assembly 24 Oct. 1856; formed a government,
himself being commissioner of trade and customs 29 April
1857, resigned 10 March 1858; member for East Melbourne 1858,
treasurer 27 Oct. 1859 to 26 Nov. 1860; member for Mornington
1862, chief secretary 27 June 1863 to 6 May 1868, chief sec. and
treasurer 11 July 1868 to 20 Sep. 1869, chief sec. 9 April 1870
to 19 June 1871; knighted by patent 4 June 1870; agent general
for Victoria in London 1872–3; K.C.M.G. 9 March 1874; premier
and treasurer of Victoria 20 Oct. 1875 to 21 May 1877. _d._
Garbard hall, Ewell, Surrey 30 Jany. 1893.
M’CULLOCH, JAMES MELVILLE (1 son of John M’Culloch 1783–1845).
_b._ St. Andrews 25 Feb. 1801; ed. at the United coll. St.
Andrews, M.A. 1821, then at St. Mary’s coll.; master gram. sch.
Dunkeld 1821–6; head master Circus place sch. Edinb. Jany. 1826
to Feb. 1829; minister St. Vigean’s chapel, Arbroath 25 Feb.
1829 to 1832; minister of parish ch. Kelso 27 Sep. 1832 to 1843;
D.D. of St. Andrews 1841; minister of the west parish, Greenock
23 Nov. 1843 to death; presented on his jubilee with a salver
and £1260, Feb. 25, 1879; author of Lectures on the advantages
which the church derives from an alliance with the state 1835;
Pietas juvenilis, a manual of devotion for schools 1838. _d._
Greenock 12 Jany. 1883. _Sermons by J. M. M’Culloch_ (1884),
_memoir pp. vii–lvi_, _portrait_; _J. Smith’s Our Scottish
clergy 2 Ser._ (1849) 289–94.
MC CULLOCH, JOHN RAMSAY (eld. son of Edward Mc Culloch). _b._
Isle of Whithorn, Wigtownshire 1 March 1789; ed. at Kinross and
univ. of Edinb.; wrote the economical articles for The Scotsman
1817–27, edited it 1818–20; contributed 76 articles to Edinburgh
Review 1818–37; delivered the Ricardo memorial lectures in
London 1824; professor of political economy at London univ.
1828–32; comptroller of the Stationery Office 1838 to death; a
foreign associate of Institute of France 1843; granted civil
list pension of £200, 30 June 1846; author of The principles
of political economy, Edinb. 1825, 7 ed. 1886; An essay on
the circumstances which determine the rate of wages and the
condition of the labouring classes. Edinb. 1826, 4 ed. 1868; A
dictionary, practical, theoretical and historical of commerce
and commercial navigation 1832–9. _d._ in the Stationery Office,
Prince’s st. Storey’s gate, Westminster 11 Nov. 1864, portrait
by Sir Daniel Macnee in National portrait gallery, London.
_I.L.N. 26 Nov. 1864 p._ 541, _portrait_.
MC CULLOCH, WILLIAM (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ parish of
St. Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh 28 Feb. 1816; ed. at high sch. Edinb.
and at Addiscombe; ensign 13 Bengal N.I. 24 Sep. 1835, major
4 Sep. 1857, retired with rank of lieut.-col. 31 Dec. 1861;
assistant to political agent at Manipur, April 1840, political
agent there 1845–63 and 1864–7; author of An account of Manipur
and the Hill tribes. Calcutta 1859. _d._ 4 April 1885.
MC CULLOUGH, JOHN EDWARD (son of a farmer). _b._ in Coleraine,
Ireland 2 Nov. 1837; apprentice to a chair maker, Philadelphia,
U.S. America 1853; appeared in The Belle’s stratagem at Arch
theatre, Philadelphia 15 Aug. 1857; acted in Boston and
other cities; travelled with Edwin Forrest playing second
parts 1866–8; with Lawrence P. Barrett manager of Bush st.
theatre, San Francisco, Jany. 1869; Forrest left him his MS.
plays, regarding him as his legitimate successor 1872; acted
throughout the States 1873–83; first appeared in England at
Drury Lane theatre 25 April 1881 as Virginius, then played
Othello; returned to New York 1881. _d._ in a lunatic asylum,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 8 Nov. 1885. _The Theatre 1 Aug.
1881 p._ 121, _portrait_; _Illust. Sport. and Dram. News 14 May
1881 pp._ 199, 209, _portrait_; _New monthly mag. cxix_ 619–23
(1881), _portrait_.
M’CUTCHEON, JAMES. Editor of the ‘Tyrone Constitution.’ _d._
Omagh 4 Feb. 1855.
MAC DERMOTT, ROBERT (son of W. C. Mac Dermott, barrister). _b._
Upper Gloucester st. Dublin 1832; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A.
and M.B. 1854, M.D. 1858, gained Berkeley gold medal for Greek;
professor of materia medica in Catholic univ. Ireland 1856; the
best public lecturer of his time. _d._ of typhoid fever 9 Great
Denmark st. Dublin 8 Oct. 1859. _Memoir of Dr. R. Mac Dermott,
M.R.I.A. Dublin_ (1860).
M’DIARMID, JOHN (son of Hugh M’Diarmid, minister of Gaelic
church, Glasgow). _b._ Glasgow 1790; clerk in Commercial bank,
Edinburgh to 1817; amanuensis to professor John Playfair in
Edinb.; with Charles Maclaren and William Ritchie established
the Scotsman in Edinb. 25 Jany. 1817; edited the Dumfries and
Galloway Courier, Jany. 1817, a proprietor 1820, owner of the
paper 1837 to death, his son William Ritchie M’Diarmid admitted
a partner 1843; published the Dumfries Magazine 1825–8; the
friend of Robert Burns’ widow and her executor 1834; entertained
at a public dinner at Dumfries 1847; edited Poems of W. Cooper
1819, 4 ed. 1854; Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield 1823; and Paul
and Virginia 1824; author of The scrap book prose and verse.
Edinb. 1821, 3 ed. 1825; Letters of Junius, with dissertations
and notes. By Atticus Secundus 1822; Sketches from nature 1830;
Pictures of Dumfries and its environs 1832. _d._ Dumfries 18
Nov. 1852; a M’Diarmid bursary of £10 a year founded at Edinb.
univ. _W. Anderson’s Scottish Nation_, _iii_ 720–2 (1863).
MACDONALD, ALEXANDER. 2 lieut. R.A. 3 Dec. 1803; lieut.-colonel
20 July 1840 to 9 Nov. 1846; served in the Peninsula and South
of France 1809–14; C.B. 19 July 1838; L.G. 20 June 1854. _d._
Aix-la-Chapelle 31 May 1856.
MACDONALD, ALEXANDER. _b._ New Monkland, Lanarkshire, June
1821; commenced working in a coal pit 1831; at the age of
21 had saved £250; ed. Glasgow univ. 1851 still working as a
collier during the summer and autumn; a teacher 1853; agitated
for release of women and children from working in coal mines
1852–72, and on laws of contract and hiring, and on the truck
system; contested Kilmarnocks burghs 1868; M.P. Stafford 1874 to
death, the first working man member, known as the Working Men’s
member of parliament; sec. of Miners’ association of Scotland;
president of Miners’ national union 1863; visited the U.S.
America 3 times; presented by the miners with £1500, Jany. 1873;
member of royal commission on trade unions 1874. _d._ Well hall
near Hamilton 31 Oct. 1881. _bur._ New Monkland ch. yard 7 Nov.
_The Biograph_, _Aug. 1880 pp._ 148–57; _I.L.N. lxiv_ 551, 552
(1874), _portrait_.
MACDONALD, ANGUS. _b._ Aberdeen 1816; ed. at King’s coll.
Aberdeen and univ. of Edinb., M.D. Edinb. 1864; M.R.C.P. Edinb.
1868, F.R.C.P. 1869; practised at Edinb. 1864 to death; lecturer
at Minto house, afterwards at Surgeons’ hall; phys. and clinical
lecturer on diseases of women in Edinb. royal infirmary; phys.
to royal maternity hospital, Edinb.; F.R.S. Edinb. 1871; edited
R. E. S. Jackson’s Notebook of materia medica, Edinb. 1871,
another ed. 1875; author of The bearings of chronic diseases of
the heart upon pregnancy 1878. _d._ 29 Charlotte sq. Edinburgh
10 Feb. 1886.
MACDONALD, DUNCAN GEORGE FORBES (youngest son of John Macdonald
1799–1849, called ‘The Apostle of the North’). _b._ about
1823; agricultural engineer in London and Dingwall 1848, also
practised as a civil engineer; one of comrs. to adjust boundary
line of British North America about 1858; drainage engineer
of improvements under control of enclosure comrs. for England
and Wales; engineer in chief to inspector general of Highland
destitution; F.G.S., F.R.G.S.; author of What the farmer
may do with the land 1852; British Columbia and Vancouver’s
island, a description of these dependencies 1862; Hints on
farming and estate management 10 ed. 1869; Napoleon III. and
the Franco-German war 1871; Cattle, sheep and deer 1872; The
Highland crofters of Scotland 1878; Grouse disease 1883. _d._
Lymington house, Brighton 3 Jany. 1884.
MACDONALD, ELIZABETH (dau. of Renald Macdonald of Scotland).
_b._ 1772; sent by her guardian to school at Calais; received
22 May 1794 at the Benedictine monastery of the Glorious
assumption of the B.V.M. founded at Brussels by Lady Mary Percy
in 1597; fled with the community to England in 1794; received
the habit of religion and took the names of Mary Benedict at
the convent St. Peter st. Winchester 11 May 1795 and was the
first to be professed there 8 Sep. 1796; elected 15th abbess
of the community 9 Sep. 1811, the ceremony of her benediction
took place 10 Oct. 1811, tendered her resignation to cardinal
Wiseman, resignation accepted 25 Feb. 1848. _d._ at the convent,
Winchester 17 May 1854.
MACDONALD, GEORGE. _b._ 10 Oct. 1784; ensign 27 foot 5 Sep.
1805, captain 17 Aug. 1815, placed on h.p. 25 Feb. 1816; captain
16 foot 5 Sep. 1816, lieut.-col. 10 Jany. 1837, placed on h.p. 7
July 1841; governor of Sierra Leone 17 Dec. 1841 to March 1845;
col. of 96 foot 27 Dec. 1860, of 16 foot 13 Feb. 1863 to death;
general 25 Oct. 1871; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877. _d._
Torquay 1 March 1883. _Graphic_, _xxv_ 181 (1883) _portrait_.
MACDONALD, HUGH. _b._ Bridgeton, Glasgow 4 April 1817;
apprenticed to a block-printer; kept a provision shop in
Bridgeton; a block-printer at Paisley to 1849; wrote for the
Glasgow Citizen 1849–53 and for the Glasgow Sentinel 1855;
edited the Glasgow Times; literary editor of Morning Journal
1858 to death; author of Rambles round Glasgow 2 ed. 1856; Days
at the coast, sketches of the Frith of Clyde 1874. _d._ 16 March
1860. _Hugh Macdonald’s Poetical Works_ (1865), _memoir_; _Rev.
Charles Rogers’s Leaves from my autobiography_ (1876) 286–7.
MACDONALD, JAMES. Comedian in North of England; lessee of the
Shields, Scarborough and Hartlepool theatres; lessee of T.R.
Darlington to 1871; held a responsible position at Drury Lane
theatre under F. B. Chatterton 1871–9. _d._ Newcastle-on-Tyne 25
Jany. 1889 aged 60.
MAC DONALD, JAMES. _b._ Hopeman, Elginshire 1842; in the house
of W. P. Nimmo, bookseller, Edinb. 1860, then a traveller for
Nimmo in Scotland; traveller for G. Waterston and Sons, Edinb.
till 1870; Canadian traveller for W. Collins, Sons and co.
1870–80; partner with John Walker and William Barringer as J.
Walker & Co. booksellers, Warwick lane, Paternoster row, London
1880 to death; _killed_ while crossing the line at Beckenham
station, Kent 15 Aug. 1891. _bur._ Elmer’s End cemetery.
MACDONALD, JAMES WILLIAM BOSVILLE (2 son of Godfrey Macdonald, 3
baron Macdonald 1775–1832). _b._ 31 Oct. 1810; ensign 81 foot 1
Oct. 1829; cornet 1 life guards 1831, captain 24 June 1837 to 30
Dec. 1842; private sec. to commander in chief at head quarters
15 July 1856 to death; present at battles of Alma, Balaclava,
Inkerman and at siege of Sebastopol; col. 21 hussars 1 July 1880
to death; general 1 July 1881; deputy ranger of Hyde park; C.B.
5 July 1855. _d._ St. Leonards-on-Sea 4 Jany. 1882. _Army and
navy mag. iii_ 399 (1882), _portrait_.
MACDONALD, SIR JOHN (eld. son of Alexander Macdonald, major in
the army 1762–1808). _b._ 10 Sep. 1788; ensign 88 foot 17 Dec.
1803, captain 7 Sep. 1809; major Portuguese service 25 Oct.
1814; major 91 foot 29 Nov. 1821, lieut.-col. 23 Sep. 1824 to
26 April 1827 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. 92 foot 21 Nov.
1828 to 9 Nov. 1846; commanded the force sent to suppress Irish
insurrection of July 1848; col. 92 foot 25 May 1855 to death;
general 7 March 1862; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831, K.C.B. 4 Feb. 1856.
_d._ Dun Alastair, Perthshire 24 June 1866.
MACDONALD, JOHN (son of Wm. Macdonald). _b._ Strathglass,
Invernessshire 2 July 1818; ed. at the Scots seminary, Ratisbon
1830–7 and Scots college at Rome 1837–40; ordained priest
1841; missioner of Tombae, Banffshire 1841–2, of Glenmoriston,
Inverness 1842–4, of Dornie Kintail, Ross 1844, and of Braemar
1844–5; assistant at Inverness 1845–8; missioner Frassnakyle,
Strathglass 1848–56; chaplain to Lord Lovat at Eskdale 1856–68;
co-adjutor vicar-apostolic of northern district of Scotland,
Nov. 1868, vicar-apostolic 23 Feb. 1869; consecrated at Aberdeen
bishop of northern district by title of bishop of Nicopolis
24 Feb. 1869; bishop of restored diocese of Aberdeen 29 Jany.
1878 to death. _d._ Aberdeen 4 Feb. 1889. _Brady’s Catholic
hierarchy_, _iii_ 475–6 (1877).
MACDONALD, SIR JOHN ALEXANDER (1 son of Hugh Macdonald, yeoman
of Sutherlandshire). _b._ George st. Glasgow 11 Jany. 1815;
emigrated to Canada with his parents 1820; ed. at royal gram.
sch. Kingston; member of bar of Upper Canada 1836; bencher
of Law Soc. of Ontario; head of firm of Macdonald and Marsh,
Toronto; Q.C. 1846; representative of Kingston in house of
assembly 1844–67; receiver general May 1847; commissioner of
crown lands 1848; attorney general for Canada West 1854, 1858–62
and 1864; leader of the conservative party 1856–8; postmaster
general 1858 for one day; minister of militia 1862 and 1865;
P.C. of Canada 1867; minister of justice and attorney general
1867–73; K.C.B. 29 June 1867, G.C.B. 21 Aug. 1884; D.C.L. Oxf.
21 June 1865; took an active part in the federation of the
British North American provinces 1864–67 under name of Dominion
of Canada; premier of the United provinces July 1867 to 6 Nov.
1873 and 1878 to death; one of 5 British commissioners on treaty
of Washington, Feb. 1871; P.C. of Great Britain 14 Aug. 1879;
favoured construction of Canadian Pacific railway opened 28
June 1886; was so like lord Beaconsfield that he was called the
Canadian Disraeli. _d._ Earnscliffe hall near Ottawa 6 June
1891, memorial marble bust unveiled in south aisle of the crypt
chapel of St. Paul’s cathedral, London 16 Nov. 1892. _E. G.
Collins’s Life of Sir John Macdonald_ (1892), 2 _portraits_;
_Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) 237; _Appleton’s
American biography_, _iv_ 102–4 (1888), _portrait_; _Black and
White 13 June 1891 p._ 602, _portrait_; _St. Stephen’s Review 7
March 1891_, _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxxiii_ 5 (1858), _portrait_.
MAC DONALD, JOHN CAMERON (son of a factor for lord Abinger).
_b._ Fort William, Invernessshire, June 1822; a reporter on The
Times 1842, wrote also descriptive articles on Ireland 1848, on
Great Exhibition 1851, Sydenham crystal palace 1854, Chobham
camp 1853 and duke of Wellington’s funeral 1852; accompanied
prince consort on his visit to emperor of the French at Boulogne
1853; distributed The Times Crimean sick and wounded fund in
Russia 1855; a student at an inn of court; manager of The Times
printing establishment 1855; printed from stereotype plates
1860; with Joseph Calverley invented the Walter press 1862–71;
printed from stereotype plates from continuous rolls of paper
1866; manager of The Times 1873 to death; managed the case of
The Times before the special commission on Irish affairs 22 Oct.
1888 to 22 Nov. 1889, which with damages for insertion of forged
letters cost The Times a large sum of money. _d._ Waddon near
Croydon 10 Dec. 1889. _The Times 11, 12, 16 and 25 Dec. 1889_;
_I.L.N. 21 Dec. 1889 p._ 786, _portrait_; _Graphic 21 Dec. 1889
p._ 753, _portrait_.
MACDONALD, LAWRENCE (son of Alexander Macdonald, violinist).
_b._ Boneyview, Findo-Gask, Perthshire 15 Feb. 1799; apprenticed
to Thomas Gibson, mason; an ornamental sculptor in Edinburgh to
1822; entered Trustees’ academy, Edinb. 26 Feb. 1822; studied
at Rome 1822–6 where he helped to found British academy of
arts 1823, trustee to death; sculptor at Edinburgh 1827–32
and at Rome 1832 to death; exhibited 48 pieces of sculpture
at R. A. 1828–57; exhibited in royal institution, Edinb. 1829
colossal group of ‘Ajax bearing the dead body of Patroclus and
combating a Trojan warrior’; second to Charles Maclaren in his
duel with James Browne, fought near Edinb. 12 Nov. 1829; member
of Scottish academy 1829–58. _d._ Rome 4 March 1878. _bur._
cemetery of Porta San Paolo. _P. R. Drummond’s Perthshire_
(1879) 109–26; _R. Brydall’s Art in Scotland_ (1889) 190.
M’DONALD, NORMAN HILTON (only son of sir John M’Donald, K.C.B.,
adjutant general). Controller of the lord chamberlain’s
department 1852 to death; siezed with apoplexy while talking
with the marchioness of Ely at lady Elizabeth Hope Vere’s. _d._
lord chamberlain’s office, St. James’s palace, London 1 Dec.
1857.
MACDONALD, NORMAN WILLIAM. _b._ 1808; governor of Sierra Leone 7
April 1846 to 13 Sep. 1852. _d._ Priory field house, Taunton 13
May 1893.
M’DONALD, PETER (son of Randal M’Donald). b. Kilfinane, co.
Limerick 1836; ed. French college, Blackrock; a commercial
traveller; partner in firm of Cantwell and M’Donald, wine
merchants and distillers, Dublin; M.P. North Sligo division in
the Anti-Parnellite interest Dec. 1885 to death; sheriff of
Dublin 1886. _d._ Clarinda park, Kingstown 12 March 1891. _Daily
Graphic 17 March 1891 p._ 8, _portrait_.
MACDONALD, REGINALD GEORGE (eld. son of John Macdonald of
Clanronald, captain 22 dragoons 1764–94). _b._ Aug. 1788; M.P.
Plympton 1812–24. _d._ 22 Clarendon road, Kensington 11 March
1873.
MACDONALD, ROBERT (son of Alexander Macdonald, wine merchant).
_b._ Perth 18 May 1813; ed. St. Andrew’s univ., D.D. 1870,
and at Edinb. univ.; presbyterian minister Longiealmond,
Perthshire 1836 and at Blairgowrie 1837–43; Free ch. minister
at Blairgowrie 1843–57 and at North Leith 1857; author of
Lessons for the present from the records of the past 1848; From
day to day, helpful words for christian life 1879. _J. Smith’s
Our Scottish clergy 2 Ser._ (1849) 156–61; _Wylie’s Disruption
worthies_ (1881) 36–70.
MACDONALD, WILLIAM (son of John Macdonald of Carraden,
Linlithgow). _b._ 1784; ed. at Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1805,
M.A. 1807; V. of Broad Hinton, Cricklade 1809; V. of Chitterne
1812; V. of Bishops-Cannings, Wilts. 14 April 1815 to death;
canon of Bitton in Salisbury cath. 1823 to death; archdeacon of
Wilts. 21 June 1828 to death; author of Select works of John
Douglas bishop of Carlisle, with a memoir. Salisbury 1820; A
series of plain sermons on the leading articles of the christian
faith 1824. _d._ Bishops-Cannings 24 June 1862. _W. H. Jones’s
Fasti_ (1879) 177.
MACDONALD, WILLIAM. _b._ 21 April 1797; ed. Edinb. univ., M.D.
1818; F.R.C.P. Edinb. 1836; lecturer comparative anatomy, Lane’s
medical school, London; professor of natural history in the
united colleges, St. Andrews 12 Aug. 1850 to death. _d._ 20
Queen st. St. Andrews 1 Jany. 1875.
MACDONALD, WILLIAM (son of a bootcloser). _b._ Newcastle 1859; a
newspaper boy in Sunderland; in training stable of James Watson,
Belleisle, Richmond, Yorks. 1871–4; won the Princess of Wales
plate on Tetrarch at Sandown 27 April 1875, and the Autumn cup
on Bugle 18 Oct. 1877; in 1877 had 130 mounts and was a winner
in 13, in 1878 had 248 mounts winning 35 times, and in 1880 had
355 mounts winning 47; rode also in France 1878–9; at Epsom in
1881 was second on Retreat for the Derby; won the Cesarewitch
stakes on Chippendale 1879 and on Foxhall 1881; won Prince of
Wales stakes at Ascot 1880; when riding Buchanan for Liverpool
cup, fell and was kicked on the head 12 Nov. 1881. _d._ Sefton
arms hotel, Liverpool 12 Nov. 1881. _Sporting Mirror_, _ii_
161–4 (1881), _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news_, _xvi_ 238,
245 (1881), _portrait_.
MACDONALD, WILLIAM BELL (eld. son of Donald Macdonald). _b._
Scotland 1807; ed. at univ. of Glasgow, B.A. 1827; served as
surgeon in sir Pulteney Malcolm’s flagship in the Mediterranean
1828–31; a comr. of supply; one of the greatest linguists
of his time, making a special study of Coptic; collected a
valuable library at his estate Rammerscales; a contributor to
the Ray Society on zoology and botany 1845–6; represented burgh
of Lochmaben in general assembly of church of Scotland some
years; author of Lusus Philologici. Ex museo Gul. B. Macdonald.
Rammerscales 1851; Ten Scottish songs rendered into German 1854;
Sketch of a Coptic grammar adapted for self-tuition 1856. _d._
114 West Campbell st. Glasgow 5 Dec. 1862. _Gent. Mag. March
1863 p._ 390; _Inglis’s Dramatic Writers of Scotland_ (1868) 71.
MACDONALD, WILLIAM RUSSELL. _b._ 1787; editor and part
proprietor of Bell’s Life in London, the Sunday Herald,
the British Drama, and the Literary Humourist; author of A
paraphrase of R. Dodsley’s Economy of human life 1817; Fudge
in Ireland, a collection of letters, poems, etc. 1822, anon.;
Christianity, protestantism and popery compared and contrasted
1829, anon.; The book of quadrupeds 1838; First and second
lessons for the nursery 1838. _d._ Great James st. Bedford row,
London 30 Dec. 1854.
MAC DONELL, SIR ALEXANDER (eld. son of Hugh Mac Donell, consul
general, Algiers). _b._ Algiers 24 Feb. 1820; ensign rifle
brigade 23 June 1837, major 22 Dec. 1854, lieut.-col. 16 June
1857 to 22 Feb. 1871; served in Kaffir war 1846–7; present at
Balaclava, Alma and Inkerman; commanded 2 bat. May 1855 to fall
of Sebastopol, medal with 3 clasps; commanded 3 bat. in Indian
mutiny, present at capture of Lucknow; served in campaign of
north-west frontier of India 1864; commanded expedition against
Mohund tribes 1863–4; brigadier general Bengal 22 March 1867 to
23 Oct. 1871; major general Bengal 12 April 1872 to 31 March
1877; C.B. 27 July 1855, K.C.B. 24 May 1881; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877,
retired 1 April 1882 with rank of general; colonel commandant
2 bat. rifle brigade 24 Jany. 1886 to death. _d._ Hackbridge,
Carshalton, Surrey 30 April 1891. _I.L.N. 16 May 1891 p._ 639,
_portrait_.
MAC DONELL, EWEN (son of lieut.-col. Archibald Mac Donell,
lieut. governor of Edinburgh castle). _b._ 1807; studied
medicine; entered H.E.I.C. 1835; a doctor; during the mutiny
he raised the Sewan levy, received the mutiny medal, accorded
special thanks of government of India and a letter of
approbation from the queen. _d._ 59 Nevern square, Earl’s court,
London 20 May 1891.
MACDONELL, SIR JAMES (3 son of Duncan Macdonell, chief of
Glengarry). _b._ Glengarry house, Invernessshire; ensign in an
independent company 1793; lieut. 78 foot 1794; captain 17 light
dragoons 1 Dec. 1795, major 1802; major 78 foot 17 April 1804,
lieut.-col. 7 Sep. 1809; served in Naples, Sicily and Egypt
1806–7; lieut.-col. 2 garrison battalion 21 Feb. 1811; captain
2 foot guards 11 Aug. 1811, lieut.-col. 27 May 1825 to 22 July
1830; served in the Peninsula May 1812 to Jany. 1814, and at
battle of Waterloo, where he held the chateau of Hougoumont
against the French, was one of the persons who helped to shut
the gate of the chateau; commanded the Armagh district 1831–8;
commanded brigade of guards in Canada 1838; commanded the
troops in Canada to 1841; col. of 79 foot 14 July 1842 to 8 Feb.
1849 and of 71 foot 8 Feb. 1849 to death; general 20 June 1854;
C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 20 April 1838, G.C.B. 5 July 1855;
K.C.H. 1837; had decorations of Maria Theresa of Austria and
of St. Vladimir of Russia. _d._ 15 Wilton place, London 15 May
1857. _Stewart’s Scottish Highlanders_, _ii_ 292–322 (1822);
_Mackinnon’s Coldstream Guards_, _ii_ 214–17 (1833).
MACDONELL, JAMES (eld. son of James Macdonell, excise officer
_d._ 1858). _b._ Dyce, Aberdeenshire 21 April 1842; left the
church of Rome and joined the Baptists 1860; wrote leading
articles in the Aberdeen Free Press 1858; on the staff of Daily
Review in Edinb. 1862; editor of the Northern Daily Express
at Newcastle 1862 at £150 a year to 1865; on the staff of the
Daily Telegraph in London 1865–75, the special correspondent in
France 9 Dec. 1871 to May 1872; leader writer on The Times 25
March 1875 to death; wrote many articles in Fraser’s Mag., North
British Review and Macmillan’s Mag.; author of France since
the first empire 1879. _d._ 78 Gower st. Bedford sq. London 2
March 1879. _bur._ Beckenham churchyard, Kent 6 March. _James
Macdonell, journalist. By W. R. Nicoll_ (1890), _portrait_.
MC DONNELL, SIR ALEXANDER, 1 Baronet (eld. son of James Mc
Donnell, M.D.) _b._ Belfast 1794; ed. at Westminster 1809–13,
King’s scholar 1809; student of Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1813–26; B.A. 1816,
M.A. 1820; barrister L.I. 23 Nov. 1824; a comr. of inquiry into
public charities; chief clerk in office of chief secretary for
Ireland; resident comr. of Irish board of education 1839 to Dec.
1871, being thus the real creator of England’s one successful
institution in Ireland; P.C. Ireland 1846; created baronet 20
Jany. 1872. _d._ 32 Upper Fitzwilliam st. Dublin 21 Jany. 1875.
_bur._ at Kilsharvan near Drogheda. _Spectator 20 Feb. 1875 pp._
240–1.
MC DONNEL, SIR EDWARD. _b._ Dublin 1806; a paper manufacturer,
Dublin; chairman of Great southern and western railway of
Ireland 1849 to death, knighted by earl of Clarendon on opening
this railway to Cork 1849; lord mayor of Dublin 1854. _d._ 31
Merrion square south, Dublin 22 Nov. 1860.
MC DONNELL, EDWARD (son of sir Edward Mc Donnell of Dunfeirth
house, Kildare). Resident Melbourne, Australia to 1866;
professor in Xavier coll. Calcutta, Jany. 1866; on the staff of
the Calcutta Englishman 1866; editor of Lahore chronicle 1867;
sub-editor of Bombay gazette 1867, then special correspondent on
staff of general Napier in Abyssinia; in Dublin, June 1868. _The
Newspaper Press 1 Feb. 1869 p._ 49.
MAC DONNELL, ENEAS (4 son of Charles Mac Donnell of Clonagh,
co. Mayo). _b._ Westport, co. Mayo 27 July 1783; ed. at lay
college of Maynooth; one of chief promoters of cause of Catholic
emancipation 1810–23, when new catholic association was formed;
agent to Irish catholics in England 1824–29; imprisoned for
an alleged libel against the government 1816, and for another
alleged libel against the character of archdeacon French 1828;
author of The hermit of Glenconella, a tale 1820; Catholic
question, letters on securities 1829; The Roman catholic oath
considered 1835; Vindication of the house of lords, letters to
The Times 1836; The ‘Crisis’ unmasked 1843; Letter to W. E.
Gladstone respecting the Maynooth grant 1845; Address and advice
to his countrymen 1849. _d._ Lara, Kildare 3 Jany. 1858. _Law
Times_, _xxxi_ 178 (1858).
MC DONNELL, RANDAL W. Called to bar in Ireland 1856; Q.C. 30
Jany. 1869. _d._ Bournemouth 5 Jany. 1875.
MAC DONNELL, RICHARD (eld. son of Robert Mac Donnell of Douglas,
co. Cork). _b._ 1787; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar
1803, B.A. 1805, LL.B. 1810, LL.D. 1813, M.A., B.D. and D.D.
1821; fellow of his college 1808, senior fellow Nov. 1836 to
1852, Donegal lecturer 1820–7; professor of oratory in Trin.
coll. Dublin 1816–52, regius professor of laws 1840–1, regius
professor of Greek 1843–52, provost 24 Jany. 1852 to death. _d._
Provost’s house, Trinity college, Dublin 24 Jany. 1867. _bur._
under chapel of Trin. coll. 28 Jany.
MACDONNELL, SIR RICHARD GRAVES (eld. son of Richard Macdonnell
_d._ 1867). _b._ Dublin 3 Sep. 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin,
scholar 1833, B.A. 1835, M.A. 1836, LL.B. 1845, LL.D. 1862;
called to Irish bar 1838; barrister L.I. 25 Jany. 1841; chief
justice of the Gambia 20 July 1843 to 1 Oct. 1847; governor
of British settlements on the Gambia 1 Oct. 1847 to 23 Feb.
1852, conducted several exploring expeditions opening up the
interior of Africa from the Gambia to the Senegal; administrator
of St. Vincent 23 Feb. 1852 to 6 Nov. 1854; governor of South
Australia 8 June 1855 to 4 March 1862; lieut.-governor of Nova
Scotia 28 May 1864 to Oct. 1865; governor of Hong Kong 19 Oct.
1865, retired on pension 1872; C.B. 12 Feb. 1852; knighted at
Buckingham palace 28 Jany. 1856; K.C.M.G. 23 Feb. 1871. _d._
Hyères, France 5 Feb. 1881. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 14 Feb.
_I.L.N. lxxviii_ 220, 222 (1881), _portrait_.
MC DONNELL, ROBERT (2 son of John Mc Donnell, M.D. medical
commissioner of local government board, _b._ 1796, living 1889).
_b._ Dublin 15 March 1828; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1844, B.A.
and M.B. 1850, M.D. 1857; apprenticed to Richard Carmichael,
surgeon 1845–9; M.R.C.S. Ireland 1851, F.R.C.S. 1853, pres.
1877; attached to British hospital at Smyrna 1855 and to general
hospital in camp before Sebastopol 1855–6; demonstrator of
anatomy in Carmichael school of medicine Dublin 1856, lecturer
on anatomy and physiology; medical superintendent of Mountjoy
prison 1857–67; surgeon to Jervis st. hospital Dublin 1863;
M.D. Queen’s univ. Ireland 1864; surgeon to Stevens’s hospital,
Dublin, and professor of descriptive anatomy in its medical
school 1866; member of council of univ. of Dublin twice;
F.R.S. 1 June 1865; pres. of academy of medicine in Ireland
1885–8; author of many scientific papers; edited Selections
from the works of A. Colles in New Sydenham Soc. 1881; author
of Observations on the function of the liver 1865; Lectures on
surgery, two parts 1871–75; What has experimental physiology
done 1882. _d._ 89 Merrion sq. west, Dublin 6 May 1889. _Sir
C. Cameron’s History of college of surgeons in Ireland_ (1886)
429–32.
MC DONNELL, THOMAS. _b._ 1793; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin,
scholar 1811, B.A. 1813; called to Irish bar 1816; Q.C. 1 July
1837; a crown prosecutor for co. of Down. _d._ Eglantine hill
near Belfast 25 Sep. 1878.
MC DONOGH, ALLEN. _b._ Galway 1804; one of the best known
steeplechasers in Ireland; won a steeplechase on Sir William
1830, sold him to John Elmore for £350 who resold him to lord
Cranstown for £1000; rode Sir William in a match for £1000
against Jerry for 4 miles over the Quorn country and won; won
over 20 steeplechases on Brunette a mare belonging to Mr.
Preston 1847 etc. _d._ Dublin, May 1888. _Baily’s Mag. xlix_
269–70 (1888).
MC DONOGH, FRANCIS (son of Morgan Mc Donogh of Sligo). _b._
1806; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1825, M.A. 1864; called
to Irish bar 1829; Q.C. 2 Nov. 1842; counsel to inland revenue
department; one of counsel for the defence of D. O’Connell 1843;
contested Carrickfergus 2 April 1857; M.P. Sligo 1860–65. _d._
41 Rutland sq. Dublin 18 April 1882. _Irish law times_, _xvi_
177 (1882).
MAC DOUALL, CHARLES. _b._ 1814; professor of humanity, Queen’s
coll. Belfast, Oct. 1849, then professor of Greek 1851 to death;
author of A discourse on the study of oriental languages 1849.
_d._ Belfast 24 Feb. 1883; his library sold at Sotheby’s, London
20–23 Feb. 1884. _Testimonials in favor of C. Mac Douall as
candidate for Greek chair in Univ. of Edinb._ 1852.
MACDOUGAL, DONALD (son of a farmer). _b._ 1800; apprentice to
Mr. Bremner, draper, Inverness; a draper Inverness, waited
upon customers in their hotels with selections of his goods,
originator of the tweed trade in Scotland; chief exhibitioner at
Great Exhibition of 1851 of tweeds, plaids, brooches, shawls,
&c., his stall became famous and was figured in I.L.N., he was
also noticed in Punch 1851; became an advertiser with the motto
‘When you are in the Highlands visit Macdougal’s’; in 1856
paid his creditors in full and was entertained at a banquet in
Glasgow 30 April 1857; made a speciality of tartans and plaids;
retired 1861; gave a working men’s club to Inverness 1862;
presented with his bust in Carrara marble 18 March 1879. _The
Biograph_, _v_ 544–9 (1881).
MAC DOUGAL, THOMAS ST. CLAIR. _b._ Jany. 1804; a master in
Islington proprietory school; first master of lower department
of city of London school 1837 to Dec. 1874; author of
Descriptive outlines of modern geography and a short account
of Palestine 1835, 12 ed. 1857. _d._ 107 Stockwell park road,
Brixton 10 March 1880. _City Press 13 March 1880 p._ 3.
MC DOUGALL, ARCHIBALD. _b._ Tarbut Kintyre, Argyllshire; ed. at
univ. of Edinb.; governor of Edinb. orphan hospital 1839–43;
minister of Kirkfield ch. Gorbals, Glasgow 1843–47; minister of
Argyll ch. Glasgow 1847; author of The family text book 1880.
_J. Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy_ (1849) 398–400.
MAC DOUGALL, SIR DUNCAN (son of Patrick Mac Dougall of Soroba,
Argyllshire). _b._ Soroba 1790; entered army 1804, served
in Spain, France, America, West Indies and Cape of Good
Hope; brigadier general second in command and quartermaster
general in British auxiliary legion of Spain; lieut.-col. 79
highlanders 6 Sep. 1833 to 13 March 1835; knighted at St.
James’s palace 18 July 1838; raised and disciplined Royal
Lancashire artillery 1853, lieut.-col. commandant 15 April 1853
to 23 May 1857; author of Remarks on the military sanitary
commission, suggestions for the improvement of the soldiery and
prevention of drunkenness 1838; Remarks on national defence and
the instruction of volunteer corps 1860; The history of the
volunteer movement 2 ed. 1861. _d._ 112 Eaton sq. London 10 Dec.
1862.
MC DOUGALL, FRANCIS THOMAS (only son of Wm. Adair Mc Dougall,
captain 88 foot). _b._ Sydenham, Kent 1817; medical student
King’s college, London 1835, demonstrator of anatomy there 1838;
M.R.C.S. 1839, F.R.C.S. 1854; matric. from Magd. hall, Oxf.,
B.A. 1844, M.A. 1845, D.C.L. 1854; rowed bow oar in the Oxford
eight against Cambridge 1842; superintended iron-works in South
Wales which failed 1842–4; C. of Framingham, Pigot 1845–6; C.
of St. Mark’s, Lakenham 1846; C. of Ch. Ch. Woburn sq. London
1846; went to Borneo as a missionary 30 Dec. 1847; bishop of
Labuan 6 Aug. 1855, consecrated at Calcutta 18 Oct. 1855, it
was the first consecration that had taken place out of England;
also bishop of Sarawak by appointment from the Rajah, Dec.
1855, resigned April 1868; V. of Godmanchester, Hunts. 1868–74;
archdeacon of Huntingdon 1870–4; canon of Ely 1871–3; canon of
Winchester 16 Oct. 1873 to death; archdeacon of Isle of Wight
1874 to death; V. of Milford, Hants. 1881–5; R. of Mottistone
with Shorwell, Isle of Wight 1885 to death; (_m._ July 1843
Harriette 2 dau. of Robert John Bunyon, she preached to the
native women of Borneo, she was author of Letters from Sarawak
addressed to a child 1854, and Sketches of our life at Sarawak
1882, she _d._ Shorwell 7 May 1886); author of Life in death, a
sermon with memoir of Capt. J. M. Boyd 3 ed. 1861; A catechism
of the christian religion. English and Malay 1868. He _d._
Winchester 16 Nov. 1886. _bur._ Shorwell 20 Nov. _C. J. Bunyon’s
Memoirs of F. T. Mc Dougall and of Harriette his wife_ (1889), 2
_portraits_.
MC DOUGALL, HENRY JOHN. _b._ 1820; pupil and dresser at Exeter
hospital; ed. Univ. coll. hospital, London, one of the house
surgeons; M.R.C.S. 1844; in practice in Henrietta st. Cavendish
sq. London; intense study of the microscope led to disease
of the brain; wrote on Spermatorrhœa in the Medical Times;
translated F. Lallemand’s A practical treatise on the cause of
spermatorrhœa 1847, 2 ed. 1851. _d._ Exeter 18 June 1853.
M’DOUGALL, SIR JOHN (2 son of Patrick M’Dougall of Dunolly
castle, co. Argyle). _b._ Edinburgh 1790; entered navy 16 Dec.
1802; lieut. of the Superb at bombardment of Algiers 27 Aug.
1816; captain 16 Aug. 1836; commander of Nimrod 1833, Vulture
1845 and La Hogue 1849; senior officer at Hong Kong at capture
of Bogue forts 1847; admiralty superintendent of packets at
Southampton 1855; R.A. 12 May 1857, V.A. 3 Nov. 1863; K.C.B. 10
Nov. 1862. _d._ Dunolly 12 April 1865.
MAC DOUGALL, NIEL PATRICK. _b._ 1812; entered Bombay army 1826;
ensign 9 Bombay N.I. 27 June 1827; lieut. 13 N.I. 21 Aug. 1835,
major 1 Aug. 1850 to 1 May 1855; lieut.-col. of 21 N.I. 1 May
1855 to 1857; lieut.-col. of 16 N.I. 1857–8, of 2 N.I. 1858–9,
and of 8 N.I. 1859–61; commandant at Skikarpore 1858–9, and at
Sattara 1859–60; retired M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. _d._ Ootacamund,
Madras 10 June 1865.
MAC DOUGALL, PATRICK CAMPBELL (son of Hugh Mac Dougall, parish
minister at Killin). _b._ Killin 1806; ed. at Edinburgh high
sch. and univ.; classical master in Edinburgh academy 1834–44;
prof. of moral philosophy in the New or Free church coll.
Edinburgh 1844–53; prof. of moral philosophy in univ. of
Edinburgh 1 Nov. 1853 to death; author of Introductory lecture
on moral philosophy, at the inauguration of the New college
1851; Papers on literary and philosophical subjects 1852. _d._
9 Buckingham terrace, Edinburgh 30 Dec. 1867. _Grant’s Univ. of
Edinb. ii_ 77, 347–8 (1884).
M’DOUGALL, WILLIAM. _b._ Inverary; ed. at univ. of Glasgow;
minister of Relief ch. Campbeltown 1823, of Kilmarnock 1827 and
of Thread st. ch. Paisley 1843; author of The Saviour’s trouble
of soul in anticipation of his sufferings 1836; Discourses 1848.
_J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1849) 319–25.
MACDOWALL, CHARLES (son of Wm. Macdowall, watchmaker). _b._
Pontefract 6 April 1790; apprentice to a chemist; repaired
a repeater watch without any instruction; a watchmaker at
Wakefield; invented the helix lever clock 1831; at 21 Church
st. Kensington, London 1836; invented the helix lever watch and
the helix lever escape; patronised by the duke of Sussex when
at Kensington palace, where he attended at the conversaziones
to explain the inventions; removed to 41 St. James’ st. Pall
Mall 1839, to 8 Victoria road, Pimlico 1840, and to 30 Hyde
st. Bloomsbury 1848; patented the single pin escapement, for
which he received bronze medal at Great Exhibition of 1851;
experimented on the three-leg gravity escapement; re-invented
the spiral drill. _d._ 26 Jermyn st. London 27 Oct. 1872. _The
Horological Journal_, _Sep. 1873 pp._ 5–9, _portrait_.
M’DOWALL, CHARLES (only son of Robert M’Dowall of Sheffield).
_b._ 1837; ed. Univ. coll. Oxf., scholar 1856–62; B.A. 1859,
M.A. 1865, B.D. and D.D. 1882; head master’s assistant Rossall
sch.; senior assistant master Malvern coll. 1864–74; head master
Cholmeley high sch. Highgate, London, Jany. 1874 to death; preb.
of St. Paul’s, April 1883 to death. _d._ Cholmeley school house
29 June 1893.
MACDOWALL, DAY HORT. _b._ 3 July 1795; ensign 52 foot 15 April
1813; major 44 foot 27 Nov. 1828 to 21 Feb. 1840 when placed on
h.p.; col. 3 Buffs. 9 Sep. 1864 to death; L.G. 4 March 1866.
_d._ 14 Sep. 1870.
M’DOWALL, WILLIAM (son of a traveller for a cabinet-making
firm). _b._ Maxwelltown, Kirkcudbrightshire 21 July 1815;
learnt bookbinding in Dumfries, Glasgow and London; on the
staff of the Scottish Herald 1843; editor of the Dumfries and
Galloway Standard 1846–53 and 1854 to death; edited a Sunderland
paper 1853–4; author of The man of the woods and other poems
1844, 2 ed. 1882; Burns in Dumfriesshire 1870; History of the
burgh Dumfries 1867, 2 ed. 1873; Memorials of St. Michael’s
churchyard, Dumfries 1876; The mind in the face 1882, 3 ed.
1888; Chronicles of Lincluden as an abbey and as a college 1886;
Among the old Scottish minstrels 1888. _d._ Dumfries 28 Oct.
1888. _M. Harper’s Bards of Galloway_ (1889) 77, 201, 255.
MAC DOWEL, BENJAMIN GEORGE (son of Ephraim Mac Dowel,
physician). _b._ 1820; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1841, M.B.
and M.D. 1858, M. Chir. 1859; L.R.C.S.I. 1841, F.R.C.S. 1845;
L.R.C.P. Lond. 1846; physician to house of industry hospitals,
Dublin; professor of anatomy and surgery, Trin. coll. Dublin
1858–79; examiner in medicine, royal univ. of Ireland; president
of Pathological soc. Dublin 1865; a physician in ordinary to the
Queen in Ireland 1881. _d._ 5 Haddington ter. Kingstown 15 Sep.
1885. _Medical times and gazette_, _ii_ 417 (1885).
MAC DOWELL, BENJAMIN FRANCIS. _b._ 1841; M.R.C.S. 1864, F.R.C.S.
1872; M.B. of Dublin univ. 1867; physician and surgeon to
Mercer’s hospital and the Lock hospital, Dublin; professor
of materia medica and therapeutics in the Ledwich school of
medicine; a contributor to The Medical Press. _d._ 29 York st.
Dublin 8 Feb. 1879. _Medical Press_, _xxvii_ 135 (1879).
MACDOWELL, PATRICK (son of a tradesman). _b._ Belfast 12 Aug.
1799; apprenticed to a coachbuilder in London 1813–7; resided
with Peter Francis Chenu a French sculptor in Charles st.
London; exhibited 78 sculptures at R.A., 3 at B.I. and 8 at
Suffolk st. 1822–70; A.R.A. 1841, R.A. 1846, retired 1870; his
greatest work was the group of figures entitled Europe, at
corner of the Albert memorial in Hyde Park, completed 1870,
illustrated in Art Journal 1871 p. 188. _d._ 74A Margaret st.
Cavendish sq. London 9 Dec. 1870. _W. B. Scott’s British school
of sculpture_ (1871) 103–8; _Sandby’s History of royal academy_,
_ii_ 195–7 (1862); _Art Journal_ (1850) _p._ 8 _portrait, and_
(1871) _p._ 41; _Dublin univ. mag. xxxviii_ 602–10 (1851),
_portrait_; _I.L.N. xxx_ 417, 418 (1857), _lvii_ 679, 681
(1870), _portrait_.
MACDUFF, JOHN. _b._ 1800; ensign 15 foot 3 Aug. 1815; captain 40
foot 13 April 1839, major 13 Nov. 1847; lieut.-col. St. Helena
regiment 8 June 1849 to 30 July 1852; lieut. col. 74 foot 30
July 1852 to 11 May 1862 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 23 Oct. 1863;
C.B. 28 Jany. 1862; served in India many years; commanded an
infantry brigade in the Kaffir war 1852–3; commanded the Oudh
division at Lucknow 1857. _d._ Newmiln-by-Stanley, Perthshire 25
Sep. 1865.
MC ELROY, JOHN. _b._ Brookeborough, co. Fermanagh 11 May 1782;
emigrated to U.S. of America about 1802; entered Society of
Jesus as a lay brother 1806, ordained May 1817; priest of
Trinity church, Georgetown 1817–22, transferred to Frederick,
Maryland 1822; built St. John’s church, a college, an academy,
an orphan asylum and the first free school in Frederick; one
of the two chaplains for the R.C. soldiers in the Mexican war
1846–7; pastor of St. Mary’s church, Boston 1847–62, built
Boston college and the church of the immaculate conception. _d._
Frederick, Maryland 12 Sep. 1877 being the oldest Jesuit in the
world.
M’ENCROE, JOHN. _b._ Tullamane near Cashel 26 Dec. 1795; ed.
St. Patrick’s coll. Maynooth 1814, priest 1819, on the American
mission 1822–9; in charge of St. Patrick’s ch. Sydney, Australia
1832–61; dean of Sydney, archdeacon of Sydney to death; founded
the Sydney Freeman’s Journal 1850; opposed the reintroduction
of convicts into New South Wales 1849; author of The christian
doctrine, by A. Donlevy revised 1822; The wanderings of the
human mind in searching the scriptures, a history of the
principal heresies 1841. _d._ Sydney 22 Aug. 1868.
MACEWAN, ANDREW. _b._ Glasgow 1812; apprentice to James Mc
Clelland, accountant to 1834; accountant Glasgow 1834 and in
partnership with William Auld 1836–66; first sec. of Glasgow
stock exchange 1844–5; one of the founders of Institute of
accountants and actuaries, Glasgow 3 Oct. 1853. _d._ Glasgow 11
June 1866. _W. C. Maclehose’s Glasgow men_, _ii_ 187–8 (1886),
_portrait_.
MACEWEN, ALEXANDER (12 son of Wm. Macewen, minister of Howgate
secession ch. near Edinb. _d._ 1827). _b._ Howgate 5 April 1822;
ed. at Glasgow univ., M.A. 1840, D.D. 1866, and univ. of Halle
and Berlin; secession minister of Helensburgh church, Sep. 1845
to 1856; sent with Messrs. Harper and Eadie to report on the
German catholic movement and ecclesiastical affairs of Canton
de Vaud 1846; minister of Claremont united presbyterian ch.
Glasgow, Aug. 1856 to death; author of The revelation embodied
in scripture supernatural 1866. _d._ Glasgow 4 June 1875. _J.
Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy_ (1849) 129–34; _Sermons by A.
Macewen_ (1877) _memoir ix–lvi_.
MACFARLANE, DUNCAN (son of Duncan Macfarlane, minister of
Drymen, Stirlingshire). _b._ Auchingray 27 Sep. 1771; ed.
Glasgow univ., D.D. 1806; presbyterian minister, Drymen
1792–1823; dean of faculties Glasgow univ. 1810, and principal
April 1823 to death; one of king’s chaplains 1815; moderator
of general assembly 1819 and 1843; dean of the chapel royal
to 1824; minister of the High ch. Glasgow 1823–43; originated
colonial mission scheme 1835, its convener over 20 years;
entertained at a public dinner 23 Feb. 1842; author of A
treatise on the christian sabbath 1832; On the duty of prayer as
connected with the day of fasting 1835; The right appointment
of ministers in the church 1840; The revivals of the eighteenth
century, particularly at Cambuslang 1847; Bible temperance and
present duty 1847. _d._ Glasgow 25 Nov. 1857. _Maclehose’s
Glasgow men_, _ii_ 189–90 (1886), _portrait_; _Scott’s Fasti
vol._ 2 _pt._ 1 _pp._ 7, 235, 353 (1868); _J. Smith’s Our
Scottish clergy_ (1849) 72–9.
MACFARLAN, JAMES (son of a weaver who became a pedlar). _b._
Glasgow 9 April 1832; a professional pedlar in Scotland; walked
to London to get a publisher 1854; police court reporter to the
Glasgow Bulletin; became a pedlar again and retailed his own
books; several of his poems were printed in Household Words;
author of Poems 1854; City songs and other poetical pieces 1855;
Lyrics of life 1856; The wanderers of the west; An attic study,
brief notes on nature, men and books 1862. _d._ Glasgow 6 Nov.
1862. _bur._ Cheapside st. ground, Glasgow. _The poetical works
of James Macfarlan, with a memoir pp. i–x_ (1882); _Rev. C.
Rogers’s Leaves from my autobiography_ (1876) 287–91.
MACFARLAN, JAMES (son of James Macfarlan, minister of
Muiravonside near Linlithgow, author of The prophecies of
Ezekiel 1845, _b._ 1800, _d._ 1871). _b._ 6 Jany. 1845; ed.
at academy and univ. of Edinb.; assistant minister at Dundee
1869–71; minister of Ruthwell 1871 to death; raised money and
built an apse to his ch., in which he placed the Runic cross
which had been expelled by the General Assembly in 1642;
collected materials for a life of Stewart Leslie the vagrant
verse writer celebrated by Carlyle. _d._ Foulden, Berwickshire
7 Oct. 1889. _bur._ Ruthwell, where a memorial has been built.
_Memoirs of James Macfarlan_ (1892).
MACFARLANE, CHARLES (son of Robert Macfarlane). _b._ Scotland;
lived in Italy 1816–27 and in Turkey 1827–9; employed by Charles
Knight the publisher many years; nominated a poor brother of
the Charterhouse about July 1857; wrote the Civil and military
history of England in Knight’s Pictorial history of England 8
vols. 1838–44; author of Constantinople in 1828, 2 vols. 1829;
The romance of history, Italy 3 vols. 1832; The book of table
talk 1836; The French revolution 4 vols. 1844–5, anon.; The
romance of travel, the East 2 vols. 1846, and 30 other books.
_d._ the Charterhouse, London 9 Dec. 1858.
MACFARLANE, DUGALD. _b._ Perthshire 6 June 1790; 1 lieut. 95
foot 18 July 1815; at Waterloo, and at occupation of Paris;
retired on h.p. 29 Feb. 1816; one of the founders of the
Canterbury province, south island, New Zealand 16 Dec. 1850.
_d._ Christchurch, N.Z. Oct. 1882. _I.L.N. 2 Dec. 1882 pp._ 567,
569, _portrait_.
MACFARLANE, JAMES (2 son of rev. John Macfarlane of Bridgton,
Glasgow). _b._ Waterbeck, Dumfriesshire 27 April 1808; ed.
Glasgow univ., M.A., D.D. 1848; presbyterian minister East
ch. Stirling 1831, of St. Bernard’s ch. Edinb. 1832 and of
Duddingston, Edinb. May 1841 to death; moderator of general
assembly 1865; F.R.S. Edinb.; author of Remarks on intrusion
1839; Letter to Sir James Graham on tests 1845; The late
secession 1846; The church and nation 1849. _d._ Duddingston 6
Feb. 1866. _Proc. Royal Soc. Edinb. vi_ 18 (1869).
MACFARLANE, JOHN (3 son of rev. James Macfarlane 1759–1823).
_b._ Dunfermline 1 April 1807; ed. at Dunfermline gr. sch.
and univ. of Edinb.; minister of Kincardine-on-Forth 1831–40;
minister of Nicholson st. U.P. church, Glasgow, Sep. 1840,
then of Erskine church, Glasgow 1840–62; LL.D. Glasgow 1842;
minister of church at Clapham, London, April 1862 to death,
the members increasing from 36 to about 800; moderator of U.P.
synod 1866; moderator of English provincial synod 1870; author
of The mountains of the Bible, their scenes and their lessons
1849; Altar zeal 1859; The life and times of George Lawson, D.D.
1862; Pulpit echoes 1868, and 12 other books. _d._ 14 Victoria
road, Clapham Common 7 Feb. 1875. _W. Graham’s Memoirs of John
Macfarlane_ (1876) _portrait_; _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_
(1849) 379–85.
MACFARLANE, ROBERT, LORD ORMIDALE (only son of Parlan Macfarlane
of Glenmallashan, Dumbartonshire, tradesman). _b._ 30 July
1802; ed. at Glasgow and Edinb. univs.; a writer to the signet
29 June 1827, and in practice as an agent 1827–37; an advocate
at Edinb. 9 March 1838; sheriff of Renfrewshire 22 Dec. 1853
to Jany. 1862; an ordinary lord of session with title of lord
Ormidale 13 Jany. 1862 to death; reformed procedure of court of
session; author of The practice of the court of session in jury
causes 1837; Reports of jury trials in the courts of session
1838 to 1839, 1841; Practical notes on the structure of issues
in jury cases in the court of session, parts i–viii 1844–5. _d._
Hartrigge, Jedburgh 3 Nov. 1880. _Journal of jurisprudence_,
_xxiv_ 659–61 (1880).
MACFARREN, SIR GEORGE ALEXANDER (son of George Macfarren,
dramatist and theatrical manager 1788–1843). _b._ 24 Villiers
st. Strand, London 2 March 1813; pupil of Charles Lucas 1827–9;
student R.A. of music 1829–36; taught music in a school in the
Isle of Man 1836–7; his Chevy Chase overture produced at the
Gewand-haus concerts, Leipsic 1836; professor of harmony and
composition at R.A. of music 1837–46 and 1851; his opera The
Devil’s Opera produced English opera house 13 Aug. 1838; founded
the Handel society 1844, secretary 1844–8 when it ceased,
edited Handel’s Belshazzar, Judas Maccabeus and Jephtha;
conductor at Covent Garden theatre Jany. 1845; his operas Don
Quixote produced at Drury Lane 3 Feb. 1846, Charles the Second,
at Princess’s 27 Oct. 1849; his cantata May Day produced at
Bradford festival 1857; became nearly blind 1860; his operas
Robin Hood, produced at Her Majesty’s theatre Oct. 1860; She
stoops to conquer, at Covent Garden 11 Feb. 1864; his oratorios
St. John the Baptist, produced at first Bristol festival 23
Oct. 1873; The Resurrection, at Birmingham festival Sep. 1876;
Joseph, at Leeds festival 21 Sep. 1877; and King David, at Leeds
festival Oct. 1883; principal of R.A. of music, Feb. 1875 to
death; professor of music at univ. of Camb. 16 March 1875 to
death; Mus. Doc. Camb. 1875, Oxf. 1879 and Dublin 1887; M.A.
Camb. 1878; knighted at Windsor Castle 22 May 1883; author of
The rudiments of harmony 1860, 16 ed. 1887; Six lectures on
harmony delivered at the royal institutions 1869, 3 ed. 1882; On
the structure of a sonata 1871; Counterpoint, a practical course
of study 1879, 4 ed. 1885. _d._ 7 Hamilton terrace, London 31
Oct. 1887. _bur._ Hampstead cemet. 5 Nov. _A life of G. A.
Macfarren. By H. C. Banister_ (1891), _portrait_; _Addresses by
G. A. Macfarren_ (1888), _portrait_; _Cazalet’s Royal academy of
music_ (1854) 307–9; _I.L.N. lxvi_ 391, 393 (1875) _portrait_,
_lxxxii_ 573 (1883) _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xxvii_ 553 (1883),
_portrait_.
MACFIE, ROBERT ANDREW (son of John Macfie provost of Leith who
received George IV. on his landing there in 1822). _b._ Leith 4
Oct. 1811; ed. at Edinb. univ.; a sugar refiner with his father
at Greenock and Leith; agent at Glasgow for National bank of
Scotland 1835–8; went to Liverpool 1838 and established firm
of Macfie and Sons, sugar refiners; resided at Ashfield hall,
Cheshire 1856–71; removed to Dreghorn castle near Edinburgh
1871; an original director of Liverpool chamber of commerce; a
trustee of the Liverpool exchange; contested Leith burghs 1859,
M.P. Leith burghs 1868–74; knight commander of royal order of
Kalakaua of Hawaii 1886 or 1887; author of The patent question
1863; Colonial questions pressing for immediate solution 1871;
Cries in a crisis of statesmanship to test and contest free
trade 1881; The questions put by the royal commissioners on the
depressed state of trade, dealt with by a Former M.P. 1885;
The Scotch church question 1885; Off-hand notes on prayers
for family worship. By Senex Scotus, an heritor 1892. _d._
Dreghorn, Collinton near Edinburgh 17 Feb. 1893. _The Biograph_,
_July 1879 pp._ 61–4; _New Monthly Mag. cxvi_ 936–8 (1879),
_portrait_.
MACGAHAN, JANUARIUS ALOYSIUS (son of a farmer _d._ 1851). _b._
New Lexington, Ohio, U.S. America 12 June 1844; a book-keeper,
a public reader, a student at law; came to London, Jany. 1869;
correspondent of New York Herald in France 1870, correspondent
at St. Petersburgh, joined the military expedition to Khiva,
sent views to Illust. London News; correspondent with Carlist
army in Spain 1874; went in the Pandora to the Polar seas 1875;
special correspondent for Daily News in Turkey 1876, narrated
the operations of the Russian army in Bulgaria 1876, continually
under fire by the side of general Skobeleff, described the
engagements from the fights at Shipka Pass to Plevna, Dec. 1877;
author of Campaigning on the Oxus and the fall of Khiva 1874,
4 ed. 1876; The Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria 1876; Under the
northern lights 1876. _d._ of typhus fever, Constantinople
9 June 1878. _bur._ Catholic cemetery 12 June. _Appleton’s
American biography_, _iv_ 115–16 (1888), _portrait_; _The war
correspondence of the Daily News 2 vols._ 1878; _I.L.N. 22 June
1878 pp._ 589, 590, _portrait_; _Graphic 25 Aug. 1877 p._ 173,
_portrait_, _6 July 1878 pp._ 3, 4, _view of funeral_; _The
Nineteenth century_, _Sep. 1891 pp._ 414–5.
M’GAULEY, JAMES WILLIAM. Professor of natural philosophy to
board of national education in Ireland 1836–56; went to Canada
1856; settled in England about 1865; member of council of the
Inventors’ Institute; managing director to the Inventors’ patent
right association; editor of Scientific review 1865; author of
Lectures on natural philosophy. Dublin 1840, 3 ed. 1851; The
elements of architecture 1846; A treatise on algebra 1854. _d._
25 Oct. 1867. _Times 26 Oct. 1867 p._ 9.
M’GAVIN, JOHN. _b._ Kilwinning, Ayrshire 1816; grain miller
of firm of Harvie and M’Gavin, Washington st. Glasgow 1838,
joined by his sons 1866, retired 1872; instituted the Commercial
abstinence society 1846; chairman of Scottish temperance
league; member of Glasgow Institute of Fine arts 1870, paid
half the expense of erecting the new picture galleries opened
2 Feb. 1880, hon. treasurer and secretary to death; had a fine
collection of modern paintings, which was dispersed at his
decease. _d._ while walking by the banks of the Garnock 12 July
1881, left £21,000 to charities and £5000 to Institute of Fine
Arts. _Maclehose’s Glasgow men_, _ii_ 191–6 (1886), _portrait_.
MAC GAVIN, JOHN DRUMMOND (son of rev. Mr. Mac Gavin). _b._ near
Edinburgh 1817; physician Paris to death; attended the grand
duchess of Hesse at Houlgate, Normandy during 1875; made a
member of the legion of honour for his ambulance services during
siege of Paris 1871; an elder of church of Scotland congregation
in Paris. _d._ Paris 19 April 1893.
MC GEACHEY, FORSTER ALLEYNE (only son of major Alexander Mc
Geachey who fell at siege of Badajoz 1811). _b._ 1809; ed. at
Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1837; a student of L.I.
1834; M.P. Honiton 1841–7; contested Bristol 10 July 1852;
sheriff of Herts. 1865; author of A speech delivered in the
house of commons on the Maynooth college bill 1845. _d._ Shenley
Hill near Barnet, Herts. 20 March 1887.
MC GEE, THOMAS D’ARCY (2 son of James Mc Gee a coastguard man).
_b._ Carlingford, co. Louth 13 April 1825; went to Providence,
Rhode Island 1842; a clerk in office of the Boston Pilot at
Boston, June 1842, editor of the paper 1844; editor of Freeman’s
Journal, Dublin 1845; assistant editor of The Nation; London
correspondent of The Nation newspaper, to which he sent poems
signed Montanus, Amergin, Feargail, Sarsfield, An Irish exile,
Gilla Eirin, Gilla Patrick, and M.; secretary to the committee
of the Irish Confederation, arrested, soon released; sent on
secret mission to Scotland 1848; escaped to America disguised
as a priest after the rout of his party Oct. 1848; started the
New York Nation in New York 26 Oct. 1848; started The American
Celt at Boston 1850 which he removed first to Buffalo and then
to New York, sold his paper and settled in Montreal 1857, where
he started The New Era 1857; member for Montreal in legislative
assembly 1858, pres. of the council 1862 and 1864–7; presented
with a handsome residence in Montreal 1865; member for Montreal
West in the Dominion parliament 6 Nov. 1867; minister of
agriculture and emigration 1867; author of Historical sketches
of O’Connell and his friends. Boston. 3 ed. 1845; Gallery
of Irish writers 1846; A memoir of Art Mac Murrogh, king of
Leinster 1847; A history of the Irish settlers in North America
1852; A life of Edward Maginn, bishop of Derry 1857; Canadian
ballads 1858; A popular history of Ireland 2 vols. 1865; _shot_
by a Fenian outside his residence in Ottawa 7 April 1868. _The
poems of T. D. Mc Gee_ (1869) _memoir pp._ 15–40, _portrait_;
_C. M. Collins’s Celtic Irish songwriters_ (1885) 103–6; _I.L.N.
lii_ 437, 457 (1868), _portrait_.
MACGEORGE, ANDREW. _b._ Port-Glasgow 6 Sep. 1774; writer in
partnership with William Bogle at Glasgow 1797–1807; extractor
in the burgh court 1807; writer by himself with a large practice
in all the courts; connected with passing of Lord Aberdeen’s
act; a member of the Coul club; a writer of verses; member of
municipal council 1832. _d._ Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire 2 Oct.
1857. _Maclehose’s Glasgow men_, _ii_ 197–8 (1886), _portrait_.
MACGEORGE, ANDREW (son of the preceding). _b._ Glasgow 13 May
1810; ed. at univ. of Glasgow, LL.D. 1891; admitted into faculty
of procurators 1836; member of his father’s firm about 1836,
head of the firm to 1889; chief founder of royal hospital for
sick children Glasgow, secretary long time; author of An inquiry
as to the armorial insignia of the city of Glasgow 1866; The
Free church, its principles examined by A Layman 1873; Old
Glasgow, the place and the people 1880; Flags, some account of
their history and use 1881; W. L. Leitch, landscape painter, a
memoir 1884. _d._ Row, Dumbartonshire 4 Sep. 1891.
MACGEORGE, ROBERT JACKSON. _b._ near Glasgow 1808; ed. at
Glasgow and Edinb.; C. of Episcopal church, Glasgow 1837–41;
incumbent of Trinity Church, Streetville, Upper Canada 1841–58;
incumbent of St. John’s ch. Oban, Argyleshire 1858–81; dean of
Argyll and the Isles 1872, resigned 1881; edited the Weekly
review at Streetville; the Church and the Anglo American Mag.
at Toronto 1853; wrote The students, a farce Jany. 1830, and A
Legend of Carrick, a drama 14 Oct. 1830, both played at York st.
theatre, Glasgow; author of The Canadian christian offering.
Toronto 1848; Tales, sketches and lyrics 1848. _d._ 14 May 1884.
_Morgan’s Bibl. Canadensis_ (1867) 238–9; _Inglis’ Dramatic
writers_ (1868) 71.
M’GEORGE, THOMAS. _b._ 1840; deputy starter for the Jockey
club at Epsom, Chester, Ascot and Goodwood 1862, starter in
succession to his father 1863 to death, no one ever had the
jockeys and the horses under better control and it was rarely
that an owner was able to complain that his horse was beaten by
a bad start. _d._ Oatlands park hotel, Weybridge 23 Feb. 1885.
_Baily’s Mag. March 1885 p._ 443; _Illust. Sport. and Dram. News
28 Feb. 1885 p._ 584, _7 March p._ 609, _portrait_.
M’GETTIGAN, DANIEL (son of Manasses M’Gettigan). _b._ parish
of Mevagh, co. Donegal, Nov. 1815; ed. at Navan seminary and
Maynooth; ordained priest Trinity Sunday 1839; priest of
Ballyshannon, June 1855; coadjutor bishop of Raphoe 13 Feb.
1856, consecrated at Letterkenny 18 May 1856, bishop of Raphoe
1 May 1861; archbishop of Armagh 11 March 1870 to death, he
requested permission to decline the archbishoprick but the Pope
overruled his objections. _d._ Armagh 3 Dec. 1887. _Brady’s
Episcopal succession_, _i_ 233, 313 (1876), _ii_ 360.
M’GHEE, CHARLES (son of a Jamaica negro _d._ aged 108). _b._
1767; swept a crossing which he called his ‘shop’ at Ludgate end
of Fleet st. London; was known as Brutus Billy, Timbuctoo and
Romeo; after ‘shutting his shop’ he sold nuts and oranges at the
doors of the theatres; always attended Rowland Hill’s chapel;
Miss Waithman the dau. of the alderman was kind to him and gave
him his Sunday dinner; saved money and retired when an old man;
lived in White Hart yard leading from Stanhope st. into Drury
Lane. _d._ Chapel court, Strand, London 1854. _W. P. Treloar’s
Ludgate hill_ (1881) 116, 118–19, _portrait_; _J. Diprose’s St.
Clement’s_, _i_ 164 (1868).
MC GHIE, JAMES. _b._ 1824; M.D. Glasgow 1850; L. and F.F.P.S.
Glasgow 1858; librarian F.P.S. Glasgow; assist. physician
Glasgow lunatic asylum to 1854; superintendent of royal
infirmary, Glasgow, the largest hospital out of London 1854 to
death; the chief actor in construction of surgical hospital,
Glasgow 1861, much praised by French academy of medicine; edited
with G. Buchanan and J. B. Cowan, The Glasgow Medical Journal
vols. 6 to 8 (1856–8); invented a tissue paper saturated with
oil for use in dressing wounds; Glasgow Medical Journal 1859.
_d._ Glasgow 15 Jany. 1862.
MAC GILCHRIST, JOHN. _b._ Glasgow 1821; ed. at Glasgow univ.;
sheep farmer in the Cape colony; M.D. St. Andrews 1850;
practised at Edinb.; author of The Cape of Good Hope. By A
Traveller 1844; Remarks on the present state of medicine 1856,
2 ed. 1856; The mutineers, a poem 1859; his dramatic works were
Chatelard, a tragedy by J. Mc G. 1852; Roseallan’s daughter,
a tragedy 1861. _d._ Edinburgh 27 March 1864. _R. Inglis’s
Dramatic writers_ (1868) 136.
MACGILL, HAMILTON MONTGOMERY. _b._ Catrine, Ayrshire 1807; ed.
at Mauchline, entered Glasgow univ. 1827 and divinity hall of
united secession church 1831; minister of Duke st. church,
Glasgow, Feb. 1837 to 1840; separated from Duke st. 1840 and
formed the Montrose st. church 1840, minister to 1858; home
mission secretary of united presbyterian church 1858 and
foreign mission secretary 1868 to death; D.D. Glasgow 1870;
edited The juvenile missionary magazine 1845; edited The
missionary record; author of The life of Hugh Heugh 2 vols.
1850, 2 ed. 1852; Songs of the christian creed and life 1876.
_d._ in Miss de Broen’s villa, Belleville, Paris 3 June 1880.
_bur._ Glasgow necropolis 11 June. _C. H. Macgill’s Memories of
Dr. H. Macgill_ (1880), _portrait_; _J. Smith’s Our Scottish
Clergy_ (1848) 67–71.
M’GILL, JAMES. _b._ 1795; minister of Reformed presbyterian ch.;
author of The four centuries or christianity and the military
profession. Glasgow 1857. _d._ Bournemouth, Oct. 1883.
M’GILL, JOHN. Professor of Hebrew and oriental languages at
college of St. Mary, univ. of St. Andrews 1868 to death,
inducted 21 Nov. 1868; member of Bible revision committee 1870.
_d._ St. Andrews 16 March 1871.
MACGILLIVRAY, CHARLES R. (son of a small farmer). _b._
Kilfinichen, Mull about 1804; employed in a druggist’s shop,
Glasgow about 1824–49; a druggist at Glasgow 1849; M.D. Glasgow
1853; lecturer in Gaelic at Glasgow Institution 1859; author of
The rudiments of the Gaelic language 1858; Turus a’ Chriosduidh
1869. _d._ Glasgow 7 June 1867.
MACGILLIVRAY, JOHN (eld. child of William Macgillivray
1796–1852). _b._ Aberdeen 18 Dec. 1822; naturalist on board
the Fly in the Torres Straits and Eastern Archipelago 1842–6;
naturalist on board the Rattlesnake 1846–50; naturalist on board
the Herald on the coast of South America 1852–5; collected
natural history specimens in the Australasian islands 1855–67;
author of Narrative of the voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake 1846–50,
to which is added an account of E. B. Kennedy’s exploration of
the Cape York peninsula 2 vols. 1852. _d._ Sydney 6 June 1867.
_Good Words_ (1868) 425–9, _portrait_.
MACGILLIVRAY, WILLIAM. _b._ Old Aberdeen 25 Jany. 1796; art
student at King’s college, Aberdeen 1808, M.A. Aberdeen 1815,
LL.D. 1844; assistant and secretary to regius professor of
natural history and regius keeper of the museum of univ. of
Edinb. 1823; conservator of museum of royal college of surgeons
in Edinb. 1831 to March 1841; professor of natural history
in Marischal college and univ. of Aberdeen, March 1841 to
death; edited the Edinburgh journal of natural history and of
physical science Oct. 1835 to May 1840; author of A history of
British birds 5 vols. 1837–52; Manuals of botany, ornithology
and geology 3 vols. 1840; A history of the molluscous animals
of Aberdeen, Kincardine and Banff 1843; The natural history
of Dee Side and Braemar 1855. _d._ Aberdeen 4 Sep. 1852. _J.
A. Harvie-Brown and T. E. Buckley’s Vertebrate Fauna of the
Hebrides_ (1888), _portrait on page_ 11.
M’GILVRAY, W. _b._ island of Islay, Scotland; assist. minister
New Ch. Dumfries 1834; minister at St. Mark’s, Glasgow 1835 and
at Hope st. Gaelic ch. Glasgow, June 1842 to Sep. 1846; a member
of the Disruption assembly 1843; Gaelic minister in Glengarry
district, Canada 1846–8; wrecked in the Great Britain in Dundrum
bay 22 Sep. 1846; again minister of St. Mark’s, Glasgow 1848;
D.D. Lafayette coll. U.S. America 1847. _J. Smith’s Our Scottish
Clergy_ (1849) 230–7; _H. Scott’s Fasti_, _ii pt. i_ 44 (1868).
M’GLASHAN, JAMES. Assistant in house of Blackwood and Sons,
publishers, Edinburgh; publisher in Dublin with Wm. Curry,
junior 1830–46, alone 1846–55 when he retired; proprietor of
Dublin university magazine 1833–55, presented with a service of
plate on twentieth anniversary of the magazine; the principal
publisher in Dublin to 1855. _d._ of mental disease, Edinburgh
4 March 1858. _Bookseller_, _March 1858 p._ 108; _Fitzpatrick’s
Life of Charles Lever 2 vols._ (1879), _passim_.
MC GLASHAN, JOHN. Solicitor in Edinburgh; member of Society of
solicitors-at-law 1824; a solicitor before the supreme court
from 1831; went to New Zealand about 1855; author of Practical
notes on the act of Sederunt 1831; The law and practice in
actions of Aliment 1837; Practical notes on the jurisdiction in
the sheriff courts of Scotland 1842, 4 ed. 1868; Digest of the
laws relating to pawnbrokers 1844, 2 ed. 1847. _d._ New Zealand
1866.
MACGLASHAN, JOHN (1 son of John Macglashan). _b._ Peterborough 5
Sep. 1842; articled to Bell and Miller, engineers, Westminster
and Glasgow; assist. resident at Albert docks, Greenock;
resident engineer of graining docks at Partick; in charge of
works between Hurda and Sohagpore on Great Indian peninsula
railway 1865–8; assist. resident engineer on the Nagpore
extension 1869–76, then on the Sholapore and Raichore portion
1876; had special thanks of directors for his exertions during
water famine in 1878; had sole charge of the Dond and Munmar
line 1881–3; A.I.C.E. 23 Sep. 1875. _d._ Aboyne, Deeside,
Scotland 23 Sep. 1884. _Min. of Proc. I.C.E. lxxx_ 338–40
(1885).
MC GOUGAN, EUGENE MALCOLM. _b._ 1828; in general post office,
London to 1853; attendant in British museum library 1853–92; a
great friend of the costermongers of London, and of institutions
for the blind in north of London. _d._ St. Albans 21 July 1893.
_Civil Service prayer union Oct. 1893 p. 3._
MACGOWAN, EDWARD, M.D.; practised at Exeter; physician to the
mission of London Society for promoting Christianity among the
Jews 1841; arrived at Jerusalem 21 Jany. 1842. _d._ Jerusalem 6
Feb. 1860 aged 65. _W. H. Hunt’s Jerusalem. Bishop Gobat in re
Hanna Hadoub_ (1858) 22 _etc._
M’GRATH, HENRY WALTER (3 son of Nicholas M’Grath of Dublin).
_b._ Dublin 1803; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1825, M.A.
1830; deacon 1829; P.C. of Walton le Dale near Preston 1832–7;
R. of St. Ann’s, Manchester, Aug. 1837 to 1852; R. of St.
Paul’s, Kersal Moor 29 May 1852 when the church was consecrated
to 1865; hon. canon of Manchester 1858 to death; built a house
called Ditton at Torquay about 1878, lived there 1878 to death;
author of The sacraments practically rejected by Unitarians,
in Unitarianism confuted (1839) 593–646. _d._ Ditton, Lower
Warberry road, Torquay about 17 July 1884. _C. W. Bardsley’s
Memorials of St. Ann’s church_ (1877) 17, 20; _J. Evans’s
Lancashire authors and orators_ (1850) 174–78.
MAC GREGOR, ARTHUR TREVOR. _b._ 1799 or 1800; lieut. R.N. 22
Oct. 1823; captain 8 Aug. 1857, retired 7 March 1868; retired
admiral 7 April 1885. _d._ Ardmore, Cheltenham 21 Dec. 1886.
MACGREGOR, SIR CHARLES METCALFE (2 son of Robert Guthrie
Macgregor). _b._ Agra 12 Aug. 1840; ed. at Marlborough 1853–5;
ensign 57 Bengal N.I. 5 Jany. 1857; commanded a squadron of
Hodson’s horse in Indian mutiny Aug. 1858, second in command
1861–4; served in Fane’s horse through Chinese campaign 1860;
served in the Afghan war 1878–80; assist. deputy quartermaster
general in India 1865–7 and in Abyssinia 1867–8; commanded the
Punjab frontier force 28 Nov. 1885 to death; major general 22
Jany. 1887; author of Mountain warfare, an essay 2 ed. 1866;
A military report on the country of Bhutan 1873; Narrative
of a journey through the province of Khorassan 2 vols. 1879;
Wanderings in Balochistan 1882; compiled History of the Second
Afghan war 6 vols. 1885–6, suppressed by Indian government; The
defence of India 1884, suppressed by the government; C.S.I. 31
Dec. 1875; C.I.E. 1 Jany. 1878; C.B. 1879; K.C.B. 17 Jany.
1881; compiled the Gazetteer of Central Asia 1868 which occupied
him 5 years. _d._ Shepheard’s hotel, Cairo 5 Feb. 1887. _bur._
Glengyle on shores of Loch Katrine. _The life of Sir C. M.
Macgregor. Ed. by Lady Macgregor_ 2 _vols._ (1883), _portrait_.
MC GREGOR, SIR DUNCAN. _b._ 16 March 1787; ensign or lieut. 72
foot 31 Aug. 1801; captain 78 foot 17 April 1804, major 25 Nov.
1813, placed on h.p. 25 April 1816; major 31 foot 29 Jany. 1824,
placed on h.p. 26 May 1825; lieut.-col. 93 foot 23 March 1826,
placed on h.p. 27 July 1838; served in Sicily and Italy 1806,
in Egypt 1807 and in the Peninsula 1813–4; lieut.-col. 93 foot
23 March 1826 to 27 July 1838 when placed on h.p.; inspector
general of constabulary force, Ireland 1838–58; general 28 Oct.
1864; K.C.B. 28 Dec. 1848 for his services in Ireland; retired
from the army Oct. 1877; author of A narrative of the loss of
the Kent. By A Passenger 1825, 7 ed. 1860. _d._ 2 Vanbrugh park,
Blackheath, Kent 8 June 1881.
NOTE.--While major of 31 regt. on board the Kent East Indiaman, she
took fire 1 March 1825 in the Bay of Biscay, and he was instrumental in
saving the lives of the passengers.
MACGREGOR, SIR GEORGE HALL (son of general John A. P. Macgregor
_d._ 1868). _b._ 1810; ed. Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery
16 June 1826, lieut.-col. 18 May 1856, retired 22 Dec. 1858;
political assistant and military sec. to sir W. H. Macnaghten,
envoy to Shah Soojah 1838, present at capture of Ghuznee 1839;
assisted in capturing Hyder Khan; political agent with Sale’s
brigade 1841, present at capture of Cabul; assistant to sir
Henry Lawrence at Lahore 1846; brigade general during the mutiny
1857, present at capture of Lucknow 1858; had 3rd class of the
Douranee empire 1839 and second class 1840; major general on
retired list 18 March 1859; C.B. 10 Oct. 1842, K.C.B. 24 June
1861. _d._ Glencarnock, Torquay 2 Jany. 1883. _C. R. Low’s
Soldiers of the Victorian age_, _i_ 141–207 (1880).
M’GREGOR, JAMES. _b._ Liverpool 1808; manager of Liverpool
commercial bank many years; chairman South Eastern railway
co. 1848 to death; contested Banbury 31 July 1847; M.P.
Sandwich 1852–6; contested Sandwich 28 March 1857; resided at
25 Eccleston sq. London. _d._ of paralysis in house of Robert
Douglas, hair dresser 23 New Bond st. London 5 Sep. 1858.
MC GREGOR, JOHN (eld. son of David Mc Gregor of Drynie,
Rosshire). _b._ Stornoway, Rosshire 1797; emigrated to Prince
Edward island 1802, a school teacher, clerk in a store, engaged
in shipbuilding, member of house of assembly; returned to
Europe 1828; one of the joint secretaries of board of trade 24
Jany. 1840 to 6 Aug. 1847; M.P. Glasgow July 1847; accepted
stewardship of manor of Northstead, Feb. 1857; author of
Historical sketches of the colonies of British America 1828; The
resources and statistics of nations 1835, one vol. only; My note