Chapter 20
Part 20
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 book 3 vols. 1835; The commercial and financial legislation of Europe and America 1841; Commercial statistics of all nations 5 vols. 1844–50; The progress of America from the discovery by Columbus 2 vols. 1847; Sketches of the Austrian and Ottoman empires 1851; The history of the British empire from James I. 2 vols. 1852; one of the founders of Royal British bank opened 17 Nov. 1849, a director, chairman of the board, and the governor, advanced to himself £13,700 all of which except £700 became a bad debt, bank failed 3 Sep. 1856 and all the shareholders were ruined; escaped trial and imprisonment by his death at Boulogne 23 April 1857. _D. Morier Evans’ Facts, failures and frauds_ (1859) 268–390; _I.L.N. xii_ 75 (1848), _portrait_.
MAC GREGOR, SIR JOHN (2 son of Duncan Mac Andrew of Culross, Perthshire). _b._ 20 Oct. 1791; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; entered medical department of army as hospital assistant 27 June 1809; inspector general of hospitals 28 Nov. 1856 to 31 Dec. 1858 when placed on h.p.; hon. physician to the queen 16 Aug. 1859; K.C.B. 10 June 1859; took by r.l. name of Mac Gregor instead of Mac Andrew 24 July 1863. _d._ Corstorphine lodge, Ryde, Isle of Wight 13 Jany. 1866.
MACGREGOR, JOHN (son of Sir Duncan Macgregor 1787–1881). _b._ Gravesend 24 Jany. 1825; saved from Kent East Indiaman 1 March 1825; ed. at King’s school, Canterbury and 6 other schools; studied at Trin. coll. Dublin 1839–40 and at Trin. coll. Camb. 1844–7, 34th wrangler 1847; B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850; wrote and sketched for Punch 1845; barrister I.T. 31 Jany. 1851; travelled in his canoe the Rob Roy 15 feet long, from France to Switzerland 1865, the first of his many canoe journeys; always known as Rob Roy Macgregor; a founder of Shoeblack brigade 1851; hon. sec. of the Open-Air mission of the Pure literature society and of the Protestant Alliance 1853; member for Greenwich on the London school board 28 Nov. 1870 to 1876; the profits of his books and receipts from his many lectures were all given to charities; author of Three days in the East 1851; The law of reformatories 1856; Our brothers and cousins, a tour in Canada 1859; A description of the Rob Roy canoe 1866; A thousand miles in the Rob Roy canoe 1866, 13 ed. 1891; A voyage alone in the yawl Rob Roy 1867; The Rob Roy on the Baltic 1867; The Rob Roy on the Jordan, Red Sea and Gennesareth 1869, 6 ed. 1880. _d._ Lochiel, Boscombe near Bournemouth 16 July 1892. _bur._ Bournemouth cemet. 20 July. _Leisure Hour_, _xx_ 248, 782, _portrait_.
MC GREGOR, JOHN ALEXANDER PAUL. _b._ 1780; entered Bengal army 1795; lieut. 2 Bengal N.I. 30 Oct. 1797, major 12 July 1814; lieut.-col. commandant 22 N.I. 1824, col. 5 June 1829 to 1 Nov. 1830; military auditor general 1830 to 1845; col. of 37 N.I. 1 Nov. 1830, of 61 N.I. 1833, of 28 N.I. 1836 to 27 Aug. 1847, of 54 N.I. 27 Aug. 1847 to death; general 20 June 1854. _d._ 7 Sussex place, Hyde park gardens, London 5 March 1868.
MACGREGOR, JOHN MURRAY. _b._ 12 May 1819; entered Madras army 1 March 1838; engaged in important operations in Central India 1842 and 1843; served during the Indian mutiny; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; general 22 Jany. 1889. _d._ 17 Castle hill avenue, Folkestone 18 Dec. 1891.
MACGREGOR, ROBERT. _b._ Ardchattan, Bonar near Oban, Argyleshire 1810; ed. at Glasgow univ., M.D. 1842; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1833; superintendent and apothecary in Glasgow royal infirmary, where his investigations into nature of diabetes acquired for him an European reputation, then physician; fellow of faculty of physicians and surgeons, Glasgow 1837; lecturer on chemistry in Portland street school of medicine; physician to Glasgow royal infirmary to death; author of An enquiry into the state of urea in healthy and diseased urine and the formation of sugar in diabetes 1836. _d._ 93 West Regent st. Glasgow 20 March 1855. _bur._ Ardchattan 29 March. _Glasgow Medical Journal_, _iii_ 126–8 (1856).
M’GRIGOR, ALEXANDER BENNET. _b._ 1827; head of firm of M’Grigor, Donald and Co. writers, 172 St. Vincent st. Glasgow; he carried through parliament scheme for city of Glasgow Union railway 1863–4; connected with speedy liquidation of City of Glasgow bank, originated the Assets company by means of which the creditors of the bank were promptly paid off; member of supreme court of univ. of Glasgow; one of the most prominent citizens of Glasgow; author of Contributions towards an index of passages on the topography of Jerusalem 1876; The British parliament, its history and functions 1887. _d._ Glasgow 22 March 1891.
MC GRIGOR, SIR JAMES (eld. son of Colquhoun Mc Grigor of Aberdeen, merchant, _d._ 1800). _b._ Lethendrey in Strathspey, Invernesshire 9 April 1771; ed. at gr. sch. and Marischal coll. Aberdeen, M.A. 1788, M.D. 20 Feb. 1804; studied medicine at Aberdeen and Edinb. to 1793; surgeon 88 foot 13 Sep. 1793; surgeon to royal horse guards 9 Feb. 1804 to 18 July 1805; inspector general of hospitals 25 Aug. 1809; chief of medical staff under lord Wellington in the Peninsula 10 Jany. 1812, retired 1814; physician of Portsmouth garrison 13 June 1811 to death; director general of army medical department 13 June 1815, retired on pension 1851; founded Museum of natural history and pathological anatomy at Fort Pitt, Chatham; K.T.S.; baronet 30 Sep. 1831; K.C.B. 16 Aug. 1850; L.R.C.P. 26 June 1815 and fellow 25 June 1825; physician extraord. to the sovereign 30 March 1821 to death; lord rector of univ. of Aberdeen 1826, 1827 and 1841; F.R.S. 14 March 1816; fellow of univ. of London 1836 to death; author of Medical sketches of the expedition to Egypt from India 1804; A letter to the commissioners on military enquiry 1808. _d._ 3 Harley st. Cavendish sq. London 2 April 1858. _The autobiography of Sir J. Mc Grigor_ (1861), _portrait_; _Munk’s Royal college of physicians_, _iii_ 309–13 (1878); _Illustrated news of the world_, _i_ 204 (1858), _portrait_; _Proc. Royal society_, _ix_ 532–34 (1858); _Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery_, _iv_ (1840), _portrait_.
MC GRIGOR, JAMES (son of Charles Mc Grigor, barrackmaster at Nottingham, _d._ 1841). _b._ 1819; ed. at Addiscombe; ensign 21 Bombay N.I. 24 Feb. 1835, captain 24 Jany. 1845, most courageously disarmed his regiment for mutiny 16 Sep. 1857 for which he received the thanks of the government; major of 30 Bombay N.I. 20 July 1858; lieut.-col. 15 Bombay N.I. 1 Jany. 1862 to death; _drowned_ while bathing at Aden 28 June 1863.
MC GUFFOG, SAMUEL. M.D. Aberdeen 10 Nov. 1804; licentiate of college of physicians 5 Dec. 1814; physician to the English embassy at Constantinople, April 1816 to death. _d._ Constantinople 15 June 1856. _Munk’s Royal college of physicians_, _iii_ 129 (1878).
MC GUIRE, JOHN HERON. _b._ Ireland; C. of St. Ann’s, Manchester; V. of St. Luke’s, Chorlton-upon-Medlock 1843–57; a great opponent of the Unitarians and the Roman Catholics. _d._ Taymouth terrace, Stepney, London 22 Feb. 1860. _J. Evans’s Lancashire authors and orators_ (1850) 170–74.
MC HAFFIE, JAMES. _b._ 1777; 2 lieut. 21 foot 7 Sep. 1797, captain 24 Aug. 1804 to 26 Nov. 1818 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 12 Nov. 1862. _d._ Torhousemuir house, Wigtonshire 22 Nov. 1865.
MAC HALE, JOHN (5 child of Patrick Mac Hale of Tobber-navine, barony of Tyrawley, co. Mayo, farmer). _b._ Tobber-navine 6 March 1791; ed. at Castlebar and at Maynooth 1807–14; ordained priest 1814; lecturer and professor of dogmatic theology in Maynooth college 1814–25; published 32 letters signed Hierophilos, Feb. 1820 to March 1824; elected bishop of Maronia in partibus infidelium 31 Jany. 1825, appointed 8 March, consecrated 5 June and became coadjutor bishop of Killala and priest of Crossmolina; bishop of Killala 20 May 1834; visited Rome 1831 and 1854; archbishop of Tuam 21 July 1834, consecrated 26 Aug., helped by a coadjutor bishop from 1878; preached often in the Irish language; the most popular man after D. O’Connell who called him ‘the lion of St. Jarlath’s’ and ‘the lion of the fold of Judah’; opposed Newman’s residence in Ireland 1854; author of The evidences and doctrines of the catholic church 1827, 2 ed. 1842; The letters of J. Mac Hale under their respective signatures of Hierophilos, John bishop of Maronia, bishop of Killala, and archbishop of Tuam 1847; Sermons and discourses 1883, and many works in the Irish language 1842–73. _d._ St. Jarlath’s, Tuam 7 Nov. 1881. _B. O’Reilly’s J. Mac Hale_ 2 _vols._ _New York_ (1890), 2 _portraits_; _Brady’s Episcopal succession_, _ii_ 148–50 (1876); _Burke’s History of catholic archbishops of Tuam_ (1882) 240–374; _I.L.N. xvii_ 225 (1850), _portrait_; _Biograph iv_ 85–91 (1880).
M’HARDY, JOHN BUNCH BONNEMAISON. _b._ 3 Dec. 1801; entered navy 25 May 1812; captain 1 Jany. 1840; chief constable Essex constabulary 11 Feb. 1840 to Nov. 1881; admiral on half pay 1 April 1870. _d._ Clan lodge, Bath 19 Dec. 1882.
M’HENRY, JAMES. _b._ 1816 or 1817; merchant Liverpool; the originator of the provision trade between Liverpool and U.S. America; submitted first samples of Indian corn as food to sir R. Peel during the Irish famine 1846; contractor for the western extension of the railway under facilities afforded by the government, disagreements arose, and it took him 20 years to substantiate his claims, which were not paid when he died. _d._ 25 Addison road, Kensington, London 26 May 1891.
M’IAN, ROBERT RONALD (son of Robert M’Ian, sheep farmer). _b._ Inverness 1805; ed. Liverpool and Resscliff; apprentice to a nurseryman at Dingwall; a soldier in 42 regt.; scene painter Glasgow theatre; a provincial actor in Penley’s companies; acted at Bath and Bristol 1827–31; a good swordsman; his best part was the Dougal Creature, in Sir Walter Scott’s Two Drovers; first appeared in London at Lyceum theatre in Lo Zingaro 1834; acted at Covent Garden 1838, at Drury Lane 1839; was the jester at Eglinton tournament 28 to 30 Aug. 1839; painter of historical subjects 1835 to death; exhibited 13 pictures at R.A., 13 at B.I. and 13 at Suffolk st. 1835–47; A.R.S.A. 1852; illustrated J. Logan’s 3 works, The clans of the Scottish highlands 1845, new ed. 1857, Gaelic gatherings 1848, Highlanders at home 1863; and E. A. H. Ogilvy’s A book of highland minstrelsy 1846, 2 ed. 1848; (his wife Fanny M’Ian was also an historical painter and mistress of school of design at Somerset House, exhibited 10 pictures at R.A., 10 at B.I. and 13 at Suffolk st. 1835–47); he lived latterly at 36 Charlotte st. Portman sq. London, and _d._ Heath Mount, Hampstead 13 Dec. 1856. _The Era 21 Dec. 1856 p._ 11; _Actors by gaslight_ (1838) 185–6, _portrait_.
MACILWAIN, GEORGE (son of an Irish country surgeon). _b._ 1797; M.R.C.S. 1818, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon to Finsbury dispensary 20 years; surgeon to City of London truss society; M.R.I.A.; author of A treatise on stricture of the urethra 1824, 2 ed. entitled Surgical observations on diseases of the mucous canals of the body 1830; Remarks on the unity of the body 1836; The general nature and treatment of tumours 1845; Memoirs of John Abernethy 2 vols. 1853, 3 ed. 1 vol. 1856. _d._ Matching near Harlow, Essex 22 Jany. 1882.
MAC INNIS, JOHN. _b._ 1779; entered Bengal army 1798; lieut. 2nd European regiment 4 March 1800; lieut. 20 (or Marine) Bengal N.I. 1803, major 3 June 1816; lieut.-col. commandant 61 N.I. 13 May 1825, col. 5 June 1829 to 1831; col. of 73 N.I. 1831 to 23 June 1842, of 40 N.I. 23 June 1842 to 1843, of 59 N.I. 1843 to 30 Sep. 1845, of 24 N.I. 30 Sep. 1845 to 1851, of 64 N.I. 1851 to 1855, of 1 European fusiliers (right wing) 1855 to death; general 4 July 1856. _d._ Hale-end, Woodford, Essex 12 March 1859.
MACINTIRE, ANDREW WILLIAM. _b._ 24 Feb. 1815; 2 lieut. Madras artillery 9 June 1831; col. R.A. 6 May 1867, col. commandant 19 June 1884 to death; commanded Southern district brigade in Madras 1869–74; commanded Hyderabad subsidiary force 1874–81; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; general 31 March 1883; C.B. 16 Nov. 1858. _d._ 14 Leinster sq. London 26 Feb. 1885.
MACINTOSH, ALEXANDER FISHER. _b._ 1795; cornet 14 light dragoons 31 Oct. 1811; captain 79 foot 17 June 1819; lieut.-col. 15 foot 15 Dec. 1825 to 8 April 1834 when placed on h.p.; col. of 90 foot 4 March 1857, col. of 93 foot 3 June 1862 to death; general 27 Dec. 1864; K.H. 1833. _d._ Oatlands park, Walton-on-Thames 28 Aug. 1868.
M’INTOSH, CHARLES (son of a gardener). _b._ Abercairny, Perthshire, Aug. 1794; in charge of Abercairny gardens; gardener to marquis of Breadalbane at Taymouth castle, then to sir Thomas Baring at Stratton park, Hants.; under Mr. Horner laid out and planted grounds of Colosseum, London 1824; gardener to prince Leopold at Claremont many years; remodelled royal gardens at Laecken, Brussels; gardener to duke of Buccleuch at Dalkeith 1838–58, where he planned the grounds and conservatories; a landscape gardener and garden architect 1858 to death; A.L.S.; edited The British year book for the country 1856; author of The practical gardener 2 vols. 1828–9; Flora and pomana, or the British fruit and flower garden 1829; The greenhouse, hothouse and stove 1838; The orchard 1839; The new and improved practical gardener 1839; The book of the garden 2 vols. 1853–5; The larch disease 1860. _d._ Newcome villa, Murray field, Scotland 9 Jany. 1864. _Proc. of Linnæan society 1864 p. xlii._
MC INTYRE, ÆNEAS JOHN (only son of Æneas Mc Intyre of Hackney, LL.D.) _b._ 1821; barrister M.T. 20 Nov. 1846, bencher 6 May 1873 to death; Q.C. 8 Feb. 1872; county court judge of circuit 12 (West Riding of Yorkshire) 1 Jany. 1889 to death; member of the bar committee 1883 to death; M.P. Worcester, April 1880 to 18 Nov. 1885; contested North Hackney, Dec. 1885; a well known Freemason, _d._ Mirfield near Dewsbury, Yorkshire 19 Sep. 1889. _Masonic Portraits. By J.G._ (1876) 32–6.
MC INTYRE, COLIN CAMPBELL. _b._ 1806 or 1807; ensign 78 foot 9 April 1825, lieut.-col. 28 Oct. 1864, retired on full pay 2 Oct. 1866; L.G. 4 March 1880; hon. general 1 July 1881; C.B. 24 March 1858. _d._ Grandholm, Teignmouth 24 Aug. 1887.
MC INTYRE, MARTIN. _b._ Eastwood, Notts. 15 Aug. 1847; professional bowler with the Germanstown club, Philadelphia 1869–70; in the Nottingham eleven 1871–5; engaged by the Hull club, Yorkshire 1871; first appeared at Lords in the match Gentlemen _v._ Players 3–5 July 1871 when he bowled G. F. Grace out with his first ball; a very fast round-arm bowler; played in Australia as one of W. G. Grace’s eleven 1873–4. _d._ Moorgreen, Eastwood 28 Feb. 1885. _W. G. Grace’s Cricket_ (1891) 342–3; _Bell’s Life in London 7 March 1885 p._ 2.
MAC INTYRE, WILLIAM. _b._ 1792; M.D. Edinb. 1811; F.R.C.P. London 1851; practised at 84 Harley st. London and then at Brighton; wrote On apoplectic affections. Lancet 1841; On the gastric origin of diabetes. London Med. Journ. 1850; author of Case of mollities and fragilitas ossium 1850. _d._ 21 Clifton road, Brighton 4 March 1857.
M’INTYRE, WILLIAM. First appeared in London at Surrey theatre as Paul in The idiot of the mountain 18 Nov. 1861; played at the Lyceum and at Drury Lane under Falconer and Chatterton’s management; acted Black Mullins in Falconer’s Peep o’ Day at Lyceum, and Mogg a convict in Halliday’s The Great City at Drury Lane 22 April to 17 Aug. 1867; played Strozzi in Bernard’s Doge of Venice, at Drury Lane 2 Nov. 1867; acted Jenkinson in The Vicar of Wakefield, at Standard theatre 1 Nov. 1870, Claudius in Hamlet at Gaiety 31 July 1871, Gurth in Halliday’s Rebecca at Drury Lane 23 Sep. 1871; played Hickory in Merritt’s Rough and Ready at Adelphi 31 Jany. 1874, Black Jack in Janet Pride at Princess’s 1 Aug. 1874, Simon Legree in Lemon and Taylor’s Slave life or Uncle Tom’s Cabin at Adelphi 11 Feb. 1875, and Spreadeagle in Round the world in eighty days at Princess’s 15 March 1875; acted Ham in Little Emly at Adelphi 30 Oct. 1875, Corry Kinchela in The Shaughraun at Adelphi 18 Nov. 1876, Sir John Murray in Willing’s Under two reigns at Park theatre 3 May 1879, Hallo in Simpson and Templar’s Zillah at Lyceum 2 April 1879, Silas Swayne in Buchanan’s The Exiles of Erin at Olympic 7 May 1881, and Varney in Amy Robsart at Sadler’s Wells 10 Dec. 1881. _d._ 5 Aldine st. Shepherd’s Bush, London 8 May 1885.
MC INTYRE, WILLIAM (brother of Martin Mc Intyre 1847–85). _b._ Eastwood, Notts. 24 May 1844; a fine fast round-arm bowler; played in the Notts. eleven 1869–71; played in the Lancashire eleven 1872–81; first played at Lord’s in North _v._ South 6 and 7 June 1870; the Lancashire county committee gave him a benefit on his retirement in 1881 which realised over £1000. _d._ Prestwich asylum, Lancs. 13 Sep. 1892. _bur._ Bolton 15 Sep.
MAC IVOR, JAMES. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1839, fellow 1844 to death; B.A. 1842, M.A. 1848, B.D. and D.D. 1857; professor of moral philosophy 9 Nov. 1872 to 1878; R. of Ardstraw, Derry 1858 to death; author of An essay upon the versification of Homer 1839; Dis-endowment or co-endowment 1869; Some papers on intermediate education in Ireland 1869; Religious progress, its criterion, instruments and laws, sermons 1871. _d._ Ardstraw 17 July 1886.
MC KANE, JOHN (son of J. Mc Kane of Belfast, linen manufacturer at Ballymena). Ed. at Queen’s coll. Belfast; LL.D. Queen’s univ. Ireland; called to Irish bar 1864; professor of civil law Queen’s coll. Belfast to 1885; M.P. Mid Armagh, Dec. 1885 to death. _d._ 64 Lower Leeson st. Dublin 11 Jany. 1886.
MACKARNESS, GEORGE RICHARD (2 son of John Mackarness of Islington, West India merchant, then of Bath, _d._ 2 Jany. 1870). _b._ London 1823; ed. at Merton coll. Oxf., postmaster 1841–5; B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848, D.D. 10 March 1874; fellow of St. Columba’s coll. Ireland 1846–7; C. of Chilton Foliatt, Wilts. 1846–47; C. of Barnwell, Northants. 1848–54; V. of Ilam, Stafford 1854–74; chaplain to bishop of Oxford 1870–74; fellow of St. Chad’s coll. Denstone 1872; bishop of Argyll and the Isles 14 Jany. 1874 to death, consecrated 25 March; edited Ilam anastatic drawing society, vol. xi 1868. _d._ 43 Marine parade, Brighton 20 April 1883.
MACKARNESS, JOHN FIELDER (the elder brother of the preceding). _b._ Islington, London 3 Dec. 1820; ed. at Eton and Merton college Oxf., postmaster 1840–4; rowed in the Merton boat when it bumped every college boat but one; president of the Oxford Union; B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847, D.D. 1869; fellow of Exeter coll. 30 June 1844 to 11 Aug. 1846; V. of Tardebigge, Worcs. 1845 to 1855; hon. canon of Worcester 1847–58; R. of Honiton, Devon, and head master of gram. sch. 1855–69; preb. of Exeter 1858–69; V. of Monkton, Devon 1867–70; proctor in convocation for diocese of Exeter 1865–9; bishop of Oxford 15 Dec. 1869, resigned 17 Nov. 1888, consecrated 25 Jany. 1870; chancellor of order of the Garter 5 Feb. 1870 to 1888; refused to allow proceedings to be taken against canon Carter rector of Clewer, his decision upheld in court of appeal 23 March 1880; edited Eighteen years of a clerical meeting, minutes of Alcester clerical association 1862; author of A few words to the country parsons on the election for Oxford university. By One of themselves 1840; A plea for toleration in answer to the No Popery cry 1850; May or must, a letter on a case in the court of queen’s bench 1879 _i.e._ The Clewer case. _d._ Angus house, Eastbourne 16 Sep. 1889. _bur._ Sandhurst churchyard, Berkshire 21 Sep., memorial window in the new schoolroom of All Hallows’ school Honiton, opened 10 Dec. 1892. _C. C. Mackarness’s Memorials of the episcopate of J. F. Mackarness_ (1892), _portrait_; _C. M. Davies’s Orthodox London_ (1875) 129–34, 394; _Church portrait journal_, _iii_ 65 (1882), _portrait_; _Illust. Times 26 Jany. 1870 p._ 73, _portrait_; _I.L.N. lvi_ 13, 14 (1870), _portrait_.
MACKARNESS, MATILDA ANNE (younger dau. of James Robinson Planché, Somerset herald 1796–1880). _b._ 1826; author of Old Jolliffe not a goblin story 1845; A trap to catch a sunbeam 1849, 42 ed. 1882; Thrift or hints for cottage housekeeping 1855; Minnie’s love 1860; Sunbeam stories 2 vols. 1860; The naughty girl of the family 1866; A peerless wife 3 vols. 1871; A mingled yarn 3 vols. 1872; The young lady’s book 1876; Sweet flowers, ten stories 1877; A woman without a head 1892, and 50 other books for young people; (_m._ Henry Smith Mackarness, vicar of Ash, Kent 1857, he _d._ 26 Dec. 1868). She _d._ 1 Royal crescent, Margate 6 May 1881. _bur._ in churchyard of Ash.
MACKAY, MRS. _b._ Strathy, Sutherlandshire; (_m._ sergeant Mackay of the 42 highlanders); went with the army to the Crimea 1854; one of the first nurses enlisted by Florence Nightingale for service in the Crimea 1854. _d._ Golspie, Scotland, Oct. 1890.
MACKAY, ALEXANDER. _b._ Scotland 1808; conducted a newspaper in Toronto; resided in Canada several years; on the staff of the Morning Chronicle in London to 1849; barrister M.T. 7 May 1847; sent by chambers of commerce of Manchester, Liverpool, Blackburn and Glasgow to inquire into cultivation of cotton in India 1851; author of Electoral districts 1848; The Western world, or travels in the United States 3 vols. 1849; The crisis in Canada 1849. _d._ at sea on his way home from India 15 April 1852.
MACKAY, ALEXANDER MURDOCH (son of Alexander Mackay, free church minister of Rhynie, Aberdeenshire, D.D., residing at Ventnor). _b._ Rhynie 13 Oct. 1849; studied engineering in Edinb. univ. 1870–3; draughtsman with an engineering firm in Berlin 1873, chief of the locomotive department to Sep. 1875; sailed from Southampton as missionary to Uganda 27 April 1876, made a road from the coast to Mpwapwa 1877, arrived at Uganda Nov. 1878, where he resided to July 1887, driven away by Arab traders 12 Oct., went to the Great Lake 1887; taught the people of Uganda and converted many to christianity, reduced the language to writing and made translation of portions of scripture; prepared reading sheets by which many learnt to read, worked the printing presses himself; built houses, boats, &c. for the king of Uganda; sent constant news to England about Emin Pasha; recovered and sent bishop Hannington’s diary to England, Oct. 1886; with R. P. Ashe translated St. Matthew’s Gospel into Ganda 1888. _d._ Usambiro 8 Feb. 1890. _A. M. Mackay, pioneer missionary of the church missionary society in Uganda. By his sister_ (1890) _portrait_; _The story of Mackay of Uganda. By his sister_ (1891), _portrait_; _I.L.N. 26 April 1890 p._ 515, _portrait_.
MACKAY, ANGUS (son of Murdoch Mackay of the 78th highlanders and a settler in Sydney). _b._ Aberdeen 26 Jany. 1824; taken to New South Wales 1827; ed. at Australian college, Sydney; a schoolmaster; edited The Atlas newspaper 1847–50; manager of a general business for sir Henry Parkes at Geelong 1850–1; a digger in Victoria 1853; proprietor and editor of the Bendigo Advertiser 1854; founded Riverina Herald in Echuca; started the Sydney Daily Telegraph 1879, manager to 1883; sat for Sandhurst burghs in Victorian legislature Feb. 1868 to 1879 and 1883; minister of mines 9 April 1870 to June 1871 and June 1872 to July 1874; minister for education May to July 1874; minister of mines and education July 1874 to Aug. 1875; played against the All England eleven 1865; author of The great goldfield, a tour through the first discovered gold district of New South Wales 1853; A visit to Sydney and the Cudgegong diamond mines 1870; The semi-tropical agriculturalists and colonists’ guide 1875. _d._ Sandhurst 7 July 1886.
MC KAY, ARCHIBALD. _b._ Kilmarnock 1801; apprenticed to a handloom weaver; a bookbinder at Kilmarnock to death; kept a circulating library in King st. Kilmarnock; author of Droathy Tam 1828, many editions; Poems 1830; Recreations of leisure hours 1832, 2 ed. 1844; A history of Kilmarnock 1848, 3 ed. 1864; Ingleside lilts 1855. _d._ Kilmarnock 14 April 1883. _C. Rogers’s Modern Scottish Minstrel_, _v_ 85–90 (1857).
MACKAY, CHARLES. _b._ High st. Edinb. 31 Oct. 1787; private in Argyll militia 1803–15; first appeared Greenock theatre as Don Pedro in The Wonder, Feb. 1816; first seen in Edinb. at theatre royal as Mr. Russell in The Jealous Wife 26 Dec. 1818, then as Baillie Nicol Jarvie in Rob Roy, Sir Walter Scott witnessing the representation on 15 Feb. 1819, one of the most popular characters on the stage; was also good in Old Dornton in the Road to Ruin, and in Sir Peter Teazle; played Baillie Nicol Jarvie at Drury Lane 3 July 1821, an engagement for 6 nights; ceased to be a member of regular company of the T.R. Edinb. 21 April 1841 after 22 years’ service; played Baillie Nicol Jarvie at Prince’s theatre, Glasgow 4 Feb. 1852 being the 1134th time of his acting the part; played the Baillie the last time and his final appearance 25 Jany. 1853; the most important of the actors in the Waverley dramas. _d._ 17 Lutton place, Edinburgh 2 Nov. 1857. _bur._ in the Calton burying ground. _The British Stage_, _v_ 224, 241, 249 (1821), _portrait_; _Dibdin’s Edinburgh Stage_ (1888) 285–92, 320, 379, 401–3, 416–7, 436, 450–1, _portrait_; _The Scotsman 4 Nov. 1857 p._ 2; _The Era 8 Nov. 1857 p._ 10; _Lockhart’s Life of sir W. Scott_ (1845) 389, 789.
NOTE.--He was the original representative in the following dramas founded on Scott’s works, John Dumbie in The Heart of Midlothian 23 Feb. 1820; Edie Ochiltree in The Antiquary 20 Dec. 1820; Dugal Dalgetty in The Legend of Montrose 13 March 1822; Caleb Balderston in The Bride of Lammermoor 1 May 1822; Tony Foster in Kenilworth 1 July 1822; Richie Moniplies in George Heriot 6 Feb. 1823; Sir Geoffrey Peveril in Peveril of the Peak 12 April 1823; Friar Tuck in Ivanhoe 24 Nov. 1823; the baron of Brawardine in Waverley 22 May 1824; Meg Dodds in St. Ronan’s Well 5 June 1824; Peter Peebles in Redgauntlet 28 May 1825; and Hughie Morrison in The Two Drovers 10 Nov. 1828.
MACKAY, CHARLES (son of George Mackay of the royal artillery). _b._ Perth 27 March 1814; ed. at Woolwich 1822, in London 1825 and in Brussels 1828; sec. to William Cockerill, mechanician, Seraing 1830–2; on staff of Morning Chronicle 1835 to July 1844; edited the Glasgow Argus, Sep. 1844 to July 1847; LL.D. of Glasgow univ.; political and literary editor of Illustrated London News 1848–52 and manager 1852 to Dec. 1859; lectured on poetry and song in the United States and Canada, Oct. 1857 to May 1858; editor of The London review and weekly journal which appeared 7 July 1860; correspondent for the Times in New York, March 1862 to Dec. 1865; granted civil list pension of £100, 19 June 1862; presented with testimonial of £770 at St. James’s hall, London 27 Dec. 1877; author of A history of London 1838; The Thames and its tributaries 2 vols. 1840; Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions 3 vols. 1841, 4 ed. 1892; Songs of Scotland 1857; The collected songs of C. Mackay 1859; The Jacobite songs of Scotland 1861; Forty years recollections of life, literature and public affairs 2 vols. 1877; Luck or what came of it, a tale 3 vols. 1881; The poetry and humour of the Scottish language 1882; Through the long day, or memorial of a literary life 2 vols. 1887. _d._ 47 Longridge road, Earl’s Court, London 24 Dec. 1889. _Biograph_, _Aug. 1879 pp._ 145–8; _The Critic_, _xvii_ 752 (1858), _portrait_; _T. Powell’s Pictures of living authors of Britain_ (1851) 146–49; _I.L.N. xviii_ 180, 181 (1851) _portrait_, _xx_ 68 (1852) _portrait_; _Pictorial World 2 Jany. 1890 pp._ 21, 23, _portrait_; _Reynolds’s Miscellany_, _xxvii_ 105 (1862), _portrait_.
M’KAY, DAVID. _b._ near Brechin 1810; a shoemaker at Lochee near Dundee 1828 to death; wrote verses for Chambers’ Journal and the local papers; greatly promoted the welfare of Lochee; chairman of Burns’ centenary festival Lochee 1859; Lochee correspondent of Dundee Advertiser 1864. _d._ Lochee 19 Dec. 1868. _Norrie’s Dundee celebrities_ (1873) 331–3.
MACKAY, GEORGE. L.F.P.S. Glasgow 1833; M.D. Glasgow 1835; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1841; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1860; senior assist. surgeon to H.M. ships in attack on Bogue forts, Canton river 1841; senior medical officer of Agamemnon before Sebastopol 1854; staff surgeon and medical storekeeper, royal hospital, Plymouth, June 1855; deputy inspector general Hong Kong 29 Dec. 1860 and at Haslar hospital 1865; hon. surgeon to the queen to death; retired inspector general of hospitals 26 Oct. 1870; wrote Notes on the cholera at Varna, in Edinb. Med. Journal 1857, and on Medical arrangement in naval actions, in Medical Times 1854. _d._ Sutherland house, Wellington 26 April 1879. _The Lancet 3 May 1879 p._ 640.
MACKAY, GEORGE R. ABERIGH (son of James Aberigh Mackay, D.D., senior British chaplain, Paris). _b._ 1849; junior professor government coll. Delhi; on staff of the Pioneer newspaper; principal of Rájkumár college, Indore; sent newspaper correspondence to Vanity Fair 1878, Ali Baba letters 1879, and Baby in partibus 1880; a correspondent of the Bombay Gazette under name of Political Orphan; author of Notes on Western Turkistan, Calcutta 1875; The chiefs of Central India 1879, vol. 1 only; The prince’s guide book. The Times of India, handbook of Hindustan 1875; Twenty-one days in India, being the tour of Sir Ali Baba 1880, 3 ed. 1881; Serious reflections and other contributions 1881. _d._ Calcutta 13 Jany. 1881. _Vanity Fair_ (1881) 80, 90, 118; _S. W. O’Neil’s Preparation for death. Funeral sermon_ (1881).
MACKAY, JAMES TOWNSEND. _b._ Kirkcaldy, Fifeshire 1775; trained as a gardener; went to Ireland 1803; curator of botanical garden of Trin. coll. Dublin 1806 to death; A.L.S. 2 Dec. 1806; LL.D. Dublin 1850; discovered several species of plants new to the British Isles; contributed much to Sir J. E. Smith’s English Botany 1790–1814 and to Trans. Royal Irish academy; M.R.I.A.; author of Flora Hibernica 1836. _d._ 1 Dawson grove, Beggar’s bush road, Dublin 25 Feb. 1862.
MC KAY, JOHN. _b._ 19 Feb. 1823; served in the ranks 1841–54; ensign and quartermaster school of musketry 25 Aug. 1854; lieut. 41 foot 1855–9; major 12 foot 1 Aug. 1867, lieut.-col. 1 May 1871, placed on h.p. 10 April 1878; D.A.A.G. school of musketry, Hythe 1 April 1856 to 30 Sep. 1867; commanded the brigade depot for counties of Suffolk and Cambridge at Bury St. Edmund’s, April 1878; awarded distinguished service reward; retired on pension with rank of M.G. 1 April 1882. _d._ 13 Gwendwr road, West Kensington, London 14 Oct. 1887.
MACKAY, JOSEPH REILLY (son of rev. Joseph William Mackay 1819–91). _b._ 1849; an artist in black and white; wrote largely in prose and verse; wrote Peggy 3 act drama produced at Royalty theatre 14 Feb. 1881; wrote with H. Agoust, Macfarlane’s Will, pantomime vaudeville in 3 acts produced Imperial theatre 26 Dec. 1881; The Novel Reader, an adaptation by Joseph Mackay and Sydney Grundy of Meilhac and Halévy’s La Petite Marquise, was privately performed at Globe theatre 28 Sep. 1882 the lord chamberlain having refused to license the piece, but on the 25 April 1887 it was produced under title of May and December at Criterion theatre. _d._ 16 Waterford road, Fulham near London 18 Dec. 1889.
M’KAY, JOSEPH WILLIAM. _b._ Shinrone, King’s county, Ireland 21 May 1819; Wesleyan Methodist minister 1840; D.D. of Victoria univ. Coburg, Canada; minister at Belfast 1843–5, 1853–6, 1862–5 and from 1871 to death; minister at Dublin 1850–3, 1859–62 and 1868–71; at Cork 1856–9; senior assist. sec. of the conference 1855–70, secretary of the conference 1870–80, vice president of the conference 1870, 1876 and 1886; representative of the Irish conference in general conference America 1872, and at the œcumenical conference London 1881; president Methodist coll. Belfast 1880 to death; professor of systematic theology to death. _d._ Belfast college 6 Feb. 1891. _bur._ City cemet. 9 Feb. _Daily Graphic 12 Feb. 1891 p._ 5, _portrait_; _Belfast News-letter 7 Feb. 1891 p._ 5, _10 Feb. p._ 7.
MACKAY, MACKINTOSH (son of captain Alexander Mackay of Duard Beg, Sutherlandshire). _b._ 1800; minister of Laggan, Invernessshire 1825–32; LL.D. Glasgow; minister of Dunoon 1832–43; of Free church, Dunoon 1843–54; moderator of Free church assembly 1849; minister of the Gaelic church at Melbourne 1854–6 and at Sydney 1856 etc.; minister of Free church at Tarbett, Harris, Scotland to death; edited Dictionarium Scoto-Celticum 1828; Songs and poems in Gaelic by R. Mackay. Inverness 1829; author of Memoirs of J. Ewing, provost of Glasgow 1866. _d._ 1873.
MACKAY, ROBERT WILLIAM (only son of John Mackay of St. James’, London). _b._ Piccadilly, London 27 May 1803; ed. at Winchester and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1828; barrister L.I. 25 Nov. 1828; an original member of Athenæum club, London 1824; author of The progress of the intellect as exemplified in the religious development of the Greeks and Hebrews 2 vols. 1850; A sketch of the rise and progress of Christianity 1854; The Tübingen school and its antecedents, a review of modern theology 1863; translated The Sophistes of Plato 1868, and Plato’s Meno 1869. _d._ 41 Hamilton terrace, London 23 Feb. 1882. _Athenæum 4 March 1882 p._ 283.
M’KEAN, R. _b._ 1849; manager Royal Albert music hall, Glasgow 1865 and of Alexandra, Victoria, Folly and Britannia music halls; partner with H. T. Rossborough in the Britannia music hall at time of death. _d._ 81 London st. Glasgow 8 May 1885. _bur._ Southern Necropolis 12 May.
MACKELLAR, JOHN (eld. son of general Patrick Mackellar, chief engineer in north America and Minorca, _d._ 1779). _b._ Minorca about 1768; entered navy 6 Jany. 1781; captain 27 April 1799; agent for prisoners of war and transports and governor of naval hospital at Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 1804 to about May 1810; rear admiral 27 May 1825, admiral 26 July 1847; awarded a service pension 1 July 1851. _d._ Cheltenham 14 April 1854. _Georgian Era_, _ii_ 241 (1833).
MACKELLAR, MARY (dau. of Allan Cameron of Fort William, baker). _b._ 1 Oct. 1834; (_m._ John Mackellar, captain of a coasting vessel, obtained a judicial separation about 1877); visited many places in Europe with her husband, settled in Edinburgh 1876; bard to the Gaelic society of Inverness; author of Poems and songs, Gaelic and English 1880; The tourist’s handbook of Gaelic and English phrases for the Highlands 1880, 3 ed. 1882; A guide to Lochaber; translated into Gaelic, Queen Victoria’s More leaves from the journal of a life in the Highlands 1886. _d._ Edinburgh 7 Sep. 1890. _bur._ Kilmallie, Argyllshire.
MACKELVIE, WILLIAM. _b._ Edinburgh 7 March 1800; apprentice to a draper at Leith; studied at univ. of Edinb. from Nov. 1809, then at Glasgow; licensed to preach by presbytery of Stirling and Falkirk 7 March 1827; minister of Balgedie, Kinross-shire 16 April 1829 to death; one of earliest promoters of union between secession and relief churches which took place 13 May 1847; moderator of synod of 1856; D.D. Hamilton, Ohio; originated the Dick club 1835; author of Lochleven and other poems by Michael Bruce, with a life of the author 1837; Annals and statistics of the united presbyterian church. The biographical notices by W. Mackelvie 1873. _d._ Balgedie 10 Dec. 1863. _Sermons by Wm. Mackelvie_ (1875), _memoir by J. Macfarlane pp._ 7–64, _portrait_.
MAC KENNA, STEPHEN JOSEPH. _b._ Dublin 1837; ed. Downside; ensign 28 foot 30 March 1860, sold out 8 Aug. 1865; sub-editor of Evening News, London to death; author of Off parade 3 vols. 1872; King’s beeches, stories of old chums 1873; Plucky fellows, a book for boys 1873, 2 ed. 1874; At school with an old dragoon 1874; A child of fortune 3 vols. 1875; Handfast to strangers 3 vols. 1876; Brave men in action 1878, 2 ed. 1889; The tradesman’s club 1880. _d._ 8 Shalcombe st. Chelsea 5 Jany. 1883.
M’KENNA, THEOBALD. Called to Irish bar 1821; Q.C. 2 Nov. 1842; assistant under secretary for Ireland to death. _d._ 1856.
MACKENZIE, SIR ALEXANDER, 2 Baronet (eld. son of Roderick Mackenzie). _b._ 1771; ed. in Edinburgh and at military academy, Angers; ensign 1 foot 30 June 1787; lieut. 42 foot 1791; major 78 foot 24 July 1793; raised 2nd battalion of 78 foot, lieut.-col. 10 Feb. 1794; lieut.-col. 36 foot 22 May 1797 to 23 May 1816; second in command at capture of Cape of Good Hope 1795; commanded a division in expedition against Naples 1808 and afterwards the troops in the two Calabrias; general 19 July 1821; G.C. of order of St. Januarius; G.C.H. 1817; succeeded his uncle as 2 Baronet 21 Aug. 1820. _d._ Bath 17 Oct. 1853.
MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER. Second viola player in orchestra of theatre royal, Edinburgh 1833, first violin player 1835, leader of the orchestra Feb. 1846 to death, this orchestra was for its size the first in the kingdom, it made successful annual visits to London. _d._ 7 Oct. 1857.
MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER (3 son of Alexander Mackenzie, builder, _d._ 1836). _b._ Logierait near Dunkeld, Perthshire 28 Jany. 1822; learnt trade of a stonemason; a journeyman builder at Kingston, Ontario 1842; a builder and contractor at Sarnia 1848; editor of the ‘Lambton Shield’ at Sarnia 1852; member for Lambton in the provincial parliament 1861–7 and in the dominion house of commons 1867–82; member for East York, July 1882 to death; formed a ministry 7 Nov. 1873, becoming himself minister of public works, resigned Sep. 1873; resigned leadership of the liberals 1880; presented with freedom of Irvine, Dundee and Perth 1875 and of Inverness 1881. _d._ St. Alban’s st. Toronto 17 April 1892. _bur._ Lake View cemetery near Sarnia. _Speeches of A. Mackenzie. Toronto_ (1876), _memoir pp._ 1–13, _portrait_.
M’KENZIE, ALEXANDER. _b._ Auldcarn, Nairnshire 18 June 1829; captain hon. artillery company of London 8 March 1879, retired into the veteran company with hon. rank of major 8 March 1884; a skilled expert in all matters of forestry; superintendent of Epping Forest under corporation of London 1880 to death. _d._ The Warren, Loughton, Essex 27 March 1893. _City Press 29 March 1893 p._ 4, _1 April p._ 5.
MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER MACKAY. _b._ 1827; entered Bengal army; raised 8th regiment of irregular cavalry and was second in command 10 Oct. 1854 to 1859 when it mutinied; commandant of Meywar Bheel corps 18 March 1863 to 1874; M.G. 25 Nov. 1874. _d._ 41 Queensborough terrace, London 27 May 1879.
MACKENZIE, CHARLES (3 son of John Mackenzie of Torridon, N.B.) _b._ 28 Feb. 1807; ed. Merchant Taylors’ sch. and Pemb. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; head master of St. Olave’s gram. sch. Southwark 1832–55; V. of St. Helen, Bishopgate 1836–46; R. of St. Benet, Gracechurch st. with St. Leonard, Eastcheap 1846–66, and of same united with All Hallows’, Lombard st. and St. Dionis Backchurch 1866 to death; preb. of St. Paul’s 1852 to death; principal of Westbourne coll. London 1855–64; founder of metropolitan evening classes for young men 1848; founder of city of London coll. for young men 1862; author of Crosby place, a lecture 1842; History of the church of Christ 1842; Tabular views of the contents of the pentateuch 1850; The young christian’s glossary 5 ed. 1852; Westbourne college, Bayswater road, an inaugural address 1855. _d._ 35 Woburn sq. London 16 April 1888.
MACKENZIE, CHARLES FREDERICK (youngest son of Colin Mackenzie of Portmore, Peeblesshire). _b._ Harcus cottage, Portmore 10 April 1825; ed. at Edinb. acad. and Grange sch. near Sunderland; pensioner St. John’s coll. Camb. Oct. 1844, migrated to Caius coll. Easter 1845, 2nd wrangler 1848, B.A. 1848, M.A. 1851; fellow of Caius coll., tutor; one of secretaries to Cambridge board of education 1848–55; C. of Haslingfield, Cambs. Oct. 1851 to 1854; archdeacon of Pieter-Maritzburg, Natal 1854–59; chaplain to the troops in Natal 1858–9; bishop of the mission to the tribes dwelling in neighbourhood of Lake Nyassa and river Shire, Africa 1860 to death; consecrated in cathedral at Cape Town 1 Jany. 1861; author of Holiday’s at Linmere, or our Lord’s miracles explained 1855. _d._ Malo island, Central Africa 31 Jany. 1862. _Harvey Goodwin’s Memoir of bishop Mackenzie_ (1865), _portrait_; _G. H. Smyttan’s Tribute to bishop Mackenzie_ (1862); _Frances Awdry’s An elder sister and her brother the missionary bishop_ (1878); _In Zululand, the story of the Mackenzie memorial mission_ (1872); _Thomas Pelham Dale’s A life’s motto_ (1869) 308–41; _C. M. Yonge’s Pioneers and founders_ (1871) 285–316.
MACKENZIE, CHARLES KENNETH. _b._ Scotland 1788; received degree of doctor in both law and medicine; aide de camp to duke of Wellington; accompanied British commission to Mexico 1823, being appointed consul for Vera Cruz 10 Oct. 1823; consul general to Hayti 27 Dec. 1825 to 10 Oct. 1828; comr. of arbitration to mixed commission at Havana 20 Feb. 1830 to Nov. 1834; returned to England and contributed to reviews and to the Encyclopædia Britannica; leader-writer on a London conservative journal; lost his life by burning of a hotel in New York 6 July 1862. _F.O. List_, _July 1864 p._ 166.
MACKENZIE, COLIN (son of Kenneth Francis Mackenzie, attorney general in island of Grenada, _d._ 1831). _b._ London 25 March 1806; cadet H.E.I.C. 1825; ensign 48 Madras N.I. 8 Jany. 1826; cantonment magistrate at Palaveram 1835–6; present at the murder of sir William Macnaughton; sent on an embassy from Akbar to Jellalabad 1842; raised 4th regt. frontier brigade 1848–9; employed in annexing Berar 1853; in mutiny of 1856–7; lieut.-col. staff corps 18 Feb. 1861; superintendent of army clothing for all India 4 March 1862 to 24 Nov. 1864; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 13 March 1868. _d._ The Hitchel, St. Margaret’s road, Edinburgh 23 Oct. 1881. _H. Mackenzie’s Storms and sunshine, life of C. Mackenzie_ 2 _vols._ (1884), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxix_ 464 (1881), _portrait_.
MACKENZIE, COLIN A. _b._ 1779; sent by government to Morlaix to negotiate an exchange of prisoners with Napoleon 1810; appointed by government to receive and entertain prince Lucien Bonaparte taken prisoner of war 1810; presided over commission for investigation of British claims on French government to 1828; sent to Portugal to adjust some political differences 1828; one of founders of Travellers’ Club, Pall Mall, London 1815; left part of his property to found a museum at Dingwall. _d._ 5 Hyde park place, London 24 Nov. 1851. _G.M. xxxvii_ 96–7 (1852).
MACKENZIE, DONALD. _b._ in north of Scotland 15 June 1783; in employment of North-west fur co. Montreal 1801–9; one of 5 promoters of The Pacific fur co. 23 June 1810; established a fur trading post at Asteria on Columbia river, Capt. Black of H.M.S. Racoon took possession 30 Nov. 1813 and renamed it Fort George, restored to U.S. America 1814; chief factor of Hudson bay co. March 1821 and governor 1825, retired 1833. _d._ Mayville, Chautauque county, New York 20 Jany. 1851. _W. Anderson’s Scottish nation_, _iii_ 724–5 (1863); _Appleton’s American biography_, _iv_ 133 (1888).
MACKENZIE, DONALD. Wholesale chemist at Islington, London; an elder of Edward Irving’s ch. in Regent sq. 1824, followed him on his expulsion 1832; angel of Catholic Apostolic church, Islington to 1835; the 12th apostle of the C.A. church, Albury, Surrey 14 July 1835 and had Norway and Sweden assigned to him as his sphere; disapproved of the apostles taking precedence over the prophets and retired from the Apostolic college in 1840 and never afterwards took any part in the work. _d._ 1855. _Miller’s Irvingism i_ 90, _ii_ 418 (1878).
MACKENZIE, DONALD (only son of Donald Mackenzie, captain 21 foot). _b._ 1818; L.R.C.P. 1839, F.R.C.S. 1839, in practice at Lasswade near Edinb.; called to Scotch bar 1842; advocate depute 1854–58 and 1859–61; sheriff of Fife 26 Jany. 1861 to 14 March 1870; judge of court of session with title of Lord Mackenzie 14 March 1870 to death. _d._ Maulside, Dulwich wood park, Surrey, residence of major general Stuart 19 May 1875. _Journal of jurisprudence_, _xix_ 316 (1875); _Law mag. and law review_, _iv_ 815–818 (1875).
MC KENZIE, DOUGLAS. Ed. St. Alban’s school and Peterhouse, Camb., scholar, 33 wrangler 1864; B.A. 1864, M.A. 1867, D.D. 1886; 2 master Crewkerne gram. sch. and C. of Chaffcombe, Somerset 1864–6; C. of Rounds, Northants. 1866–9; V.P. of Trin. coll. Peterborough 1869–71; V. of St. Mary, Wolverton 1871–2; vice principal of St. Andrew’s coll. Grahamstown, South Africa 1873; principal of St. Andrew’s diocesan coll. Bloemfontain 1874–9; canon of Bloemfontain 1877–80; archdeacon of Harrismith 1879–80; bishop of Zululand 1880 to death, consecrated at Cape Town 30 Nov. 1880. _d._ of fever in Zululand before 15 Jany. 1890. _W. M. Cameron’s D. Mc Kenzie_ (1890); _Times 16 Jany. 1890 p._ 5, _17 Jany. p._ 9.
MACKENZIE, EDWARD (2 son of Alexander Mackenzie, canal engineer 1765–1836). _b._ 1 May 1811; civil engineer and contractor; purchased manor and estate of Fawley court near Henley, Bucks. from Wm. Peere Williams Freeman 1853; sheriff of Bucks. 1862. _d._ Fawley Court, Bucks. 27 Sep. 1880, personalty sworn under £1,000,000 Oct. 1880. _Times 30 Sep. 1880 p._ 9 _col._ 6.
MACKENZIE, FRANCIS JAMES NAPIER. _b._ 19 Oct. 1837; ensign 52 Bengal N.I. 25 May 1855; major Bengal staff corps 17 March 1875, lieut.-col. 17 March 1881; retired with hon. rank of colonel 13 July 1882; buried for seven hours among ruins at the Casamicciola earthquakes, Ischia 28 July 1883; wrote The destruction of La Piccola Sentinella at Ischia 28 July in The Times 10 Aug. 1883 pp. 2–3. _d._ Rome 18 Nov. 1884.
MACKENZIE, FRANCIS LEWIS (son of Joshua Henry Mackenzie, lord Mackenzie _d._ 1850). _b._ Belmont near Edinb. 16 Sep. 1833; ed. at Edinb. academy 1843, at Glasgow coll. 1849, and at Trin. coll. Camb. 1852 to death; very talented and much interested in Sunday schools etc. _d._ Trinity coll. Cambridge 15 March 1855. _bur._ Madingley near Camb. 21 March. _C. P. Miles’s Memoir of F. L. Mackenzie_ (1857), 2 _portraits_.
MACKENZIE, FREDERICK (son of Thomas Mackenzie, linen draper). _b._ 1787; made architectural and topographical drawings for John Britton and others; exhibited 11 drawings at R.A. 1804–28; associate of Society of painters in water-colours 4 Feb. 1813 to 1817, member 1823, treasurer 30 Nov. 1831 to death; published Etchings of landscapes for the use of students 1812; Architectural antiquities of St. Stephen’s chapel, Westminster 1844; Observations on the construction of the roof of King’s college chapel, Cambridge 1846. _d._ 43 Stanhope st. Hampstead road, London 25 April 1854. _bur._ Highgate cemet. _Roget’s History of the old water-colour society_, _i_ 371, _ii_ 84, 455 (1891).
MACKENZIE, FREDERICK WILLIAM. _b._ New South Wales 1816 or 1817; ed. at Univ. college school and hospital, London; fellow and member of council of univ. college; M.D. Lond. 1841; M.R.C.P. 1855; physician to Queen Charlotte’s lying-in hospital; consulting physician and accoucheur to Westbourne dispensary; author of The pathology of phlegmasia dolens, Lettsonian lectures 1862. _d._ 11 Chester place, Hyde park square, London 3 April 1865. _Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. v_ 159 (1867).
MACKENZIE, GEORGE. _b._ Sutherlandshire 1777; tenant of a large farm; served in Perthshire militia till it was disbanded; began to keep a register of atmospheric changes 1802; author of The system of the weather of the British islands. Edinburgh 1818; Manual of the weather for 1830, including a brief account of the cycles of the winds and weather. Edinburgh 1829; Elements of the cycles of the winds, weather and prices of corn. Perth 1843. _d._ County Place, Perth 13 May 1856.
MACKENZIE, GEORGE HENRY. _b._ Bellefield, Rossshire 24 March 1837; ensign 60 rifles 9 May 1856, lieut. 21 May 1858, sold out 16 April 1861; served in war in U.S. of America in northern army July 1863, and became a captain; chess player in Dublin 1860; settled in New York 1865; played in London chess tournament 1862, won 10 games, drew 2 and lost 2; won first prize in each of New York chess club annual tournaments 1865, 6, 7 and 8; won first prizes in second American chess congress Dec. 1871 and in third congress 1874; played in tournaments Paris 1878, Berlin 1881, Vienna 1882, London 1883 and Hamburg 1885; at Frankfort in 1887 won 15 out of 20 games, first prize and champion chess player of the world; _found dead_ in his bed at an hotel, New York 14 April 1891. _Westminster papers 1 Oct. 1878 p._ 125, _portrait_; _Fortnightly Review_, _Dec. 1886 p._ 758; _Times 16 April 1891 p._ 6; _Appleton’s American biography_, _iii_ 133 (1888), _portrait_.
MACKENZIE, HENRY (youngest son of John Mackenzie, merchant, _d._ 1820). _b._ King’s Arms’ yard, Coleman st. City of London 16 May 1808; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school 1815 etc.; engaged in commerce; entered Pembroke coll. Oxf. 1830, B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838, D.D. 1869; C. of Wool and Lulworth, Dorset 1834; English chaplain at Rotterdam 1835–6; C. of St. Peter’s, Walworth 1836–7; master of Bancroft’s hospital, Mile End 1837–40; Inc. of St. James’s, Bermondsey 1840–4; V. of Great Yarmouth 1844–8; R. of St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, London 1848–55; R. of Tydd St. Mary near Wisbech 1855–66; preb. of Lincoln 1858–64; sub dean and canon residentiary of Lincoln 1864 to death; archdeacon of Nottingham 1866–70; R. of South Collingham near Newark 1866–71; bishop suffragan of Nottingham 22 Jany. 1870 to 1878, consecrated at St. Mary’s, Nottingham 2 Feb. 1870; select preacher at Oxford 1871; P.C. of Scofton near Worksop 1871–3; member of convocation 1857; author of The life of Offa, king of Mercia 1840; A short commentary on the gospels and acts 1847; Thoughts for hours of retirement 1864; Hymns and verses for Sundays and holydays 1871. _d._ The subdeanery, Lincoln 15 Oct. 1878. _bur._ at South Collingham. _I.L.N. xxiv_ 401 (1854) _portrait_, _lvi_ 157, 188, 253 (1870) _portrait_.
MACKENZIE, HOLT (son of Henry Mackenzie, author of The man of feeling 1745–1831). _b._ 1787; entered H.E.I.C.S. as a writer July 1807; sec. to government in territorial department May 1817; returned to England 1831, retired on the annuity fund Oct. 1833; one of comrs. of board of control 28 July 1832 to 20 Dec. 1834; P.C. 11 July 1832; author of Note addressed to Mr. Pennington on the importation of foreign corn 1841. _d._ 28 Wimpole st. London 31 March 1876. _I.L.N. lxviii_ 359, 575 (1876).
MACKENZIE, JAMES. Entered Bengal army 1820; major 8 Bengal light cavalry 10 Aug. 1850, lieut.-col. 28 Nov. 1854 to 1858; lieut.-col. 5 European light cavalry 1858 to death; commandant 6 irregular cavalry 2 Sep. 1840 to 26 Feb. 1853; commandant at Ferozepore 18 Dec. 1857 to death; col. in the army 28 Nov. 1854. _d._ Simla 15 Aug. 1859.
MACKENZIE, SIR JAMES THOMPSON, 1 Baronet (son of George Mackenzie of Aberdeen, merchant 1773–1852). _b._ 27 Dec. 1818; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch.; went to India 1835 where he made a fortune; returned to England 1850, became a successful financier; purchased the estates of Kintail and Glenmuick near Ballater and there entertained the Shah on his visit to England 1889; created baronet 21 March 1890. _d._ Brighton 12 Aug. 1890. _London Figaro 18 Jany. 1890 p._ 9, _col._ 2, _portrait_.
MACKENZIE, JOHN (2 son of sir Alexander Mackenzie of Gairloch, 3 baronet _d._ 1770). _b._ 19 Dec. 1763; lieut. 73 foot 1 Jany. 1778; captain in an independent company 13 Feb. 1782, placed on h.p. 1783; captain on formation of 78 highlanders 10 March 1793, lieut.-col. 15 July 1795, placed on h.p. 1802; general 10 Jany. 1837. _d._ Inverness 14 June 1860. _bur._ in Gairloch tomb at Beauly priory.
NOTE.--He was known by sobriquet of Fighting Jack, and was at time of his death the oldest officer in British army.
MACKENZIE, JOHN. Entered Bengal army 1805; major 3 Bengal light cavalry 1 Nov. 1838 to 30 Oct. 1848; lieut.-col. 9 Bengal light cavalry 30 Oct. 1848 to 1852; lieut.-col. 7 Bengal light cavalry 1852 to death. _d._ Simla 5 May 1856.
MACKENZIE, JOHN CAMPBELL. _b._ 1804; connected with editorial department of Galignani’s messenger since 1840, edited it latterly. _d._ 65 Rue St. Anne, Paris 6 Dec. 1879.
MACKENZIE, JOHN FRANCIS CAMPBELL. _b._ Scotland; sub-lieutenant R.N. 30 Aug. 1841; first lieut. of the Miranda during the Russian war serving in the White Sea and at Sebastopol 1854–5; served with a scaling ladder party at attack on Redan 1855; inspecting officer of coast guard at Swanage 1855, and at Ryde; captain 1 Oct. 1861, retired 31 March 1866; retired admiral 18 Oct. 1887; queen’s harbour master Holyhead 1872–92; connected with all the philanthropic movement in Anglesea; a knight of the legion of honour. _d._ of influenza, Holyhead 11 Jany. 1892. _bur._ with military honours 15 Jany. _Times 12, 13, 16, 22 Jany. 1892._
MACKENZIE, JOHN KENNETH (younger son of Alexander Mackenzie). _b._ Yarmouth, Norfolk 25 Aug. 1850; clerk in a merchant’s office at Bristol 1865; entered Bristol medical school, Oct. 1870; M.R.C.S. Lond. 1874; L.R.C.P. Edinb. 1874; appointed by London missionary society superintendent of medical station at Hankow, China, arrived there 8 June 1875; removed to Tien-tsin March 1879, where he founded a medical school for native students, obtained funds for erection of a new hospital at Tien-tsin, opened 2 Dec. 1880; edited The China medical missionary journal 1887. _d._ of small-pox at Tien-tsin 1 April 1888. _Mrs. Bryson’s J. K. Mackenzie, medical missionary in China_ (1891), _portrait_.
MACKENZIE, JOSHUA HENRY, Lord Mackenzie (eld. son of Henry Mackenzie, author of The man of feeling 1745–1831). _b._ 1777; passed advocate 19 Jany. 1799; sheriff of Linlithgow 1811; judge of court of session 14 Nov. 1822 to 1851 with courtesy title of lord Mackenzie; judge of court of justiciary 1824–51; one of comrs. of tentative jury court 1825–51. _d._ Belmont near Edinb. 17 Nov. 1851. _G.M. xxxvii_ 93–4 (1852).
MACKENZIE, KENNETH DOUGLAS (only son of Donald Mackenzie). _b._ 1 Feb. 1811; ensign 92 foot 25 Nov. 1831, captain 1844, major 26 Dec. 1857, placed on h.p. 15 Feb. 1861; deputy assistant A.G. in Dublin; deputy assistant Q.M.G. in the Crimea 1855, assistant A.G. at head quarters before Sebastopol 1855; assistant A.G. in Dublin during Fenian disturbances 1865–6; assistant Q.M.G. at the horse guards 1 April 1870 to death; C.B. 1 March 1861. _d._ on bank of river Meavy near Roborough, Devon 24 Aug. 1873 after being upset in a gig crossing the river Meavy. _A.R._ (1873) 79, 148.