Part 22

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MAGHERAMORNE, SIR JAMES MACNAGHTEN MC GAREL HOGG, 1 Baron (1 son of sir James Weir Hogg, M.P. _d._ 1876). _b._ Calcutta 3 May 1823; ed. Eton; matric. Ch. Ch. Oxf. 12 May 1842; cornet 1 life guards 13 Oct. 1843, major and lieut.-col. 22 June 1855, retired 30 Aug. 1859; member of metropolitan board of works 1867 and chairman 18 Nov. 1870 till abolition of board 21 March 1889; M.P. Bath 1865–8, M.P. Truro 1871–85, M.P. Middlesex, Hornsey division 1885–7; seconded the address to the Queen 19 Nov. 1867; assumed by r.l. surname of Mc Garel 8 Feb. 1877; K.C.B. 16 May 1874 on opening of Chelsea embankment; succeeded his father as 2 baronet 27 May 1876; cr. baron Magheramorne of Magheramorne, co. Antrim 5 July 1887. _d._ 17 Grosvenor gardens, London 27 June 1890. _bur._ Brompton cemet., personalty sworn at £159,718. _St. Stephen’s Review 5 July 1890 p._ 15, _portrait_; _I.L.N. l_ 609, 610 (1867), _portrait_; _Pictorial World 3 July 1890 p._ 26, _portrait_.

MAGNAY, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (2 son of Christopher Magnay 1767–1826, lord mayor of London in 1821). _b._ College hill, city of London 4 March 1797; wholesale stationer at 180 Upper Thames st.; alderman of Vintry ward 1838–57, sheriff of London 1841, lord mayor 1843–44; new royal exchange opened by the queen 28 Oct. 1844; created a baronet 8 Nov. 1844; insolvent Nov. 1858. _d._ Bedford 3 April 1871. _I.L.N. iii_ 313 (1843) _portrait_, _lviii_ 371 (1871).

MAGNES, ISIDORE. _b._ Toulouse 1810; drew a coloured crayon of the prince and princess of Wales in Hyde park; commenced in 1864 a large crayon drawing entitled “L’Entente cordiale, an episode of the Crimean war,” which he priced at £2000, to complete this picture he neglected everything else and lived on bread and potatoes; sent a photograph of his picture to Napoleon III. in hopes of having it exhibited at Versailles 1869; exhibited 2 portraits at R.A. 1849 and 1852; _found dead_ in his bed from want at 53 Charlotte st. Fitzroy sq. London 10 April 1869. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_ 483–4 (1869).

MAGNIAC, CHARLES (eld. son of Hollingworth Magniac of Colworth house, Beds.) _b._ 1827; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.; partner in firm of Matheson and Co., East India and China merchants, Lombard st. London; M.P. St. Ives 1868–74; contested Bedford 3 Feb. 1874; M.P. Bedford 1880–5, M.P. Beds. 1885–6, contested Beds. 1886; sheriff of Beds. 1877; the first president of London chamber of commerce 25 Jany. 1882; chairman of Bedfordshire county council 1889; an extensive breeder of shorthorns and cart-horses; inherited from his father a collection of historical pictures and objects of mediæval art. _d._ 16 Charles st. Berkeley sq. London 23 Nov. 1891.

MAGNUS, SIMON. _b._ 1800; shipbroker 324 High st. Chatham; founded and endowed in memory of his son Capt. Lazarus Magnus, the Magnus memorial synagogue, rabbi’s residence and cemetery, Chatham, at cost of £7000. _d._ 324 High st. Chatham, Kent 30 Nov. 1875; will proved 24 Dec. under £90,000. _I.L.N. 22 Jany. 1876 p._ 95; _The Chatham and Rochester News 4 Dec. 1875 p._ 4.

MAGRATH, ANDREW NICHOLSON. _b._ 1802; Assistant surgeon Madras army 10 May 1822, surgeon 30 May 1834; inspector general of hospitals 12 Feb. 1856 to death; director general Madras medical service 29 Dec. 1857 to 11 July 1859. _d._ London 27 Dec. 1860.

MAGRATH, SIR GEORGE (3 son of John Magrath). _b._ co. Tyrone 1775; entered the navy as a surgeon; flag medical officer to lord Nelson in the Mediterranean; M.D. St. Andrews 13 Feb. 1822; L.R.C.P. London 25 June 1822, F.R.C.P. 9 July 1847; F.R.S. 24 June 1819; on the naval medical service in the superintendence of hospitals 11 years; knighted by patent 16 Sep. 1831; K.H. 4 Feb. 1834; a physician at Plymouth 1841 to death; C.B. 16 Aug. 1850; F.L.S. 1816; F.G.S. _d._ George house, George st. Plymouth 12 June 1857. _bur._ in burying ground of St. Andrew’s church. _Munk’s College of physicians iii_ 254 (1878).

MAGRATH, JAMES. _b._ 1766; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1790; C. of Killenvoy, co. Roscommon; rendered great service to the government during the Irish rebellion 1798; R. of St. Kill, co. Kilkenny; arrived in Canada May 1827; R. of township of Toronto; R. of the Credit 1827 to death. _d._ Erindale, Upper Canada 14 June 1851. _G.M. xxxvi_ 327 (1851).

MAGUIRE, JOHN FRANCIS (eld. son of John Maguire, merchant). _b._ Cork 1815; called to Irish bar Jany. 1843; founded the Cork Examiner in support of Daniel O’Connell 1841, edited it many years; contested Dungarvan 1847 and 1851; M.P. Dungarvan 1852–65, M.P. city of Cork 1865 to death; brought forward a Tenants’ compensation bill 1858; mayor of Cork 1853, 1862, 1863 and 1864; thrice visited Pius IX. at Rome; knight commander of St. Gregory 1856; author of Rome, its ruler and its institutions 1857, 2 ed. 1859, enlarged under title of Pontificate of Pius IX 1870; Father Mathew, a biography 1863, 5 ed. 1882; The Irish in America 1868; The next generation 3 vols. 1871, a novel; resided at Ardmanagh, Passage west, Cork. _d._ Dublin 1 Nov. 1872. _bur._ St. Joseph’s cemet. Cork 5 Nov. _I.L.N. lxi_ 439, 455 (1872), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _vi_ 514, 520 (1872), _portrait_.

MAGUIRE, ROBERT (son of Wm. Maguire, inspector of taxes). _b._ Dublin 3 March 1826; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1847, M.A. 1855, B.D. and D.D. 1877; C. of St. Nicholas parish, Cork 1849–52; clerical secretary to Islington protestant institute 1852; Sunday afternoon lecturer at St. Luke’s, Old st. London, July 1856 to 1871; P.C. of St. James’s, Clerkenwell, April 1857 to 1875; morning lecturer at St. Swithin, Cannon st. 1864; R. of St. Olave, Southwark 21 June 1875 to death; edited Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress with expository lectures 1859, 4 ed. 1884; author of The early Irish church independent of Rome 1853; The discussion at Exeter hall on the Sunday question between R. Maguire and J. B. Langley 1858; The immaculate conception of the B. V. Mary historically reviewed 1855; St. Peter non-Roman in his mission, ministry and martyrdom 1871; Lyra evangelica 1872 and 30 other works. _d._ Eastbourne 3 Sep. 1890. _Drawing room portrait gallery_ (1859), _portrait_ 14; _C. M. Davies’s Orthodox London_ (1874) 108–22; _Pinks’s Clerkenwell_ (1881) 71–6.

MAGUIRE, THOMAS (son of Thomas Maguire, merchant). _b._ Dublin 24 Jany. 1831; went to Mauritius 1846; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1851; B.A. 1855, scholar 1855, fellow 24 May 1880 to death, being the first Roman Catholic fellow; barrister L.I. 11 June 1862; took private pupils at Trin. coll. 1866; professor of Latin in Queen’s coll. Galway 1869–80; lecturer in Greek and Latin composition Trin. coll. 1880–2, professor of moral philosophy 1882 to death; author of An essay on the platonic idea 1866; Essays on the platonic ethics 1870; The Parmenides with notes &c. 1882; Lectures on philosophy 1885. _d._ Eaton place, Pimlico, London 26 Feb. 1889. _bur._ Dean’s Grange cemetery, Dublin 2 March; his sisters Eliza and Mary granted civil list pensions of £25 each 24 May 1890. _The Times 27 Feb. 1889 p._ 5, _4 March p._ 6.

MAHAFFY, EDWARD. L.R.C.S. Ireland and L.M. 1840; M.D. Glasgow 1841; assist. surgeon Bombay army 24 Aug. 1841, surgeon 30 Nov. 1856, deputy inspector general 28 Feb. 1869, retired 12 Dec. 1877; C.B. 14 Aug. 1868. _d._ Castle hill, Maidenhead 3 Oct. 1881.