Modern English biography, volume 2 (of 6), I-Q (part 3 of 8)

Modern English biography, volume 2 (of 6), I-Q (part 3 of 8)

LOFTUS, ARTHUR JOHN (only son of Arthur Loftus, captain R.N.) b. 1817; ensign 97 foot 15 Dec. 1840; lieut. 10 royal hussars 1 May 1846; captain 18 hussars 26 Feb. 1858, sold out 21 Sep. 1860; Lucknow medal and clasp 1857; gentleman usher to the queen 1878–83; keeper of the crown jewels 23 April 1883 to death. d. Brighton 3 Sep. 1891.

LOFTUS, FERRARS (4 son of general Wm. Loftus, lieut. of Tower of London). b. 24 June 1798; ensign grenadier guards 1815, captain 27 Dec. 1833, sold out 1840; colonel 3 West York militia 25 April 1870 to death. d. Tyringham, Bucks. 9 Oct. 1877.

LOFTUS, GEORGE WILLIAM (2 son of 2 marquess of Ely 1770–1845). b. 11 May 1815; ed. at Harrow; 2 lieut. rifle corps 22 June 1833; ensign grenadier guards 12 Sep. 1834, sold out 1839; fought a duel with lord Harley, afterwards Earl of Oxford, at Boulogne 10 Dec. 1839, they exchanged shots without effect; bankrupt 2 May 1862 and 9 April 1867. d. Nice, France 19 Jany. 1877. Montagu Williams’s Leaves of a life (1891) 2–4.

LOFTUS, WILLIAM FRANCIS BENTINCK (brother of Ferrars Loftus 1798–1877). b. 17 Aug. 1784; cornet 15 dragoons 30 Aug. 1799, captain 20 April 1804; major 38 foot 9 April 1807 to 25 Dec. 1814 when placed on h.p.; colonel 50 foot 11 April 1851 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. Chacombe priory, Northamptonshire 13 Sep. 1852. G.M. xxxviii 635 (1852).

LOFTUS, WILLIAM JAMES (eld. son of the preceding). b. 7 Jany. 1822; ensign 38 foot 9 Nov. 1838, lieut.-col. 16 Jany. 1863, placed on h.p. 22 Dec. 1863; served in North America and the West Indies 1840–51; present at the Alma, at Inkerman, and in siege of Sebastopol, Crimean medal with 3 clasps; served in Indian mutiny, in siege and capture of Lucknow, Indian medal with clasps 1857; C.B. 24 May 1873; general on the retired list July 1881. d. Birtley Bramley, Guildford 29 March 1887.

LOFTUS, WILLIAM KENNETT. b. Rye, Sussex about 1821; ed. at Newcastle gr. sch., at Twickenham, and Caius coll. Camb. 1840; secretary to Newcastle Natural history soc.; geologist on staff of sir W. F. Williams on Turco-Persian frontier commission 1849–52; sent out to Babylon and Nineveh by Assyrian excavation fund 1853, returned 1855 with collections of tablets, &c. now in British Museum; issued a volume of Lithograph facsimilies of cuneiform inscriptions from 1852; author of Travels and researches in Chaldea and Susiana, with account of excavations at Nimrod and Shúsh 1857. d. on board the Tyburnia on his way to England from Rangoon, Nov. 1858.

LOGAN, ALEXANDER STUART (son of minister of Relief church, St. Ninians, Stirlingshire). b. St. Ninians 1810; ed. Glasgow and Edinb. universities; advocate at Scottish bar 1835; senior advocate depute Dec. 1853; sheriff of Forfarshire 4 Feb. 1854 to death; held many briefs at bar of General Assembly; author of On Robert Burns, an address, and Judas the Betrayer, a poetical fragment 1871. d. 12 York place, Edinburgh 2 Feb. 1862, marble bust in Court buildings, Dundee. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities (1873) 207–8.

LOGAN, ARCHIBALD SPIERS. b. 1802; entered Madras army 1819; lieut. 47 Madras N.I. 182-, captain 11 Sep. 1832; captain 33 N.I. 1835, lieut.-col. 7 Aug. 1846 to 1855; lieut.-col. of 15 N.I. 1855 to 24 Oct. 1858; commandant at Vellore 14 March 1856 to 1858; col. of 45 N.I. 9 Oct. 1860 to 1869; L.G. 25 June 1870. d. Elm bank, Malvern 10 May 1873.

LOGAN, GEORGE. Entered Madras army 1819; captain 41 Madras N.I. 27 Jany. 1831, major 19 Sep. 1843 to 6 Oct. 1851; lieut.-col. of 2 European regiment 6 Oct. 1851 to 1853 and 1854–5; lieut.-col. of 41 N.I. 1855–60, of 6 N.I. 1860 to 31 Dec. 1861; retired M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. d. Eastbourne terrace, Hyde park, London 4 Nov. 1870.

LOGAN, JAMES (son of a merchant). b. Aberdeen about 1794; ed. at gr. sch. and Marischal college, Aberdeen; his reading ticket at British museum dated from 1821; a journalist in London, afterwards clerk in an architect’s office; made a pedestrian tour in Scotland 1826; a transcriber on catalogue of British museum Dec. 1838 to July 1840; secretary of Highland society of London several years; wrote much in Transactions of the Gaelic society of London, of which he was the Father; a brother of the Charterhouse, London, expelled 1866; F.S.A.; author of The Scottish Gael or Celtic manners as preserved among the Highlanders 2 vols. 1831, 2 ed. 1876; Gaelic gatherings or the highlanders at home 1848; and of the letterpress to R. R. Mac Ian’s The clans of the Scottish Highlands 2 vols. 1843–9, new ed. 1857. d. London, April 1872. James Logan’s Scottish Gael, new ed. (1876) memoir pp. ix–xx; R. Cowtan’s Memories of the British Museum (1872) 310–11.

LOGAN, JAMES RICHARDSON. Went to the Straits Settlements about 1835; settled at Penang, Prince of Wales’s Island; started at Singapore in 1847 the Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia, which he edited for about 10 years; started and edited the Penang Gazette; notary public of supreme court of Prince of Wales’s Island; a member of Asiatic Society. d. Penang 20 Oct. 1869.

LOGAN, ROBERT ABRAHAM (son of Patrick Logan, captain 57 foot). b. 26 July 1824; ensign 41 foot 26 Oct. 1841; ensign 57 foot 19 Nov. 1841, lieut.-col. 24 April 1872, placed on h.p. 26 July 1876; commanded 57 foot in New Zealand war 1861, took the Maori Pah 1863; commanded brigade depots 49 and 50 at Hounslow 1877; M.G. 1 July 1881; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 6 May 1882; C.B. 5 July 1865. d. 28 Glen Eldon road, Streatham near London 27 Jany. 1890.

LOGAN, WILLIAM (son of a customer weaver). b. Damhead near Hamilton, Lanarkshire 1813; a loom weaver; a district missionary in St. Giles’, London, then in Leeds, Rochdale 1840, Glasgow, again at Rochdale and at Bradford; established a temperance dining room, the profits of which he distributed to the poor; attended persons stricken with fever; great friend of David Gray of Luggie the poet, and the soother of his dying hours 1861; the friend of Janet Hamilton the poet of Coatbridge, who d. 1873; author of An exposure of female prostitution in London, Leeds and Rochdale 1843; The moral statistics of Glasgow 1849; Words of comfort for parents bereaved of little children 1861, 8 ed. 1874; The great social evil 1871; The early heroes of the temperance reformation 1873. d. Glasgow 16 Sep. 1879. W. C. Maclehouse’s Memoirs of one hundred Glasgow men, ii 177–8 (1886), portrait.

LOGAN, SIR WILLIAM EDMOND (2 son of Wm. Logan, baker, d. 1841). b. Montreal 20 April 1798; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edinb.; in counting-house of his uncle Hart Logan in London 1818–29; manager of copper-smelting works at Swansea 1831–8; demonstrated the important fact that the stratum of clay underlying coal-beds was the soil in which the coal vegetation grew; director of the geological survey of Canada 1842–70; discovered the Eozoon Canadense, the earliest known life, in Laurentian strata 1858; Canadian comr. at Great Exhibitions of 1851 and 1862, and at Paris exhibition 1855; F.R.S. 5 June 1851, royal medallist 1867; received cross of Legion of Honour 1855; Wollaston medallist of Geological Soc. 1856; knighted at Buckingham palace 30 Jany. 1856; founded at cost of 20,000 dollars the Logan chair of geology in McGill university, Montreal 1872; D.C.L. of Lennoxville univ. 1855; LL.D. of McGill univ. 1856; F.G.S. 1837; F.R.S. Edinb. 1861; author with T. S. Hunt of A sketch of the geology of Canada 1856. d. Castle Malgwin, Pembrokeshire 22 June 1875. bur. Llechryd church, Cardiganshire. B. J. Harrington’s Life of W. E. Logan. Montreal (1883), portrait; Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 228–34; Quarterly journal of geol. soc. xxxii 76–80 (1876); Wallich’s Eminent men of the day (1870), portrait ix; I.L.N. xviii 487–8 (1851), portrait.

LOGAN, WILLIAM HUGH (son of a writer to the signet). Apprentice to a bank in Edinb.; manager of a bank at Berwick-on-Tweed; banker at Berwick; twice mayor of Berwick; sheriff; supplied Mr. R. H. Wyndham with all his occasional addresses, dramas and burlesques for theatre royal, Edinb.; edited Edinburgh theatrical and musical review, numbers 5 to 34 the last 1835; writer of Le Bas Bleu, farce, T.R. Edinb. 30 March 1836; Rummio and Judy, burlesque 183-; Absent without leave, farce, Strand theatre, London 1837; Babes in the wood, pantomime, Queen’s theatre, Edinb. 19 Dec. 1859; Shadows, farce, Queen’s theatre, Edinb. 1862 and many other pieces; author of Memoir of Archibald Maclaren, dramatist. Edinb. 1835, anon.; The Scottish banker 1839, 3 ed. 1847; On the law and practice of bills of exchange; and of a short-lived serial called The dramatic spectator. By Poz, Quiz and Co. Edinb. 1837; edited Fragmenta Scoto-Dramatica 1715–1758. Edinb. 1835, anon.; A Pedlar’s pack of ballads and songs. Edinb. 1869. d. Jany. 1883. R. Inglis’s Dramatic writers of Scotland (1868) 66–8; J. C. Dibdin’s Edinburgh stage (1888) 34, 474, 478.

LOGIE, WILLIAM. b. Kirkwall 23 Feb. 1786; presbyterian minister Ladykirk 1811–24; minister of Kirkwall 1824 to death; D.D. of Edinb. univ. March 1854; author of God sending and withdrawing the pestilence 1832; Sermons on the services of the church, with memoir and portrait. Lond. 1857. d. Kirkwall 5 Sep. 1856.

LOGIN, SIR JOHN SPENCER (eld. son of John Login of Stromness, Orkney). b. Stromness 9 Nov. 1809; ed. at univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1831; surgeon to Bengal horse artillery 1832, to the Nizam’s army 1834, in Afghan campaign 1838 and in mission to Herat 1839; surgeon British residency, Lucknow; postmaster in Oude, superintendent of hospitals to king of Oude 1841; in Punjaub army 1848–9, in charge of treasuries of Sikh government, the citadel of Lahore, the post office in the Punjaub; guardian of maharajah Duleep Singh 1849 to 1858; surgeon 17 April 1848, retired 18 April 1858; knighted at Windsor castle 14 Nov. 1854; resided 5 Lancaster gate, Hyde park, London. d. Felixstowe, Suffolk 18 Oct. 1863. Sir John Login and Duleep Singh (1890), portrait.

LOGIN, THOMAS. b. Stromness, Orkney 1823; in public works department India 1844, engaged in construction of Ganges canal 1847–54; executive engineer of the Darjeeling roads 1857; superintending engineer at Umballa 1870; author of papers on Benefit of irrigation in India and on construction of irrigating canals, for which he received Telford premium from Instit. of Civil engineers; F.R.S. Edinb. 1857; M.I.C.E. 19 May 1868. d. while inspecting the Thibet road in the Punjaub 5 June 1874. Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edinb. ix 205 (1878).

LOLA MONTEZ, stage name of Marie Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert (dau. of Edward Gilbert, ensign 44 foot, d. Dinapore, India 1825). b. Limerick 1818; ed. at Montrose and in Paris; resided at Bath with her mother; ran away to Ireland with Thomas James, captain 21 Bengal N.I., whom she married at Meath 23 July 1837; she returned from India to England early in 1842; he obtained an order for a divorce in consistory court, London 15 Dec. 1842, retired from the army 28 Feb. 1856 and d. 17 May 1871; made her début at Her Majesty’s theatre 3 June 1843 as ‘Lola Montez Spanish dancer,’ but being badly received did not appear again; danced at Dresden, Berlin, Warsaw and St. Petersburg; appeared as a dancer at Munich 1847 when she captivated the king of Bavaria, Ludwig Carl Augustus, naturalised by a royal ordinance 7 March 1847, created baronne de Rosenthal and comtesse de Lansfeld, the king built a splendid mansion for her and gave her a pension of 20,000 florins; ruled the kingdom of Bavaria with great ability, banished March 1848 and the king was forced to abdicate 21 March; m. at St. George’s, Hanover sq. 19 July 1849 George Trafford Heald, cornet 2nd life guards, she fled with him to Spain Aug. 1849 to avoid punishment for bigamy, he sold out 1849 and was drowned at Lisbon 1853 or 1856; danced in ballet of Betley the Tyrolean, at Broadway theatre, New York 29 Dec. 1851, and played Lola Montez in Ware’s drama ‘Lola Montez in Bavaria’ 18 May 1852; m. in California 2 Aug. 1853 P. P. Hull, proprietor of the ‘San Francisco Whig’ but soon left him; played at Victoria theatre, Sydney, N.S.W. 23 Aug. 1855; played at Melbourne 1856 where she horsewhipped Mr. Seekamp, editor of the Ballarat Times, for reflecting on her character; appeared at Green st. theatre, New York 1857 in The Eton Boy, The follies of a night, and Lola in Bavaria; a public lecturer in the United States 1858, lectured at St. James’s hall, London 7 April 1859; spent her time visiting the female outcasts at the Magdalen hospital near New York 1859–60. d. in a sanitary asylum at Asteria, New York 17 Jany. 1861. bur. Greenwood cemet. 19 Jany. Autobiography and lectures of Lola Montez (1858), portrait; Les Contemporains, Lola Montes. Par Eugène de Mirecourt. Paris (1870), portrait; F. L. Hawks’s Story of a penitent, Lola Montez. New York (1867); C. H. Ross’s Painted Faces (1891) 78–88; H. H. Phelps’s Players of a century (1880) 265–7, 297; Temple Bar, July 1880 pp. 362–7; Mortemar’s Folly’s Queens (1882) 10–14, portrait; You have heard of them. By Q. (1854) 98–106; I.L.N. x 180 (1847), portrait.

LOMAS, JOHN (son of rev. Robert Lomas d. 1810). b. Hull 13 Dec. 1798; master Kingswood sch. 1820–23; Wesleyan methodist minister at Manchester 1827–33, 1842–5, 1851–4, at Bristol 1833–6, 1855–8, at Birmingham 1836–9, in London 1845–51, 1858–61; theological tutor Richmond coll. 1861–8 and at Headingley coll. 1868–73; president of the Conference 1853; author of Jesus Christ the propitiation for our sins. The third Fernley lecture 1872. d. Redland, Bristol 20 Aug. 1877. Wesleyan Methodist Mag. ci 9, 134, 207, 283 (1878).

LOMAX, JAMES (3 son of Richard Grimshaw Lomax d. 1837). b. Clayton hall, Accrington, Lancs. 1803; ed. at Stonyhurst; succeeded to family estates on death of his brother John Lomax 1849; a prominent Roman Catholic in the north of England, and a munificent donor to R.C. organizations in Lancashire, erected at his own cost church of Our Lady and St. Hubert, Great Harwood; created knight commander of order of St. Gregory by Pius IX. d. Clayton hall 26 March 1886.

LOMAX, THOMAS GEORGE (eld. son of rev. James Lomax of Druid Heath house, Staffs.) b. 1783; bookseller at the Johnson’s head, Lichfield 1 Jany. 1810 to death; purchased relics of Dr. Johnson from his black servant Francis Barber; senior bailiff of Lichfield 1833, mayor 1843. d. the Johnson’s head, Lichfield 3 Jany. 1873. bur. St. Chad’s cemetery. Bookseller, Feb. 1873 p. 79.

LONDESBOROUGH, ALBERT DENISON DENISON, 1 Baron (3 son of Henry Conyngham, 1 marquis Conyngham 1766–1832). b. 8 Stanhope st. Piccadilly, London 21 Oct. 1805; ed. Eton; cornet in the army 21 Sep. 1820; cornet royal horse guards 24 July 1823, sold out 1824; attaché at Berlin 1824, at Vienna 1825, sec. of legation, Florence 1826 and at Berlin 1829–31; K.C.H. 1829; M.P. Canterbury 1835–41 and 1847–50; assumed name of Denison in lieu of Conyngham 4 Sep. 1849; cr. baron Londesborough of Londesborough, Yorkshire 4 March 1850; pres. of British Archæological association at its first meeting at Canterbury 1843; V.P. of Archæological Instit. 1849; pres. of London and Middlesex Archæological society 1855; purchased the Selby estate, Yorkshire, Aug. 1853 for £270,000; held 60,000 acres of land, producing income of £100,000; F.S.A. 1840; F.R.S. 13 June 1850; most unlucky as a breeder and runner of horses; printed Wanderings in search of health 1849; Miscellanea Graphica 1857; An illustrative catalogue of antique silver 1860. d. 8 Carlton house terrace, London 15 Jany. 1860. bur. Grimston 24 Jany. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xvii 171–5 (1861); I.L.N. xxiii 225 (1853) portrait, xxxvi 108 (1860); Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis (1865) 228–32, 482–3; W. W. Morrell’s History of Selby (1867) 275–7; Sporting Review, xliii 80–81 (1860); C. R. Smith’s Retrospections, i 262–8 (1883) and Collectanea Antigua, v 261–69 (1861).

LONDONDERRY, CHARLES WILLIAM VANE, 3 Marquess of (2 son of Robert Stewart, 1 marquess of Londonderry 1739–1821). b. Mary st. Dublin 18 May 1778; ed. at Eton; ensign 108 foot 11 Oct. 1794; major 106 foot 31 July 1795; lieut.-colonel 5 dragoons 1 Jany. 1797 to 6 April 1799 when the regiment was disbanded for insubordination; lieut.-col. 18 hussars 12 April 1799 to 20 Nov. 1813; M.P. Thomastown in Irish parliament 1798–1800, M.P. co. Londonderry 1801 to June 1814; under sec. of state for war and colonies 1807 to 1808; commanded a brigade of hussars in Portugal 1808; adjutant general to army under sir Arthur Wellesley 1809–12; K.B. 1 Feb. 1813; G.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815; G.C.H. 1816; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to Berlin 7 April 1813; colonel 25 light dragoons 20 Nov. 1813; created a peer of the realm by title of baron Stewart of Stewart’s court and Ballilawn 1 July 1814; a lord of the bedchamber 25 June 1814 to Aug. 1827; P.C. 27 July 1814; ambassador to Vienna 27 Aug. 1814; assumed surname of Vane 1819; colonel 10 hussars 3 Feb. 1820 to 23 June 1843; succeeded his half-brother as 3 marquess 12 Aug. 1822; cr. earl Vane and viscount Seaham 28 March 1823; general 10 Jany. 1837; lord lieut. of Durham 27 April 1842; col. 2 life guards 23 June 1843 to death; K.G. 19 Jany. 1853; made a harbour at Seaham, opened 29 July 1835, which cost £250,000; published Suggestions for the improvement of the force of the British empire 1805; A narrative of the Peninsular war 1808–13, 2 vols. 1828–9; Memoirs and correspondence of Lord Castlereagh 8 vols. 1848–51. d. Holderness house, Park lane, London 6 March 1854. bur. Long Newton 16 March. J. E. Doyle’s Official baronage, iii 552–4 (1886), portrait; Portraits of eminent conservatives and statesmen. First series 5 pages (1836), portrait 10; Royal military calendar 3 ed. ii 411–20 (1820); St. Stephen’s. By Mask (1839) 78–88; H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches 4 ed. (1876) 188–92; H. Heaviside’s Annals of Stockton on Tees (1865) 111–14.

NOTE.--He left personal property of value of £335,000 exclusive of vast estates in England and Ireland, his widow’s personalty was sworn under £400,000, 24 June 1865. He was the lord high marshal at the Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839. He is drawn in Vivian Grey as Col. Von Trumpetson. In 1824 he was challenged to a duel by Wm. Battier, who was gazetted cornet 10 hussars 27 Feb. 1823 and d. Paris 27 April 1839. On 13 June 1839 Lord Londonderry met Henry Grattan, M.P., on Wimbledon common, Grattan fired and missed and his lordship discharged his pistol in the air.

LONDONDERRY, FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERT STEWART, 4 Marquess of (1 son of preceding). b. South st. Grosvenor sq. London 7 July 1805; M.P. for co. Down 1826–52; a lord of the admiralty 1829–30; vice chamberlain of the household 27 Dec. 1834 to June 1835; P.C. 23 Feb. 1835; colonel North Down militia 1837; lord lieut. of Down 1845–64; M.P. co. Down 1826–52; succeeded as 4 marquess 6 March 1854; K.P. 1855. d. Hastings 25 Nov. 1872. I.L.N. lxi 550 (1872).

LONDONDERRY, GEORGE HENRY ROBERT CHARLES WILLIAM VANE-TEMPEST, 5 Marquess of (half-brother of preceding). b. Vienna 26 April 1821; styled viscount Seaham 1823–54; ed. at Eton; matric. Ball. coll. Oxf. 14 June 1839, B.A. and M.A. 1867, hon. D.C.L. Durham; cornet 1 life guards 13 Jany. 1843, lieut. 1845, sold out 1848; M.P. North Durham 1847–54; succeeded his father as 2 earl Vane 6 March 1854; major Montgomeryshire yeomanry 1859–73; lieut.-col. commandant 2 Durham militia 1853–62; assumed additional name of Tempest by r.l. 28 June 1854; appointed to proceed on a special mission to St. Petersburg to invest emperor Alexander II. with insignia and habit of order of the garter 21 July 1867; provincial grand master free masons co. Durham 1880; succeeded his brother as 5 marquess 25 Nov. 1872; K.P. 31 Aug. 1874; lord lieut. of Durham 8 June 1880 to death. d. Plas Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire 5 Nov. 1884. I.L.N. lxxxv 501 (1884), portrait; R. F. Gould’s Freemasonry, iv 276 (1885), portrait.

LONEY, ROBERT. b. 1787; entered navy Sep. 1797; commander on h.p. 10 Jany. 1837; captain on h.p. 6 Aug. 1852; retired admiral 15 June 1879; edited The China pilot 1855. d. Woodbine villa, Mannamead, Plymouth 22 Feb. 1882.

LONG, CATHARINE (youngest dau. of Horatio Walpole, 2 earl of Orford 1752–1822). b. 1798; (m. 25 July 1822 Henry Lawes Long of Hampton lodge near Farnham, Surrey, d. 1868); edited The story of a drop of water 1856; author of Sir Roland Ashton, a tale of the times 2 vols. 1844, 2 ed. 1854; The Midsummer souvenir, thoughts original and selected 1846; Heavenly thoughts for morning hours 1851; Heavenly thoughts for evening hours 1856; The first lieutenant’s story 3 vols. 1853, 2 ed. 1856; Story of a specific prayer 1863; An Agnus Dei for four or five voices 1848, and other pieces of sacred music. d. suddenly from alarm in a thunderstorm at Landthorne Hatch near Farnham 20 Aug. 1867. Times 21 Aug. 1867 p. 10.

LONG, CHARLES EDWARD (elder son of Charles Beckford Long of Langley hall, Berkshire, d. 1836 aged 65). b. Benham park, Berkshire 28 July 1796; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; author of Imperial and papal Rome, a poem 1818, 4 ed. 1859; Considerations on the game laws 1824, anon.; Letter on the Jamaica house of assembly, abandonment of its legislative functions 1839; Royal descents, a genealogical list of the several persons entitled to quarter the arms of the royal houses of England 1845; edited for the Camden Society, The diary of the marches of the royal army during the great civil war, kept by Richard Symonds 1859. d. Lord Warden hotel, Dover 25 Sep. 1861. bur. Seale churchyard, Surrey.

LONG, CHARLES MAITLAND (younger son of Samuel Long of Carshalton, M.P. Ilchester d. 1807). b. 16 Aug. 1803; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1830; R. of Whitchurch, Salop 1834–46; R. of Settrington, Yorkshire 1846 to death; archdeacon of East Riding of Yorkshire 1854–73; prebendary of Fridaythorpe in York cathedral 1855 to death. d. 43 Berkeley sq. London 6 Oct. 1875.

LONG, EDWIN LONGSDEN (son of Edwin Long an artist). b. Bath 12 July 1829; pupil of James Matthew Leigh; a portrait painter, afterwards painted oriental scenes; resided in Spain with John Phillip, R.A.; A.R.A. 26 Jany. 1876, R.A. 13 July 1881; exhibited 52 pictures at R.A., 13 at B.I. and 4 at Suffolk st. 1855–80; exhibited his pictures at his own gallery 168 New Bond st. 1883 to death, after which his pictures were exhibited at the Doré gallery 35 New Bond st., his pictures The Babylonian marriage market 1875 and the Egyptian feast 1877 were much noticed. d. Kelston, Netherall gardens, Hampstead 15 May 1891. I.L.N. lxviii 436, 437 (1876), portrait; Graphic 23 May 1891 p. 585, portrait; M. B. Huish’s The year’s art (1888) 32, portrait.

LONG, GEORGE (2 son of Joseph Long of Shopwick near Chichester). b. 1780; special pleader in London 1809–11; barrister G.I. 11 Feb. 1811, bencher 1834 to death, treasurer 1837; deputy steward of the Palace court 1825–33; a comr. for inquiring into state of municipal corporations 18 July 1833; magistrate at Great Marlborough st. police court 1839, at Marylebone police court June 1841 to Dec. 1859; recorder of Coventry 1840 to 1854; author of Observations on a bill to amend the laws relating to the relief of the poor 1821; A treatise on the law relative to sales of personal property 1821; An essay on the moral nature of man 1841; The conduct of life, a series of essays 1845; An enquiry concerning religion 1855. d. 51 Queen Anne st. Cavendish sq. London 26 June 1868. bur. Willesden cemet. Law Times, xlv 250 (1868).

LONG, GEORGE (eld. son of James Long, merchant). b. Poulton, Lancs. 4 Nov. 1800; ed. at Macclesfield gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Camb., Craven scholar 1821, 30th wrangler and senior chancellor’s medallist 1822; B.A. 1822; fellow of Trin. coll. 1823–7; professor of ancient languages in univ. of Virginia at Charlottesville 1824–8; professor of Greek in London univ., Gower st. London 1 Oct. 1828, resigned 1831; a founder of royal geographical soc. 1830, hon. sec. 1846–8; edited Quarterly journal of education 10 vols. 1831–5; The Penny cyclopædia 29 vols. 1833–46, published in monthly parts; edited and contributed to The biographical dictionary of the Society for diffusion of useful knowledge 7 vols. 1842–4, letter A only; professor of Latin in Univ. coll. London 1842–6, when he was presented with a silver tea and coffee service; barrister I.T. 9 June 1837, reader on jurisprudence and civil law at Inner Temple April 1846 to 1849; classical lecturer at Brighton college 1849–71; granted civil list pension of £100, 7 Aug. 1873; author of The civil wars of Rome. Select lives from Plutarch 5 vols. 1844–8; France and its revolutions, a pictorial history 1850; An old man’s thoughts about many things 1862, anon.; The decline of the Roman republic 5 vols. 1864; compiled The standard cyclopædia of political knowledge 4 vols. 1848, and edited with rev. Arthur John Macleane the Bibliotheca Classica 27 vols. 1851–84. d. Portfield, Chichester 10 Aug. 1879. H. J. Mathews’s In memoriam. George Long (1879).

LONG, JAMES. b. 1814; resided in Russia; deacon in Church of England 1839, priest 1840; went to India as a missionary of Church missionary society about 1846, stationed at Thakurpukur near Calcutta; known as Padre Long, returned to England 1872; member of Bengal Asiatic Society; F.R.G.S.; fined 1000 rupees and sentenced to a month’s imprisonment for adversely criticising the English press at Calcutta and the indigo planters in his preface to a Bengali drama entitled Niladarpana Nataka 1861; assigned to Church Missionary Soc. £2000 to provide popular lectures on the religions of the East; author of Handbook of Bengal missions 1848; A descriptive catalogue of Bengali works 1855; Prabád Málá or the wit of Bengali ryots 1869; Eastern proverbs and emblems 1881; contributed to Journal of Asiatic Soc. of Bengal, Calcutta review and the Indian magazine. d. 3 Adam st. Adelphi, London 23 March 1887. Trubner’s Literary Record (1887) 24; Academy 9 April 1887 p. 255.

LONG, RICHARD PENRUDDOCK (2 son of Walter Long 1793–1867). b. Baynton house, Wiltshire 19 Dec. 1825; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1849, M.A. 1853; first played at Lord’s in Harrow v. Winchester 27 July 1842; one of the largest landed proprietors in England; sheriff of Montgomeryshire 1858; nominated for sheriff of Wilts. 1875; contested South Wilts. 16 July 1852; M.P. Chippenham 1859–65; M.P. North Wilts. 1865–8. d. Cannes, France 16 Feb. 1875. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores, iii 106 (1863).

LONG, SAMUEL (eld. son of Charles Maitland Long 1803–75). b. 5 Jany. 1840; cadet R.N. 8 Dec. 1852; served in Crimean war and was present at bombardment of Sebastopol 17 Oct. 1854; captain 12 Dec. 1876; commander of Vernon torpedo instruction ship Portsmouth, organised and delivered the night attack on the fleet at Spithead and on the naval force protected by a boom at Southampton 1889; captain superintendent at Pembroke dockyard Jany. 1889 to Aug. 1891; aide de camp to the queen 1 Jany. 1889 to 27 Aug. 1891; R.A. 27 Aug. 1891; author of several papers on torpedo warfare; thrown from his horse and injured, d. Blendworth lodge, Horndean near Portsmouth 25 April 1893.

LONG, SIMON (son of David Long, Gretna Green priest, d. 1827 in his 72 year). The last of the Gretna Green priests. d. Falling near Newcastle on Tyne 24 April 1872.

LONG, WALTER (1 son of Richard Godolphin Long, M.P., 1761–1835). b. 10 Oct. 1793; ed. Winchester and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1809, M.A. 1812; M.P. North Wilts. 1835–65; major R. Wilts, yeomanry cavalry; resided Rood Ashton, Wilts., d. Torquay 31 Jany. 1867. G.M. iii 399 (1867).

LONG, WILLIAM. Stable boy in employ of 5 duke of Beaufort in Oxfordshire 1803; whipper-in to hounds of 6 duke of Beaufort at Badminton about 1814–26; huntsman to 6 and 7 dukes of Beaufort 1826–55. d. Didmarton, Gloucestershire 31 Jany. 1877 aged 84. Cecil’s Records of the chase (1887) 162, 175–80.

LONG, WILLIAM (2 son of Walter Long of Preshaw house near Bishop’s Waltham, Hants. 1788–1871). b. 15 Aug. 1817; ed. at Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1844; F.S.A. 12 Jany. 1871; author of Avebury illustrated. Devizes 1858; Stonehenge and its burrows. Devizes 1876. d. Onslow gardens, London 14 April 1886. Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xi 375 (1886).

LONGDEN, SIR HENRY ERRINGTON (son of Thomas Hayter Longden). b. 14 Jany. 1819; ed. at Eton and Sandhurst; ensign 10 foot 16 Sep. 1836, lieut.-col. 20 July 1858, placed on h.p. 14 June 1864; served in Sutlej campaign 1845–6, in Punjaub campaign 1848–9; buried under the ruins of Mooltan 12 Sep. 1849 and after some hours dug out unhurt; in battle of Goojerat; medal and 2 clasps; employed in surveying forests of the Himalayas 1849–52; in Indian mutiny 1857–8, took part in capture of Lucknow, chief of the staff to Lugard’s force 1859, Indian medal and 2 clasps; adjutant general Bengal 17 Jany. 1866 to 16 March 1869; general 1 July 1881; col. of second battalion Hampshire regiment, late 67 foot, 24 June 1883 to 11 Nov. 1888; col. of the Lincolnshire regiment, late 10 foot, 11 Nov. 1888 to death; C.B. 21 March 1859, K.C.B. 29 May 1886; C.S.I. 28 May 1870. d. Bournemouth 29 Jany. 1890.

LONGDEN, SIR JAMES ROBERT (youngest son of John Robert Longden of Doctors’ commons, London, proctor). b. 1827; government clerk in the Falkland islands 1844, colonial secretary there to 1861; pres. of Virgin Islands 1861; lieut. governor of Dominica 5 Sep. 1865; governor of British Honduras 5 Dec. 1867; governor of Trinidad 18 July 1870; governor of British Guiana 14 March 1874; governor of Ceylon 30 June 1877 to 1883; C.M.G. 23 Feb. 1871, K.C.M.G. 13 March 1876, G.C.M.G. 24 May 1883; alderman of Hertfordshire under Local government act. d. Longhope near Watford, Herts. 4 Oct. 1891; cremated at Woking cemet. 9 Oct.

LONGFIELD, GEORGE (4 son of rev. Mountifort Longfield, V. of Desertserges, co. Cork). Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1837–42, fellow 1842 to death; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1844, B.D. 1864, D.D. 1866; professor of Hebrew, univ. of Dublin 1869 to death; treasurer of St. Patrick’s cathedral 1877; author of An introduction to the study of the Chaldee language 1859. d. 3 Nov. 1878.

LONGFIELD, JOHN (2 son of John Longfield of Longueville, co. Cork 1767–1842). b. Dublin 18 Sep. 1804; ensign 8 foot 28 June 1825, lieut.-col. 3 April 1846 to 1 June 1860 when placed on h.p.; brigadier general Bengal 1855, 1856 and 1857–59; col. 29 foot 19 April 1868 to 19 Dec. 1881; general 19 July 1876; col. Liverpool regiment, 8 foot, 19 Dec. 1881 to death; C.B. 21 Jany. 1858. d. Kilcoleman, Bandon, co. Cork 27 Feb. 1889. History of Eighth foot 2 ed. p. 283.

LONGFIELD, MOUNTIFORT (brother of George Longfield d. 3 Nov. 1878). b. South of Ireland 1802; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1829, LL.D. 1831; fellow of Trin. coll. 1825–34; professor of political economy univ. of Dublin 1832–6, regius professor of feudal and English law 29 Nov. 1834 to death, discharged his duties by deputy from 1871; called to Irish bar 1828; Q.C. 2 Nov. 1842, bencher of King’s inns 1859; comr. of Incumbered estates court 1849–58, a judge of Landed estates court 1858–67; comr. of Irish national education 1853; P.C. Ireland 1867; author of Four lectures on poor laws 1834; Lectures on political economy 1834; Remarks on the safety and advantages of commutation if accepted by the clergy generally 1870; Elementary treatise on series 1872. d. 47 Fitzwilliam sq. Dublin 21 Nov. 1884. Irish Law Times 29 Nov. 1884 p. 606.

LONGFIELD, RICHARD (brother of John Longfield 1804–89). b. Longueville, co. Cork 1802; ed. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1824; sheriff of Cork 1833; contested co. Cork 24 Jany. 1835 and seated on petition 5 June; contested co. Cork 18 Aug. 1837 and 15 July 1841. d. Longueville house, Mallow 19 June 1889.

LONGFIELD, ROBERT (brother of Mountifort Longfield 1802–84). b. co. Cork 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830, M.A 1832; called to Irish bar 1834; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852; law adviser of crown for Ireland 1866 to death; chairman of quarter sessions, co. Galway, Dec. 1867 to death; law adviser to the castle, Dublin; M.P. Mallow, May 1859 to 1865; author of The laws of distress and replevin in Ireland. Dublin 1841; A treatise on the action of ejectment in the superior courts in Ireland 2 ed. 1846; The origin of freemasonry 1857; The fishery laws of Ireland 1863; The game laws of Ireland 1864. d. 33 Merrion sq. south, Dublin 27 April 1868.

LONGFORD, WILLIAM LYGON PAKENHAM, 4 Earl of (2 son of 2 earl of Longford 1774–1838). b. Pakenham hall 31 Jany. 1819; ed. Winchester; ensign 52 foot 25 Aug. 1837; lieut. 7 foot 1838, captain 1844, placed on h.p. 6 July 1852; A.Q.M.G. Crimea 1854–5, A.A.G. 1855, A.G. 1855–6; in battles of Alma, Balaklava and Inkerman, and at siege of Sebastopol, medal with 4 clasps; A.G. Bengal, Feb. 1858 to 2 July 1860; succeeded his brother as 4 earl 27 March 1860; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 28 June 1861, G.C.B. 24 May 1881; under sec. of state for war 7 July 1866 to 8 Dec. 1868; lord lieut. of Longford 21 March 1874 to death; col. 5 Northumberland fusiliers 11 Sep. 1878 to death; general 31 July 1879; placed on retired list 1881. d. 24 Bruton st. London 19 April 1887.

LONGLANDS, HENRY (son of Thomas Longlands of Greenwich). b. 1781; ed. at Westminster, King’s scholar 1796; barrister M.T. 10 Feb. 1809, bencher 1841 to death, treasurer 1851; secretary to West India Dock co. 1818–38. d. Blackheath road, Old Charlton 9 Feb. 1857.

LONGLEY, CHARLES THOMAS (5 son of John Longley, recorder of Rochester, d. 1822). b. Boley Hill, Rochester 28 July 1794; ed. at Cheam, Surrey; King’s scholar at Westminster 1808; student at Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1812, Greek reader 1822, tutor and censor 1825–8; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818, B.D. and D.D. 1829; proctor of the univ. 1827; C. of Cowley, Oxon. 1818, P.C. of Cowley 1823–7; R. of West Tytherley, Hants. 1827–9; head master of Harrow school 21 March 1829 to Oct. 1836; bishop of Ripon 15 Oct. 1836, consecrated in York cath. 6 Nov. 1836; translated to see of Durham 13 Oct. 1856; archbishop of York 1 June 1860; P.C. 9 June 1860; archbishop of Canterbury 20 Oct. 1862 to death, installed 12 Dec. 1862; the Lambeth or Pan-Anglican synod of 78 British, colonial and foreign prelates met in London under his presidency 24–27 Sep. 1867; translated Koch’s Tableau des révolutions de l’Europe 1831; author of A letter to the parishioners of St. Saviour’s, Leeds 1851. d. Addington park near Croydon 27 Oct. 1868. F. Arnold’s Our bishops and deans, i 161–8 (1875); Macmillan’s Mag. March 1883 pp. 346–58; Illust. news of the world, viii (1861), portrait; Illustrated times 25 Oct. 1862 p. 417, portrait, 20 Dec. 1862 p. 541 view of installation.

LONGMAN, CHARLES (2 son of Thomas Norton Longman, publisher 1771–1842). b. 11 Feb. 1809; ed. Westminster 1822–4; head of firm of J. Dickinson & Co. paper makers, 65 Old Bailey and 1 Irongate wharf, Praed st. London; F.G.S. 1862; dropped down dead in his park, Shendish near Hemel Hempstead, Herts. 4 Jany. 1873; will proved 15 Feb. 1873, personalty under £200,000.

LONGMAN, THOMAS (brother of the preceding). b. 1804; ed. at Glasgow univ.; partner in Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, publishers 38 Paternoster row 1832, head of the firm 1842 to death; superintended production of The New Testament illustrated with engravings on wood after paintings by Fra Angelico, Pietro Perugino and other great masters 1864, 250 copies at ten guineas each, 2 ed. 1864, reprinted 1883; published lord Macaulay’s works, sent him a cheque for £20,000 dated 13 March 1856 for his share of profits of his History of England vols. 3 and 4; the firm purchased business and stock of John W. Parker publisher 1863; purchased copyright of Disraeli’s novels 1870; bought Farnborough hall, Hants. for nearly £100,000, 1859. d. Farnborough hall 30 Aug. 1879. History of the house of Longman. By Francis Espinasse in The Critic, xx 366, 431, 483 (1860); Curwen’s Booksellers (1873) 79–109.

LONGMAN, THOMAS TUCKER (son of John Longman). b. Castle Cary, Somerset 1818; ed. St. Mary’s coll. Oscott; one of first to take B.A. degree at univ. of London 1841; ordained priest 1840; missioner at Wolverhampton, at Bloxwich, at Hampton hill, and at Warwick where he built the R.C. church; administrator of St. Chad’s cath. Birmingham 1867, canon of the cath. 1873, vicar general of the diocese 1873–91; in charge of St. Peter’s, Leamington 1884–91; dignity of Monsignor conferred on him by the Pope, June 1890; member of Birmingham school board. d. Leamington 14 Dec. 1892. Daily Graphic 17 Dec. 1892 p. 3, portrait.

LONGMAN, William (brother of Thomas Longman 1804–79). b. 9 Feb. 1813; entered service of Longman & Co. publishers 1828, a partner 1839 to death; freeman of Stationers’ Co. 1834; an early member of Alpine club 1857, pres. 1871–4; F.S.A. 16 Jany. 1873; author of A catalogue of works in all departments of English literature classified, anon., Second edition 1848; Journal of six weeks’ adventures in Switzerland, Piedmont and the Italian lakes. By W. Longman and H. Trower. Privately printed 1856; Lectures on the history of England to the close of the reign of Edward II. 1859; The history of the life and times of Edward III. 2 vols. 1869; A history of the three cathedrals dedicated to St. Paul in London 1873. d. Ashlyns, Great Berkhampstead 13 Aug. 1877. William Longman. By H. R. (Henry Reeve) in Fraser’s Mag. for Oct. 1877 pp. 417–21; Publishers’ Circular (1877) 605–6; Graphic, xvi 204 (1877), portrait.

LONGMIRE, MARGARET (dau. of John and Margaret Atkinson). b. Westmoreland 15 April 1765; bapt. Windermere 19 May 1777; a servant on various farms; m. James Longmire of Crawmire’s, he d. 19 Jany. 1831; a sick nurse; had parochial relief. d. Troutbeck 30 May 1868 aged 103 years and 6 weeks. She was grandmother of Thomas Longmire the champion wrestler of England. W. J. Thom’s Longevity of Man (1879) 272–80.

LONGMUIR, JOHN (son of John Longmuir). b. Stonehaven, Kincardineshire 13 Nov. 1803; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. and Marischal coll., M.A., LL.D. King’s coll. Aberdeen 1859; English master Anderson’s Institution, Forres; licensed by presbytery of Forres, July 1833; evening lecturer in Trinity chapel, Aberdeen 1837; minister of Mariners’ church, Aberdeen Sep. 1840; minister of Free church, Aberdeen 1843–81; lecturer on geology at King’s coll. Aberdeen to 1859; author of The College and other poems. Aberdeen 1825, anon.; Bible Lays 1838, 2 ed. 1877; Ocean Lays 1854, new ed. 1864; Lays for the lambs 1860; A run through the land of Burns and the covenanters 1872; edited Rhythmical index to the English language 1877; Walker and Webster combined in a dictionary of the English language 1864, 2 ed. 1876. d. Aberdeen 7 May 1883. W. Walker’s Bards of Bon-Accord (1887) 407–14; Edwards’s Modern Scottish Poets 2nd series.

LONGSTAFF, GEORGE DIXON. L.F.P.S. Glasgow 1827; M.D. Edinb. 1828; assist. professor of chemistry Edinb. univ., where he was the first teacher of practical chemistry to medical students; physician at Hull some years; in America some years; engaged in commerce in England; superintendent of special constables in Chartist riots 1848; a founder 1841 and V.P. of Chemical Soc. of London; chairman of royal maternity charity, London; first member of Wandsworth district board of works; author of Dissertatio inauguralis de calorico 1828. d. Butterknowle, Southfields, Wandsworth, Surrey 23 Sep. 1892.

LONGWORTH, JOHN AUGUSTUS. Consul at Monastir, Tunis 29 Sep. 1851; employed on several special services 1854–58; consul general in Servia 13 Feb. 1860 to 14 Feb. 1875 when he retired on a pension; C.B. 25 Oct. 1865; author of A year among the Circassians 2 vols. 1840. d. 16 Westbourne park villas, Bayswater, London 23 July 1875.

LONGWORTH, MARIA THERESA (7 child of Thomas Longworth of Manchester, silk manufacturer, d. Altrincham, Cheshire 1854). b. Fairyhill, Cheetwood near Manchester 1827; ed. at a convent in Staffs. and at an Ursuline convent school at Boulogne; began a correspondence 1853 with Wm. Charles Yelverton afterwards 4 viscount Avonmore, met him again when she was a nurse at Galata hospital, Constantinople, during Crimean war, Aug. 1855 and they became engaged; he read aloud the Church of England marriage service at her lodgings 1 St. Vincent st. Edinburgh 12 April 1857, they were afterwards married by rev. Bernard Mooney at R.C. chapel at Kilbroney near Rostrevor in Ireland, and lived together in Ireland and Scotland till April 1858; Yelverton married Emily widow of professor Edward Forbes 26 June 1858; Miss Longworth sued Yelverton for restitution of conjugal rights in probate court, London 31 Oct. 1859 but the court decided that it had no jurisdiction; the Scottish court of session upheld the marriage 19 Dec. 1862 but this judgment was reversed by the house of lords 28 July 1864; her attempt to reopen the case at Edinburgh in March 1865, failed and the house of lords supported the Scottish court 30 July 1867, her appeal to court of session to set aside judgment of house of lords was rejected 28 Oct. 1868; a subscription in her behalf was raised in Manchester; gave her first reading at Hanover square rooms, London 6 April 1866; author of Martyrs to circumstances 2 vols. 1861; The Yelverton correspondence 1863; Zanita, a tale of the Yosemite 1872; Teresina Peregrina 2 vols. 1874; Teresina in America 2 vols. 1875; lived at Pietermaritzburg, Natal, about March 1880 to her death there 13 Sep. 1881. J. F. Macqueen’s Reports in the House of Lords, iv 745–912 (1866); Law mag. and law review, xi 215–34 (1861); Illust. Times 9 March 1861 p. 143, portrait; A.R. (1861) 528–42; Reynolds’s Miscellany, xxvii 336 (1862), portrait; Illust. sporting news, v 117 (1866), portrait.

NOTE.--J. R. O’Flanagan’s novel entitled Gentle blood or the secret marriage 1861 is founded on the Yelverton marriage case, Miss Longworth is called in the novel Sybilla Longsword and Yelverton figures as Rodulphus Silverton.

LONSDALE, WILLIAM LOWTHER, 2 Earl of (elder son of 1 earl of Lonsdale 1757–1844). b. 30 July 1787; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1808; styled viscount Lowther 1807–44; M.P. Cockermouth 1808–13; M.P. Westmoreland 1813–31; M.P. Dunwich 1831–2; M.P. Westmoreland 1832–41; F.R.S. 5 July 1810; a lord of the admiralty 24 Nov. 1809 to 1 May 1810; a commissioner for affairs of India 7 July 1810 to 17 July 1818; a lord of the treasury 25 Nov. 1813 to 30 April 1827; lieut.-col. commandant of Westmoreland militia 9 June 1818 to 26 Feb. 1861; chief comr. of woods and forests 14 June 1828 to 13 Dec. 1830; P.C. 30 May 1828; treasurer of the navy 27 Dec. 1834 to 22 April 1835; vice pres. of board of trade 20 Dec. 1834 to 6 May 1835; summoned to parliament as baron Lowther of Whitehaven 8 Sep. 1841; postmaster general 15 Sep. 1841 to 2 Jany. 1846; succeeded his father as 2 earl 19 March 1844; lord lieut. of Cumberland and Westmoreland 17 April 1844 to 2 Dec. 1868; lord pres. of privy council 27 Feb. 1852 to 28 Dec. 1852; bought Armathwaite castle, Cumberland, Aug. 1845. d. 14 Carlton house terrace, London 4 March 1872; personalty sworn under £700,000 6 April 1872. I.L.N. lx 261, 267, 339 (1872), portrait; Waagen’s Treasures of art, iii 260–65 (1854).

NOTE.--He is the original of Lord Colchicum in Thackeray’s Pendennis and of Lord Eskdale in Disraeli’s novel Coningsby.

LONSDALE, HENRY LOWTHER, 3 Earl of (1 son of Henry Cecil Lowther, M.P. 1790–1867). b. London 27 March 1818; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1838; styled Henry Lowther 1836–72; cornet 1 life guards 24 Sep. 1841, capt. 9 March 1849, sold out 1 Dec. 1854; M.P. West Cumberland 1847–72; hon. col. Cumberland rifle volunteers 16 Aug. 1862; hon. col. Cumberland militia 24 Feb. 1868 to death; lord lieut. of Cumberland and Westmoreland 2 Dec. 1868 to death; succeeded his uncle as 3 earl 4 March 1872; lieut.-col. Westmoreland and Cumberland yeomanry 11 May 1872; steward of the Jockey club 1844 and 1845; won many cups at Newmarket, Goodwood and Stamford; a regular huntsman, lest his horses should be misused after he had done with them, he always shot them. d. Whitehaven castle, Cumberland 15 Aug. 1876. Athenæum 21 Feb. 1874 pp. 260–3; Baily’s Mag. viii 219–21 (1864), portrait; Graphic, xiv 204 (1876), portrait; I.L.N. lxix 208, 213 (1876), portrait.

LONSDALE, ST. GEORGE HENRY LOWTHER, 4 Earl of (1 son of the preceding). b. Wilton crescent, London 4 Oct. 1855; ed. at Eton; styled viscount Lowther 1872–76; succeeded as 4 earl 15 Aug. 1876; hon. col. Cumberland militia 3 March 1877; vice admiral Cumberland and Westmoreland, March 1877; master of the Cottesmore hounds 2 years; kept a racing stud, Pilgrimage won the 2000 and 1000 guineas in 1878. d. 14 Carlton house terrace, London 8 Feb. 1882. bur. Lowther ch. 14 Feb. Graphic, xxv 220 (1882), portrait; Illust. sport. and dram. news, xvi 549, 563 (1882), portrait.

LONSDALE, EDWARD FRANCIS. M.R.C.S. 1834, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; one of founders of Institution for Cure of club feet, afterwards the Royal orthopædic hospital, 6 Bloomsbury sq. 1838, and surgeon there; member Med. & Chir. Soc. 1844; a skilful surgeon in orthopædic cases; author of A practical treatise on fractures 1838; Observations on the treatment of lateral curvature of the spine 1847, 2 ed. 1852. d. 26 Montague st. Russell sq. London 11 Sep. 1857. Proc. R. Med. & Chir. Soc. ii 50 (1858).

LONSDALE, HENRY (son of Henry Lonsdale, tradesman). b. Carlisle 1816; studied medicine at univ. of Edinb. and in Paris; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1838; M.D. Edinb. 1838; partner with Robert Knox in Edinb. 1840–5; F.R.C.P. Edinb. 1841; physician to royal public dispensary, Edinb. 1841–5, where he introduced use of cod-liver oil; practised at Carlisle from 1846, phys. to Cumberland infirmary 1846–68; the friend of Mazzini, Kossuth and Garibaldi; author of A biographical sketch of William Blamire formerly M.P. for Cumberland 1862; The life and works of Musgrave Lewthwaite Watson, sculptor 1866; The worthies of Cumberland 6 vols. 1867–75; A sketch of the life and writings of Robert Knox the anatomist 1870. d. Rosehill, Carlisle 23 July 1876.

LONSDALE, JAMES GYLBY (eld. son of John Lonsdale 1788–1867). b. Clapham, London 14 Oct. 1816; ed. at Laleham sch. and at Eton, Newcastle scholar March 1843; scholar of Balliol coll. Oxf. 29 Nov. 1833, fellow 1838–64, tutor 1840; B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; a student of L.I. 1838; chaplain to bishop of Gibraltar 1842–7; chaplain to bishop of Lichfield 1847–67; tutor in univ. of Durham 1851–6; professor of classical literature at King’s coll. London 1865–70; R. of South Luffenham, Rutland 1870–3; R. of Huntspill, Somerset 1873–8; author with Samuel Lee of The works of Virgil rendered into English prose 1871; The works of Horace rendered into English prose 1873. d. Bath 25 April 1892, memorial tablet in Balliol college chapel. R. Duckworth’s Memoir of J. G. Lonsdale (1893), portrait.

LONSDALE, JAMES JOHN (2 son of James Lonsdale the artist 1777–1839). b. 5 April 1810; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1836; sec. to criminal law commission 1842; recorder of Folkestone 5 Aug. 1847 to death; judge of circuit No. 11 West Riding of Yorkshire 14 Feb. 1855 to 19 March 1867; judge of circuit No. 48 Kent 19 March 1867 to March 1884; author of The statute criminal law of England 1839; The odes of Horace. Book 1 a verse translation 1879. d. The Cottage, Sandgate, Kent 11 Nov. 1886. Law Times, vol. 82 p. 111 (1886).

LONSDALE, JOHN (eld. son of John Lonsdale 1737–1807, vicar of Darfield, d. 1807 aged 70). b. Newmillerdam near Wakefield 17 Jany. 1788; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Camb., fellow 1809–15, tutor 1814–5 and 1820–1, univ. scholar 1809; B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814, B.D. 1824, D.D. 1844; student at Lincoln’s Inn, Dec. 1811; chaplain to Abp. of Canterbury 1816; assistant preacher at the Temple 1816; R. of Musham, Kent 1822–7; preb. of Lincoln 1825–8; fellow of Eton 1827–8; precentor of Lichfield 1828–31; preb. of St. Paul’s 1831–43; R. of St. George’s, Bloomsbury 1828–34; preacher of Lincoln’s inn Jany. 1836; R. of Southfleet, Kent 1836; principal of King’s coll. London Jany. 1839 to 1844, chief founder of King’s coll. hospital 1839; declined provostship of Eton 1840; archdeacon of Middlesex 20 Jany. 1843 to Nov. 1843, installed 1 July 1843; bishop of Lichfield 23 Nov. 1843 to death, consecrated in Lambeth chapel 3 Dec.; consecrated and reopened about 300 churches; chairman of royal commission for enquiring into effect of marriage act of 1835, 1847; chairman of Cambridge univ. commission 1857; pres. of church congress at Wolverhampton, Oct. 1867; author of Some popular objections against christianity considered 1820; The testimonies of nature, reason and revelation respecting a future judgment 1821; Some account of the life of the rev. T. Rennell 1824; The four gospels with annotations 1849. d. suddenly at his dinner table Eccleshall castle, Staffs. 19 Oct. 1867. E. B. Denison’s Life of John Lonsdale (1868), portrait; The drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages 4 series (1860), portrait; The church of England photographic portrait gallery (1859), portrait 48; The Eton portrait gallery (1876) 163–66; F. Arnold’s Our bishops and deans, i 206–11 (1875); E. M. Roose’s Ecclesiastica (1842) 415–16.

LONSDALE, WILLIAM (youngest son of Wm. Lonsdale). b. Bath 9 Sep. 1794; ensign 4 foot 1 Feb. 1810, lieut. 15 May 1812, placed on h.p. 25 March 1817; served in Peninsular war and at Waterloo where he was the only officer in the 4th foot not wounded; curator of natural history department of Bath museum 1826–9; F.G.S. 15 May 1829, curator and librarian of the society 1829–42, the Wollaston fund was awarded him 1832 and 3 times afterwards, Wollaston medallist 1846; investigated the oolite districts of Gloucestershire; co-originator with Murchison and Sedgwick of the theory of the independence of Devonian system; author of On the age of the limestones of South Devonshire and other papers in Transactions and Journal of Geol. Soc. d. City road, Bristol 11 Nov. 1871. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxviii 35–6 (1872); W. S. Mitchell’s Notes on the early geologists connected with neighbourhood of Bath (1872) 31–9.

LOPES, SIR RALPH, 2 Baronet (only son of Abraham Franco, merchant, London). b. 10 Sep. 1788; succeeded his uncle sir Manasseh Massey Lopes 26 March 1831; assumed surname of Lopes in lieu of Franco by r.l. 4 May 1831; M.P. Westbury, Wilts. 1814–20, 1831–37 and 1841–7; contested Westbury 26 July 1837; M.P. South Devon 13 Feb. 1849 to death. d. Maristowe near Plymouth 26 Jany. 1854; personalty sworn under £180,000, March 1854. J. Picciotto’s Sketches of Anglo-Jewish history (1875) 304–306.

LORD, Henry William (eld. son of Charles Francis James Lord of Hampstead). b. 1834; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., fellow 1859–62, B.A. 1856, M.A. 1859; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1859; revising barrister for Kent; registrar of court of probate for co. of Lancaster 1881–91; one of the four registrars of chief probate registry at Somerset House at salary of £1500 Jany. 1891 to death; author of The highway of the sea in time of war. Camb. 1862. d. 5 Dorset sq. London 27 May 1893.

LORD, JOHN KEAST (son of Edward Lord). b. Tavistock 1818; apprenticed to chemists at Tavistock; entered royal veterinary college, London 1842, M.R.C.V.S. 29 May 1844; veterinary surgeon at Tavistock; a trapper in Minnesota and the Hudson’s Bay fur countries; veterinary surgeon in British army 19 June 1855, served with artillery of Turkish contingent in Crimea, lieut. 4 Jany. 1856, veterinary surgeon and lieut. of Osmanli horse artillery in Aug. 1856; naturalist to the commission for separating British Columbia from the United States territory 1 Feb. 1858, returned to England 14 July 1862; resided in Vancouver’s Island some time; his valuable collections of mammals, birds, fishes and insects are now in the Natural history museum, South Kensington; employed in archæological and scientific researches by viceroy of Egypt about 1868; manager of the Brighton Aquarium opened 10 Aug. 1872 to death; contributed many papers to Land and Water under signature of The Wanderer 1866–72; collected coleoptera in Egypt; author of The naturalist in Vancouver’s Island and British Colombia 2 vols. 1866; At home in the wilderness. By The Wanderer 1867, 3 ed. 1876; Handbook of sea-fishing. d. 17 Dorset gardens, Brighton 9 Dec. 1872. Leisure Hour, xxii 696–9 (1873), portrait; Land and Water 14 Dec. 1872 pp. 387, 395; Graphic, vii 3, 12 (1873), portrait.

LORD, JOHN WILLIAM (son of Isaac Lord, baptist minister, Birmingham). Ed. Cambridge house, Birmingham, and Amershall school, Reading; matric. univ. of London, June 1868, B.A. 1870, M.A. 1874; entered Trin. coll. Camb. 1870, foundation scholar 1872–6; rowed in his college boat; senior wrangler Jany. 1875, fellow of Trin. coll. 10 Oct. 1876 to 1881. d. Clarens, Lake of Geneva 4 Sep. 1883.

LORD, WILLIAM. b. Bacup 11 May 1791; Wesleyan Methodist minister 1811, at Birmingham 1824–6, at Manchester 1828–31, president of United Connexion conference 1834; representative to American general conference 1835; minister at Bristol 1836–9, at Hull 1839–42; governor of Woodhouse grove school 1843–58; president of Canadian conference; a supernumerary from 1861 to death; revisited Woodhouse school when he was eighty. d. Manningham, Yorkshire 20 Jany. 1873. J. T. Slugg’s Woodhouse Grove school (1885) 74–8.

LORD, WILLIAM SATTERLEY (eld. son of rev. Wm. Edward Lord, D.D., of Northiam, Sussex). b. 1841; ed. at Magd. coll. Camb., B.A. 1866, M.A. 1869; admitted by Inner Temple special pleader below the bar Jany. 1869; barrister I.T. 7 June 1873; advocate of high court of Griqualand West, April 1876, acting attorney general April to Aug. 1877 and Dec. 1877 to Sep. 1879, Q.C. there March 1879; M.P. for Kimberley in legislative assembly of Cape Colony. d. on board the Norman Castle on his way home from Cape Town 9 Sep. 1889.

LORIMER, George. A builder in Edinburgh; lord dean of guild 1864; killed in the fire of the theatre royal, Edinburgh, by the north wall falling on him when trying to save lives 13 Jany. 1865. J. C. Dibdin’s Edinburgh Stage (1888) 477–8; A.R. (1865) 3–5; I.L.N. xlvi 97 (1865).

LORIMER, JAMES (son of James Lorimer, manager of Earl of Kinnoul’s estates). b. Aberdalgie, Perthshire 4 Nov. 1818; ed. at high school Perth and the univs. of Edinb., Berlin and Bonn and academy of Geneva; member of Faculty of advocates 1845; acted as sheriff substitute of Midlothian; F.R.S. Edinb. 1861; professor of public law in univ. of Edinb. 15 May 1865 to death, where he introduced graduation in law; a founder of The institute of international law 1873; author of The universities of Scotland, past, present and possible 1854; A handbook of the law of Scotland 1859, 5 ed. 1885; Constitutionalism of the future, or parliament the mirror of the nation 1865, 2 ed. 1867; The institutes of law, a treatise of jurisprudence as determined by nature 1872, 2 ed. 1880; The institutes of the law of nations 2 vols. 1883–4, and of 19 lectures and 14 pamphlets. d. 1 Bruntsfield crescent, Edinburgh 13 Feb. 1890, portrait by his son J. H. Lorimer, R.S.A. in senate hall of univ. of Edinb. James Lorimer’s Studies national and international (1890); Juridical Review, April 1890 pp. 113–21, portrait.

LORIMER, JOHN GORDON (2 son of rev. Robert Lorimer 1765–1848, minister of Haddington). b. Haddington; minister of Torryburn 1829; minister of St. David’s or Ram’s Horn parish, Glasgow 1832 to 1843; minister of St. David’s Free ch. Glasgow 1843 to death; D.D. of coll. of New Jersey 27 June 1849; author of The past and present condition of religion and morality in the United States 1833; The eldership of the church of Scotland 1841; Historical sketch of the protestant church of France 1841; The deaconship 1842; Sermons on Sabbath profanation 184-. d. Glasgow 9 Oct. 1868. J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1848) 349–58.

LORIMER, PETER (eld. son of John Lorimer, builder). b. Edinburgh 1812; bursar in univ. of Edinb. 1827; minister of presbyterian ch. River terrace, London 1836–44; professor of theology in English presbyterian college, London 1844–78, principal 1878 to death; D.D. New Jersey, June 1857; author of Precursors of Knox, or memoirs of Patrick Hamilton, Alexander Alane or Alesius, and Sir David Lindsay of the Mount Edinburgh 1857; The evidential value of the early epistles of St. Paul viewed as historical documents 1874, 3 ed. 1880; The evidence to Christianity arising from its adaptation to all the deeper wants of the human heart 1876; John Knox and the church of England 1875. d. Whitehaven, Cumberland 29 July 1879. bur. in Grange cemet. Edinb.

LORING, SIR JOHN WENTWORTH (son of Joshua Loring, high sheriff of Massachusetts). b. America 13 Oct. 1775; entered navy June 1789, captain 28 April 1802; commanded the Niobe 38 guns on coast of France 1805–13; commanded the Impregnable in the North Sea 1813–4; superintendent of the ordinary at Sheerness 1816–9; lieut. governor of royal naval college at Portsmouth 4 Nov. 1819 to 10 Jany. 1837; R.A. 10 Jany. 1837, admiral 8 July 1851; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 4 July 1840, K.C.H. 30 April 1837. d. Ryde, Isle of Wight 29 July 1852.

LORT, William. One of the best judges of live stock in England, and constantly employed in judging horses, cattle and dogs; went with Assheton Smith in his yacht Pandora upon a sporting expedition to the North Pole; a fine swimmer; a supporter of Birmingham National dog show from its beginning; an originator of Crystal palace dog show and of the Kennel club; F.R.G.S. d. Vaynol park, Bangor 23 May 1891.

LORTON, ROBERT EDWARD KING, 1 Viscount (2 son of 2 earl of Kingston 1754–99). b. Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 12 Aug. 1773; ensign 27 foot 30 June 1792; major 92 foot 7 March 1794; lieut. col. 127 foot 20 Dec. 1794, regiment reduced 1795 but he was retained on full pay; colonel of Roscommon militia 24 Nov. 1797 to death; created an Irish peer by title of baron Erris of Boyle, co. Roscommon 29 Dec. 1800; created viscount Lorton of Boyle, co. Roscommon 28 May 1806; a representative peer of Ireland 8 Feb. 1823 to death; general 22 July 1830; lord lieut. of co. Roscommon 1831 to death. d. Rockingham, Boyle, co. Roscommon 20 Nov. 1854.

NOTE.--He was bur. at 4 o’clock in the morning according to the custom of his family in the church of Boyle 24 Nov. 1854. He was the last commoner raised to the peerage of Ireland before the union with England.

LOSCOMBE, CLIFTON WINTRINGHAM. Resided at Pickwick house, Corsham, where he obtained possession of a hoard of coins and antiquities which was discovered at Sevington, Wilts., Jany. 1834; an original member of Numismatic Soc. 1836. d. Clifton 17 Dec. 1853. Numismatic Chronicle, xvii Proceedings p. 16 (1855); Archæologia, xxvii 301–5 (1838).

LOSH, JAMES (son of James Losh, recorder of Newcastle, d. 23 Sep. 1833 aged 71). b. 1803; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; barrister L.I. 24 Nov. 1829; went northern circuit; judge of county courts, No. 1 circuit, Northumberland, May 1853 to death, took his seat 25 May 1853; attacked with paralysis Aug. 1858. d. 24 Clayton st. west, Newcastle on Tyne 1 Oct. 1858.

LOSH, SARAH (1 dau. of John Losh of Woodside near Carlisle). b. Woodside 1 Jany. 1786; ed. in Bath and London, and became proficient in Italian, French, Latin, Greek, music and mathematics; gave a school endowed with 30 acres to Wreay 1830; laid out and gave to the city of Carlisle a cemetery 1835; erected a mausoleum in Wreay ch. yard for the remains of her sister Katherine Isabella Losh who d. Feb. 1835; erected a church at Wreay in 1842 at cost of £1200; a woman of much learning who associated with Dr. William Paley and other scholars. d. Woodside near Carlisle 29 March 1853. H. Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland (1873) 197–238, portrait.

LOSH, WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). b. Woodside 1770; ed. at Erfurt; manager of alkali works at Walker on the Tyne 1796; one of founders of the Walker iron works; resided for some time in Sweden; patented a wheel for railway carriages 1830; took out patents with George Stephenson for railways 1816; consul for Sweden and Prussia at Newcastle. d. Newcastle 4 Aug. 1861. H. Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland (1873) 153–85.

LOTHIAN, CECIL CHETWYND KERR, Marchioness of (younger dau. of 2 earl Talbot 1777–1849). b. Ingestre hall, Staffs. 17 April 1808; (m. 19 July 1831 seventh marquess of Lothian 1794–1841); built church at Jedburgh; joined church of Rome; founded a R.C. mission with chapel and school at Jedburgh; built church of St. David at Dalkeith; founded a mission with a chapel at Pathhead; a founder of the Home of Refuge for women discharged from prison, conducted by sisters of the Good Shepherd; went to Germany to convey to the R.C. bishops the sympathy of the catholics of England; promoted the pilgrimages to Paray-le-Monial and to Pontigny in 1873 and 1874. d. Hôtel de Rome, Rome 13 May 1877; the Pope sent her a special benediction and a triduum was offered for her in the church of the Virgin, at Rome, May 1877; bur. in cemetery of San Lorenzo. P. Gallwey’s Salvage from the wreck (1890) 125–63, portrait; Times 14 May 1877 p. 7, 15 May p. 10.

LÖTTNER, FRIEDRICH. Professor of Sanskrit and comparative philology and assistant librarian at Trinity college, Dublin 1863–71. d. Dublin, middle of April 1873.

LOUDON, JANE (dau. of Thomas Webb d. 1824). b. Ritwell house near Birmingham 1807; edited The ladies’ magazine of gardening 1842; The ladies’ companion 1850–1 and several of her husband’s works 1845–55; granted civil list pension of £100, 22 April 1846; author of Prose and Verse 1824; The Mummy, a tale of the twenty-second century 3 vols. 1827, anon., new ed. 1872; Stories of a bride 1829; The ladies’ companion to the flower garden 1841, 9 ed. 1879, which circulated 20,000 copies; The first book of botany 1841, new ed. 1870; The ladies’ flower garden of perennials 2 vols. 1843–4; The ladies’ country companion 1845, 4 ed. 1852, and 20 other books; (m. 14 Sep. 1830 John Claudius Loudon, landscape gardener, d. 14 Dec. 1843 aged 60). She d. 3 Porchester terrace, Bayswater, London 13 July 1858. Cottage Gardener, xx 248, 255–9 (1858).

LOUGH, JOHN GRAHAM (son of a small farmer at Greenhead near Hexham, Northumberland). b. 1806; an ornamental sculptor at Newcastle; exhibited at the R.A. 1826 a bas-relief The Death of Turnus; exhibited 49 pieces of sculpture at R.A. and 16 at B.I. 1826–63; exhibited his works in London 1827; studied in Rome 1834–8; executed the statues of queen Victoria in the royal exchange 1845, of prince Albert at Lloyd’s 1847 and of marquis of Hastings at Malta 1848; 7 of his statues were in Great Exhibition of 1851. d. 42 Harewood sq. London 8 April 1876. Graphic, xiii 416 (1876), portrait; Handbook of statues comprising the Lough models in Elswick hall (1879).

LOUIS, SIR JOHN, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir Thomas Louis, 1 baronet, d. 17 May 1807). b. 1785; entered navy Sep. 1795, captain 22 Jany. 1806; commander of L’Aigle 36 guns 1811–15; superintendent of Malta dockyard 6 Jany. 1838 to 6 Jany. 1843; R.A. 28 June 1838; admiral superintendent at Plymouth 16 Dec. 1846 to 9 Feb. 1850; V.A. 9 Oct. 1849; admiral on h.p. 27 Sep. 1855, pensioned 2 May 1860. d. 61 Eaton place, London 30 March 1863.

LOUIS, WILLIAM (2 son of preceding). b. 21 May 1810; entered R.N. 7 Dec. 1824; capt. 9 Nov. 1846; commander of Stromboli steam vessel 1841–3; retired 1 July 1864; admiral 1 Aug. 1877. d. 46 Connaught sq. London 20 Nov. 1885.

LOUISE, MADAME, stage name of Louise Miller. b. 1810; première danseuse of Her Majesty’s theatre under Benjamin Lumley’s management; ballet mistress of Drury Lane under the managements of Alfred Bunn, James Anderson and E. T. Smith to 1859. d. 5 Feb. 1892. bur. Fulham cemet.

LOUND, THOMAS. b. 1802; member of a firm of brewers at Norwich; an amateur painter, excelled in river views; painted the scenery in Wales and Yorkshire and near Cromer; exhibited much in Norwich; exhibited 18 pictures at R.A. and 10 at B.I. 1846–57. d. King st. Norwich 18 Jany. 1861.

LOVAT, THOMAS ALEXANDER FRASER, 1 Baron (1 son of Alexander Fraser of Strichen, Aberdeen). b. Strichen house, Aberdeen 17 June 1802; cr. baron Lovat of Lovat, co. Inverness, in peerage of U.K. 28 Jany. 1837; established his right to Scottish barony of Lovat, attainder of which was reversed in his favor by 17 & 18 Vict. cap. 39, 10 July 1854; vice lieut. and sheriff principal of Invernessshire 30 Aug. 1853 to 1873; K.T. 1865. d. Beaufort castle, Invernessshire 28 June 1875. I.L.N. lxvii 47 (1875).

LOVAT, SIMON FRASER, 2 Baron (1 son of the preceding). b. Beaufort castle 21 Dec. 1828; lieut.-col. commandant of Inverness, Banff, Moray and Nairn militia 10 Dec. 1855 to death; deputy lieut. of Inverness 1853–72, vice lieut. 1872, lord lieut. 18 April 1873 to death; succeeded 28 June 1875. d. suddenly while shooting on a grouse moor near Inverness 6 Sep. 1887.

LOVE, EMMA SARAH (dau. of W. E. Love, lieutenant in H.M. service, d. about 1814). b. Cheapside, London 10 Sep. 1801; ed. in music by D. Corri; appeared at English opera house as Mrs. Courtly in Free and Easy 1817; took leading vocal parts under Samuel J. Arnold at Lyceum theatre; appeared at Covent Garden 1822 with great success, then at the Haymarket 1823; played Marina in the operatic entertainment Cortez; acted in the provinces; played Lilla in Cobb’s comic opera The siege of Belgrade, at Drury Lane 1828; a very beautiful woman who sang ‘What is more dear to the heart of the brave’ and ‘Little love is a mischievous boy’ to perfection; believed by The Era of 23 Dec. 1882 to be then living. Cumberland’s British theatre, vol. xx (1828), portrait; Oxberry’s Dramatic biography, iii 163–74 (1825), portrait.

LOVE, FREDERIC. b. 1816; homœopathic practitioner; in practice in Paris 50 years, where he had many aristocratic and artistic patients; was very active in the cholera outbreak of 1859. d. Paris 3 June 1891.

LOVE, HENRY OMMANNEY (1 son of commander Wm. Love 1764–1839). b. 1 March 1793; entered navy 23 Dec. 1808; captain 5 Dec. 1837; retired admiral 3 July 1869; claimed to have suggested use of paddles instead of wheels for steam vessels; sub-commissioner of pilotage, Southampton; superintendent of lights for Isle of Wight district; mayor of Yarmouth 3 times. d. Yarmouth, Isle of Wight 16 Sep. 1872.

LOVE, HORATIO N. b. 1801; stock-jobber at 2 Capel court, City of London 1847; chairman of Eastern counties railway co. 1857–63. d. Margate 14 March 1882.

LOVE, SIR JAMES FREDERICK (son of John Love). b. London 1789; ensign 52 foot 26 Oct. 1804; captain 11 July 1811, placed on h.p. 11 Aug. 1825; served in Sweden and Portugal 1808, in the retreat from Corunna 1809, in Portugal again 1809–12; received 4 wounds in the famous charge of the 52nd on the imperial guard at Waterloo; inspecting field officer of militia, New Brunswick 1825–30; major 11 foot 9 Nov. 1830; lieut.-col. 76 foot 6 Sep. 1834; lieut.-col. 73 foot 6 March 1835, placed on h.p. 23 Sep. 1845; British resident at Zante 1835–8; governor of Jersey 1852–6; commanded at Shorncliffe camp 1856; inspector general of infantry 1857 to April 1862; col. of 57 foot 24 Sep. 1856 to 5 Sep. 1865; col. of 43 foot 5 Sep. 1865 to death; general 10 Aug. 1864; K.H. 1831; C.B. 30 March 1839, K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856, G.C.B. 28 March 1865. d. 17 Ovington sq. London 13 Jany. 1866.

LOVE, JOSEPH. b. 1795; a pit boy in the capacity of a trapper, a hewer; owner of a large number of collieries both in the eastern and western coal fields; built and endowed many chapels, built a chapel at High Shincliffe near Durham at cost of £1000; member of Methodist New Connexion. d. near Durham 21 Feb. 1875, personalty sworn under £1,000,000, 17 April 1875.

LOVE, WILLIAM EDWARD (son of a merchant in the City to 1812). b. London 6 Feb. 1806; ed. at Harlow in Essex and at Nelson house, Wimbledon; commenced practising ventriloquism 1818; connected with London journalism 1820–6; appeared for a benefit at Olympic theatre in a solo entertainment entitled The False Alarm 1826; performed in England and France 1827, in Dublin 1828; produced The peregrinations of a polyphonist, June 1849, with which he visited chief towns in England; opened at Oxford with a piece called Ignes Fatui 1833; played at Almack’s 1833, at City of London assembly rooms, Bishopsgate st. during summer seasons of 1834–8; appeared on alternate nights at St. James’s theatre and in the City 1836; visited United States, West Indies and South America 1838; played at Strand theatre and 6 other places in London 1839–54; produced the ‘London Season’ at 69 Quadrant, Regent st. London 26 Dec. 1854, played there 8 Feb. 1856 the 300th consecutive night and his 2,406th performance in London; paralysed 1858, had a benefit at Sadler’s Wells; the best English ventriloquist on record, played in upwards of 15 distinct entertainments, in which he assumed various characters making rapid changes of his dress. d. 33 Arundel st. Strand, London 16 March 1867. Memoirs of W. E. Love (1834); G. Smith’s Memoirs of Mr. Love, Boston, U.S. (1850); Ireland’s New York Stage, ii 273, 317 (1867); I.L.N. 25 March 1843 p. 215, portrait, 27 Jany. 1855 p. 84, portrait.

LOVEDAY, Ely. b. 1800; an actress 1817; played leading business with Edmund Kean, Elton, Liston and Macready; saw the 4 Kembles, Stephen, John, Charles and Mrs. Siddons play in Henry VIII.; played at most of the London theatres, retired 1852; (m. W. Loveday an actor at Drury Lane theatre). d. 11 Nov. 1892. bur. Kensal Green 15 Nov.

LOVEDAY, GEORGE BEAUMONT (son of the preceding). b. 1833; fiddler, dramatic manager, operatic entrepreneur; with his brother Henry J. Loveday introduced Faust in English; known as The Prince because of his good looks; acting manager and confidential adviser to J. L. Toole 1867–87; (m. 25 Jany. 1877 Annie only dau. of John Dickey Creelman, she was known on the stage as Annie Tremaine and later on as Madame Amadi). d. 8 Woburn place, London 21 Dec. 1887. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 24 Dec. J. Hatton’s Reminiscences of J. L. Toole 3 ed. (1889) 30–4.

LOVEDEN, PRYSE (son of Pryse Pryse of Gogerddan, Cardigan, d. 1849). b. Woodstock 1 June 1815; M.P. Cardigan district of boroughs 1849 to death; resumed by r.l. original name of Loveden 1849. d. Glo’ster hotel, 76 Piccadilly, London 1 Feb. 1855.

LOVELACE, AUGUSTA ADA KING, Countess of (only child of George Gordon, 6 baron Byron, the poet 1788–1824). b. 13 Piccadilly terrace, London 10 Dec. 1815; last seen by her father when she was only one month old; some of her hair sent to her father at Pisa, Nov. 1821; he alludes to her in Childe Harold, canto 3, line 2, as Ada sole daughter of my house and heart; translated and edited with notes, Sketch of the analytical engine invented by Charles Babbage, esq. By L. F. Menabrea, Turin. Signed A. A. L. in R. Taylor’s Scientific memoirs, iii 666–731 (1843); corresponded with Andrew Crosse on electricity, &c. 1841–2; (m. at Fordhook, her mother’s residence, 8 July 1835 William King 8 baron King and Ockham 4 June 1833, cr. earl Lovelace 30 June 1838). d. 6 Great Cumberland place, London 27 Nov. 1852. bur. Hucknall Torcard church near her father. monu. placed in Newstead abbey, Aug. 1863. Bentley’s Miscellany, xxxiii 69–73 (1853), portrait; Argosy 1 Nov. 1869 pp. 358–61; Finden’s Portraits of female aristocracy (1849) vol. ii, portrait 21; Journal of Statistical Soc. xxxiv 414 (1871); Moore’s Life of Byron (1846) 290, 720; I.L.N. xxi 499 (1852); G.M. Jany. 1853 pp. 89–90.

NOTE.--The third book of Childe Harold written in 1816 begins and concludes with lines addressed to Byron’s daughter and she is again spoken of in the verses Fare thee well, 17 March 1816.

LOVELL, EDWARD BOURNE. Barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845; author of Chancery orders 1850 with cases decided 1850; Index to the stamp duties arranged analytically 1850; Digest of law cases, statutes, &c. 1850–54, 4 vols. 1852–5. d. Godshill, Isle of Wight 28 July 1883 aged 78.

NOTE.--He was also author of The joint-stock companies’ winding-up acts 1848–1849 with notes, published by Wildy, Dec. 1849. Stevens and Norton obtained an injunction against Wildy in the Vice-Chancellor’s court 1 Feb. 1850, Lovell having made use of a great deal of matter previously printed in J. M. Ludlow’s Joint-stock companies’ winding-up act 1848 published by Stevens and Norton 1 Dec. 1848, Wildy was obliged to give up all the copies of the pirated book and pay the costs about £250, which sum Wildy recovered against Lovell in the court of Common Pleas 29 Nov. 1853. Law Journal Reports n.s. xix pt. 1 pp. 190–3 (1850); Law Times 3 Dec. 1853 p. 106.

LOVELL, EDWIN (youngest son of Joseph Lovell Lovell of Chilcote manor, solicitor). b. 7 May 1808; ed. at Eton 1823; solicitor at Wells 1831 to death; clerk of peace for Somerset 13 Aug. 1846 to death; registrar of Wells county court 1847 to death; member of the order of The Blue Friars, Plymouth, and known as Brother Glastonbury 23 Sep. 1835. d. Sharcombe house, Dinder near Wells 21 May 1877. Wright’s The Blue Friars (1889) 97, 218, portrait.

LOVELL, GEORGE WILLIAM. b. 1804; secretary of Phœnix Insurance Co. 1850 to death; author of the following plays, The Avenger, produced at Surrey theatre 1835; The provost of Bruges, at Drury Lane 10 Feb. 1836; Love’s sacrifice or the rival merchants, Covent Garden 12 Sep. 1842; Look before you leap, Haymarket 29 Oct. 1846; The wife’s secret, purchased by Charles Kean for £400 before it was written, produced at Park theatre, New York 12 Oct. 1846, and at Haymarket 17 Jany. 1848 when it ran 36 nights and has since kept the stage; The trial of love, Princess’s 7 Jany. 1852, ran 23 nights; published a novel called The Trustee 3 vols. 1841. d. 18 Lyndhurst road, Hampstead 13 May 1878. I.L.N. lxii 533 (1878), portrait.

LOVELL, JOHN. b. Farnham, Surrey 1836; reporter and sub-editor on Sheffield Times and Birmingham Daily Post; editor of Cassell’s Mag. 1868; manager of Press Association 1869–80, a director, chairman of finance committee; a founder and editor of the Printing Times, Jany. 1873; editor of the Liverpool Mercury 1880 to death; the best known journalist on the English press. d. 17 Gambier ter. Liverpool 20 Feb. 1890. Sell’s World’s Press (1891) 82, portrait; London Figaro 1 March 1890 p. 12, portrait; Academy, i 152 (1890).

LOVELL, JOHN WILLIAMSON. b. 1824; 2 lieut. R.E. 19 June 1841, col. 3 Aug. 1872 to death; surveying in Turkey 1854; present at battles of Alma and Inkerman and siege of Sebastopol; commander of R.E. at Chatham; L.G. 5 Jany. 1869; C.B. 5 July 1855. d. Halifax, Nova Scotia 24 April 1880.

LOVELL, SIR LOVELL BENJAMIN (eld. son of Thomas Stanhope Badcock of Little Missenden hall, Bucks.) b. 1786; ed. at Eton; cornet 14 light dragoons 18 Dec. 1805, captain 12 Dec. 1811; served in Peninsular war 1809–14 for which he received Peninsular medal with 11 clasps; major 8 hussars 28 Oct. 1824, placed on h.p. 21 Nov. 1828; lieut.-col. 15 hussars 21 March 1834, placed on h.p. 8 March 1850; col. of 12 lancers 29 Nov. 1856 to death; L.G. 1 April 1860; K.H. 1835; K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856; assumed surname of Lovell 10 April 1840. d. Brunswick terrace, Brighton 11 March 1861.

LOVELL, MARIA ANNE (dau. of Willoughby Lacy, patentee of Drury Lane, d. 1831). b. London 15 July 1803; appeared as Mrs. Haller at Belfast 1818; acted Belvidera in Venice preserved, at Covent Garden 9 Oct. 1822; excelled in pathetic parts; (m. 1830 George William Lovell 1804–78 when she retired from the stage); wrote Ingomar the barbarian, Drury Lane, June 1851, revived by Mary Anderson, Lyceum 1 Sep. 1883; The beginning of the end, Haymarket 27 Oct. 1855. d. 18 Lyndhurst road, Hampstead 2 April 1877. Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our actresses, i 250–5 (1855).

LOVELL, WILLIAM STANHOPE (brother of Sir Lovell B. Lovell 1786–1861). b. about 1788; entered navy May 1799; present in battle of Trafalgar; captain 21 Aug. 1815, retired 1 Oct. 1846; assumed name of Lovell 1840; retired V.A. 9 July 1857; K.H. 25 Jany. 1836; author of Personal narrative of events from 1799 to 1815, 2 ed. 1879. d. Great Yarmouth 20 May 1859.

LOVER, SAMUEL (eld. son of a member of the Dublin stock exchange). b. Dublin 24 Feb. 1797; a portrait painter, especially in miniatures to 1844; member of Royal Hibernian academy 1828, secretary 1830; wrote Rory O’More 1826, best known of his ballads; his miniature of Paganini exhibited at Dublin academy 1832 and at R.A. London 1833; removed to London 1835; wrote The Olympic picnic for Madame Vestris 1835; published Rory O’More, a national romance 1837, his dramatised version of which was acted at Adelphi theatre Oct. 1837 and ran over 100 nights; composed a musical drama The Greek Boy, of which he wrote both music and words, Covent Garden 1838; his burlesque opera Il Paddy Whack in Italia was produced at English opera house 1838; produced his own entertainment called Irish Evenings, at Princess’s Concert Rooms, March 1844 and in Canada and U.S. of America 1846–8; produced an entertainment called Paddy’s Portfolio, in London 1848; wrote the libretti of two operas for Balfe; his drama the Sentinel of the Alma was produced at Haymarket theatre; author of Legends and stories of Ireland 1831; Songs and Ballads 1839; Handy Andy 1842; L. S. D. 1844, new ed. under title of Treasure Trove 1844; Rival rhymes in honour of Burns. Collected and edited by Ben Trovato 1859, and of many popular songs; granted civil list pension of £100, 4 March 1856. d. St. Helier’s, Jersey 6 July 1868. bur. Kensal Green cemet. London 15 July. B. Bernard’s Life of Samuel Lover 2 vols. (1874), portrait; N. P. Willis’s Hurry-graphs 2 ed. 1851 pp. 196–9; The Critic, xix 229 (1859), portrait; I.L.N. iv 208 (1844), portrait; Dublin Univ. Mag. xxxvii 196, portrait.

LOVESY, CONWAY WHITHORNE (2 son of Conway Whithorne Lovesy of Charlton Kings, Gloucs.) b. 6 April 1818; ed. at Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1847; barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845; a police magistrate in Trinidad 1871–3; a puisne judge of supreme court of British Guiana 1873–8; author of The churchwarden’s guide 8 ed. 1871; The law of arbitration between masters and workmen 1867; The law of house invasion and defence 1879; edited J. F. Archbold’s The practice of the court of quarter sessions 3 ed. 1869. d. Keynsham Bank, Cheltenham 15 Nov. 1885.

LOVETT, WILLIAM (son of William Lovett, master mariner, drowned 1800). b. Church lane, Newlyn near Penzance 8 May 1800; apprenticed to a ropemaker; went to London 1821; worked as a carpenter; employed in the first London co-operative association; secretary of British Association for promoting co-operative knowledge about 1830–4; joined National union of the working classes 1831; opened a coffee house in Greville st. Hatton Garden 1833 which failed; a founder of London Working Mens’ Association, 6 Upper North place, Gray’s Inn road 16 June 1836; secretary of the general committee of trades of London 1838, drafted the bill known as the ‘Peoples Charter’ published 8 May 1838; secretary of the Chartist Convention 4 Feb. 1839; tried at Warwick assizes for seditious libel 6 Aug. 1839 when sentenced to 12 months imprisonment; bookseller at 183 Tottenham court road 1840; manager of the school supported by the National Association 1849–57; a member of working-class committee of Great Exhibition 1850; a teacher of anatomy in St. Thomas, Charterhouse schools and in Richardson’s gr. sch. Gray’s Inn road 1857; author of A proposal for the considerations of the friends of progress 1847; Elementary anatomy and physiology. With lessons on diet 1851; Social and political morality 1853; Woman’s mission 1856, a poem. d. 137 Euston road, London 8 Aug. 1877. bur. Highgate. The life and struggles of W. Lovett (1876); The trial of W. Lovett 2 ed. (1839); G. J. Holyoake’s History of Co-operation, i 127, ii 411–13 (1875–9); R. G. Gammage’s History of Chartism (1854) 120 etc.; Who were the Chartists? in Century Mag. xxiii 421–30 (1882), portrait.

LOW, ALEXANDER (son of James Low, farmer, Clatt, Aberdeen). b. 1800; M.A. of Marischall coll. and univ. Aberdeen 3 April 1819; schoolmaster of Clatt 1825; presbyterian minister of Keig, Banffshire 27 June 1834 to death; author of The history of Scotland from the earliest period to the middle of the ninth century 1826; Scottish heroes in the days of Wallace and Bruce 2 vols. 1856. d. in the manse of Keig 3 May 1873.

LOW, DAVID (son of a tradesman). b. Brechin, Forfarshire, Nov. 1768; ed. at Marischal college, Aberdeen; episcopal minister at Pittenweem, Fifeshire, Sep. 1789 to death; bishop of united dioceses of Ross, Argyll and the Isles 1819 to 19 Dec. 1850, consecrated 14 Nov. 1819; LL.D. Aberdeen, April 1820; chief founder of Gaelic Episcopal Society 1831; the diocese of Moray was added to his diocese July 1838, he effected separation of Argyll and the Isles from Ross and Moray 1847 and endowed the new see with £8,000; D.D. Hartford and Geneva in state of New York 1848; d. The priory, Pittenweem 26 Jany. 1855. M. F. Conolly’s Biographical sketch of David Low (1859), portrait; W. Blatch’s Memoir of D. Low (1855); Conolly’s Biog. Dict. of Fife (1866) 299–305.

LOW, DAVID (eld. son of Alexander Low of Laws, Berwickshire, land-agent). b. 1786; ed. at Perth academy and univ. of Edinb.; assisted his father on his farms; settled in Edinburgh 1825; edited Quarterly Journal of agriculture 1828–32; professor of agriculture in univ. of Edinb. 1831–54, the agricultural museum was founded at cost of £3,000 of which he gave £1,200, 1833; author of Observations on the present state of landed property 1823; Elements of practical agriculture 1834, 4 ed. 1843, translated into French and German; The breeds of the domestic animals of the British Islands 2 vols. 1842, translated into French 1842; An inquiry into the nature of the simple bodies of chemistry 1844, 3 ed. 1856. d. Mayfield, Edinburgh 7 Jany. 1859. Anderson’s Scottish Nation, iii 717–8 (1863); Grant’s Univ. of Edinburgh, ii 457 (1884).

LOW, HERBERT MOREY (son of Edwin Low of city of London, solicitor). b. 1852; partner with his father 1877 to death; originated the City Law library and reading room at 25 Abchurch lane 1888; hon. sec. of London Gregorian choral assoc. many years. d. 110 Elgin crescent, Notting hill, London 1 Jany. 1891.

LOW, JAMES. Entered Madras army 1811; ensign 25 Madras N.I. 25 June 1812; captain 46 N.I. 1826, major 23 Nov. 1839; retired lieut.-col. 21 Nov. 1845; in civil charge of province of Wellesley in the Straits Settlements many years; author of A grammar of the T’hai or Siamese language. Calcutta 1828; A dissertation on the soil and agriculture of Penang. Singapore 1836. d. 2 May 1852.

LOW, SIR JOHN (eld. son of Robert Low of Clatto near Cupar, Fifeshire). b. Clatto 13 Dec. 1788; ed. at St. Andrew’s univ. 1802–3; entered Madras army 1804; lieut. 24 Madras N.I. 1807; lieut. 1 N.I. 1816, captain 1820; major 17 N.I. 31 Dec. 1828; lieut.-col. of 16 N.I. 1834–7, of 19 N.I. 1837–40, of 45 N.I. 1840–1, of 36 N.I. 1841–5; col. of 8 N.I. 26 March 1845 to 1848, col. of 1 N.I. 1848 to death; general 18 Jany. 1867, placed on retired list; resident at Bithoor near Cawnpore 6 years; political agent at Jeypore 1825, at Gwalior 1830, resident at Lucknow 1831–42; installed the king of Oude’s son on the throne in place of a pretender 1838; governor general’s agent in Rajpootana and comr. at Ajmere and Mhairwar 1848–52; resident at Hyderabad 1852; member of supreme council of India 22 Sep. 1853 to 1858; C.B. 20 July 1838, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862; G.C.S.I. 24 May 1873. d. Strathallan, Upper Norwood, Surrey 10 Jany. 1880. bur. Kembach, Fifeshire. I.L.N. lxxvi 85 (1880), portrait; Graphic, xxi 93 (1880), portrait.

LOW, SAMPSON (son of Sampson Low of Berwick st. Soho, London, printer and publisher, d. 1800). b. London, Nov. 1797; bookseller at 42 Lamb’s Conduit st. 1819 to 1847; manager of The publishers’ circular, first number dated 2 Oct. 1837, which became his property 1867; publisher with his eldest son at 169 Fleet st. 1847–52, at 47 Ludgate hill 1852, at 14 Ludgate hill to 1867, at 188 Fleet st. 1867, retired from business 1875; chief founder of Royal Society for protection of life from fire 1843; one of the chief American booksellers in London 1844–75; published The British catalogue of books 1837–52. 1853; The English catalogue of books 1835–80. 3 vols. 1864–82. d. 41 Mecklenburgh sq. London 16 April 1886. Publishers’ Circular 1 May 1886 pp. 431–3, portrait; Bookseller 3 May 1886 pp. 418–20.

LOW, SAMPSON (eld. son of preceding). b. London 6 July 1822; in business with his father 1847 to death; author of The charities of London 1850, new editions 1854, 1862, 1863 and 1870. d. 41 Mecklenburgh sq. London 5 March 1871.

LOW, THOMAS BELL (son of David Low). b. Birkenhead 1855; went to Otago, New Zealand 1873; one of the principal assistant engineers in public works department Otago district, and architect for the Middle Island 1878; employed in fortifying the port and town of Dunedin 1885; A.I.C.E. 2 Feb. 1886. d. in the tropics while on a voyage to England 12 Sep. 1886. Min. of proc. of I.C.E. xci 450–51 (1888).

LOW, WALTER (son of a publisher). b. England 1843; publisher and bookseller with his father in U.S. America; long connected with the Messrs. Harpers of New York; attempted to throw himself into the Thames but was diverted from his object by finding a policeman was watching him 1872; committed suicide by taking a quantity of paregoric at 1 Upper Gordon st. Euston sq. London 4 April 1872. Times 8 April 1872 p. 7.

LOW, WILLIAM. b. Rothesay, Bute 11 Dec. 1814; pupil of Peter Macquiston, civil engineer Glasgow, then a partner with him to 1847; engaged under Brunel in construction of Great Western railway; colliery engineer at Wrexham 1847 to about 1877; had charge of the Vron colliery near Cefn, Denbighshire many years; concerned in the Channel tunnel, issued a circular describing his plans 1866, had an interview with Napoleon III. 1867, purchased land at Dover and Calais for the enterprise, appointed one of the engineers by sir Edward Watkin; surveyed and proposed making an England and India railway 2,000 miles 1870; M.I.C.E. Dec. 1867; author of Letter to Lord John Russell explanatory of a financing system for extending railways in Ireland 1850. d. 88 West Cromwell road, London 10 July 1886. bur. Brompton cemet. where is monument.

LOWDER, CHARLES FUGE (eld. child of Charles Loder of Bath, banker, d. 9 Sep. 1876 aged 83). b. 2 West Wing, Lansdowne crescent, Bath 22 June 1820; ed. at King’s college school, London, and Exeter coll. Oxf., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1845; C. of Walton, Somerset 1843–4; chaplain to Axbridge workhouse 1845–6; C. of Tetbury, Gloucs. 1846–51; C. of St. Barnabas, Pimlico, London 1851–6; joined the mission at St. George’s-in-the-East 22 Aug. 1856, rented the Danish ch. at Wellclose sq.; hired a house at Sutton, Surrey for penitents 1858; secured the site of and raised funds for St. Peter’s, London Docks, consecrated 30 June 1866, C. in charge 1866 to death; a founder of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament 4 Dec. 1862; always known as ‘Father Lowder’; author of Ten years in the St. George’s mission 1867; Twenty one years in the St. George’s mission 1877. d. Hotel Krone, Zell am See in the Austrian Tyrol 9 Sep. 1880. bur. Chislehurst churchyard 17 Sep. Charles Lowder, a biography. By the author of The life of St. Theresa (1882), portrait; Church Portrait Journal, i 113 (1876), portrait.

LOWDER, SAMUEL NETTERVILLE. b. 1812; 2 lieut. R.M. 1 Nov. 1833, second commandant 5 Nov. 1864, commandant 23 Aug. 1866; commanded marines on board the Arrogant in the Baltic 1854–5; D.A.G. R.M. 1 July 1867 to 10 July 1872; employed on special service in Mexico, commanded at occupation of Vera Cruz 1861–2; aide-de-camp to the Queen 1862–8; general 2 Dec. 1877; good service pension 1878; C.B. 13 March 1867. d. 4 Manor road, Forest Hill near London 4 June 1891.

LOWE, ABRAHAM. b. July 1771; midshipman Jany. 1791; engaged in the Walcheren expedition 1809; employed in the Baltic 1810; captain 7 June 1814; retired rear admiral 1 Oct. 1846. d. Cheltenham 10 April 1854. G.M. xlii 513 (1854).

LOWE, ANN ELIZABETH (daughter of Mauritius Lowe of 3 Hedge lane, Charing Cross, painter, d. in a poor lodging house in Westminster 1 Sep. 1793). b. 1777; god daughter of Dr. Johnson; Dr. Johnson left her £100 stock 1784; received donation of £100 from Lord Palmerston, May 1855; money raised by a public appeal sufficient to purchase an annuity of £38, 1856. d. 5 Minerva place, New Cross, Deptford 15 Jany. 1860. The younger sister Frances Meliora Lowe b. 1783, d. 5 Minerva place 6 Feb. 1866. Dr. Johnson’s fir table was left to the rev. A. K. B. Granville and is now in the library of Pemb. coll. Oxf. Times 1 and 3 Nov. 1855; Boswell’s Life of Johnson. A. Napier’s ed. iv 385–93, 463 (1884).

LOWE, ARTHUR (3 son of rev. Thomas H. P. F. Lowe 1781–1861). b. Corfton, co. Salop 26 July 1814; entered navy 25 April 1827; captain 30 Aug. 1845; V.A. 27 Feb. 1870, retired 1 April 1870; admiral 18 June 1876. d. 3 Wingfield villas, Stoke, Devonport 18 Dec. 1882.

LOWE, EDWARD. b. Prague, Bohemia 1794; emigrated to England about 1830; played a match with H. Staunton 1848; one of the first class chess players of his time; kept a lodging house at 14 Surrey st. Strand 1851–8, kept a private hotel there 1858–64, kept Royal Surrey hotel 14 and 15 Surrey st. 1864 to death. d. 14 Surrey st. Strand, London 24 Feb. 1880. The Figaro 10 March 1880 p. 14; The Chess-Monthly, April 1880 p. 255.

LOWE, EDWARD WILLIAM. The first scholar in anatomy and physiology at St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London 1846, house surgeon 1847; M.R.C.S. 1847; practised at Congleton, Cheshire to death; a certifying factory surgeon; contributed many papers to medical journals. d. Moody st. Congleton 30 Oct. 1855 aged 31.

LOWE, EDWARD WILLIAM HOWE DE LANCY (youngest son of sir Hudson Lowe 1769–1844, governor of St. Helena 1815–21). b. St. Helena 10 Feb. 1820; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 32 foot 20 May 1837, lieut.-col. 26 Sep. 1858; served in second Sikh war 1848–9 and in the Indian mutiny 1857–8; lieut.-col. 2nd battalion of 21 foot 21 Oct. 1859, lieut.-col. 6 foot 31 March 1863, lieut.-col. 86 foot 1 Feb. 1867, placed on h.p. 6 March 1872; M.G. 31 March 1877; C.B. 24 March 1858; granted service reward 2 Nov. 1875; author of An account of the defence of the residency Cawnpore 1860. d. 11 Upper Berkeley st. London 21 Oct. 1880.

LOWE, GEORGE (son of a brewer at Derby). b. Derby 1788; an early experimenter on coal gas; one of the engineers of the Chartered Gas Co. 1821, resigned on his full salary 1862; consulting engineer to Imperial Continental gas assoc., to the European gas co. and to the Dublin Alliance gas co.; A.I.C.E. 29 April 1823, M.I.C.E. 2 June 1829; produced Prussian blue from ammoniacal liquor 1834; F.R.S. 18 Dec. 1834; F.G.S.; patented the reciprocating tort 12 Oct. 1831; took out many patents for manufacturing and purifying gas and for machinery for gas works 1831–52. d. 9 St. John’s Wood park, London 25 Dec. 1868. Min. of Proc. I.C.E. xxx 442–5 (1870).

LOWE, JAMES. b. Coupar Angus 1809; came to Dundee 1824, an auctioneer, a broker, kept a shoe shop; sec. of Dundee Political union 1837; a violent chartist 1839; published the Police Gazette, in which he abused all his opponents, Gazette stopped by the Stamp office; ruined himself with drunkenness, reformed 1851, an advocate of temperance. d. Dundee 11 Nov. 1853. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 153.

LOWE, JAMES. Editor of a newspaper at Preston; edited in London, The Critic of literature, science and the drama 1843–63; contributed to The Field and The Queen; one of the secretaries of Acclimatisation society founded 10 June 1860; projected a Selected series of French literature. Translated and edited by himself, vol. 1 only published 1853 containing part of Madame de Sévigné’s Correspondence; translated Victor Schoelcher’s Life of Handel 1857, 2 ed. 1859; exposed and was the means of causing Lord Palmerston to withdraw the civil list pension of £50 from the poet John Close about 3 June 1861, Close d. 16 Feb. 1891 aged 74. Lowe d. end of Oct. 1865.

LOWE, JAMES. Apprenticed to Edward Shorter a master mechanic of city of London 2 Nov. 1813, ran away 1816 and made three voyages in a whaling ship, when he returned to his master; a mechanist and smoke-jack maker; patented a screw propeller for ships 1838 and 1852; he was not the original inventor of propellers, but was inventor of a combination never before applied to propulsion of vessels; his daughter Henrietta Vansittart patented the Lowe-Vansittart propeller 1868 which was fitted to many government ships; run over by a wagon and killed in the Blackfriars road, London 12 Oct. 1866. History of the Lowe-Vansittart propeller. By Mrs. H. Vansittart (1882); Mechanics’ Mag. xli 443, 461 (1844).

LOWE, JOSIAH BEATSON. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1837; B.A. 1839, M.A., B.D. and D.D. 1860; P.C. of St. Jude, Walton-on-the-Hill, Lancs. 1850–75; V. of St. Michael, Toxteth park, Liverpool 1875–80; R. of Yoxall near Burton-on-Trent 1880 to death; author of Lectures on the annual festivals of the Jews 1846; The history of the cross practically considered 1849; Inspiration a reality: a reply to Macnaught’s doctrine 1856; The controversy with modern scepticism practically considered 1879. d. Yoxall rectory 25 June 1893.

LOWE, PATRICK. b. 1769; a private in 52 regiment of foot; formed one of the forlorn hope at Badajoz where he personally captured the governor of that fortress 6 April 1812 for which he obtained a large reward; present at battle of Waterloo, had a medal with 13 clasps. d. Enniskillen 3 Nov. 1852.

LOWE, RICHARD GROVE (son of rev. Jeremiah Lowe, minister of St. Michael’s parish, St. Albans). Solicitor at St. Albans 1825 to death; clerk to magistrates of liberty of St. Albans 1828 to death; mayor of St. Albans 1832 and 1841; assessor of court of requests, Watford 4 Oct. 1845 to 1847; coroner for St. Albans district 1845 to death. d. St. Peter’s st. St. Albans 28 June 1872.

LOWE, RICHARD THOMAS. b. 4 Dec. 1802; ed. at Christ’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1831, travelling bachelor; chaplain in Madeira 1832–52; had a printed correspondence respecting his chaplaincy 1846–51; R. of Lea, Lincolnshire 1852 to death; author of Primitiæ faunæ et floræ Maderæ et Portus Sancti 1851; A manual flora of Madeira, vol. 1, 1868, and part 1 of vol. 2, 1872, and of scientific papers in various periodicals; drowned in the Liberia which foundered with all on board off the Scilly Islands about 13 April 1874.

LOWE, ROBERT MANLEY (son of Wm. Lowe 1770–1849, of firm of J. and W. Lowe, solicitors 2 Tanfield court, Temple, London). b. 24 May 1810; ed. at Rugeley, Staffs. and at Harrow; admitted solicitor 1833; senior partner in firm of R. M. and F. Lowe 1850–85; partner with his nephews Wm. R. L. Lowe and Dillon R. L. Lowe 1885 to death; member of the vestry of St. Giles’ and St. George’s, Westminster 40 years; author of Reminiscences of the Lowtonian society which was founded by Thomas Lowton in 1793 for the protection of the legal profession. d. 48 Upper Bedford place, Russell sq. London 29 Aug. 1891. Solicitors’ Journal 24 Oct. 1891 p. 819.

LOWE, THOMAS HILL PEREGRINE FURYE (eld. son of Thomas Humphrey Lowe of Bromsgrove, Worcs., d. 10 Nov. 1797). b. Bromsgrove 21 Dec. 1781; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1805, M.A. 1818; student Lincoln’s Inn 1804; C. of Shelsley, Worcs.; chap. to viscount Gage 1812; V. of Grimley, Worcs. 1820–32; precentor of Exeter cath. 14 Sep. 1832 to 27 June 1839; canon residentiary of Exeter 14 Sep. 1832 to death; R. of Holy Trinity, Exeter 1837–40; dean of Exeter 27 June 1839 to death, installed 2 Aug. 1839; V. of Littleham with Exmouth, Devon 1840–3; author of An essay on the absolving power of the church 1825; Poems, chiefly dramatic 1840; Sermons preached in the cathedral church, Exeter 1841; Auricular confession, a sermon 1852, 2 ed. 1852, Bishop Phillpotts disapproved of this sermon. d. the Deanery, Exeter 17 Jany. 1861.

LÖWENTHAL, JOHANN JACOB (son of a merchant). b. Buda-Pesth, July 1810; one of the best analytical chess players in Europe about 1841; expelled from Hungary after Kossuth’s fall 1849; went to U.S. of America 1849 where he played against the leading chess players 1849–51; resided in London 1851 to death; won Manchester chess tournament 1857 and Birmingham tournament 1858; chess editor of The Illustrated News of the World and of The Era; manager of the great London chess congress 1862; edited The Chess player’s magazine 1865–7; secretary to the St. George’s chess club 1852; pres. of St. James’s chess club 1857–64; manager of British chess association 1865–9; naturalised 3 Sep. 1866; member of Church of Rome; with G. W. Medley edited The transactions of the British chess association 1866, 1867; edited A selection from the problems of the Era problem tournament 1857; Morphy’s Games of chess 1860; Morphy’s Games 1860. New York 1860; The Chess Congress of 1862. A collection of games played 1864. d. St. Leonards-on-Sea 20 July 1876. Illust. news of the world, viii 164 (1861), portrait; Fortnightly Review, Dec. 1886 p. 754.

LOWER, MARK ANTHONY (2 son of the succeeding). b. Chiddingly, Sussex 14 July 1813; kept schools at Cade st. parish of Heathfield 1831–2, at Alfriston, Sussex 1832–5 and at Lewes 1835–67; chief founder of Sussex Archæological Soc. 1846, hon. secretary; one of the headboroughs of Lewes 1860–1; F.S.A. 13 Jany. 1853; author of Sussex, being a description of every parish &c. Lewes 1831; English surnames 1842, 4 ed. 2 vols. 1875; Handbook for Lewes 1845, 3 ed. 1880; Chronicles of Pevensey 1846, 3 ed. 1880; The worthies of Sussex. Lewes 1865. d. Enfield, Middlesex 22 March 1876. bur. St. Ann’s churchyard, Lewes. Henry Campkin’s Two Sussex archæologists (1877); M. A. Lower’s Patronymica Britannica (1860), portrait.

LOWER, RICHARD (son of John Lower of Alfriston, Sussex, barge owner). b. Alfriston 19 Sep. 1782; opened a school in parish of Chiddingly, Sussex about 1803; a land surveyor; author of Tom Cladpole’s Jurney to Lunnon, told by himself and written in pure Sussex doggerel by his uncle Tim 1830, 20,000 copies of this were sold; Jan Cladpole’s Trip to Merricur, written all in rhyme by his father Tim Cladpole 1844; Stray leaves from an old tree, selections from the scribblings of an octogenarian 1862. d. High st. Tonbridge, Kent 29 Sep. 1865.

LOWNDES, JEFFERSON (eld. son of Jonathan Wm. Lowndes of Oxford). b. 15 Jany. 1858; matric. at univ. of Oxf. 9 April 1875; commoner Hertford coll. 1877; B.A. 1880, M.A. 1883; chaplain of Derby school 1884–6; headmaster St. Kitt’s government school, West Indies 1886–9; won the univ. sculls at Oxford regatta 1878 and 1879; won the diamond sculls at Henley 1879–83; stroke of the Hertford four which won the Steward’s cup at Henley 1881 and beat the Cornell univ. boat next day; won the Wingfield sculls amateur championship of the Thames 1881 and 1883; having suddenly gone blind, shot himself at North-Western hotel, Liverpool 8 Aug. 1893. Sporting Mirror, Jany. 1882 pp. 205–7, portrait; Illust. sporting and dramatic news, xvii 444 (1882), portrait; Graphic, xxviii 84 (1883), portrait.

LOWNDES, WILLIAM LOFTUS (younger son of Richard Lowndes of Rose hill, Dorking, Surrey). b. April 1793; barrister L.I. 6 Feb. 1819, bencher 1841 to death; Q.C. Nov. 1841; published W. P. Williams’ Reports of cases in chancery, 6 ed. with references to modern cases by W. L. Lowndes 1826. d. 48 Westbourne terrace, London 6 April 1865.

LOWREY, DANIEL (son of parents who came from Roscrea, Tipperary, to Leeds). b. 1823; an apprentice to a dyer at Leeds; a negro comedian at Leeds; appeared as an Irish comedian at Victoria concert hall, Ashton-under-Lyne many years; built The Malakoff music hall, Liverpool about 1864; proprietor of The Nightingale and The Man at the wheel concert halls, Liverpool to 1871; built The Alhambra music hall, Belfast 1871, which when burnt down he rebuilt; built the Star of Erin music hall and theatre of varieties, Dublin, which he managed 1879 to death. d. Wentworth cottage, Trenure, Dublin 3 July 1889. bur. Glasnevin cemetery 5 July.

LOWRIE, WALTER. b. Edinburgh 10 Dec. 1784; taken to the U.S. of America 1792; a member of the legislature several years; senator from Pennsylvania 6 Dec. 1819 to 3 March 1825; secretary of the senate, U.S. 1825–37. d. New York 14 Dec. 1868.

LOWRY, JAMES CORRY (1 son of James Lowry of Rockdale, co. Tyrone). b. 1809; called to Irish bar 1837; Q. C. 23 Feb. 1867; master of court of exchequer in Ireland, Sep. 1867 to death. d. 42 Mountjoy square south, Dublin 20 June 1869.

LOWRY, JOSEPH WILSON (only son of Wilson Lowry, engraver 1762–1824). b. London 7 Oct. 1803; an engraver of scientific subjects; executed plates for the Encyclopædia Metropolitana, Phillipps’s Geology of Yorkshire 1835, Scott Russell’s Naval Architecture 1865 Weale’s Scientific series, and Woodward’s Manual of the mollusca 1866; engraver to Geological Survey of Great Britain and Ireland to death; F.R.G.S.; exhibited 2 marine views at R.A. and 2 at B.I. 1829–31; compiled and engraved Tabular view of British fossils stratigraphically arranged, 1853. d. 39 Robert st. Hampstead road, London 15 June 1879. Nature, ii 197 (1879).

LOWRY, THOMAS KENNEDY. Ed. at Belfast academical institution, and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830, M.A. 1832, LL.B. and LL.D. 1857; called to Irish bar 1835; Q.C. 4 July 1860; joint crown prosecutor for counties of Armagh and Antrim to 6 March 1867; a district judge in Jamaica 6 March 1867 to 1869; prothonotary at Manchester for court of common pleas of duchy of Lancaster 1869 to death; edited The Hamilton manuscripts 1867; author of Lowry’s Irish equity exchequer rules and practice 1838; joint author with R. S. Moore, Q.C., of A collection of the rules and orders of Queen’s bench common pleas and exchequer of pleas in Ireland 1842. d. Ballytrim house, Killyleagh, co. Down 29 July 1872. Irish law times, vi 439 (1872).

LOWTH, JOHN JACKSON. b. 1804; ensign 48 foot 3 July 1824; ensign 38 foot 9 Sep. 1824, lieut.-col. 22 Dec. 1854 to death, commanded his regiment in Crimean war. d. at Portsmouth one hour after landing from the Crimea 28 July 1855.

LOWTH, ROBERT HENRY. b. 1801; ensign 9 foot 4 Feb. 1819; captain 86 foot 14 Aug. 1830, lieut.-col. 10 Aug. 1855 to 24 Jany. 1860 when retired on full pay; M.G. 24 Jany. 1860; C.B. 28 Sep. 1858. d. Winchester 21 Dec. 1870.

LOWTHER, GORGES (1 son of Gorges Lowther of Lowther lodge, Dublin, d. 1785). b. 1769; cornet 5 dragoon guards 31 May 1787; M.P. Ratoath, co. Meath in Irish parliament 1790 to the Union 1800; sold his seat Kilrue, co. Meath; author of Brief observations on the present state of the Waldenses and upon their actual sufferings 1821; Gerald, a tale of conscience 2 vols. 1840; Abjurations from popery with introductory matter on the errors of the church of Rome 1847. d. Hampton hall, Somerset 23 Feb. 1854. G.M. xli 535 (1854); Proceedings in King’s Bench in the King v. G. Lowther for libel on J. T. Batt 1805.

LOWTHER, HENRY CECIL (2 son of 1 Earl of Lonsdale 1757–1844). b. Dover st. Piccadilly, London 27 July 1790; ed. at Westminster; first played at Lord’s in B. Aislabie Esq.’s side v. W. Ward Esq.’s side 15 June 1817; played in M.C.C. matches several seasons; a steady batsman, a slow underhand bowler with a twist; cornet 7 hussars 16 July 1807; lieut.-col. 12 foot 20 April 1817, placed on h.p. 25 June 1818; col. Cumberland militia 10 Sep. 1830 to death; master of Cottesmore hounds; M.P. Westmoreland 12 Oct. 1812 to death; styled ‘the father of the House.’ d. Barleythorpe hall, Oakham, Rutland 6 Dec. 1867. Cricket Scores, i 399 (1862), v p. xiii (1876); Sporting Review, lix 8 (1868).

LOWTHER, SIR JOHN HENRY, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir John Lowther, 1 Baronet 1759–1844). b. 23 March 1793; M.P. Cockermouth 1816–26, 1831–2; M.P. Wigtown 1826–30; contested York 1832 and 1833; M.P. city of York 1835–47; lieut.-col. 1 West Riding militia 1830–52; succeeded 11 May 1844; sheriff of Yorkshire 1852. d. 9 Park st. Grosvenor square, London 23 June 1868.

LOWTHROP, SIR WILLIAM (2 son of James Lowthrop of Welton hall, east riding of Yorkshire). b. Welton hall 1794; mayor of Hull 1840; knighted at St. James’s palace 1 July 1840. d. Nice 19 Dec. 1853.

LOY, JOHN GLOVER (son of Richard Loy, surgeon). b. Whitby 1774; ed. at univ. of Edinb., M.D.; in practice at Whitby 64 years; remarkable for his skill and strength of nerve in performing operations; author of Disputatio medica inauguralis de Phthisi. Edinb. 1800; An account of some experiments on the origin of the cow pox. Whitby 1801, which attracted great notice both in England and abroad. d. 8 Royal crescent, Whitby 4 Sep. 1865.

LOYD, LEWIS (eld. son of Wm. Loyd of Court Henry, co. Carmarthen). b. 1 Jany. 1768; pastor of a small dissenting chapel at Manchester; partner with his father-in-law John Jones of Manchester, merchant and banker; managed the bank of Jones, Loyd and Co. of Manchester and Lothbury, London from 1808. d. at his son’s seat, Overstone park, Northampton 13 May 1858, left £3,000,000. Bankers’ Mag. June 1858 p. 499.

LUARD, HENRY (5 son of Peter John Luard of Blyborough hall, Lincoln, captain 4 dragoons, d. 23 May 1836). b. 4 Dec. 1792; ledger keeper in a mercantile firm 1832; general manager of London and County bank 1841–56, presented with a testimonial of 3 silver salvers 19 Oct. 1853; director of London Life association; deputy chairman of Southampton dock co. to 1841. d. 1856. Bankers’ Mag. Jany. 1854 pp. 1–11, portrait; I.L.N. 5 Nov. 1853 p. 382, view of testimonial.

LUARD, HENRY RICHARDS (eld. son of the preceding). b. London 17 Aug. 1825; ed. at King’s coll. London and Trin. coll. Camb. 1843, scholar 1846–9, fellow 1849–60, junior bursar 1853–61, assistant tutor 1855–65, 14th wrangler 1847; B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850, B.D. 1875, D.D. 1878; V. of Great St. Mary’s, Cambridge 1860–87; registrary of Univ. of Camb. Jany. 1862 to death, and editor of 2 editions of Graduati Cantabrigienses 1873 and 1884; hon. fellow of King’s coll. London 1875; edited for the Rolls Series, Lives of Edward the Confessor 1858; Bartholomæi de Cotton Historia Anglicana 1859; Roberti Grosseteste Epistolæ 1861; Annales Monastici 5 vols. 1864–9; Matthew Paris, Historia Major 7 vols. 1872–84; Flores Historiarum 1890; author of Index to the catalogue of manuscripts in the University library, Cambridge 1867, and of many memoirs of mediæval writers and classical scholars in Dict. of Nat. Biog. vols. 1–32 (1885–92); with W. G. Clark projected an edition of Shakespeare with the variations of the quartos and folios and printed Act 1 of Richard III. 1860, work afterwards completed by W. G. Clark and W. A. Wright 9 vols. 1863–66. d. 4 St. Peter’s terrace, Cambridge 1 May 1891, memorial clock placed in tower of Great St. Mary’s church, Cambridge, Dec. 1892. The Biograph, Feb. 1882 pp. 140–2.

LUARD, JOHN (brother of Henry Luard 1792–1856). b. 5 May 1790; served in R.N. 1802–7; cornet 4 dragoons 25 May 1809; lieut. 16 light dragoons 2 March 1815, captain 13 Dec. 1821, placed on h.p. 17 Oct. 1834; lieut.-col. 30 foot 4 Aug. 1848 but sold out same day; served in the Peninsula 1810–14 and was present at Waterloo; served in India 1825, instructed his regiment in the use of the lance and was the first to use it in the British army, namely at Bhurtpoor 1825; published Views in India, St. Helena and Car Nicobar, drawn from nature and on stone by himself 1838; author of A history of the dress of the British soldier 1852. d. The Cedars, Farnham, Surrey 24 Oct. 1875. Times 28 Oct. 1875 p. 11, 2 Nov. p. 7; Graphic, xii 515, 518 (1875), portrait.

LUARD, JOHN DALBIAC (2 son of the preceding). b. Blyborough, Lincs. 30 Oct. 1830; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 63 foot 22 Dec. 1848; ensign 82 foot 16 Feb. 1849, lieut. 3 Dec. 1852, sold out 13 Jany 1854; pupil of John Phillip, R.A.; spent the winter of 1855–6 in the Crimea; exhibited 4 pictures at the R.A. 1855–8; his picture ‘The welcome arrival’ was engraved. d. Winterslow near Salisbury 9 Aug. 1860. The Critic, March 1861 pp. 317–8.

LUARD, JOHN KYNASTON (3 son of John Luard of Wickham Place, Essex). b. 1803; entered Madras army 1818; lieut. 6 Madras N.I. 13 June 1819; captain 16 N.I. 21 July 1825, major 10 Oct. 1836 to 26 Aug. 1841; lieut.-col. of 2 N.I. 23 June 1841 to 1847, of 42 N.I. 1847–8, of 16 N.I. 1848–9, of 11 N.I. 1849–51, of 25 N.I. 1851–2; commandant at Masulipatam 5 Feb. 1851 to 9 Dec. 1851, at Jaulnah 9 Dec. 1851 to 21 July 1854, at Saugor and Nerbudda 21 July 1854 to 16 Oct. 1855; col. of 11 N.I. 24 March 1852 to 1869; general 25 June 1870; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842. d. 29 Gloucester gardens, Hyde park, London 18 Oct. 1880.

LUARD, RICHARD GEORGE AMHERST (eld. son of John Luard 1790–1875). b. 29 July 1827; ensign 51 foot 6 July 1845; ensign 3 foot 11 Nov. 1845, captain 1852; major 62 foot 2 May 1865, placed on h.p. 10 Nov. 1865; D.A.A.G. in Crimea 30 June 1855 to 23 July 1856; assistant inspector of volunteers 1860–5; col. Bristol engineer volunteer corps 7 Dec. 1881 to death; L.G. 1 Dec. 1884; placed on retired list 1 May 1890; C.B. 21 June 1887. d. Eastbourne 24 July 1891.

LUBBOCK, SIR JOHN WILLIAM, 3 Baronet (only child of sir John Wm. Lubbock, 2 baronet 1774–1840). b. Duke st. Westminster 26 March 1803; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1833; partner in bank of Lubbock and Co. London 1825, sole working partner 1840–60 when firm became Robarts, Lubbock and Co.; F.R.A.S. 1828, F.R.S. 15 Jany. 1829, royal medallist 1834, treasurer and vice pres. 1830–5 and 1838–45; fellow of univ. of London 1836 to death, vice chancellor 28 Nov. 1836 to 15 June 1842; hon. M.I.C.E. 5 March 1839; a treasurer of Great Exhibition of 1851; sheriff of Kent 1852; author of On the theory of the moon and on the perturbation of the planets 11 parts 1833–61; An elementary treatise on the tides 1839; On the clearing of the London bankers 1860. d. High Elms, Farnborough, Kent 20 June 1865. Proc. of Royal Soc. xv 32–7 (1867); Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxv 510–2 (1866).

NOTE.--He was author with J. E. Drinkwater afterwards Drinkwater Bethune of Probability 1830 a volume in the Library of Useful Knowledge, this work was anonymous, but a binder chose to letter it as De Morgan on Probability. Augustus De Morgan stated in a letter to the Times that he could not in 15 years succeed in restoring the book to its true authors.

LUBY, THOMAS (son of John Luby). b. Clonmel, co. Tipperary 1800; a sizar at Trin. coll. Dublin 1817, scholar 1819, junior fellow 1831, senior fellow 6 Nov. 1847 to death; B.A. 1821, M.A. 1825, D.D. 1840; senior dean and lecturer of his college, Donegal lecturer 1832–47; Regius professor of Greek, univ. of Dublin 1852–5; M.R.I.A.; author of The elements of plane trigonometry 1825, 3 ed. 1852; An introductory treatise to physical astronomy 1828; edited J. Brinkley’s Elements of plane astronomy. Dublin 1836. d. 43 Leeson st. Dublin 12 June 1870. bur. Aberystwith. Taylor’s History of university of Dublin p. 524.

LUCAN, GEORGE CHARLES BINGHAM, 3 Earl of (1 son of 2 earl of Lucan 1764–1839). b. St. George’s, Hanover sq. London 16 April 1800; ed. at Westminster; known as lord Bingham 1800–39; ensign 6 foot 29 Aug. 1816; lieut. 8 foot 20 Jany. 1820; capt. 1 life guards 20 June 1822, major 17 light dragoons 1 Dec. 1825 and lieut.-col. 9 Nov. 1826, placed on h.p. 14 April 1837; served on staff of Russian army in Bulgaria 1828; M.P. co. Mayo 1826–30; lord lieut. of Mayo 1845; succeeded 30 June 1839; major general in Crimea 21 Feb. 1854 to 17 Aug. 1854; commanded a division of cavalry as lieut. general in Russian war 18 Aug. 1854 to 18 Feb. 1855; present at the Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman and siege of Sebastopol; recalled from his command in the Crimea 13 Feb. 1855; K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 2 June 1869; col. 8 light dragoons 17 Nov. 1855; col. 1 life guards 22 Feb. 1865 to death; general 28 Aug. 1865, field marshal 21 June 1887; elected an Irish representative peer 1840; lord lieut. of Mayo 14 Feb. 1845 to death. d. 12 South st. Grosvenor sq. London 10 Nov. 1888. The drawing room portrait gallery 4 Ser. (1860), portrait; Nolan’s Russian war, i 544–50, ii 725 (1855), portrait; G. Ryan’s Our heroes (1855) 36–40; I.L.N. 13 May 1854 pp. 429–30, portrait; Graphic 24 Nov. 1888 pp. 542, 544, portrait.

NOTE.--At the battle of Balaklava 25 Oct. 1854 Capt. Nolan brought the earl of Lucan an order from Lord Raglan to advance against the Russians and prevent them carrying away the guns. The exact meaning of the order was not clear, but it led to the famous charge of the light brigade, when out of 608 men only 198 returned. The earl of Lucan was recalled from his command in the Crimea 13 Feb. 1855. Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea, ii 379, iii 235, iv 5, v 3, vii 471, ix 354 (1877).

LUCAS, CHARLES (son of Wm. Lucas of Daventry). b. 1769; matric. from Oriel coll. Oxf. 15 July 1786; C. of Avebury, Wiltshire 1791–1816; resided at Devizes 1816 to death; author of A descriptive account in verse of the old serpentine temple of the Druids at Avebury 1795, 2 ed. 1801; The castle of St. Donat’s, or the history of Jack Smith 3 vols. 1798; The infernal Quixote, a tale of the day 4 vols. 1801; Joseph, a religious poem 2 vols. 1810; The Abissinian (sic) reformer or the bible and the sabre 1808. d. Devizes 1854.

LUCAS, CHARLES (son of Mr. Lucas of Salisbury, alderman). b. Salisbury 28 July 1808; chorister in Salisbury cathedral 8 years; studied at R.A. of Music, conductor 1832, principal 1859–66; member of queen Adelaide’s private band 1830; associate of Philharmonic Soc. 1835, member 1839, a director 1840–55 and 1864 to death; organist of Hanover chapel, Regent st. 1839; conductor of Choral harmonists society; member of firm of Addison, Hollier and Lucas music publishers 1856 to June 1865; succeeded Robert Lindley as violoncello player at the opera and leading festivals and concerts; composed an opera The Regicide 1840; three symphonies, string quartets, anthems and songs; edited Esther 1851 for Handel Soc. d. 9 Louvaine road, Wandsworth, London 23 March 1869. bur. Woking cemet. 27 March. Mag. of Music, Oct. 1890 p. 183, portrait; W. W. Cazalet’s History of royal academy of music (1854) 306.

LUCAS, CHARLES. b. 1805; 2 lieut. Bombay artillery 19 Dec. 1820; col. 18 Feb. 1861 to 26 April 1866; inspector of artillery Bombay 1 Nov. 1862 to 29 April 1867; M.G. 26 April 1866. d. 44 Cambridge st. Hyde park, London 11 June 1873.

LUCAS, EDWARD (only child of Charles Lucas of Castle Shane, co. Monaghan, d. 1796). b. 27 Sep. 1787; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Oxf.; sheriff of co. Monaghan 1817; M.P. co. Monaghan 1834–41; under sec. of state for Ireland 15 Sep. 1841 to 21 Aug. 1845; P.C. Ireland 1845. d. Castle Shane, co. Monaghan 12 Nov. 1871. Portraits of eminent conservatives (1846), portrait; I.L.N. lix 507 (1871).

LUCAS, FREDERICK (2 son of Samuel Hayhurst Lucas, corn-merchant and a Quaker). b. Westminster 30 March 1812; ed. at Darlington and London univ.; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1838; left the Soc. of Friends and joined church of Rome being received by Father Lythgoe of the Soc. of Jesus, Jany. 1839; started the Tablet 16 May 1840, a weekly R.C. newspaper which he removed to Dublin 1849, edited to his death; M.P. co. Meath 1852 to death; one of secretaries of Irish tenant league 1850; contributed frequently to Dublin Review; author of Reasons for becoming a Roman Catholic, especially addressed to the society of Friends 1839. d. at the residence of his brother in law Skidmore Ashby at Staines 22 Oct. 1855. bur. Brompton cemet. 27 Oct. Life of F. Lucas. By his brother E. Lucas 2 vols. (1886); F. Lucas: a biography. By C. J. Riethmüller (1862); Duffy’s League of North and South (1886) 330.

LUCAS, HORATIO JOSEPH (4 son of Louis Lucas, West India merchant, d. 1862). b. London 27 May 1839; ed. at Brighton and Univ. coll. London; pupil of F. S. Cary; member of the Langham sketching club; exhibited 9 etchings at R.A. 1870–3; exhibited at the Salon in Paris; contributed to various Black and White exhibitions; a selection from his etchings is in the print room, British Museum; a good musician; member of firm of Lucas, Micholls and Co. merchants 13 New Broad st. London 1862 to death; illustrated A new year’s gift to sick children 1865. d. 18 Dec. 1873. Jewish Chronicle 26 Dec. 1873 p. 654.

LUCAS, JAMES (2 son of James Lucas of Liverpool, West India merchant, d. 1830). b. London 21 Dec. 1813; studied medicine with Mr. Hicks of Whitwell near Hitchin, Herts.; inherited family estate at Redcoats Green, Great Wymondley, Herts. on death of his mother 24 Oct. 1849; he was so attached to his mother that he deferred interment of her body until 12 Jany. 1850 when the burial was enforced; lived in the kitchen of his residence, Elmwood house, Redcoats Green, used no furniture, gave up washing and slept on a bed of cinders; gave money and drink to all the tramps who passed by; retained two armed watchmen for his protection; visited by lord Lytton, sir Arthur Helps, John Forster and Charles Dickens who described him under the name of Mr. Mopes in Tom Tiddler’s Ground in the Christmas number of All the Year round 1861. d. of apoplexy at the house of Mr. Chapman a farmer and his tenant near his own house 19 April 1874. bur. beside his mother in Hackney churchyard 21 April. The history of the hermit of Hertfordshire. Hitchin (1874), portrait; An account of Lucas the hermit. Hitchin (1874); Journal of mental science, Oct. 1874 pp. 361–72; Popular science monthly, vi 301 (1874); Graphic, ix 480 (1874), portrait.

LUCAS, John (son of William Lucas, sub-editor of The Sun newspaper, London). b. London 4 July 1807; apprenticed to S. W. Reynolds, mezzotint-engraver; a portrait-painter with a very large practice; painted portraits of queen Adelaide, prince Consort, princess Royal, duke of Wellington and many of the court beauties; exhibited 96 portraits at R.A., 13 at B.I. and 8 at Suffolk st. gallery 1828–74; many of his portraits were engraved, some of them by himself in mezzotint. d. 22 St. John’s Wood road, London 30 April 1874. I.L.N. lxiv 473, 474 (1874), portrait.

LUCAS, JOHN TEMPLETON (eld. son of the preceding). b. London 1836; exhibited 7 landscapes at R.A., 13 at B.I. and 30 at Suffolk st. gallery 1859–76; his farce Browne the Martyr produced at Court theatre 20 Jany. 1872 and printed in Lacy’s acting edition of plays vol. xcvi; author of fairy tales entitled Prince Ubbely Bubble’s New story book 1871; and of Edwin Landseer 1873, memorial verses. d. Whitby, Sep. 1880.

LUCAS, LOUIS ARTHUR (son of Philip Lucas of Manchester). b. 22 Sep. 1851; ed. at Univ. coll. sch. and Univ. coll. London; travelled in U.S. of America 1872 and in Egypt 1873; organised an expedition to explore the Congo, left London 2 Sep. 1875, arrived at Khartoum Jany. 1876, left Khartoum April 1876; went with colonel Gordon to the Albert Nyanza and navigated northern part of the lake in the first steamboat ever launched on it; returned to Khartoum Aug. 1876, reached Suakim 18 Nov.; compiled a vocabulary of Bishareen words published in Journal of Anthropological Institute, vi 191–4. d. in a steamboat between Suakim and Suez 20 Nov. 1876. bur. Jeddah. Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. xxi 418–21, 465; Athenæum 9 Dec. 1876 p. 766, 23 Dec. p. 838.

LUCAS, MARGARET (youngest dau. of Jacob Bright and youngest sister of John Bright, M.P.) b. Greenbank, Rochdale, Lancs. 14 July 1818; a total abstainer from 1834; (m. 1839 Samuel Lucas 1811–65, journalist); a Good Templar 1872, Grand Worthy Vice Templar; visited U.S. of America 1870; engaged in the work of Association for the abolition of state regulation of vice; one of chief founders and president of British women’s temperance association; visited U.S. of America 1886 to attend convention at Minneapolis as president of the World’s Women’s temperance union; advocated political enfranchisement of women, on public platforms in Great Britain. d. 7 Charlotte st. Bedford sq. London 4 Feb. 1890. bur. Highgate cemet. 7 Feb. H. J. B. Heath’s M. B. Lucas (1890), portrait.

LUCAS, PHILIP BENNETT. b. 1803; F.R.C.S.; practised at Boulogne some years; author of A concise anatomical description of the arteries of the human body 1836; A practical treatise on the cure of strabismus or squint 1840. d. Pau, France 22 May 1856.

LUCAS, RICHARD COCKLE (son of Richard Lucas). b. Salisbury 24 Oct. 1800; apprenticed to his uncle a cutler at Winchester 1812; a sculptor with a good practice; executed statues of Dr. Johnson at Lichfield, Dr. Watts at Southampton and sir R. C. Hoare in Salisbury cath.; his medallion portraits in marble, wax and ivory have much merit; exhibited 89 sculptures at R.A., 12 at B.I. and 61 at Suffolk st. 1829–59; sent ivory carvings and imitation bronzes to Great Exhibition of 1851; produced a large number of etchings; granted civil list pension of £150, 19 June 1865; author of Remarks on the pantheon 1845; The artist’s dream realised, being a residence designed and built [at Chilworth near Romsey] by R. C. Lucas, sculptor 1854, etched and described 1856; On the mausoleum of Halicarnassus 1859; An essay on art, especially that of painting 1870. d. Chilworth near Romsey 18 Jany. 1883.

LUCAS, SAMUEL (brother of Frederick Lucas 1812–55). b. 1811; partner in a cotton mill at Manchester 1845; joined the anti-cornlaw league; a founder of Lancashire public schools assoc. Aug. 1847; a corn merchant in London from 1850; managing proprietor of The Morning Star daily paper 17 March 1856 to 1865; one of founders of the Emancipation Society for slaves 1862; author of Plan for the establishment of a general system of secular education in the county of Lancaster 1847; edited a vol. of essays entitled National education not necessarily governmental, sectarian or irreligious 1850. d. 4 Gordon st. Gordon sq. London 16 April 1865. bur. Highgate cemet. Fox Bourne’s English Newspapers, ii 238, 271 (1887); Morning Star 17 April 1865 p. 4.

LUCAS, SAMUEL (eld. son of Thomas Lucas of Bristol, merchant). b. Bristol 1818; ed. at Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1842, M.A. 1846; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1846; founder and editor of The Press newspaper 1853; contributed reviews to The Times from 1855; edited Once a Week, June 1859 to 1865; projected and edited The Shilling Magazine 1865 which ceased Dec. 1865; author of The Sandwich Islands, a prize poem 1841; Charters of the old English colonies in America 1850; Illustrations of the history of Bristol and its neighbourhood 1853; Dacoitee in excelsis, or the spoliation of Oude 1857, anon.; Eminent men and popular books, from the Times 1859, anon.; Biography and criticism from the Times 1860, anon.; Secularia or surveys on the mainstream of history 1862; edited Thomas Hood’s Poems 2 vols. 1867. d. Eastbourne 27 Nov. 1868. Newspaper Press, iii 38 (1869).

LUCAS, SAMUEL (2 son of Wm. Lucas). b. Hitchin, Herts. 1805; ed. Friends’ committee school, Fishponds, Bristol; apprentice at Southwick and Harris’ wharf, Wapping: an auditor of Great Northern railway; partner in a provision house in London; a brewer and maltster at Hitchin to death; clerk to quarterly meeting at Hitchin; painter of landscapes, animals and flowers in oil and water colours; exhibited 7 landscapes at R.A., 4 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1830–61; some of his drawings of flowers were engraved in The Florist. d. 29 March 1870. Biographical catalogue of Friends (1888) 440–3.

LUCE, THOMAS (son of Thomas Luce). b. Weymouth 1790; M.P. Malmesbury 1852–9; a director of the Bank of London. d. Malmesbury 6 Aug. 1875.

LUCENA, LORENZO. b. 1806; ed. coll. of St. Pelagio in univ. of Seville, professor of theology there 8 years and provisional president 3 years; minister of a protestant congregation of Spaniards at Gibraltar on appointment by S.P.C.K.; hon. canon of Gibraltar cathedral 1842–60; reader in Spanish language and literature in the Taylor institute, Oxford 1858 to death; cr. M.A. of univ. of Oxf. 5 June 1877; assisted in preparing new ed. of Spanish Bible founded on Cipriano de Valera’s text, Oxford 1862. d. Oxford 24 Aug. 1881.

LUCET, JOACHIM SIMEON. b. 1797; professor de belles lettres; author of Langue Française. Simples notes grammaticales 1843. d. 49 Weymouth st. Portland place, London 11 April 1855.

LUCETTE, CATHERINE. Made her first appearance at theatre royal, Plymouth; first seen in London at Drury Lane as Susan in William and Susan 28 Feb. 1859; appeared at Metropolitan theatre, New York as Pauline in Delicate Ground 23 May 1859; with her husband M. Price had a drawing room entertainment at Brooklyn, New York 25 Aug. 1868; played Ariel in the Tempest at Grand Opera house, New York 1869; toured for some years in North of England playing Leonie in The Sutler Girl; m. (1) Morton Price, actor whose right name was Horton Rhys d. 8 May 1876 aged 52; m. (2) Charles Medwin. She d. 20 Oct. 1892. bur. Norwood cemetery. Brown’s American stage (1870) 226, 243.

LUCKRAFT, ALFRED. b. 2 April 1792; entered navy Jany. 1801; present at Trafalgar 1805, was in the trenches 12 days besieging Morea Castle in the Peloponnesus Oct. 1828, obtained insignia of legion of honor and of Redeemer of Greece; retired admiral 10 Sep. 1869. d. Eastney barracks, Portsmouth 15 Oct. 1871.

LUCY, CHARLES. b. Hertford 1814; studied under Delaroche in Paris and at the R.A.; copied old masters at the Hague and Paris; lived at Barbizon near Fontainebleau 16 years; obtained a premium of £200 at Westminster hall competition 1847 for his painting of The departure of the primitive puritans to the coast of America, A.D. 1620; exhibited 42 pictures at R.A., 14 at B.I. and 7 at Suffolk st. 1838–73; instructor at a drawing school in Camden Town many years; chairman of committee of new British Institution; painted a series of portraits of eminent men for sir Joshua Walmesley who bequeathed them to the South Kensington museum. d. 13 Ladbroke crescent, Notting Hill, London 19 May 1873. Anne Lucy his widow granted civil list pension of £70, 24 Nov. 1881. I.L.N. lxii 544 (1873).

LUCY, HENRY SPENCER (2 son of George Lucy, M.P. 1798–1845). b. 28 Nov. 1830; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 23 May 1850; sheriff of Warwickshire 1857; succeeded on death of his brother William 1 July 1848; kept harriers and hunted the borders of Warwick, Worcester and Gloucester; master of the Warwickshire hounds 1866, hunted 5 days a week; resided at Chalcote park, Warwick. Baily’s Mag. xxvi 373–5 (1875), portrait.

LUCY, WILLIAM WOOTTEN. b. 1802; bookseller at Marlborough from 1829; postmaster Marlborough 1829–69; mayor of Marlborough twice. d. Marlborough 16 Nov. 1869. The Marlborough Times 20 Nov. 1869 p. 4.

LUDLAM, HENRY. b. 14 Oct. 1824; a land surveyor; engaged in commercial pursuits; made one of the finest private collections of minerals in the kingdom; he bequeathed his collections which included those made by Charles H. Turner and Wm. Nevill, to the Museum of practical geology in Jermyn st. London; F.G.S., F.M.S. d. 174 Piccadilly, London 23 June 1880. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxvii 47 (1881).

LUDLOW, EBENEZER (son of Ebenezer Ludlow of Chipping Sodbury, Gloucester). b. 1777; ed. at Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1795, M.A. 1821; barrister G.I. 27 Nov. 1805; town clerk of Bristol 22 July 1819, resigned 1836 on pension of £533; serjeant at law 25 June 1827; comr. of bankruptcy for Liverpool district 21 Oct. 1842 and for Bristol district 1849 to death; chairman of Gloucestershire quarter sessions, April 1842 to 1849. d. Almondsbury near Bristol 25 March 1851. G.M. xxxv 666 (1851).

LUDLOW, JOHN. b. 16 May 1801; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school; entered Bengal army 1818; lieut. 3 Bengal N.I. 15 Aug. 1820; captain 6 N.I. 1 April 1829, major 20 Dec. 1843 to 6 April 1850; lieut.-col. of 12 N.I. 6 April 1850, of 9 N.I. 7 June 1853, of 36 N.I. 1854 to 9 Aug. 1854 when he retired with rank of M.G. d. Yotes court, Kent 30 Nov. 1882.

LUDLOW-BRUGES, WILLIAM HEALD (eld. son of Benjamin Pennell Ludlow of Melksham, Wilts.) b. Melksham 1796; ed. Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1822; barrister M.T. 1 June 1821; member of chancery bar, retired 1826; recorder of Devizes 7 June 1833 to 1844; chairman of north Wiltshire quarter sessions; M.P. Bath 1837–41; M.P. Devizes 28 July 1847 to Feb. 1848 when he retired; took additional name of Bruges by r.l. 1835. d. Sund, Wilts. 25 Sep. 1855.

LUKE, JAMES. b. 1799; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1822, F.R.C.S. 1843, president 1853 and 1862, Hunterian orator; lecturer on anatomy London hospital 1823, assist. surgeon 1827, a principal surgeon 1833 and consulting surgeon 1861; adopted an improved operation for hernia, which has saved many lives 1841; retired from practice and resided at Woolley lodge, Maidenhead; contributed to Medical Gazette 1841 &c., Proc. R. Med. and Chir. Soc. 1843 &c. and to The Lancet 1845 &c.; F.R.S. 7 June 1855. d. Fingest grove, Wycombe, Bucks. 15 Aug. 1881. Lancet, ii 360 (1881); Barker’s Eminent medical men, i 27–30 (1865), portrait.

LUMB, HENRY. Attorney at Wakefield, Yorkshire 1798 to death; deputy steward of manor of Wakefield many years; presented by his brother solicitors with his full-length portrait 14 Dec. 1859. d. 22 Feb. 1862 aged 87. Law Times 24 Dec. 1859 p. 156 and 19 April 1862 p. 323.

LUMLEY, BENJAMIN (son of Louis Levy a Jewish merchant of Canada, d. London about 1831). b. 1811; ed. at Birmingham gr. sch.; assumed name of Lumley; solicitor at 42 Chancery lane, London, Nov. 1832, at 6 Quality court 1833–9; a parliamentary agent in Parliament st. 1837–42; superintended finances of Her Majesty’s theatre for Laporte 1836–41, manager of the theatre 1842–52 and 1856–8, the famous pas de quatre was danced there by Taglioni, Cerito, Lucile Grahn and Rosati 1845; Sir Michael Costa seceded from Her Majesty’s in 1847 with Mario, Grisi and greater part of the orchestra; Jenny Lind sang at Her Majesty’s 1847–9, Sontag in 1851; managed the Italian opera house in Paris 1850 to 2 Dec. 1851; purchased lease of Her Majesty’s 1845, which in 1856 he assigned to lord Ward, being in debt to him; gave up the theatre 10 Aug. 1858 being unable to pay the rent; bankrupt 3 Nov. 1862, discharged 22 Jany. 1863; four benefit performances were given him at Her Majesty’s 1863; produced 30 Italian operas new to England 1842–58; parliamentary agent at 22 Sackville st. Piccadilly 1864 to death; author of Parliamentary practice on passing private bills through the House of Commons 1838; Sirenia, a fantastic account of the life of sirens in their retreats, their origin, mission and pursuits 1862, anon.; The earl of Dudley, Mr. Lumley and Her Majesty’s theatre, a narrative of facts 2 ed. 1863; Reminiscences of the opera 1864; Another world, or fragments from the star city of Montallagal. By Hermes 1873, 3 ed. 1873. d. 8 Kensington crescent, London 17 March 1875. bur. West Ham cemet. I.L.N. iii 124 (1843) portrait, iv 237 (1844) portrait, xi 96 (1847) view of testimonial; Illust. sp. and dr. news, ii 622 (1875).

LUMLEY, WILLIAM GOLDEN. b. 1802; ed. at Christ’s hospital and Trin. coll. and Trin. hall Camb.; fellow of Trin. hall 1825, LL.B. 1825, LL.M. 1859; barrister M.T. 4 May 1827; a revising barrister under the reform act 1832; professor of English law in univ. of London 1834–38; reported for the Law Journal 1835; secretary of poor law board 23 April 1839 to 17 Feb. 1847; assistant sec. local government board 18 Dec. 1847 to 19 Aug. 1871; Q.C. 8 Dec. 1868; counsel to local government board 1872; author of The law of annuities and rent charges 1833; The law of parochial assessments explained 1844, 7 ed. 1882; Manual of duties of poor law officers, medical officer 1849, 3 ed. 1871; The poor law election manual 1855, 5 ed. 1886; The union assessment committee act 1862, 10 ed. 1881; The local board election manual 1869, 4 ed. 1886; An essay on bye-laws 1877. d. 10 Sussex place, Regent’s park, London 8 May 1878. Law Times, lxv 110 (1878); Solicitors’ Journal xxii 565 (1878).

LUMSDEN, JAMES (son of James Lumsden, engraver and stationer). b. 43 Argyll street, Glasgow 13 Nov. 1778; apprentice to his father, a partner in the business 1799; a patron of Horatio MacCulloch and sir Daniel Macnee artists, and of Dugald Moore poet; lord provost of Glasgow 1843–45; president of Incorporated company of stationers, Glasgow 1815, 1822 and 1830; a founder of the Clydesdale bank 1838; founded a bursary in Glasgow univ. 1856; issued The Glasgow commercial memorandum book 1816, an annual; author of American memoranda by a Mercantile Man 1844, preface signed J.L. d. St. Vincent st. Glasgow 16 May 1856. W. C. Maclehouse’s Memoirs of Glasgow men, ii 179–81 (1886), portrait; The Glasgow Herald 19 May 1856 p. 6.

LUMSDEN, JAMES. b. 1811; minister of Inverbrothock to 1838; minister of Barrie 1838–43; joined the Free secession 1843; professor of divinity, Free ch. coll. Aberdeen 6 Nov. 1856 to death, and principal 1864 to death; D.D. of St. Andrew’s univ. 13 Feb. 1869; author of Sweden, its religious state and prospects 1855; Infant baptism, its nature and objects 1856. d. Aberdeen 17 Oct. 1875. Scott’s Fasti, iii part 2 p. 792 (1871).

LUMSDEN, SIR JAMES (eld. son of James Lumsden 1778–1856). b. Glasgow 1808; ed. at Glasgow gr. sch. and univ.; partner in firm of J. Lumsden & Co. stationers, Glasgow, retired from business 1876; lord dean of guild, Glasgow 1860–2 and lord provost 1866–69; knighted by patent 3 Nov. 1868 after entertaining prince of Wales at luncheon. d. 194 Bath st. Glasgow 22 March 1879. W. C. Maclehouse’s Memoirs of Glasgow men (1886), ii 183–4 (1886), portrait.

LUND, JOHN. Joined the Metropolitan police 1837; a prominent officer in detective department at Scotland Yard; arrested Mr. and Mrs. Manning for murder of O’Connor 1849; had charge of detective arrangements at Great Exhibition 1851; superintendent of the P. or Walworth division of metropolitan police to 1859 when he retired on pension of £156; superintendent of Leamington police 1859–80 when he retired on pension of £166; captured James Torpey the diamond robber 1870. d. Leamington 24 Aug. 1888.

LUND, THOMAS. b. Blackburn 2 Dec. 1805; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., 4 wr. 1828, B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831, B.D. 1838; fell. of his coll. 1829–41; R. of Morton, Derbyshire 1841–64; R. of Brindle, Lancs. 1864 to death; preb. of Lichfield cath. 1864 to death; author of An appendix to Wood’s Algebra 1840; A short and easy course of algebra 1850, 6 ed. 1863; The elements of algebra by D. Wood, 14 ed. 1852, 17 ed. 1876; A companion to Wood’s Algebra 4 ed. 1878; Elements of geometry and mensuration 3 parts 1854–9, 2 ed. 1864; A key to Bishop Colenso’s Biblical arithmetic 1863, 3 ed. 1865; with J. Baily A treatise on the differential calculus 1838. d. Brindle rectory 14 May 1877.

LUNDGREN, EGRON SELLIF. b. Stockholm 18 Dec. 1815; water-colour painter; resided at Seville 1849–52; accompanied sir Colin Campbell’s expedition on the campaign in Oudh 1857 when he made a series of about 500 sketches which were exhibited in London, then purchased by Samuel Mendel and sold at Christie’s 16 April 1875; associate of Royal Soc. of painters in water-colours 1864, member 1865; knight of order of Gustavus Vasa of Sweden 1861; exhibited 2 pictures at R.A. 1862; illustrated G. O. Hyltén-Cavallius and G. Stephens’ Svenska Folksagor 1875 and Old Norse fairy tales 1882. d. Stockholm 16 Dec. 1875. Graphic, xiii 28, 36 (1876), portrait.

LUNING, JACOB WILLIAM (3 child of Meinhard Conrad Luning 1732–83, pastor of Hamelvörden, Hanover). b. Hamelvörden 19 May 1767; came to London 1790, a boarder at Duff’s school, Tooting; naturalised 1796; book-keeper in some of the first mercantile houses in the city down to 1858; admitted a member of Morden college, Blackheath 30 March 1859; m. at Spalding, Lincs. 4 Aug. 1796 Eleanor dau. of captain Sands and had issue 15 children. d. Morden college, Blackheath 23 June 1870 aged 103. Thoms’ Human longevity (1879) 255–63.

NOTE.--Having insured his life for £200 in the Equitable Society at the age of 36 namely in 1803, the bonuses at his death had raised the policy to £1292 10s., the largest addition ever paid by the Equitable or probably by any other Insurance company.

LUNN, JOSEPH. b. 1784; an original member of the Dramatic Authors’ Society; his chief plays were The sorrows of Werther, a burlesque, Covent Garden 6 May 1818, revived at St. James’s 13 Oct. 1836; Family Jars, a farce, Haymarket 26 Aug. 1822; Fish out of water, a farce 26 Aug. 1823; Hide and Seek, petit opera 22 Oct. 1824, revived at Covent Garden 11 Nov. 1830; Roses and Thorns or two houses under one roof, comedy 24 Aug. 1825; Lunn’s Management or the prompter puzzled, a comic interlude 29 Sep. 1828, all these four were produced at Haymarket; author of Horæ Jocosæ, or the doggerel Decameron 1823. d. Grand parade, Brighton 12 Dec. 1863.

LUNN, WILLIAM ARTHUR BROWN. Invented sequential system of musical notes 1844; published under pseudonym of Arthur Wallbridge, Bizarre fables 1842; The sequential system of musical notation, a new method of writing music 1844, 6 ed. with his name 1873; Torrington hall, an account of two days passed at that establishment for the insane 1845; The council of four, a game at definitions 1848; Miscellanies, consisting of jest and earnest 1851; The Wallbridge miscellanies 1874, 3 ed. 1877. d. London 4 April 1879.

LUPTON, JAMES (son of James Lupton of York). b. 1800; matriculated from Ch. Ch. Oxf. as a servitor 7 July 1819, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1825; V. of Blackbourton, Oxon. 1827 to death; minor canon of St. Paul’s cath. 1829 to death and of Westminster abbey 1829 to death; R. of St. Michael’s, Queenhithe, London 1832 to death; editor of The Temple by G. Herbert, with a life of the author 1865; The poetical works of A. Pope, with life of the author 1867; Gulliver’s Travels edited by A Clergyman 1867. d. The Cloisters, Westminster abbey 21 Dec. 1873. bur. Westminster abbey 27 Dec.

LUPTON, THOMAS GOFF (son of Wm. Lupton, working goldsmith). b. Clerkenwell, London 3 Sep. 1791; pupil of George Clint, engraver; assistant to Samuel Wm. Reynolds; exhibited 4 engravings at R.A. and 7 at Suffolk st. gallery 1811–25; executed 4 of the plates in Turner’s Liber Studiorum; introduced steel for mezzotint engraving for which he received the Isis medal of Society of Arts 1822; six of his plates after Turner were published as Views of the ports of England 1825, reissued with 6 more of his plates as The harbours of England 1856; pres. of Artists’ annuity fund 1836; resided at 4 Keppel st. Russell sq. London 1837 to death, d. there 18 May 1873.

LURGAN, CHARLES BROWNLOW, 2 Baron (son of 1 baron Brownlow 1795–1847). b. Eaton place, London 10 April 1831; ed. at Eton; ensign 26 foot 15 March 1850, sold out 23 Jany. 1852; lord lieut. of Armagh 7 July 1864 to death; raced under name of Mr. Stafford; a breeder of greyhounds from 1854, won the Waterloo cup with Master M’Grath at Altcar 1868, first time an Irish dog took the cup, won again in 1869 and 1871, the dog was sent for the queen to see him on 1 March 1871 and d. 24 Dec. 1871; K.P. 1864; a lord in waiting to the queen 1869–74. d. Brighton 16 Jany. 1882. Baily’s Mag. April 1869 pp. 213–16, portrait; The Sporting Rev. Feb. 1869 pp. 129–32, portrait of Master M’Grath.

LUSH, JOHN ALFRED (1 son of John Lush of Berwick St. John, Wilts). b. 21 March 1815; L.S.A. 1836, M.R.C.S. 1837; M.D. St. Andrews 1864; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1872; in practice at East Knoyle, removed to Salisbury; with Corbin Finch proprietor of Fisherton house asylum, Salisbury 1862; mayor of Salisbury 1866; M.P. Salisbury 1868–80; entertained prince of Wales at a banquet Sep. 1872; removed to 13 Redcliffe square, South Kensington, London 1880. d. St. Leonards-on-Sea 4 Aug. 1888. The Salisbury Journal 11 Aug. 1888 p. 5.

LUSH, SIR ROBERT (eld. son of Robert Lush of Shaftesbury, Dorset). b. Shaftesbury 25 Oct. 1807; in a solicitor’s office; a special pleader in London 1839; barrister G.I. 18 Nov. 1840, bencher 4 Nov. 1857 to Nov. 1865, treasurer 1859; Q.C. June 1857; leader with sir Wm. Bovill of the home circuit; serjeant at law 2 Nov. 1865; justice of court of queen’s bench 2 Nov. 1865 to 5 Nov. 1880; knighted at Windsor castle 20 Nov. 1865; one of the three judges who tried the Tichborne claimant 1873–4; member of the judicature commission, settled at chambers the practice under the judicature acts Nov.-Dec. 1875; member of commission on the penal code 1878; P.C. 17 May 1879; lord justice of court of appeal 5 Nov. 1880 to death; author of The act for the abolition of arrest on mesne process with notes 1838; The act for the amendment of the law with respect to wills 1837, 2 ed. 1838; Practice of the superior courts of law at Westminster in actions and proceedings over which they have a common jurisdiction 1840, 3 ed. by J. Dixon 2 vols. 1865; edited J. Chitty’s The practice of the law in all its departments, vol. iii, 3 ed. 1842; J. S. Saunders’s Law of pleading and evidence in civil actions 2 ed. 2 vols. 1851. d. 60 Avenue road, Regent’s park, London 27 Dec. 1881. Baptist Worthies. By W. Landels (1884) 373–411, portrait; A generation of Judges. By their reporter (1886) 21–9; I.L.N. xlvii 513 (1865), portrait; Illust. Times 18 Nov. 1865 p. 307, portrait; Graphic, xxv 20 (1882), portrait.

LUSHINGTON, Charles (3 son of sir Stephen Lushington, 1 baronet 1744–1807). b. London 14 April 1785; served in Bengal civil service 1800–27; chief secretary to government of Bengal 1823, retired on annuity 1827; M.P. Ashburton 1833–41; M.P. Westminster 1847–52; an original director of Crystal palace company 1852; resided at Edgware many years; president of Whittington club, Arundel st. Strand 1850; author of The history of the religious institutions founded in Calcutta. Calcutta 1824; A short notice of John Adams, Esq. Calcutta 1825; A remonstrance addressed to the bishop of London on the sanction given in his charge to the calumnies against the dissenters 2 ed. 1834; Dilemmas of a churchman arising from the discordant doctrine of the clergy 1838, 2 ed. 1838. d. 118 Marine parade, Brighton 23 Sep. 1866.

LUSHINGTON, CHARLES MANNERS (youngest son of Stephen Rumbold Lushington 1776–1868). b. 1819; ed. at Eton and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1843; fellow of All Souls’ college 1843–6; private sec. to president of board of control 1843 to July 1854; M.P. Canterbury 1854–7; resided Norton court, Kent. d. Boulogne-Sur-Mer 27 Nov. 1864.

LUSHINGTON, EDMUND LAW (1 son of Edmund Henry Lushington, puisne judge Ceylon, d. 1839). b. 10 Jany. 1811; ed. at Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; senior classic and senior chancellor’s medallist 1832; fellow and tutor of his college; professor of Greek at univ. of Glasgow 1838–75, lord rector 15 Nov. 1884, only noncontested election on record; married 14 Oct. 1842 Cecilia sister of Lord Tennyson; edited with sir A. Grant, J. F. Ferrier’s Lectures on Greek philosophy 1866 and J. F. Ferrier’s Philosophical works vols. ii, iii 1875. d. Maidstone 13 July 1893. A. P. Martin’s Life of Lord Sherbrooke (1893).

LUSHINGTON, FRANKLIN (4 son of sir Henry Lushington, 2 baronet 1775–1863). b. 20 April 1811; ensign 9 foot 16 July 1829, captain 30 Oct. 1838; major 37 foot 26 Nov. 1847 to 15 July 1854; captain Scots Fusilier guards 15 July 1854, sold out 28 Nov. 1856; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842. d. Hansham, Kent’s road, Torquay 18 Jany. 1890.

LUSHINGTON, HENRY (2 son of Edmund Henry Lushington 1766–1839, master of the crown office, London). b. Singleton, Lancs. 13 April 1812; ed. at Charterhouse 1823–8, head boy 1827–8; student of Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1829, fellow 1836, B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1840; chief secretary to government of Malta 1847 to 1855, brought forward proposed code of laws before Malta legislative council 1849; Tennyson dedicated The Princess to him 1847; author of Fellow commoners and honorary degrees 1837; A great country’s little wars, or England, Afghanistan and Sinde 1844; The broad and narrow guage 1846 and other books; author with G. S. Venables of Joint Compositions 1840, a book of verses; and with his brother F. Lushington of La nation boutiquière 1855; Two battle pieces 1855. d. Paris 11 Aug. 1855. bur. Boxley, Kent. Henry Lushington’s The Italian war (1859), memoir pp. ix–ci.

LUSHINGTON, SIR HENRY, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir Stephen Lushington, Bart. 1744–1807). b. 27 Oct. 1775; succeeded 12 Jany. 1807; consul general at Naples 1815–32. d. 32 Montague square, London 25 Jany. 1863.

LUSHINGTON, SIR JAMES LAW (3 son of rev. James Stephen Lushington, preb. of Carlisle, d. 17 June 1801). b. Bottesham, Cambs. 1779; entered Madras army 1796; col. 3 Madras light cavalry 1831–49; col. 4 Madras light cavalry 1849 to death; general 20 June 1854; M.P. Petersfield 1825, M.P. Hastings 1826, M.P. Carlisle 1827–32; a director of East India company 25 July 1827 to 1854, deputy chairman 1837, 1841 and 1847, and chairman 1838, 1842 and 1848; C.B. 14 Oct. 1818, K.C.B. 10 March 1837, G.C.B. 20 July 1838. d. 26 Dorset square, London 29 May 1859.

LUSHINGTON, STEPHEN (brother of sir Henry Lushington 1775–1863). b. Harley st. London 14 Jany. 1782; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1802, M.A. 1806, B.C.L. 1807, D.C.L. 1808; fellow of All Souls’ coll. to 1821; barrister I.T. 7 Feb. 1806, bencher 1840–72, reader 1850, treasurer 1851; member of college of advocates 3 Nov. 1808; M.P. Great Yarmouth 1806 to 1808; M.P. Ilchester 1820–6; M.P. Tregony 1826–30; contested Reading 1830; M.P. Winchelsea 4 April 1831; returned for Winchelsea and Ilchester 1831 but sat for Ilchester; M.P. Tower Hamlets 1832–41; one of the counsel for Queen Caroline, made a speech in her defence 26 Oct. 1820, present at her death 7 Aug. 1821, one of her executors attended her funeral at Brunswick; voted freedom of city of London 7 Dec. 1820, admitted 2 June 1821; judge of consistory court of London 16 Feb. 1828 to 2 July 1858; judge of high court of admiralty 17 Oct. 1838 to 30 July 1867; P.C. 5 Nov. 1838; dean of arches 2 July 1858, resigned 30 July 1867; chancellor of diocese of Rochester 1826–56; chancellor of diocese of London 1828–58; served on many royal commissions; an ardent reformer, supported sir T. F. Buxton in the anti-slavery struggle; author of The reply of Dr. Lushington in support of the bill for the regulation of chimney sweepers, and the preventing the employment of boys in climbing chimneys 1818. d. Ockham park, Ripley, Surrey 19 Jany. 1873. Law Times, liv 225–6, 240–1 (1873); I.L.N. lxii 91, 95, 211 (1873), portrait.

LUSHINGTON, SIR STEPHEN (2 son of sir Henry Lushington, 2 baronet 1775–1863). b. Bedford sq. London 12 Dec. 1803; entered navy 1816; commander of the Ætna bomb 13 May 1828; took part in reduction of Kastro Morea 30 Oct. 1828 for which he was nominated chevalier of orders of St. Louis and the Redeemer, of Greece; captain 28 Oct. 1829; superintendent of Indian navy Nov. 1848 to 23 March 1852; captain of the Albion, July 1852; commanded naval brigade on shore at siege of Sebastopol 1855; R.A. 4 July 1855; lieut. governor of Greenwich hospital 17 May 1862 to 2 Dec. 1865; admiral on h.p. 2 Dec. 1865; K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 13 March 1867. d. Oak lodge, Thornton Heath, Surrey 28 May 1877.

LUSHINGTON, STEPHEN GEORGE (eld. son of the succeeding). Comr. of customs 3 Jany. 1825 to death. d. Norton court, Faversham, Kent 15 Feb. 1853.

LUSHINGTON, STEPHEN RUMBOLD (2 son of James Stephen Lushington, V. of Newcastle and preb. of Carlisle, d. 1801). b. Bendish house, Bottesham, Cambs. 6 May 1776; ed. at Rugby; D.C.L. of Oxf. univ. 12 June 1839; entered Madras civil service 4 Sep. 1790; assistant in the military, political and secret department, Madras 1792; collector at Tinnevelly 1801; registrar of Sudder and Foujdarry Adowlut 14 Jany. 1803, left the service 1807; M.P. Rye 1807–12; M.P. Canterbury 1812–30 and 1835–7; chairman of committees in house of commons to 1814; joint secretary of the treasury 1814 to 19 April 1827; P.C. 30 June 1827; governor of Madras 18 Oct. 1827 to 25 Oct. 1832; author of The life and services of general lord Harris 1840. d. Norton hall near Faversham, Kent 5 Aug. 1868. An account of the refusal of church rates by S. R. Lushington (1841).

LUTHER, ROBERT. b. 1800; farmed 1000 acres under earl Powis at Acton to death; a judge of Hereford and Shropshire cattle; huntsman of the Union hunt for Mr. Frank Beddows from about 1830 to death; in his last hours he sent for some of his hounds to come to his bedside. d. Acton 7 Sep. 1862. Sporting Review, xlviii 412–13 (1862).

LÜTHY, ROBERT (son of Victor Lüthy a veterinary surgeon, and one of a family of 21 children). b. Solothurn, Switzerland 24 Sep. 1840; draughtsman to R. and L. R. Bodmer, London 1862; in service of Hick, Hargreaves & Co. of Bolton 1864 to death; designed hydraulic cotton presses and balanced valves 1863; experimented on cold air machines for freezing meat 1876, went to Australia in connection with the business of shipping frozen meat 1883; member Instit. Mechanical engineers 1878. d. Bolton 3 July 1884. Proc. of instit. of mechanical engineers (1884) 403–4.

LUTTON, ANNE (youngest child of Ralph Lutton). b. Ireland 16 Dec. 1791; held meetings for women 1818; an Italian and Spanish scholar; held drawing room meetings; head of a class meeting at Bristol 1834; held religious meetings in England and Ireland; author of Poems on moral and religious subjects. Dublin 1829, 2 ed. 1842. d. Bristol 22 Aug. 1881. bur. Arno’s Vale cemetery 27 Aug. Memorials of a consecrated life (1883), portrait; Light on the christian’s daily path, compiled from the unpublished letters of A. Lutton, ed. by A. S. Webb (1886).

LUTTRELL, ALEXANDER FOWNES (4 son of John Fownes Luttrell, M.P. 1752–1816). b. 1793; ed. at Eton; matric. from Ex. coll. Oxf. 6 May 1812; R. of East Quantoxhead, Somerset 2 May 1818 to death, having been rector 70 years. d. 12 Oct. 1888.

LUTTRELL, HENRY (natural son of Henry Lawes Luttrell, 2 earl Carhampton 1743–1821). b. 1771; M.P. Clonmines, co. Wexford in Irish parliament 1798; managed his father’s estates in the West Indies about 1802; introduced to London society by the duchess of Devonshire, a great talker and diner-out, a frequent guest at Holland House where he uttered many of his best mots, Gronow calls him the last of the conversationists; author of Letters to Julia in rhyme, 3 ed. 1822; Advice to Julia, a letter in rhyme 1820. d. 31 Brompton crescent, London 19 Dec. 1851, portraits of him at Holland House and at White’s club. Clayden’s Rogers and his contemporaries (1889) passim; St. James’s Mag. Jany. 1878 pp. 43–52.

LUTTRELL, HENRY ACLAND FOWNES (1 son of Alexander F. Luttrell 1793–1888). b. 1826; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1850, M.A. 1852; ensign Rifle brigade 11 Feb. 1855, lieut. 8 June 1855, sold out 1857 or 1858; lieut.-colonel 3 Somerset rifle volunteers 1860–89, hon.-col. 1889 to death; major West Somerset yeomanry 1858–80; a fine judge of horses and in great request at exhibitions of horses; instrumental in reviving the Bath and West of England agricultural soc.; sheriff of Somerset 1881; C.B. 1887. d. Badgworth court, Axbridge, Weston-Super-Mare 7 July 1893.

LUTTRELL, HENRY FOWNES (2 son of John F. Luttrell 1752–1816, M.P.) b. 7 Feb. 1790; ed. Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1812; M.P. Minehead 1816–22; a comr. of audit board 1822–49. d. Dunster castle, Somerset 6 Oct. 1867.

LUTWIDGE, ROBERT WILFRED SKEFFINGTON (2 son of Charles Lutwidge of Holmrook, Cumberland). b. London 1802; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; barrister L.I. 3 July 1827; commissioner in lunacy 1842–5 and 24 Dec. 1855 to death; secretary to lunacy commission 1845; comr. of inquiry into state of lunatic asylums in Ireland, Sep. 1856. d. Salisbury 28 May 1873. bur. Brompton cemetery 3 June. Law Times, lv 127 (1873).

LUXFORD, GEORGE. b. Sutton, Surrey 7 April 1807; apprenticed to Mr. Allingham a printer at Reigate 1818, stopped with him to 1834; removed to Birmingham 1834; a printer in London 1838–44; sub-editor of Westminster Review some years; lecturer on botany at St. Thomas’s hospital 1846–51; a compositor and reader in Mr. Newman’s printing establishment 1851 to death; edited The Phytologist 1841 to death; A.L.S. 1836; author of A flora of the neighbourhood of Reigate, flowering plants and ferns 1838. d. Hill st. Walworth, London 12 June 1854. Proc. of Linnæan Soc. ii 426 (1855).

LUXMOORE, CHARLES SCOTT (eld. son of John Luxmoore, bishop of Hereford and St. Asaph, d. 21 Jany. 1830 aged 73). b. 1792; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; R. of Bromyard 2nd portion 1815 to death; R. of Cradley, Herefordshire 1816 to death; R. of Darowen, co. Montgomery 1819 to death; canon of Hereford 30 Oct. 1815 to death; preb. of St. Asaph 16 Oct. 1816 to 1842; dean of St. Asaph 26 June 1826 to death. d. Cradley 27 April 1854. bur. in St. Asaph cathedral.

LUXMOORE, THOMAS CORYNDON. b. 1795; second lieut. R.E. 1 Jany. 1814, lieut.-col. 1 July 1849 to 1 April 1852 when placed on retired list; general 8 June 1871; wrote On the groins used in Sussex for preventing encroachment of the sea, in Papers of Corps of Engineers vol. i (1884). d. Tunbridge Wells 26 Nov. 1878.

LYALL, ALFRED (youngest son of John Lyall of Findon, Sussex, d. 1805). b. 1795; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1818; C. of Findon 1829–32; V. of Godmersham, Kent 1837–45; R. of Harbledown, Kent 1845 to death; contributed to the Encyclopædia Metropolitana; edited the Annual Register 1822–7 and 1837–8; author of Rambles in Madeira and Portugal 1827; A review of the principles of truth in reference to the doctrines of Hume and Reid 1830; Agonistes or philosophical strictures 1856. d. Llangollen, Wales 11 Sep. 1865. bur. Harbledown.

LYALL, GEORGE (brother of the preceding). b. 1784; succeeded his father as a merchant and shipowner 1805; chairman of the Shipowners’ Society committee several years; instrumental in forming company which made Shoreham harbour; a director of East India Co. 1830–51, deputy chairman 1840, chairman 1841; contested City of London 12 Dec. 1832 and 5 Jany. 1835; M.P. City of London 1833–5 and 1841–7; introduced and carried the Merchant Seamen’s Widows’ bill 1834; retired from public life 1847. d. 17 Park crescent, Regent’s park, London 1 Sep. 1853. Portraits of eminent conservatives. Second series, portrait 26 (1846).

LYALL, GEORGE. b. London 29 Aug. 1819; ed. at Winchester 1832 and Geneva 1835; M.P. Whitehaven 1857–65; a director of bank of England 1857 to death, deputy governor 1869–71, governor 1871–73. d. Cleve hill, Downend, Bristol 12 Oct. 1881.

LYALL, WILLIAM ROWE (brother of George Lyall 1784–1853). b. London 11 Feb. 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., scholar, B.A. 1810, M.A. 1816; C. of Fawley, Hampshire 1812–15; chaplain to St. Thomas’s hospital 1817; assistant preacher at Lincoln’s Inn; exam. chaplain to bishop of London 1822; R. of Weeley, Essex 1823–33; archdeacon of Colchester 4 June 1824; Warburtonian lecturer Lincoln’s Inn 1826; R. of Fairsted, Essex 1827–33; R of Hadleigh 1833–42; archdeacon of Maidstone 11 June 1841 to 1845; preb. of Canterbury 11 June 1841 to 1845; R. of Great Chart, Kent 1842–52; dean of Canterbury 26 Nov. 1845 to death; edited The British Critic 1816–7; reorganised the Encyclopædia Metropolitana 1820 and contributed to its pages; edited with St. J. Rose the Theological Library vols. i–xiv 1832–46; author of Propædia Prophetica, a view of the use and design of the Old Testament 1840, 3 ed. 1885. d. the deanery, Canterbury 17 Feb. 1857. bur. Harbledown churchyard 26 Feb. G.M. April 1857 pp. 491–2.

LYCETT, SIR FRANCIS (son of Philip Francis Lycett of Worcester). b. Worcester 1803; ed. at Dr. Simpson’s, Worcester; in his father’s glove works; manager for Dent and Allcroft, glovers, London 1832, a partner 1845–65, acquired a large fortune and retired; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1866–67; knighted at Osborne 3 Aug. 1867; contested Woodstock 17 Nov. 1868, Liskeard 11 May 1869 and St. Ives 30 Dec. 1874; a great friend to the Wesleyan Methodist connexion; member of London school board, Finsbury division, Nov. 1870. d. 18 Highbury grove, London 29 Oct. 1880. Christian Miscellany, Jany. 1881 pp. 15–18, portrait.

LYDE, SAMUEL. b. 1825; ed. at Jesus coll. Camb., fellow, B.A. 1848, M.A. 1859; author of The Ansyreeh and Ismaeleeh, a visit to the secret sects of Northern Syria 1853; The Asian mystery illustrated in the history of the Ansaireeh or Nusairis of Syria 1860. d. Alexandria 1 April 1860 aged 35.

LYE, THOMAS. b. Spinney-gate, Deansgate, Manchester 1795; well known jockey; often mentioned by Alfred Highflyer in the Sporting Mag.; won the Oaks on Lilias 1826, on Queen of Trumps 1835 and on Our Nell 1842; won the St. Leger on Queen of Trumps 1835 and on Blue Bonnet 1842. d. Middleham 27 May 1866. Sporting Review, lvi 79–80 (1866).

LYELL, SIR CHARLES, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Charles Lyell of Kinnordy, Fifeshire, botanist 1767–1849). b. Kinnordy 14 Nov. 1797; ed. at Ringwood, Salisbury, Midhurst and Ex. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1821, hon. D.C.L 1855; F.L.S. 1819; F.G.S. 1819, secretary 1823–6, foreign sec. 1826, pres. 1835–6 and 1849–50, Wollaston medallist 1866; F.R.S. 1826, royal medallist 1835, Copley medallist 1858; barrister L.I. 17 May 1822; professor of geology King’s college, London, Oct. 1831 to 1833 or 1834; gave 7 lectures at Royal Institution 1832; knighted at Balmoral 19 Sep. 1848; baronet 22 Aug. 1864; pres. of British Assoc. at Bath 1864; presented with freedom of Turners’ company 25 June 1874; author of Principles of geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth’s surface by reference to causes now in operation 3 vols. 1830–33, 12 ed. 1875; Elements of geology 1838, 6 ed. 1865; Travels in North America 2 vols. 1845; A second visit to the United States of North America 2 vols. 1849; The geological evidences of the antiquity of man 1863, 4 ed. 1873; The students’ elements of geology 1871, 3 ed. 1878. d. 43 Harley st. London 22 Feb. 1875. bur. in nave of Westminster abbey 27 Feb. Life of Sir Charles Lyell 2 vols. (1881), 2 portraits; Quarterly Journal of Geol. soc. xxxii 53–69 (1876); Proc. of Royal soc. xxv 11–14 (1877); Nature, xii 325 (1875), portrait; I.L.N. xlvi 227, 230 (1865), portrait.

LYGON, EDWARD PYNDAR (youngest son of 1 Earl Beauchamp 1747–1816). b. about 1786; sub lieut. 2 life guards 1 June 1803, commanded 2 life guards at Waterloo, lieut.-col. 14 April 1818 to 10 Jany. 1837; inspector general of cavalry to death; colonel 13 light dragoons 29 Jany. 1845 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 22 June 1815. d. Upper Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 11 Nov. 1860.

LYLE, Acheson (2 son of Samuel Lyle of the lodge, co. Londonderry 1761–1815). b. 13 March 1795; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1815, M.A. 1832; called to the Irish bar 1818; assistant barrister for the Queen’s county; second remembrancer of court of exchequer, Ireland 1835–44, chief remembrancer 1844; bencher of King’s inns, Dublin 1837; a master in chancery, Ireland, Nov. 1852; lord lieut. co. Londonderry, April 1860 to death. d. The Oaks, Londonderry 22 April 1870. Irish law times 30 April 1870 p. 326.

LYLE, THOMAS. b. Paisley 10 Sep. 1792; ed. at Glasgow univ., took diploma of surgeon 1816; practised at Glasgow and Airth, Stirlingshire; returned to Glasgow 1835; collected ancient airs and songs; wrote the beautiful song ‘Let us haste to Kelvin Grove, bonnie lassie, O,’ first published anonymously in the Harp of Renfrewshire 1820; contributed to R. A. Smith’s Irish Minstrel; edited Ancient ballads and songs 1827. d. Glasgow 19 April 1859. Grant Wilson’s Poets of Scotland, ii 129–30 (1877); Brown’s Poets of Paisley, i 269.

LYNCH, DAVID (son of David Lynch of Dublin, merchant). b. 1812; ed. at the Feinaglian institution Luxembourg and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1831; called to bar in Ireland 1833; leader of Leinster circuit; Q.C. 13 Feb. 1849; bencher of King’s inns 1860; chairman of quarter sessions co. Louth 1857–59; judge of bankruptcy court 1859 to Jany. 1867; judge of landed estates court Jany. 1867 to death. d. 27 Merrion sq. Dublin 18 Dec. 1872. bur. Prospect cemetery, Glasnevin 21 Dec. Irish law times, vi 647, 662 (1872).

LYNCH, DAVID. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1864; called to bar in Ireland 1865; Q.C. 5 July 1884. d. Somerville, Howth 27 Oct. 1889 aged 47.

LYNCH, HENRY BLOSSE (3 son of Henry Blois Lynch of Partry house, Ballinrobe, co. Mayo, major in the army, d. 1843). b. 24 Nov. 1807; joined Indian navy as a volunteer 1823, lieut. 1829, Persian and Arabic interpreter to the Persian Gulf squadron 1829–33; second in command of expedition despatched to explore Euphrates route to India 1834–7, commander of it 1837; commanded the steamer Tigris which foundered 21 May 1836; completed map of the river Tigris 1839; commanded a flotilla off mouth of the Indus 1843; assistant to superintendent of Indian navy 1843–51; founded the Indian navy club at Bombay; captain 13 Sep. 1847; commodore in command of a squadron in second Burmese war 1851–3; retired from the service 13 April 1856; C.B. 3 Dec. 1853; resided in Paris 1856 to death; conducted negotiations with Persian plenipotentiary which resulted in treaty of Paris 4 March 1857, for which the Shah nominated him to the highest class of the Lion and Sun. d. 6 Rue royal, Faubourg St. Honoré, Paris 14 April 1873.

LYNCH, PATRICK NIESEN. b. Clones, Ireland 10 March 1817; taken to U.S. of America 1819; ed. at coll. of the propaganda, Rome, D.D. 1840; assist. pastor of Charlestown cath. 1840–44; pastor of St. Mary’s ch. 1844–55; administrator of the see of Charlestown 1855–58, and bishop 14 March 1858 to death, cathedral and residence burnt down 1861; sent on a mission to the Pope with a letter from Jefferson Davis 1862; ruined and involved in debt by the civil war 1865; attended on the yellow fever patients in 1848 and 1871; author of Miraculous existence of the church. A sermon at Second plenary council, Baltimore 1866. d. Charlestown 26 Feb. 1882. Appleton’s American Biography, iv 64 (1888).

LYNCH, THEODORA ELIZABETH (dau. of Arthur Foulks of Jamaica, sugar-planter). b. Dale park, Sussex 1812; m. 28 Dec. 1835 Henry Mark Lynch, 2 son of John Lynch of Kingston, Jamaica, b. Kingston 29 Oct. 1814, barrister M.T. 12 June 1840, d. Kingston 15 July 1845; author of Lays of the sea and other poems By Personne 1846, 2 ed. 1850; The cotton tree, or Emily the little West Indian 1847, another ed. 1853; The family sepulchre, a tale of Jamaica 1848, and 14 other stories for children. d. 81 St. John’s Wood terrace, London 27 June 1885.

LYNCH, THOMAS KERR (younger brother of Henry Blosse Lynch 1807–73). b. 1818; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; served with his brother during second Euphrates expedition 1837–42; set up in business at Baghdad; bore the expense of trading-steamers constructed for the rivers Euphrates and Tigris; travelled in Mesopotamia and Persia; an Arabic and Persian scholar; consul general for Persia, in London 1869–75; knight of the Lion and Sun on the Shah’s visit to England 1873; author of A visit to the Suez canal 1866; F.R.G.S. d. 31 Cleveland sq. London 27 Dec. 1891. Times 29 Dec. 1891 p. 5.

LYNCH, THOMAS TOKE (10 child of John Burke Lynch, surgeon, d. 1820). b. Dunmow, Essex 5 July 1818; ed. at a school in Islington, London, afterwards an usher in the school; a Sunday school teacher and preacher 1841; pastor of Highgate independent church 1847–9; pastor of a congregation in Mortimer st. London 1849, which migrated to Grafton st. Fitzroy sq. 1852, resigned 1859; pastor of independent church in Gower st. 1860, which removed to Mornington crescent, Hampstead road 1862 to death; author of Thoughts on a day 1844; Memorials of Theophilus Trinal 1850, 4 ed. 1882; Essays on some of the forms of literature 1853; The Rivulet, a contribution to sacred song 1855, 3 ed. 1868; these hymns said to be pantheistic, gave rise to a long discussion known as The Rivulet controversy, Lynch replied to his opponents in The ethics of quotation 1856 and Songs Controversial 1856, both issued under pseudonym of ‘Silent Long’; A Christmas address 1856, 3 ed. 1872. d. 76 Arlington st. Mornington crescent 9 May 1871. White’s Memoirs of T. T. Lynch (1874), portrait; A critical and descriptive notice of Rev. T. T. Lynch (1859); Miller’s Singers and songs of the church (1869) 560–61; Waddington’s Congregational history, v 134–69 (1880); J. E. Ritchie’s London Pulpit, 2 ed. (1858) 101–10 and his Religious Life in London (1870) 187–92.

LYNCH, WILLIAM WILTSHIRE. b. 1 April 1831; ensign 70 foot 17 Sep. 1850; captain 2 foot 1858, major 1873 to 1875 when placed on h.p.; brigade major Chatham 1866–70; deputy judge advocate 1875–6; lieut.-col. 10 foot 3 May 1876 to 3 May 1881; lieut.-col. regimental district 1881–6; M.G. 1 April 1887; M.G. Bengal 31 March 1888 to death. d. of cholera at Allahabad 4 Aug. 1888.

LYNCH-BLOSSE, HENRY (elder son of sir Robert Lynch-Blosse, 8 bart. 1784–1818). b. 11 Feb. 1813; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1835, M.A. 1860; V. of Newcastle, Glamorganshire, with V. of Bettws, C. of Laleston and C. of Tythegston 1839–77; archdeacon and canon of Llandaff 17 June 1859 to 1877; dean of Llandaff 1877 to death. d. Llandaff deanery 28 Jany. 1879.

LYNDHURST, JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY, 1 Baron (eld. son of John Singleton Copley of Boston, U.S., afterwards of London, painter, 1737–1815). b. Boston 21 May 1772; brought to England, June 1775; pensioner at Trin. coll. Camb. 8 July 1790, 2 wr. and Smith’s prizeman 1794; B.A. 1794, M.A. 1796; junior fellow of his coll. 2 Oct. 1795, senior fellow 5 July 1797 to 1804; travelling bachelor of Camb. univ. 1795–8, high steward of the univ. 1840; member of Lincoln’s inn 19 May 1794; practised as a special pleader; barrister L.I. 8 June 1804; serjeant at law 6 July 1813; leader of Midland circuit 1816; M.P. Yarmouth, Isle of Wight 1818; M.P. Ashburton 1818–26; M.P. univ. of Camb. 1826–7; king’s serjeant and chief justice of Chester Dec. 1818 to July 1819; solicitor general 24 July 1819, knighted Oct. 1819; attorney general 9 Jany. 1824 to 14 Sep. 1826; master of the rolls 13 Sep. 1826 to April 1827; recorder of Bristol, Sep. 1826 to April 1827; lord chancellor 20 April 1827 to 22 Nov. 1830; lord chief baron of the exchequer 18 Jany. 1831 to 1834, lord chancellor again 21 Nov. 1834 to 23 April 1835, and 3 Sep. 1841 to 4 July 1846; created baron Lyndhurst of Lyndhurst in the county of Southampton 25 April 1827. d. 25 George st. Hanover sq. London 12 Oct. 1863. bur. Highgate cemetery 17 Oct. 1863. Sir T. Martin’s Life of Lord Lyndhurst 2 ed. (1884), portrait; W. S. Gibson’s Brief memoir of Lord Lyndhurst (1869); Lord Campbell’s Lives of the lord chancellors, viii 1–212 (1869); Misrepresentations in Campbell’s Lives of Lyndhurst and Brougham. Corrected by St. Leonards (1869); Maclise portrait gallery (1883) 394–7, portrait; W. H. Bidwell’s Imperial Courts of France, England and Austria. New York (1863) pp. 173–79; Law Magazine, liv 321–68 (1856); Portraits of eminent conservatives and statesmen 1st series (1836), portrait; Jerdan’s National portrait gallery, ii (1831), portrait; Orators of the age. By G. H. Francis (1847) 142–59; H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches 4 ed. (1876) 100–107.

NOTE.--He was sketched under name of Lord Harderly in The life of a lawyer. Written by himself [By Sir James Stewart] 1830. In 1831 he heard the equity case of Small v Attwood, which occupied a greater number of hours than the trial of Warren Hastings, he delivered 1 Nov. 1832 by all accounts the most wonderful judgment ever heard in Westminster Hall. No Chancellor received the Great Seal so often from different sovereigns since the Plantaganet reigns.

LYNDON, PATRICK FRANCIS. b. Ireland 1812; ed. R.C. seminary, Montreal, Canada, and college of St. Sulpice, Paris; a priest at Boston, U.S. America; in charge of St. Mary’s parish, Charlestown, Mass. till 1852; pastor of St. Peter and Paul, south Boston 1853 and vicar general 1866; member of Boston school committee 7 years. d. Boston 19 April 1878. Appleton’s Annual Cyclop. for 1878 (1883) p. 641.

LYNE, CHARLES (son of rev. Richard Lyne 1760–1834). b. Castle hill, Liskeard, Cornwall, Aug. 1802; R. of Roche 1834–41; V. of Tywardreath 1841–47 and 1851–63; prebendary of Exeter 31 March 1843 to death; cr. M.A. of Lambeth 27 May 1843; author of An old man’s wanderings, a tour through the manufacturing districts 1845; A tract entitled Little Salem 1850 is attributed to C. Lyne and led to The Little Salem controversy. d. Colby villa, Dawlish 5 May 1873. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. (1874–82) 329–30, 1272.

LYNE, FRANCIS (3 son of Joseph Lyne, merchant, Lisbon 1766–1823). b. Lisbon 27 Dec. 1800, registered at St. Ive church, Cornwall, April 1809; F.R.G.S.; father of the rev. Joseph Leycester Lyne known as Father Ignatius; author of Tribunals of commerce 5 vols. 1851–76; Dr. Pusey’s Defence of Father Ignatius 1881. d. 54 Montague sq. London 15 May 1888.

NOTE.--Lyne v. Sampson Low and others The Times 17–19 Feb. 1873. This was an action respecting the defendants refusing to publish Tribunals of Commerce, after agreeing to do so, because it contained libellous matter. The plaintiff was non-suited.

LYNE, LEWIS CLIFTON (son of Charles Lyne, stock-broker 1790–1861). b. 8 March 1835; of the Office of Works, London to 1876; sub-editor of Household Words 1876 to which he contributed several serial stories; wrote under name of Lewis Clifton in conjunction with Joseph J. Dilley, Tom Pinch, a comedy Vaudeville theatre 10 March 1881; Lady Lovelace; La Rosiere, a comic opera, music by Walter A. Slaughter; Marjorie, a comic opera, Prince of Wales 18 July 1889. d. 38 East st. Bloomsbury, London 2 Dec. 1889. bur. Woking cemetery.

LYNN, SAMUEL FERRIS. b. Belfast 1836; student at the R.A. 1854, obtained gold medal there 1859 for a group of Lycaon and Achilles; exhibited 26 statues at the R.A. 1856–75; his Evangeline exhibited 1858 was engraved in the Art Journal 1865 p. 372; member of Institute of Sculptors 1861; associate of Royal Hibernian academy; executed some important public works in Dublin and Manchester. d. Belfast 20 April 1876.

LYNNE, HENRY. Edited a Hampshire paper; acted under Macready at Drury Lane 1841; starred at the Princess’s with Miss Cushman and J. W. Wallack 1844–45; first appeared in U.S. of America at Broadway theatre, New York as Joseph Surface in The school for scandal 27 Sep. 1847. d. St. Louis, Mobile 8 Aug. 1854.

LYON, FRANCIS. b. 11 Jany. 1834; 2 lieut. R.A. 17 Dec. 1851, lieut.-col. 11 June 1877; served in Indian mutiny 1857–8, was at siege of Lucknow; employed testing the powers of breech loading guns and the resistance of targets; superintendent of royal laboratory at Woolwich arsenal 1 April 1880 to death; invented a sensitive base percussion fuse, during the trial of which at the military school of gunnery at Shoeburyness the shell burst and he was so much injured 26 Feb. 1885 that he died same day. I.L.N. 21 March 1885 pp. 303, 304, portrait.

LYON, HENRY (son of a house agent). b. St. Luke’s, London 15 March 1831; sang at concerts and theatres from 1837; learnt fencing and imitating the Grecian statues; employed in Clark’s circus and at shows in fairs; learnt the violin and the harp, and with his brother performed in the street; a violinist in Jersey as Mr. Dymont from America; kept a music shop in Bunhill row, London; became a Wesleyan Methodist; a visitor for the Strangers’ Friend Society; a gun barrel maker in the Enfield works; a French polisher; a street preacher; a porter under Pickford & Co.; a preacher in The Christian Community; with his wife performed sacred music in the streets and sang hymns; a preacher and singer in Southampton in 1865. The life of Henry Lyon (1865).

LYON, THOMAS EATON. b. Woolton near Liverpool 17 Oct. 1812; first appeared in London at Adelphi theatre as Miles Bertram in the Wreck ashore 29 Sep. 1836; acted Jonathan Wild in Jack Sheppard there 28 Oct. 1839; played at the Surrey, at the City of London, at the National Standard; last appeared on the stage at City of London theatre as Job Thornbury in John Bull 28 Aug. 1867; one of the five originators of General theatrical fund 1839. d. White Hart tavern, 197 High st. Shoreditch, London 23 Jany. 1869. bur. Abney park cemetery 27 Jany. Era 31 Jany. 1869 p. 10.

LYON, WILLIAM (5 son of David Lyon of Jamaica and Portland place, London). b. 1807; cornet 8 hussars 17 July 1823, captain 30 Dec. 1826, placed on h.p. 2 Aug. 1833; M.P. for Seaford 1831–2; contested Lewes 1837, Marylebone 1859, Canterbury 1862 and 1865, and Shoreham 1874; member of bench of Middlesex magistrates, always opposed the license of Argyle Rooms; was in appearance exactly like the 2 baron Panmure; (m. 1860 Louisa Maria Sporle elder dau. of Henry Valentine Smith known as H. V. Swanborough, lessee of Strand theatre, she was an actress at Strand theatre to 1860). d. Goring hall near Worthing 5 April 1892.

LYONS, EDMUND LYONS, 1 Baron (4 son of John Lyons of Antigua). b. Burton near Christchurch, Hants. 22 Nov. 1790; ed. at Hyde Abbey school near Winchester; entered navy June 1801; took the Dutch fort of Marrach, 74 miles west of Batavia, by surprise 30 July 1811 without orders to do so; captain 7 June 1814; commanded the Blonde frigate in the Mediterranean 1828, co-operated with French troops in reduction of Kastro Morea Oct. 1828 for which he received French order of St. Louis and Greek order of the Redeemer; K.C.H. 13 Jany. 1835; knighted 23 Jany. 1835; minister and plenipotentiary at Athens 2 July 1835 to Feb. 1849; created baronet 29 July 1840; K.C.B. 10 July 1844, G.C.B. 5 July 1855; minister to the Swiss confederation 1849–51; minister at Stockholm 1851–3; R.A. 14 Jany. 1850, V.A. 19 March 1857; second in command of Mediterranean fleet Nov. 1853, commander-in-chief 14 Feb. 1855 to 22 Feb. 1858; the practical commander of the fleet throughout the Crimean war 1853–55; received grand cross of legion of honour and Medjidie of 1st class; created baron Lyons of Christchurch 23 June 1856; (m. 18 July 1814 Augusta Louisa 2 dau. of Josias Rogers, captain R.N., she was author of three novels, Olivia 1848, Sir Philip Hetherington 1851, The lover upon trial 1853, all published in the Parlour library, she d. 10 March 1852). He d. Arundel Castle 24 Nov. 1858, portrait at the naval exhibition 1891. Drawing room portrait gallery 2nd series (1859), portrait; E. H. Nolan’s Illustrated history of war against Russia, i 398 (1857), portrait; Illust. Times 15 March 1862 p. 164, portrait.

LYONS, RICHARD BICKERTON PEMELL LYONS, 1 Viscount (elder son of the preceding). b. Lymington, Hampshire 26 April 1817; midshipman H.M.S. Blonde 1829; ed. at Winchester and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1843, hon. D.C.L. 1865; attaché at Athens Feb. 1839, at Dresden April 1852 and at Florence 1853; sec. of legation at Rome 1856, envoy extraord. and min. plenipotentiary to Grand duke of Tuscany 16 June 1858; minister at Washington 13 Dec. 1858, returned to England 6 Dec. 1864, retired 28 Feb. 1865; voted freedom of city of London 28 Feb. 1856, admitted 19 May 1856; ambassador at Constantinople 10 Aug. 1865, at Paris 6 July 1867 to 1887, negotiated renewal of commercial treaty of 1860, 1873; K.C.B. 11 Dec. 1860, G.C.B. 24 Jany. 1862; P.C. 9 March 1865; G.C.M.G. 24 May 1879; created viscount Lyons of Christchurch in the county of Southampton 17 Nov. 1881; joined Church of Rome shortly before his death; his decease prevented his being created an earl. d. Norfolk house, 31 St. James’s sq. London 5 Dec. 1887. bur. Arundel 10 Dec.

LYONS, FRANCIS. b. Cork 1797; ed. at univ. of Paris, M.D. 1822 but never practised; M.P. Cork 1859–65. d. 1865.

LYONS, HUMPHRY. b. 8 July 1802; entered Bombay army 1817; lieut. 12 Bombay N.I. 9 July 1818; captain 23 N.I. 25 May 1827 to 21 Jany. 1846; major 28 N.I. 21 Jany. 1846, lieut.-col. 26 Oct. 1850 to 1852; lieut.-col. of 6 N.I. 1852–53, of 1 European regiment, right wing 1853–4, of 14 N.I. 1854–5, of 23 N.I. 1855–7; town major, Bombay 2 Dec. 1851 to 5 May 1859; lieut.-col. of 1 N.I. 1857 to 7 Oct. 1860; col. of 18 N.I. 7 Oct. 1860 to 1869; L.G. 20 May 1871. d. Widmore, Bromley, Kent 27 May 1873.

LYONS, JAMES GILBORNE. b. England; ordained in the church of England; R. of St. Mary’s ch. Burlington, New Jersey, U.S. America 1844; a teacher in Philadelphia 1861; principal of a classical school, Haverford, Pennsylvania to death; author of Christian songs, translations and other poems. Philadelphia 1861. d. Haverford 2 Jany. 1868.

LYONS, JOHN (eld. son of John Lyons of Lyons, Antigua, and St. Austin’s, Hants.) b. 1 Sep. 1787; entered navy 20 Sep. 1798; took part in battle of Trafalgar; captain 22 July 1830; employed for the government in Egypt; retired admiral 2 April 1866. d. Worthing 15 Dec. 1872.

LYONS, JOHN CHARLES (only child of Charles John Lyons 1766–96, captain 12 light dragoons). b. 22 Aug. 1792; matric. from Pemb. coll. Oxf. 21 May 1810; sheriff of Westmeath 1816; author of Treatise on the management of orchidaceous plants, with a catalogue of more than one thousand species 2 ed. Dublin 1845; A book of surveys and distribution of the estates forfeited in the county of Westmeath in the year 1641. Ledestown 1852; The grand juries of Westmeath from 1727 to 1853. Ledestown 1853. d. Ledestown, Westmeath 3 Sep. 1874. bur. in churchyard of Mullingar, co. Westmeath.

LYONS, LOUISA, stage name of A. C. Lyons (dau. of a woman who kept a glove shop in Carlton st. Regent st. London in 1828). b. about 1820; sat for the Madonna to Stephanoff and Chalon for their quasi-religious pictures; a pupil of royal academy of music Jany. 1835 to Dec. 1836; sang in the chorus at the Italian opera and at Exeter hall; first appeared as an actress at the Queen’s theatre, London 13 June 1839; mistress of the Marquis of Waterford 1839–42; played Giovanni in Giovanni in London, at Victoria theatre 23 Sep. 1844; played at the Strand theatre before 1845 as Miss Lyons her real name; played afterwards under name of Turner at Olympic and Lyceum; lived in splendid style at Bayswater; made a first-rate matrimonial match. Baron Nicholson’s Autobiography (1860) 53, 250.

LYONS, ROBERT SPENCER DYER (2 son of sir Wm. Lyons 1794–1858). b. Cork 1826; ed. at Cork and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. and M.B. 1848; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1849; the first in Ireland to lecture on use of microscope in relation to disease; chief pathological comr. to the army in the Crimea 1855; awarded Crimean and Turkish medals and clasps for Sebastopol 8 Sep. 1855; investigated pathological anatomy of yellow fever raging at Lisbon 1857, for which he received cross and insignia of Ancient Order of Christ; physician and teacher in St. George’s hospital, Dublin 1858; professor of medicine in R. C. university medical school; physician to house of industry hospitals; a comr. of inquiry into treatment of Irish treason-felony prisoners in English gaols 1870; enquired into treatment of French political prisoners 1870; a senator of the royal univ. 1880; crown nominee for Ireland in general medical council of the U.K. 29 Nov. 1881; M.P. city of Dublin 1880–5; author of An apology for the microscope 1851; A handbook of hospital practice 1859; A treatise on fever 1861; Forest acres in Europe and America and probable future timber supplies 1884. d. 89 Merrion sq. Dublin 19 Dec. 1886. Midland medical miscellany 1 Feb. 1884 pp. 33–5, portrait; Biograph, iii 396–400 (1880).

LYONS, SIR WILLIAM (2 son of Wm. Lyons of Cork, merchant). b. Cork 28 Aug. 1794; a merchant at Cork; sheriff of Cork; mayor of Cork 1848 and 1849; knighted by the queen on board the ‘Fairy’ yacht at Cork 3 Aug. 1849. d. 27 Dec. 1858.

LYSAGHT, ARTHUR. b. 22 Nov. 1782; entered navy 30 June 1795; captain 25 Sep. 1806; R.A. 23 Nov. 1841; admiral on half pay 18 June 1857. d. Twickenham 19 March 1859.

LYSLEY, WILLIAM JOHN (only son of William Lysley d. 1792). b. 12 Dec. 1791; barrister I.T. 25 Nov. 1825; sheriff of Herts. 1851; M.P. Chippenham 1859–65; contested Chippenham 12 July 1865; F.S.A. d. St. Leonards on Sea 14 Jany. 1873.

LYSONS, SAMUEL (2 son of rev. Daniel Lysons, topographer 1762–1834). b. 17 March 1806; ed. at Exeter coll. Oxf., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1836; R. of Rodmarton, Gloucs. 1833 to death; built St. Luke’s ch. High Orchard, Gloucester, consecrated 21 April 1841; rural dean of Gloucester 1865–76; hon. canon of Gloucester cath. 24 Dec. 1867 to death; F.S.A. 6 June 1861; author of Conjectures concerning the identity of the patriarch Job, his family, the time in which he lived and the locality of the land of Uz. Oxford 1832; The Romans in Gloucestershire 1860; Claudia and Pudens, a tale of the first century 1861; The model merchant of the middle ages, Whittington and his cat 1861; Our British ancestors, who and what they were 1865. d. Hempsted court, Gloucester 27 March 1877. Gloucestershire Notes and Queries, ii 514–6, 533.

LYSTER, JAMES (eld. son of col. Anthony Lyster of Lysterfield, co. Roscommon, d. 1841). b. 7 Sep. 1810; C. of Edgworthstown; V. of Rufagh and C. of Street; R. of Tashinny, Ardagh 1851; dean of Leighlin and R. of Wells 1854–64; hon. LL.D. Dublin 1863; R. of St. George’s cath. Kingston and dean of Ontario 1863, non-resident by leave of the bishop with consent of parishioners. d. Plas Isaaf, Ruthin, North Wales 2 Sep. 1891.

LYSTER, WILLIAM SAURIN (son of captain Chaworth Lyster of Greenane, Queen’s co.). b. Dublin 21 March 1827; engaged in the production of operas in the Australian colonies and New Zealand 1861–81 where the Lyster opera companies were very well known; up to 1878 had superintended 1750 performances in Melbourne where he was a proprietor and managing director of the new Opera House opened 1872. d. Melbourne 26 Nov. 1880.

LYTH, JOHN. b. York 13 March 1821; Wesleyan Methodist minister 1843; at Gloucester 1847–9, at Nottingham 1851–4, 1877–80, at Halifax 1854–7, at Liverpool 1868–71, at Sheffield 1871–4, at Hull 1874–7, at York 1883 to death; the first Wesleyan missionary in Germany, at Winnenden, Würtemberg 1859–65; D.D.; author of Wild Flowers 1843; Die Zionsharfe, a collection of spiritual songs 1863; Der Sontags-Gast, a periodical 3 vols. 1863–5; Kleine Lieder fur kleine Leute 1864; A homiletical commentary on Isaiah 1867; The homiletical treasury, Romans to Philippians 1869; Glimpses of early Methodism in York 1885. d. Carlton terrace, York, on the anniversary of his birth 13 March 1886.

LYTH, RICHARD BURDSALL. b. York 1810; ed. for medical profession; medical missionary of Wesleyan Methodist soc. to the Friendly and Fiji islands 1836–55; translated portions of Old and New Testament into Fijian language, in which he also composed hymns; established a training institution for native agents at Lakemba, Fiji; governor of Wesleyan coll. Auckland, New Zealand 1855–58; Wesl. minister Gibraltar 1869–74. d. Fulford barracks, Yorkshire 27 Feb. 1887.

LYTHGOE, THOMAS. b. Manchester 1832; inspector of Metropolitan gas co.; an aeronaut 1850 to death, making 405 successful ascents; the first person to make an ascent from the crystal palace about 1860. d. Hertford, April 1893.

LYTTELTON, GEORGE WILLIAM LYTTELTON, 4 Baron (eld. son of 3 baron Lyttelton 1782–1837). b. Saville row, London 31 March 1817; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., chancellor’s medallist and bracketed senior classic 1838, B.A. and M.A. 1838, LL.D. 1862; D.C.L. Oxf. 1870; lord lieut. of Worcs. 7 Nov. 1839 to death; principal of Queen’s coll. Birmingham 1845; the first pres. of Birmingham and midland institute 1853; a founder of Diocesan training college for schoolmasters at Saltley opened 1852, pres. many years; under secretary of state for the colonies Jany. to July 1846; chairman of the Canterbury Association 1849 which founded province of Canterbury, New Zealand 1850, the seaport of Lyttelton near Christchurch, N.Z. was called after him; a public schools inquiry comr. 1861; chief comr. of endowed schools 1869–74; F.R.S. 30 April 1840; chairman of Worcester cathedral restoration committee; P.C. 15 Feb. 1869; K.C.M.G. 30 June 1869; pres. of British chess association some years; published with W. E. Gladstone a volume of translations into Greek and Latin entitled Ex voto communi in memoriam duplicum nuptiarum viii Kal. Aug. MDCCCXXXIX; edited several of his father’s works and was author of The four Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles with notes 1856; New Zealand and the Canterbury colony 1859; The final court of appeal in causes affecting the doctrine of the church of England 1864; Ephemera Series 1, 2, 1865–72; Two lectures on a visit to the Canterbury colony 1868; committed suicide by jumping out of window at 18 Park crescent, London 19 April 1876. bur. Hagley churchyard 22 April. British Medical Journal 29 April 1876 pp. 542–3; I.L.N. xxvii 44 (1855), portrait, lxviii 421, 430 (1876), portrait; Graphic, xiii 416 (1876), portrait; Walford’s Representative men (1868), portrait 12; Illust. Midland news, i 61 (1869), portrait.

LYTTELTON, SPENCER (brother of the preceding). b. Saville row, London 19 June 1818; served some years in royal navy; ensign Scots fusilier guards 24 May 1839, retired 6 Aug. 1841; attached to legation at St. Petersburg 27 Aug. 1847; marshal of ceremonies to the Queen 1 Jany. 1847 to Jany. 1877 when he resigned. d. 11 Eaton terrace, London 4 Feb. 1889.

LYTTELTON, WILLIAM HENRY (brother of 4 baron Lyttelton 1817–76). b. 3 April 1820; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1841; C. of Kettering, Northamptonshire 1843–5; R. of Hagley, Worcs. 1847 to death; hon. canon of Worcester 4 Nov. 1850 to 1880; canon of Gloucester 1880 to death; edited Forms of praise and prayer in the manner of offices. Oxford 1869; Scripture revelations of the life after death 1875, 4 ed. 1893; translated from the French of Frédéric Godet, Studies on the Old Testament, 2 ed. 1882; Lectures in defence of the christian faith 1881, 2 ed. 1883; and from the French of Félix Bovet, Egypt, Palestine and Phœnicia, a visit to sacred lands 1882. d. Malvern 24 July 1884.

LYTTON, EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, 1 Baron (youngest son of Wm. Earle Bulwer of Heydon hall, Norfolk, general 1757–1807). b. 31 Baker st. London 25 May 1803; ed. at Rottingdean, Ealing and Trin. coll. and Trin. hall Camb., chancellor’s medallist 1825; B.A. 1826, M.A. 1835, hon. LL.D. 1864; hon. LL.D. Oxf. 1853; purchased an ensigncy in the army 19 Oct. 1825, placed on h.p. 27 July 1826, sold out 25 Jany. 1829; edited the New Monthly Mag. Nov. 1831 to 1832; M.P. St. Ives, Hunts. 1831–2; M.P. Lincoln 1832–41; contested city of Lincoln 1841 and 1847; M.P. Herts. 1852–66; his plays The duchess de la Vallière produced 4 Jany. 1837; The Lady of Lyons or love and pride 15 Feb. 1838; Richelieu or the conspiracy 7 March 1839, all 3 at Covent Garden; The sea captain or the birthright, produced at Haymarket 31 Oct. 1839, revived at Lyceum as The rightful heir 3 Oct. 1868; Money, produced at Haymarket 8 Dec. 1840, which ran for unprecedented number of 80 nights; Not so bad as we seem, performed by Charles Dickens’s amateur company at duke of Devonshire’s house in London 27 May 1851; created baronet 18 July 1838; assumed surname of Lytton by r.l. 10 Feb. 1844; secretary of state for the colonies 31 May 1858 to 18 June 1859, new colony of British Columbia organised 1858, Queensland separated from New South Wales 1859, a town in each colony is named Lytton after him; lord rector of Glasgow univ. 1856 and 1858; created baron Lytton of Knebworth, Herts. 14 July 1866; P.C. 5 June 1858; G.C.M.G. 15 Jany. 1870; author of Ismael, an Oriental tale with other poems 1820; Pelham, or the adventures of a gentleman 3 vols. 1828, anon.; Paul Clifford. By E.L.B. 3 vols. 1830; The pilgrims of the Rhine 1834, anon.; The last days of Pompeii 3 vols. 1834; Rienzi, the last of the tribunes 3 vols. 1835; Athens, its rise and fall 2 vols. 1837; Night and morning 3 vols. 1841; Zanoni 3 vols. 1842; Lucretia or the children of night 1846, anon.; King Arthur, a poem 1848; The Caxtons 3 vols. 1849; My Novel. By Pisistratus Caxton 4 vols. 1853; What will he do with it. By P. Caxton 4 vols. 1859; The coming race 1871, anon., and about 40 other books; a library edition of his novels appeared in 43 vols. 1859–63. d. Argyll lodge, Torquay 18 Jany. 1873. bur. St. Edmund’s chapel, Westminster abbey 25 Jany. Life, letters and literary remains. By his Son 2 vols. (1883), 2 portraits; Lord Lytton, a biography by Thomson Cooper (1873); The Derby ministry. By Mark Rochester i.e. Charles Kent (1858) 143–94; Illustrated Review 15 June 1871 pp. 551–5, portrait; Cartoon Portraits (1873) 1–5, portrait; J. H. Friswell’s Modern men of letters (1870) 243–56; R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age, ii 189–214 (1844), portrait; J. C. Jeaffreson’s Novels and novelists, ii 198–220 (1858); Madden’s Literary life of Countess of Blessington, iii 27–63 (1855); Graphic, vii 70, 97, 100 (1873), 2 portraits.

NOTE.--He gave the ground near Stevenage, Herts., for an institute for retired members of the Guild of Literature and Art 1851, one side of the building consisting of 13 dwellings was erected and inaugurated 29 July 1865 but the scheme was a failure. He is satirised by Thackeray in his Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush as Mistawedward Lytton Bulwig. The works of W. M. Thackeray, xii 404–14 (1869).

LYTTON, EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON, 1 Earl of (only son of the preceding). b. 36 Hertford st. London 8 Nov. 1831; ed. at Harrow and Bonn; attaché at Washington 1849, at Florence 1852, at Paris 1854, at the Hague 1856, at St. Petersburg 1858, at Constantinople 1858, at Vienna 1859; secretary of legation at Copenhagen 1863, at Athens 1864, at Lisbon 1865; secretary to embassy at Madrid 1868, at Vienna 1868, at Constantinople 1870, at Paris 1872–4; minister at Lisbon 26 Nov. 1874 to 1 March 1876; succeeded as 2 baron Lytton 18 Jany. 1873; declined governorship of Malta, Jany. 1875; viceroy of India 12 Feb. 1876 to 27 April 1880, installed viceroy 12 April 1876; the Queen was proclaimed empress of India at Delhi 1 Jany. 1877; G.C.S.I. 12 April 1876, grand master of the order 1876–80; G.C.B. 1 Jany. 1878; created viscount Knebworth of Knebworth and earl of Lytton 26 April 1880; lord rector of Glasgow univ. 1887; ambassador at Paris 1 Nov. 1887 to death; edited some of his father’s works and wrote a continuation to his Autobiography 1883; author of The ring of Amasis, a romance 2 vols. 1863; Chronicles and characters 2 vols. 1868; Orval or the fool of time 1869; Julian Fane, a memoir 1871; Fables in song 2 vols. 1874; King Poppy, a story without end. By Horatio 1875; Glenaveril 1885; After Paradise, or legends of exile 1887; and under the pseudonym of Owen Meredith, Clytemnestra 1855; The Wanderer 1859; Serbski Pesme or national songs of Servia 1861; Lucile 1860; The poetical works of Owen Meredith, new ed. 2 vols. 1867; published with J. C. H. Fane under pseudonyms of Neville Temple and Edward Trevor, Tannhaüser, or the battle of the bards, a poem 1861. d. at the British embassy, Paris 24 Nov. 1891. bur. in mausoleum near Knebworth church 1 Dec. T. H. S. Escott’s Pillars of the empire (1879) 189–96; C. Brown’s Life of Beaconsfield, ii 28 (1882), portrait; Army and navy mag. iii 99 (1882), portrait; Dublin Univ. Mag. June 1876 pp. 654–68, portrait; Black and White 28 Nov. 1891 p. 707, portrait.

LYTTON, ROSINA ANNE DOYLE (youngest dau. of Francis Massy Wheeler of Lizzard Connel, Limerick). b. Ballywhire near Limerick 2 Nov. 1802; ed. in Kensington, London; her parents having separated, she lived with her mother in Guernsey and Caen; m. at St. James’s ch. Piccadilly 29 Aug. 1827 Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer afterwards 1 baron Lytton, they executed a deed of separation 19 April 1836 her allowance being £400 per annum, which was increased to £500 by deed dated 1 Oct. 1858; at the hustings at Hertford she exposed her husband’s cruel treatment of her 8 June 1858; confined by her husband in R. G. Hill’s lunatic asylum, Inverness lodge, Brentford 22 June to 17 July 1858; lived at Taunton 1856–74, at Upper Sydenham 1875 to death; author of Cheveley, the man of honour 3 vols. 1839, reprinted as Lady Cheveley or the woman of honour 1839; The budget of the Bubble family 3 vols. 1840; Bianca Capello, an historical romance 3 vols. 1842; The prince-duke and the page. Ed. by Lady L. Bulwer 3 vols. 1841; Memoirs of a Muscovite. Ed. by Lady Lytton 3 vols. 1844; The peer’s daughters 3 vols. 1849; Miriam Sedley, or the tares and the wheat 3 vols. 1851; The school for husbands, or Molière’s Life and times 3 vols. 1852; Behind the scenes 3 vols. 1854; Very successful 3 vols. 1856; Mauleverer’s divorce, a story of women’s wrongs 3 vols. 1857; The world and his wife, a novel 3 vols. 1858; The household fairy 1870; Where there’s a will there’s a way 1871, anon.; Shells from the sands of time 1876. d. Glenômera, Upper Sydenham 12 March 1882. bur. churchyard of St. John the Evangelist, Shirley, Surrey. Life of Rosina, lady Lytton. By Louisa Devey (1887), portrait; Letters of lord Lytton to lady Lytton. Edited by L. Devey (1884), this book was suppressed by lord Lytton’s successor 12 Jany. 1885; Thomas Mulock’s British lunatic asylums (1858) 47–9; Lady Bulwer Lytton’s Appeal to the justice and charity of the English public (1857), 3 ed. (1857); The life of E. B. lord Lytton, by his son, ii 33 etc.; You have heard of them. By Q. (1854), 31–6; Daily News 16 March 1882 p. 5.

LYVEDEN, ROBERT VERNON, 1 Baron (eld. son of Robert Percy Smith of Cheam, Surrey 1770–1845, judge advocate general in India). b. 23 Feb. 1800; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1822; M.P. Tralee 1829–31; M.P. Northampton 1831–59; a junior lord of the treasury 24 Nov. 1830 to 21 Nov. 1834; sec. of board of control 21 April 1835 to 30 Sep. 1839 and president 3 March 1855 to 6 March 1858; under sec. of state for the colonies 1839 to 8 Sep. 1841; P.C. 21 Aug. 1841; dropped the use of his patronymic Smith by r.l. 5 Aug. 1846; sec. of state for war 6 Feb. to 28 Feb. 1852; cr. baron Lyveden of Lyveden, Northants. 28 June 1859; G.C.B. 13 July 1872; edited Letters addressed to the countess of Ossory by Horace Walpole 1848. d. Farming Woods near Thrapstone, Northamptonshire 10 Nov. 1873, personalty sworn under £250,000, 17 Jany. 1874. I.L.N. lxiii 495 (1873), lxiv 54 (1874).

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MAAS, JOSEPH. b. Dartford, Kent 30 Jany. 1847; a chorister in Rochester cathedral 1857; a clerk in Chatham dockyard; studied singing under San Giovanni at Milan 1869–71; sang at St. James’s hall, London, Feb. 1871; made his début on the stage at Covent Garden 29 Aug. 1872 as prince Babil in Boucicault’s Babil and Bijou; sang with the Kellogg English opera co. in America; principal tenor with the Carl Rosa opera co. in Great Britain 1877–80; sang at Her Majesty’s theatre 1880; sang in Paris 1884, in Brussels at the Bach and Handel festival 1885; created the part of the Chevalier des Grieux in Massenet’s opera Manon at Drury Lane 7 May 1885; almost unrivalled in Handel’s oratorios and English ballads; sang at Birmingham musical festival 1885. d. of rheumatic fever at 21 Marlborough hill, St. John’s Wood, London 16 Jany. 1886. bur. Child’s Hill cemet. Hampstead, marble monument with carved portrait unveiled in the cemetery 20 Feb. 1887.

MABERLY, CATHERINE CHARLOTTE (2 dau. of the hon. Francis Aldborough Prittie of Corville, co. Tipperary 1779–1853). b. 1805; (m. 11 Nov. 1830 W. L. Maberly 1798–1885); author of Emily, or the Countess of Rosendale 3 vols. 1840; The love match 3 vols. 1841, 3 ed. 1863; Melanthe, or the days of the Medici 3 vols. 1843; Leontine, or the court of Louis the Fifteenth 3 vols. 1846; The present state of Ireland and its remedy 1847, 3 ed. 1847; Fashion and its votaries 3 vols. 1848; The lady and the priest 3 vols. 1851; Display, a novel 3 vols. 1855; Leonora 3 vols. 1856, 2 ed. 1866. d. 7 Feb. 1875.

MABERLEY, FREDERICK HERBERT (son of Stephen Maberley of London). b. 1781 or 1782; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809; C. of Bourn Cambs.; travelled in a van all over England distributing protestant tracts about 1812; his pamphlet in 1818 upon the drowning of an undergraduate called Lawrence Dundas led to introduction of a system of licensed lodgings at Cambridge; appeared at the bar of the house of lords to impeach the duke of Wellington on account of the Roman Catholic emancipation bill, when he was summarily ejected 1829; author of The melancholy death of Lawrence Dundas, with an address on drunkenness 1818; V. of Great Finborough, Suffolk 14 May 1834 to death. d. Stowmarket 24 Jany. 1860. G.M. viii 511 (1860).

MABERLY, WILLIAM LEADER (son of John Maberly of Shirley house near Croydon, M.P. for Abingdon 1820–31). b. 7 May 1798; lieut. 7 foot 23 March 1815; lieut. 9 lancers 1817, placed on h.p. 14 May 1818; major 72 foot 10 Nov. 1825 to 30 Dec. 1826; lieut.-col. 96 foot 30 Dec. 1826 to 13 Sep. 1827; lieut.-col. 76 foot 13 Sep. 1827, placed on h.p. 9 March 1832; retired 1 July 1881; M.P. Westbury 1819–20, M.P. Northampton 1820–30, M.P. Shaftesbury 1831–2 and M.P. Chatham 1832–4; contested Abingdon 10 Dec. 1832; surveyor general of the ordnance 12 Jany. 1831 to Dec. 1832; clerk of the ordnance 1833–4; a comr. of customs 1834–6; joint secretary of general post office 29 Sep. 1836, permanent secretary Nov. 1846 to April 1854, opposed all schemes of postal reform; comr. of board of audit April 1854, retired 1866 on pension of £1200; granted additional pension from the post office of £533 6s. 8d., 1 April 1867. d. 23 Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 6 Feb. 1885. E. Yates’s Recollections, i 96–100 (1884); A. Trollope’s Autobiography, i 59–63 (1883).

M’ADAM, DAVID. Second lieut. R.M. 19 April 1805, lieut.-col. 27 May 1848; col. and 2nd commandant 14 March 1854 to 18 April 1854 when he retired on full pay; M.G. 20 June 1855; was more than 70 times under fire. d. Edinburgh 10 June 1859. G.M. vii 86 (1859).

MAC ADAM, JAMES. b. Belfast, Jany. 1801; one of the 8 founders of the natural history and philosophical society of Belfast 1821, pres. to death; one of founders of botanic garden at Belfast; F.G.S.; lectured On the production of the flax plant and the modes of preparing its fibre for manufacture 1852. d. Belfast 1 June 1861. Quarterly journal of Geological soc. xviii 37 (1862).

MC ADAM, SIR JAMES NICHOLL (3 son of John Loudon Mc Adam, introducer of system of road making that bears his name 1756–1836). b. 1785; general surveyor of metropolis turnpike roads to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 26 March 1834 instead of his father who declined the honour. d. 17 Finchley road, St. John’s Wood, London 30 June 1852.

MACADAM, JOHN (son of Wm. Macadam). b. Northbank near Glasgow, May 1827; ed. at univs. of Glasgow and Edinb.; M.D. Glasgow; lecturer on chemistry and natural science in the Scotch college, Melbourne 1855; member of Philosophical institution of Victoria, secretary 1857–63, vice pres. 1863, the institution became royal society of Victoria 1859, edited the society’s Transactions vols. 1–5; member for Castlemaine in legislative assembly of Victoria 1859–64; postmaster general 26 April to 14 Nov. 1861; lecturer on chemistry in univ. of Melbourne 1861–2; government officer of health and public analyst to city of Melbourne. d. on board the Alhambra on his way to New Zealand 2 Sep. 1865.

MC ADAM, WILLIAM (eld. son of Wm. Mc Adam d. 23 Feb. 1836 the eld. son of J. L. Mc Adam 1756–1836). b. 1803; surveyor general of turnpike roads in England to death; K.H. 1834. d. the Park, Bath 28 Aug. 1861. Observations sur les routes dites Mac Adam. Par Auguste Jones suivies d’une réponse de W. Mac Adam etc. 1861.

MACALESTER, CHARLES ARCHIBALD (son of colonel Archibald Macalester). b. 1790; ensign 35 foot 19 Sep. 1795, major 13 June 1811, placed on h.p. 8 June 1826; brevet lieut.-col. 12 Aug. 1819; served in the campaigns of Egypt, Calabria, Belgium and France, at the capture of Malta and the Ionian Islands; chief of civil government of Island of Cerigo 1809–12; K.H. 1833. d. Loup cottage, Axminster, Devon 25 Aug. 1869.

MACALISTER, ARTHUR. b. Glasgow 1818; educated for a solicitor; solicitor at Ipswich, New South Wales 1850; M.P. Ipswich in the parliament of Queensland 10 May 1860 to 1871 and 1873–6; secretary for lands and works 21 March 1862 to Feb. 1866; premier 1 Feb. to 20 July 1866, 7 Aug. 1866 to Aug. 1867 and 8 Jany. 1874 to 5 June 1876; secretary of works and goldfields 28 Jany. 1869 to 3 May 1870; speaker for session of 1870–1; colonial secretary 8 Jany. 1874 to 5 June 1876; agent general for Queensland in London 22 June 1876 to 16 Nov. 1881; C.M.G. 13 March 1876. d. at the residence of his sister, Sunnyside, Uddington near Glasgow 23 March 1883.

M’ALL, ROBERT WHITAKER (son of Robert Stephens M’All, independent minister, d. 1838). b. 1821; independent minister Sunderland; with his wife established the Mc All non-sectarian mission in Paris for teaching the ‘lapsed masses’ Jany. 1872, which before his death had 43 meeting places in Paris, 89 in the provinces of France and 6 in Algeria and Tunis; received a medal from the Encouragement du Bien society; received a testimonial on the 20 anniversary of the mission 1892; member of legion of honour July 1892; author of Letter and symbol, a lecture on the personal reign theory, in Ebenezer chapel, Sunderland 1853. d. Auteuil near Paris 11 May 1893. The white fields of France or the story of Mr. M’All’s mission. By H. Bonar (1879); A cry from the land of Calvin and Voltaire (1887).

MC CALL, SAMUEL (younger son of Robert Mc All, minister of the countess of Huntingdon’s chapel). b. St. Ives, Cornwall 5 Oct. 1807; ed. Rotherham coll.; pastor of Hall Gate chapel, Doncaster 1829–43; pastor at Nottingham 1843–60; principal of Hackney coll. 1860–80; author of Lectures at the nonconformist churches in Nottingham 1850; The logic of atheism 1853, 2 ed. entitled The sceptics credulity 1870; The pastoral care, hints on the services of congregational churches 1873; Delivery, or lecture room hints on public speaking 1875. d. 2 Goulton road, Clapton, London 9 March 1888. Congregational Year book (1889) 198–201.

MC ALPIN, WILLIAM. Chief engineer in service of the Viceroy of Egypt 25 years, d. 1 May 1865 aged 61. bur. Highgate cemetery.

MACAN, GEORGE. b. 1803; entered Bombay army 1819; lieut. 15 Bombay N.I. 182-, captain 9 Feb. 1829; captain 2nd Bombay European regiment 1839, lieut.-col. 15 May 1850 to 1855, of 14 N.I. 1855–7, of 3 N.I. 1857–8, of 11 N.I. 1858–60; commandant Baroda 10 June 1859 to 1860; col. of 25 Bombay light infantry 2 June 1860 to death; M.G. 20 April 1862. d. 1 Westbourne st. Hyde park gardens, London 12 Nov. 1866.

MACAN, HENRY. b. 1804; entered Bombay army 1819; lieut. 17 Bombay N.I. 182-, captain 27 Nov. 1834, lieut.-col. 29 Dec. 1846 to 1852; lieut.-col. of 24 N.I. 1852 to 6 Dec. 1856; commandant Rajcote 10 April 1854 to 24 Nov. 1855; commanded Rajpootana field force 10 March 1856 to 1857; col. of 17 N.I. 6 Dec. 1856; general 24 May 1877; C.B. 28 Feb. 1861. d. 31 Craven road, Westbourne terrace, London 20 April 1885.

MACAN, JOHN. Called to Irish bar 1815; Q.C. 13 July 1835; bencher of King’s Inns 1841 to death; comr. of court of bankruptcy 1836–57, judge of the court 1857 to death; found dead in his bed at 9 Mountjoy sq. north, Dublin 5 June 1859.

MACANDREW, JAMES. b. Aberdeen 1820; in business in London till 1850; went to Otago, New Zealand 1850; a ship builder; a member of the N.Z. parliament from the establishment of responsible government 1854 to death; minister of lands Oct. 1877, minister of public works 1878; superintendent of the Otago province 1860–76; the first to establish steam communication between New Zealand and England; founder of Otago university; author of Address to the people of Otago. Dunedin 1875. d. from effects of a carriage accident 24 Feb. 1887. W. Gisborne’s New Zealand rulers (1886) 269–70, portrait.

M’ARDLE, JOHN FRANCIS. b. Liverpool 1842; ed. R.C. institute Maryland st., and St. Cuthbert’s coll. Ushaw; journalist in England and Ireland; connected with the Northern Press, now The Catholic Times, Liverpool; wrote Taffy’s triumph, a farce, and The Talisman, a burlesque, theatre royal Liverpool 10 Aug. 1874; Round the globe, a spectacle, Alexandra theatre 29 March 1875; The musical marionettes, a comedy, and Zampa, a burlesque, Prince of Wales’ 6 and 9 Oct. 1876; Round the clock, a dramatic folly, Alexandra 25 March 1878; Olivia’s love, drama, Royal 6 May 1878; Flint and steel, a farce, Alexandra, Sheffield, May 1881; Fluff or a clean sweep, an absurdity, Opera house, Leicester 1 Aug. 1881; wrote The wicked Welshman 1878, She’s a daisy 1881, You have often heard of my complaints 1882 and other songs. d. at the res. of his mother, Flint st. Liverpool 21 Feb. 1883. bur. Ford cemetery 6 miles from Liverpool 24 Feb.

MACARTE, REGINA (sister of George Ginnett, equestrian). Pupil of Andrew Ducrow, proprietor of Astley’s amphitheatre; appeared before the court at Brighton with Ducrow’s company; one of the most accomplished equestriennes of her time; retired about 1857. d. in United States of America 3 Sep. 1892.

M’ARTHUR, DAVID CHARTERIS. b. 1809; in service of North British insurance co. Edinb. 1826–35; clerk in bank of Australasia, Sydney, N.S.W. 1835, sent to open a branch in Melbourne, Victoria 1837, manager till 1860, general superintendent of the bank’s colonial establishments 1868, retired from active service 1885, local director of the Melbourne branch till death; member of a committee for enquiring into the finances of Victoria, who recommended abolition of the imprest system 1854. d. Melbourne 15 Nov. 1887.

M’ARTHUR, DUNCAN. b. Glasgow 1773; surgeon R.N.; M.D. of Aberdeen 1 March 1810; F.L.S. 1810; physician to the fleet 27 April 1812; physician naval hospital, Deal; F.R.C.P. Lond. 10 Feb. 1841; C.B. 17 Aug. 1850. d. Deal or Walmer, Kent 16 Jany. 1855. Proc. Linnean Soc. ii 414 (1855).

MACARTHUR, SIR EDWARD (eld. child of John Macarthur 1767–1834, of Camden park, one of founders of Australian merino wool industry). b. Bath 1789; taken by his parents to New South Wales 1790; ensign 60 foot 27 Oct. 1808; lieut. 39 foot 1809, captain 8 Feb. 1821, placed on h.p. as major 10 June 1826; served in the Peninsula 1812–14; secretary in lord chamberlain’s office, house of lords 1830–7; A.A.G. in Ireland 1837–41; D.A.G in Australia 1851–5; commanded the troops in Australia 1855–60; acting governor of Victoria 1 Jany. to 31 Dec. 1856; col. of 100 foot 28 Sep. 1862 to death; L.G. 14 June 1868; C.B. 17 July 1857, K.C.B. 23 July 1862; author of Colonial policy of 1840 and 1841 as illustrated by the governor’s despatches 1841. d. 27 Prince’s gardens, London 4 Jany. 1872. I.L.N. lx 51 (1872).

MACARTHUR, HANNIBAL HAWKINS (son of the succeeding). b. Plymouth 16 Jany. 1788; emigrated to New South Wales 1805; assisted his relatives in the merino wool trade; police magistrate at Parramatta some years; member for Parramatta in first parliament of N.S.W. 18 July 1842. d. Norwood, Surrey 6 March 1861.

MACARTHUR, JAMES (brother of sir E. Macarthur 1789–1872). b. Parramatta, New South Wales 1798; took part in his father’s agricultural enterprises; member of legislative council of N.S.W. 1839, member for Camden 1848–53; declined knighthood 1859; assisted in exploring Gippsland 1840; member of international statistical congress in London 1860; comr. for N.S.W. at London exhibition 1862; author of New South Wales, its present state and future prospects 1837. d. Sydney 21 April 1867.

MACARTHUR, SIR WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). b. Parramatta, Dec. 1800; assisted his father in his various projects 1817; brought over six German vine-dressers to improve the vine culture at Camden 1839; elective member of legislative council of N.S.W. 1849–55; a representative comr. for colony of N.S.W. at Paris exhibition 1855; an officer of the legion of honour 1855; knighted at St. James’s palace 12 March 1856; member of legislative council of N.S.W. 1864; author of Letters on the culture of the vine, fermentation and the management of wine in the cellar. By Maro 1844. d. Sydney, N.S.W. 29 Oct. 1882. A voyage round the world. By the Marquis de Beauvoir, i 246–9 (1870).

M’ARTHUR, SIR WILLIAM (5 child of John M’Arthur, Wesleyan minister, d. 1840). b. Malin, barony of Innishowen, co. Donegal 6 July 1809; ed. at Stranorlar, co. Donegal; apprenticed to Hugh Copeland of Enniskillen, woollen draper 1821–5; woollen draper with Joseph Cather at Londonderry 1831–5, and alone from 15 Nov. 1835 to 1857; merchant in Australian trade 18–19 Silk st. Cripplegate, London, having with his brother Alexander M’Arthur, M.P., houses in Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland 1857; contested Pontefract, July 1865; M.P. Lambeth 1868–85; contested West Newington 1885; leader of the movement in favour of the annexation of Fiji 1872; a great supporter of the Wesleyan methodist connection; sheriff of London 1867–8, alderman of ward of Coleman st. 3 Sep. 1872 to death, lord mayor 1880–1; master of spectacle makers’ company 6 Oct. 1875; K.C.M.G. 17 Nov. 1882. d. in a carriage at the Praed st. station of Metropolitan railway, London 16 Nov. 1887. bur. Norwood cemet. 21 Nov. Will proved for £120,937 2s. 5d., which did not include his estate in the colonies. T. Mc Cullagh’s Sir W. M’Arthur (1891), portrait; I.L.N. lxxvii 448 (1880), portrait; Graphic xxii 436 (1880), portrait; J. E. Ritchie’s Famous city men (1884) 85–95.

MACARTHY or CARTER, JOHN or THOMAS, known as Macarte and Massarti. b. Cork 1838; a servant in Bell’s circus 1862, when passing the lions’ cage in Bell’s menagerie, Crosshall st. Liverpool, a lioness seized him by the left arm, he was rescued by Batty and being removed to the Northern hospital his fore-arm was amputated 13 Nov. 1862; lion tamer in Bell and Myers’s circus 1862; lion tamer in Rosina Manders’s menagerie Jany. 1871 to death; attacked by 4 lions at Market square, Bolton 3 Jany. 1872. d. in infirmary, Bolton 3 Jany. 1872. bur. Bolton cemetery 6 Jany. Times 17 Nov. 1862 p. 12; Illust. sp. and dr. news, ii 209 (1874); Baily’s Mag. xliii 16–17, 20 (1885); T. Frost’s Circus Life (1876) 293–6.

MACAULAY, THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY, 1 Baron (eld. child of Zachary Macaulay, philanthropist 1768–1838). b. Rothley Temple, Leics. 25 Oct. 1800; began residence at Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1818, a fellow 1 Oct. 1824 to 1831; Craven univ. scholar 1821; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; D.C.L. Oxford 1853; barrister L.I. 10 Feb. 1826, bencher Jany. 1850 to death; contributed to Edinburgh Review, May 1825 to 1845; a comr. in bankruptcy Jany. 1828 to 1831; M.P. Calne 1830–2, M.P. Leeds 1832–4, M.P. Edinburgh 1839–47 and 18 July 1852 to Jany. 1856; a comr. of board of control July to Dec. 1832, secretary to the board 19 Dec. 1832 to 26 Dec. 1833; fifth member of supreme council of India at Calcutta 4 Dec. 1833 to Dec. 1838; compiled a criminal code for India 1835–7; began his History of England, March 1839; secretary at war with a seat in the cabinet 26 Sep. 1839 to 4 Sep. 1841; proposed a copyright of 42 years from publication, which became law 1842; paymaster general 7 July 1846 to 11 May 1848; lord rector of univ. of Glasgow, Nov. 1848, installed 21 March 1849; F.R.S. 22 Nov. 1849; fellow of univ. of London 1850–9; professor of ancient history in royal academy 1850; created baron Macaulay of Rothley, Leicestershire 10 Sep. 1857; high steward of borough of Cambridge 1857, sworn in 11 May 1858; lived at El The Albany, Piccadilly 1840–56, and at Holly lodge afterwards called Airlie lodge, Campden Hill 1856 to death; author of Critical and miscellaneous essays 5 vols. 1841–4; Lays of ancient Rome 1842; The history of England 5 vols. 1849–61; Speeches 2 vols. 1853; The works of lord Macaulay. Ed. by lady Trevelyan 8 vols. 1866, portrait. d. in his library at Holly lodge, Campden hill, Kensington 28 Dec. 1859. bur. in Poet’s Corner, Westminster abbey 9 Jany. 1860 where is bust, statue by T. Woolner in Trin. coll. Camb. G. O. Trevelyan’s Life and letters of Lord Macaulay 2 vols. (1876), portrait; Men of the time (1857) 489–93; Illustrated Review, iv 1–11 (1873), portrait; Peter Anton’s Masters in history (1884) 123–94; Jerrold, Tennyson and Macaulay. By J. H. Stirling (1868) 112–71; Rev. F. Arnold’s Public life of Lord Macaulay (1862); R. H. Horner’s New spirit of the age, ii 33–50 (1844); D. O. Madden’s Chiefs of parties, ii 113–35 (1859); Proc. of royal society, xi 11–26 (1860); Traits of character. By A Contemporary, ii 1–26 (1860); Fagan’s Reform club (1887) 121, portrait.

MACAULAY, BEATA ELIZABETH. b. 1800; cousin of lord Macaulay; contributed much to City Press; translated Domestic worship by J. H. Merle D’Aubigné 1846. d. Gurnard, Cowes, Isle of Wight 15 Jany. 1883.

MACAULAY, CHARLES ZACHARY. b. 15 Oct. 1813; assistant to sir Benjamin Brodie; private secretary to T. B. Macaulay when secretary at war 1839 to 1841; secretary of the Audit office 1854–65, one of the chairmen 1865–6 when granted pension of £1200; edited under pseudonym of Conway Morel, Authority and conscience, a debate on the tendency of dogmatic theology. London 1871. d. 7 Aug. 1886.

MACAULAY, COLIN CAMPBELL (2 son of Aulay Macaulay, V. of Rothley). b. Rothley vicarage 19 Nov. 1799; ed. by his father and at Rugby; clerk to Thomas Burbidge of Leicester, solicitor 1815–28; admitted an attorney and solicitor; member of firm of Greaves and Burbidge of Leicester, solicitors 1831 to death; member of Leicester literary and philosophical society, president 1847–49, contributed many papers to the transactions. d. Knighton lodge, Leicester 20 Oct. 1853. bur. family vault Rothley. G.M. xl 644 (1853).

MACAULAY, SIR JAMES BUCHANAN (2 son of James Macaulay, inspector general of hospitals). b. Niagara, Ontario, Canada 3 Dec. 1793; ensign 98 foot 14 Dec. 1809; lieut. in Glengarry fencibles 1812–15 when corps was disbanded; fought at Ogdensburg, Oswego, Lundy’s Lane, and at siege of Fort Erie in the war with America; admitted to Canadian bar 1822; judge of court of queen’s bench 1829; chief justice of court of common pleas, Dec. 1849 to 1856 when he retired on a pension; judge of court of error and appeal 1859; chairman of commission appointed to revise and consolidate the statutes of Upper Canada, completed 1858; C.B. 30 Nov. 1858; knighted by patent 13 Jany. 1859. d. Toronto 26 Nov. 1859.

MACAULAY, KENNETH (youngest son of rev. Aulay Macaulay). b. Rothley 1815; ed. at Jesus coll. Camb., B.A. 1835, M.A. 1839; barrister I.T. 3 May 1839, bencher 1850 to death, reader 1864, treasurer 1865; Q.C. Feb. 1850; leader of Midland circuit; M.P. borough of Camb. 9 July 1852, unseated by committee of house of commons Aug. 1854; M.P. Camb. 28 March 1857 to 6 July 1865. d. Shaftesbury road, Brooklands, Cambridge 29 July 1867. Law Times, xliii 224 (1867); I.L.N. xxii 152 (1853), portrait.

MC AULEY, JEREMIAH. b. Ireland 1839; went to New York 1852; a thief and prize-fighter; sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for highway robbery 1858, released March 1864; entered the Methodist church and in Oct. 1872 opened a mission called the Helping Hand in Water st. New York; opened the Cremorne mission with his wife Maria 1882; began publication of a weekly paper called Jerry Mc Auley’s Newspaper, June 1883. d. New York 18 Sep. 1884. Jerry Mc Auley, an autobiography ed. by R. M. Offord. New York (1885), portraits of himself and wife.

MACBAIN, SIR JAMES (youngest son of Smith Macbain of Invergordon). b. Kinrhives, Rossshire, April 1828; apprenticed to Andrew Smith of Inverness, warehouseman 1845–50; traveller for firm of Milligan & Co. of Bradford; clerk in bank of New South Wales at Melbourne 1853–7; managing partner for a branch of firm of Gibbs, Ronald & Co. mercantile and squatting agents Melbourne 1858, partner in the London house 1863, the Australian mortgage, land and finance co. bought the business 1865, chairman of the Australian directorate 1865–90; member for Wimmera district of legislative assembly of Victoria 1864–80; member for the Central province, to the legislative council 1880–3; a cabinet minister Aug. 1881 to March 1883; member for South Yarra 1884; pres. of the legislative council 27 Nov. 1884; chairman of Victorian comrs. at Amsterdam exhibition 1883; pres. of executive commission of Melbourne centennial exhibition 1888; knighted by patent 21 June 1886; K.C.M.G. 24 May 1889. d. Scotsburn near Toorak, Melbourne 4 Nov. 1892.

MACBEAN, ARCHIBALD. b. 1793; second lieut. R.A. 13 Dec. 1810, lieut.-col. 1 Nov. 1848 to 11 June 1850 when he retired on full pay; L.G. 2 Feb. 1868. d. 1 Lancaster terrace, Regent’s park, London 1 Feb. 1871.

MACBEAN, FREDERICK. Ensign 6 foot 9 June 1803, captain 16 May 1816; served in the Peninsula 1812–13 and in Upper Canada 1815; major 7 foot 18 July 1826; lieut.-col. 84 foot 2 Nov. 1838 to 10 Dec. 1847 when he sold out; K.H. 1835. d. 15 March 1865 aged 78.

M’BEAN, JAMES. b. 1795; presbyterian minister; librarian to univ. of St. Andrews 1839–70. d. 8 Queen st. St. Andrews 26 April 1886.

MACBEAN, SIR WILLIAM (son of Wm. Frederick Macbean, lieut.-col. 6 foot). b. Southampton 1782; cadet in service of Seven united provinces 1794; ensign 6 foot 20 Feb. 1796, captain 25 Oct. 1804; major on Portuguese and Spanish staff 16 Feb. 1809, brevet lieut.-col. 1811, placed on h.p. 1814; lieut.-col. 100 foot 7 Dec. 1815, regiment was made 99 foot and disbanded at Chatham 2 Sep. 1818 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. 54 foot 5 Oct. 1820, placed on h.p. 1 Oct. 1829; colonel of 92 foot 31 May 1843 to death; general 20 June 1854; K.T.S. 1812; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 13 Sep. 1831. d. St. John’s road, Fulham near London 24 May 1855.

M’BEAN, WILLIAM. Ensign 93 foot 10 Aug. 1854, lieut.-col. 29 Oct. 1873 to 16 Feb. 1878 when he retired on a pension; M.G. 16 Feb. 1878; V.C. for killing eleven of the enemy with his own hand in the main breach of the Begum Bagh at Lucknow 11 March 1858. d. Herbert hospital, Shooter’s hill, Woolwich 23 June 1878. I.L.N. lxiii 4 (1878), portrait; Graphic, xviii 116 (1878), portrait.

MACBEAN, WILLIAM FORBES. b. 5 June 1821; ensign 86 foot 7 July 1837; lieut. St. Helena regt. 7 Jany. 1842, lieut.-col. 1 May 1859; lieut.-col. 5 West India regt. 23 June 1863 to 1 April 1865 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. 13 foot 1 July 1865; lieut.-col. brigade depot 1 April 1873; M.G. 1 Aug. 1869; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 Oct. 1882. d. Ashbourne, Derbyshire 26 Feb. 1890.

MACBETH, JAMES. b. Ayr; ed. Glasgow univ., took Thomas Campbell’s silver medal for poetry; minister Arbroath 1837; minister Norfolk st. Free church, Laurieston; author of The Bible argument for a Free church 1843; The church and the slave-holder 1850; A calm review of the debate in the Free assembly on slavery; Morrisonianism refuted. John Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1848) 266–71.

MACBETH, NORMAN (son of James Macbeth of Greenock, officer of excise). b. Greenock 1821; apprenticed to an engraver in Glasgow 7 years; studied in London and Paris; portrait painter at Greenock 1845–8 and 1856–61, at Glasgow 1848–56, at Edinburgh 1861–85; exhibited at R.S.A. from 1845; A.R.S.A. 1870, R.S.A. 10 Feb. 1880; removed to London about 1885; exhibited 24 portraits at R.A. 1837–77. d. 10 Belsize avenue, Hampstead, London 27 Feb. 1888.

MACBRIDE, JOHN ALEXANDER PATERSON (son of Archibald Macbride of Cambeltown, Argyllshire). b. Feb. 1819; pupil of Wm. Spence of Liverpool, sculptor; pupil of and manager for Samuel Joseph, sculptor, London; associate of Liverpool academy 1848, member 1850, secretary 1851 and 1852; showed many important works at Liverpool academy from 1836; executed many portrait-busts and monuments in and near Liverpool; executed the full-size statues of the four seasons in front of Garswood hall for Lord Gerard; exhibited 3 pieces of sculpture at R.A. 1848–53. d. Southend-on-Sea 4 April 1890. Graphic 3 May 1890 p. 508, portrait.

MACBRIDE, JOHN DAVID (only son of John Macbride, admiral, d. 1800). b. Plympton, Devon 28 June 1778; ed. at Cheam in Surrey and Exeter coll. Oxf., fellow 30 June 1800 to 19 July 1805; B.A. 1799, M.A. 1802, B.C.L. and D.C.L. 1811; lord almoner’s reader in Arabic 15 Feb. 1813 to death; principal of Magdalen hall, Oxf. 18 Oct. 1813 to death, the society of Magdalen hall was moved in 1822 from near Magdalen college to Catte st., the jubilee of his headship was celebrated by foundation of a Macbride scholarship 1863; F.S.A. 1805; author of Lectures explanatory of the Diatessaron. Oxford 1835; Lectures on the articles of the united church of England and Ireland. Oxford 1853; The Mohammedan religion explained 1857; Lectures on the acts of the apostles and on the epistles. Oxford 1858. d. Magdalen hall, Oxford 24 Jany. 1868.

M’BRIDGE, JAMES. b. 1831; huntsman to R. C. Hill 1866–9, at Berkeley castle 1869 and to the Quorn under Mr. Coupland 1870–80; commanded the parade at the hound show, Birmingham; huntsman at Meath 1880–4, and to the Shropshire hounds under Hulton Harrop 1884, received a testimonial; first whip and kennel huntsman to Mr. Corbet in Cheshire to death. d. Addesley, Shropshire, May 1886. Baily’s Mag. June 1886 p. 76.

M’CABE, EDWARD. b. Dublin 14 Feb. 1816; ed. at Maynooth 1833–9; curate of Clontarf, June 1839; C. of cathedral parish, Marlborough st. Dublin 1851, then administrator; refused the bishopric of Grahamstown, Africa 1854; a canon of Timothan; parish priest of St. Nicholas Without, Dublin 1856–65 where he built a new church and schools; vicar general of Dublin diocese; parish priest of Kingstown 1865–77; consecrated bishop of Gadara in partibus as assistant to Paul Cullen archbishop of Dublin 25 July 1877, succeeded him as archbishop 23 March 1879, enthroned 4 May 1879; created a cardinal priest 12 March 1882; member of senate of royal univ. of Ireland 1880 to death. d. 3 Eblana avenue, Kingstown 11 Feb. 1885. bur. Glasnevin. Memoir of Edward M’Cabe, archbishop (1879); Saturday Review, lix 243; Graphic, xxv 521 (1882), portrait; I.L.N. lxxx 372 (1882), portrait.

MACCABE, JOSEPH. b. Dublin 22 Feb. 1863; partner with Frank Hilton as knockabout performers on the music hall stage 1882–93, they were well known as the Two Macs; partner with Daniel Kennedy 1893; played in pantomime of Jack and Jill, at Prince’s theatre, Manchester 1883–4; performed in U.S. of America 1884; played in pantomime of Cinderella, at T.R. Birmingham 1886–7 and in Miss Esmeralda, at Gaiety theatre, London 8 Oct. 1887; (m. 27 June 1887 Alice Maydue, burlesque actress); performed at Pavilion and Tivoli music halls, London 5 Jany. 1893. d. of gastric catarrh at Stag House, Tooting Bec road, Tooting, Surrey 11 Jany. 1893. bur. St. Mary’s R.C. cemetery, Kensal Green 17 Jany.

NOTE.--The original Two Macs who introduced the knockabout business to England were called Frank Hilton and J. P. Macnally.

M’CABE, RICHARD. Printer Drogheda; foreman of The Examiner, the Drogheda Argus and the Coleraine Chronicle; manager of the Dundalk Patriot to 1848; a paragraphist and reporter on Dublin and Belfast newspapers to death. d. Drogheda 27 Jany. 1872. bur. Chord 29 Jany. Newspaper Press 1 March 1872 p. 88.

MACCABE, WILLIAM BERNARD. b. Dublin 23 Nov. 1801; reporter on the Dublin Morning register from 1823; edited provincial Irish newspapers; employed on the Morning Chronicle in London from about 1833, to which he contributed critical reviews; a reviewer on the Morning Herald 1835 to about 1850; edited The Telegraph newspaper in Dublin in the interest of cardinal Wiseman 1852–7; lived in Brittany many years; translated J. Venedy’s Ireland and the Irish during the repeal year, 1844, and J. J. I. Von Doellinger’s The church and the churches 1862; author of A catholic history of England 3 vols. 1847–54; Bertha, a romance of the dark ages 3 vols. 1851; Adelaide queen of Italy 1856, 2 ed. 1860; Florine princess of Burgundy 1855, 3 ed. 1873; contributed to Once a Week, Notes and Queries, and the Dublin Review. d. Donnybrook, co. Dublin 8 Dec. 1891.

M’CALL, ALLAN. b. Dumfries 1850; an architect; leader of Livingstonia mission in Nyasa-Land, travelled between fifteen and twenty thousand miles in South Africa 1872–8. d. Madeira 25 Nov. 1881. bur. Leicester cemet. 18 Jany. 1882.

MC CALL, WILLIAM. Ensign 79 foot 29 March 1839, major 12 Dec. 1854 to 5 Aug. 1857 when placed on h.p.; standard bearer to corps of gentlemen at arms 30 Sep. 1872 to death. d. 7 Bruton st. Berkeley sq. London 20 Dec. 1875.

MACCALL, WILLIAM (eld. son of John Maccall of Largs, Ayrshire, tradesman). b. Largs 25 Feb. 1812; entered Glasgow univ. 1827, M.A. 1833; Unitarian minister at Bolton, Lancs. 1837–40 and at Crediton, Devon 1841–6; preacher, lecturer and writer for the press in London 1846–61; edited The Propagandist 1862; author of The agents of civilization 1843; Sacramental services 1847; The elements of individualism 1847; Foreign biographies 2 vols. 1873; Russian Hymns 1878; Moods and memories 1885. d. Stanhope cottage, Woolwich road, Bexley Heath, Kent 19 Nov. 1888.

MAC CALMONT, FREDERICK HAYNES (2 son of rev. Thomas Mac Calmont of Highfield near Southampton). b. Highfield 1846; ed. at Eton and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1869, B.C.L. and M.A. 1872; barrister M.T. 30 April 1872; resided at Southampton, member of the school board, alderman; author of The parliamentary poll book of all elections 1832–79, 1879, Second ed. 1880, Third ed. 1885. d. Radley’s hotel, Southampton 4 Nov. 1880. Solicitors’ Journal, xxv 56 (1880).

M’CALMONT, HUGH (3 son of Hugh M’Calmont of Abbeylands, co. Antrim, d. 1839). b. 1809; member of firm of M’Calmont Brothers & Co., merchants at 15 Philpot Lane, Cannon st. London; resided at 8 Grosvenor place, London and at Abbeylands, co. Antrim; bequeathed £100,000 to St. George’s hospital, London. d. 9 Oct. 1887, the value of his personal property was declared at £3,121,931 7s. 8d., Dec. 1887.

MC CANN, NICHOLAS (son of Thomas Mc Cann of Lismoy house, co. Longford). b. 1802; M.R.C.S. 1827, L.S.A. 1834; M.D. St. Andrews 1855; L.R.C.P. Edinb. 1859; surgeon to Western dispensary, London 1831–43; surgeon to royal humane soc. 1837; fellow of Medical soc. of London; surgeon to A division of police 1839; examining physician to foreign service messengers 22 Nov. 1858 to death. d. 50 Parliament st. London 24 Jany. 1867.

MACCARTHY, SIR CHARLES JUSTIN. b. Brighton 1811; auditor general of Ceylon 1847, colonial secretary there 1851; governor of Ceylon 23 Aug. 1860 to death; knighted by patent 10 July 1857. d. Spa, Belgium 14 Aug. 1864.

M’CARTHY, DANIEL. b. near Kenmare, co. Kerry 1823; ed. Maynooth coll., teacher of rhetoric 1846, professor of scripture and Hebrew 1854, vice president 1872–8; bishop of Kerry and Aghadoe, consecrated 25 Aug. 1878; editor of L. F. Renehan’s Collections on Irish church history 1861; M. Kelly’s Dissertations on Irish church history 1864; author of Sermons on the immaculate conception 1880. d. Killarney, July 1881. Times 28 July 1881 p. 10.

MACCARTHY, DENIS FLORENCE. b. Lower Sackville st. Dublin 26 May 1817; ed. at Dublin and Maynooth; called to Irish bar 1846; contributed a series of political verse to The Nation newspaper over signature of Desmond 1842; an original member of the ’82 club formed in 1844, on the council of the confederation 1847; resided in London 1872–82; contributed poems and humorous prose papers to periodicals signed Desmond, Vig, Trifolium, Antonio, S. E. Y. and D. F. M.; his translations of Calderon’s works appeared in six issues as follows, Justina, a play 1848; Dramas 1853; Love the greatest enchantment 1861; Mysteries of Corpus Christi 1867; The two lovers of heaven 1870; The wonder-working musician, &c. 1873; for the six volumes he was granted medal of royal academy of Spain 1881; granted civil list pension of £100, 3 Aug. 1870; author of The poets and dramatists of Ireland 1 vol. 1846; Ballads, poems and lyrics 1850; The bell founder 1857; Shelley’s Early life 1872; Poems 1882. d. Blackrock near Dublin 7 April 1882. Dublin Review, April 1883 pp. 261–93.

MAC CARTHY, HAMILTON WRIGHT (2 son of John James Alexander Mac Carthy, artist). b. 1810; sculptor and poet; exhibited 23 pieces of sculpture at R.A. and 13 at B.I. 1838–67. d. 17 Springfield villas, Kilburn, London 2 Feb. 1882.

MC CARTHY, JOHN F. (son of Michael Mc Carthy). b. 1862; provision merchant at Tipperary; M.P. mid division of Tipperary 18 July 1892. d. Roscrea, Tipperary 8 Feb. 1893.

MACCARTHY, JOHN GEORGE (son of John Maccarthy of Cork). b. Cork, June 1829; founded with Justin Mac Carthy, Cork historical society 1849; founded Cork Young men’s society 1852; solicitor at Cork 1853–81; M.P. Mallow 1874–80; assistant comr. under Land act of 1881, 1881–6; one of the two comrs. under land purchase act of 1885, 1886 to death; made a knight of the order of St. Gregory by Leo XIII. Feb. 1880; author of The history of Cork, a lecture. Cork 1856; Irish land questions plainly stated and answered 1870; The French revolution of 1792, its causes etc. Dublin 1884; Henry Grattan, a historical study, Dublin 1886. d. Euston hotel, London 7 Sep. 1892. bur. Glasnevin cemet. Dublin. Irish Law Times, xxii 116 (1888).

MC CAUL, ALEXANDER. b. Dublin 16 May 1799; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 3 Oct. 1814, B.A. 1819, M.A. 1831, B.D. and D.D. 1837; tutor to Earl of Rosse; sent to Poland by London Soc. for promoting Christianity among the Jews 1821; C. of Huntley near Gloucester 1823; head of the mission to the Jews, and English chaplain at Warsaw 1823–30; settled in London 1832; published Old Paths, a weekly pamphlet on Jewish ritual 60 numbers 1836–37; principal of the Hebrew college, London 1840; declined bishopric of Jerusalem 1841; professor of Hebrew and Rabbinical literature in King’s college, London 1841–6, professor of divinity 1846–53, professor of ecclesiastical history Dec. 1853 to 1863; R. of St. James’s, Duke’s place, London 1843–50; preb. of St. Paul’s 1845 to death; declined bishoprics of Adelaide, Newcastle and Capetown 1847; R. of St. Magnus, St. Margaret and St. Michael, Fish st. hill, London 21 Jany. 1850 to death; proctor for the London clergy in convocation 1852 to death; author of A Hebrew primer 4 ed. 1836; Lectures on the Prophecies and The Messiahship of Christ, being Warburtonian lectures 2 series 1846–52; Rationalism and the divine interpretation of scripture 1850; Some notes on the first chapter of Genesis 1861; Testimonies to the divine authority of the holy scripture 1862; An examination of bishop Colenso’s difficulties with regard to the Pentateuch 2 vols. 1863–4 and 50 other works. d. St. Magnus’s rectory, London 13 Nov. 1863. bur. Ilford, Essex 20 Nov. J. B. Mc Caul’s Memoir of A. Mc Caul (1863); I.L.N. xxiv 400 (1854), portrait.

MC CAUL, JOHN. b. Dublin 7 March 1807; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1824, B.A. 1825, M.A. 1829, LL.B. and LL.D. 1835, classical tutor and examiner; principal of the Upper Canadian coll. Nov. 1838; V.P. of King’s coll. Toronto and professor of classics, logic, rhetoric and belles lettres 1842; pres. of univ. of Toronto 1849; pres. of univ. coll. and V.C. of univ. of Toronto 1853–81; M.R.I.A.; author of Remarks explanatory and illustrative on the Terentian metres 1828; The metres of the Greek tragedians explained 1828; Selections from Lucian, with English notes 1829; Remarks on the classical studies pursued in the university of Dublin 1834; Scansion of the Hecuba and Medea of Euripides 1836; Britanno-Roman inscriptions with critical notes. Toronto and London 1863; Christian epitaphs of the first six centuries 1869. d. 15 April 1887. H. J. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 254–5.

MC CAUL, JOSEPH BENJAMIN (son of Alexander Mc Caul 1799–1863). Ed. King’s coll. London, theological associate 1850; assistant in British Museum 1846–9 and engaged upon the compilation of the catalogue March 1851 to 1865; censor, reader and divinity lecturer, King’s coll. 1852–54; C. of St. Magnus the Martyr, London 1851–4; C. of All Saints’, Gordon sq. London 1854–5; C. of St. Edmund the King, Lombard st. 1858–65; chaplain at Amsterdam 1877–9; R. of St. Michael, Bassishaw 1865 to death; hon. canon of Rochester 1865 to death; author of The abbé Migne and the Bibliothèque universelle du clergé 1857; The ten commandments, the christian’s spiritual instructor 1861; Bishop Colenso’s Criticism criticised 1862; The epistle to the Hebrews in a paraphrastic commentary 1871; Dark sayings of old, an attempt to elucidate certain passages of scripture 1873; A concise exposition of St. Paul’s epistle to the Romans 1882; The last plague of Egypt and other poems 1879. d. 11 Flander’s road, Turnham Green near London 3 Feb. 1892.

MC CAUSLAND, DOMINICK (3 son of Marcus Langford Mc Causland of Roe park, co. Londonderry). b. Roe park 20 Aug. 1806; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1822, gold medallist for science 1827, B.A. 1827, LL.B. and LL.D. 1859; called to Irish bar 1835, went north western circuit; a crown prosecutor for co. Fermanagh 1859 to death; Q.C. 4 July 1860; author of The latter days of the Jewish church and nation as revealed in the Apocalypse. Dublin 1841; The times of the Gentiles as revealed in the Apocalypse. Dublin 1852, reissued 1857, both were combined in a 2nd ed. as The latter days of Jerusalem and Rome 1859; Sermons in stones 1856, 13 ed. 1873; Adam and the Adamite 1864, 2 ed. 1868; Shinar the confusion of language 1867; The builders of Babel 1871. d. 12 Fitzgibbon st. Dublin 29 June 1873. W. D. Ferguson’s Memoir of D. Mc Causland (1873); Irish Law Times, vii 354 (1873).

MC CAUSLAND, JOHN KENNEDY. b. 1803; entered Bengal army 1818; commanded Gwalior district 20 Jany. 1860 to 13 Feb. 1861; retired L.G. 31 Dec. 1861; C.B. 21 March 1859. d. Melrose villa, Cheltenham 23 July 1879.

MC CAW, WILLIAM. b. Antrim; minister of presbyterian church, Bridge st. Strangeways near Manchester, Nov. 1846; author of Truth frae ’mang the heather 1856, 5 ed. 1880; The gospel and total abstinence 1857; Romanism, ritualism and revelation 1876. J. Evans’ Lancashire authors (1850) 166–70.

MC CLEAN, JOHN ROBINSON. b. Belfast 1813; studied at univ. of Glasgow; a civil engineer in London 1844; constructed harbour, docks and railways of Barrow in Furness; partner with F. C. Stileman 1849; engineer of harbours of Dover 1851, Alderney 1862 and St. Catherine’s, Jersey 1862 &c.; sent to Egypt as comr. to report on the Suez canal route; served on several royal commissions; retired from practice 1868; contested Belfast 3 April 1857; M.P. east Staffs. 17 Nov. 1868 to death; chairman of Anglo-American telegraph co.; M.I.C.E. June 1844, member of council 1848, vice pres. 1858, pres. 1864 and 1865; F.R.S.; F.G.S.; F.R.A.S. 8 Jany. 1858. d. Stonehouse, Isle of Thanet 13 July 1873, personalty sworn under £700,000, 6 Sep. 1873. Monthly notices of R.A.S. xxxiv 148 (1874); Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxviii 287–91 (1874); Humber’s Modern engineering 3rd series (1865), portrait.

MC CLELLAND, JAMES. b. Ayr 18 Jany. 1799; accountant Glasgow, March 1824, retired 1874, had many apprentices in his business; president of royal institution of accountants, Glasgow 1853; great friend of George Combe the phrenologist; removed to London 1874. d. 32 Pembridge sq. London 24 Oct. 1879. W. C. Maclehose’s Glasgow men, ii 185–6 (1886), portrait.

MC CLELLAND, JOHN. Surgeon Bengal army 30 Nov. 1846; inspector general of hospitals 8 Nov. 1860, principal inspector general 1864 to 24 Nov. 1865 when he retired; conducted The Calcutta journal of natural history 1841; author of Reports on investigation of coal and mineral resources of India 1838; Some inquiries in Kemaon relative to geology 1835; Sketches of the medical topography and soils of Bengal 1859. d. 29 Marina, St. Leonards-on-Sea 31 July 1883.

M’CLINTOCK, JOHN (eld. son of John M’Clintock of Drumcar, M.P. Enniskillen, d. 1799). b. 14 Aug. 1770; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1790; sheriff of co. Louth 1798; present at battles of Arklow 10 June 1798 and Vinegar Hill 12 June 1798; serjeant at arms with his younger brother Wm. Foster M’Clintock 1794 to 1800 when a pension of £2545 was assigned to them in compensation for the office; M.P. Athlone, Westmeath 24 March 1820 to May 1820 when he was appointed escheator of Munster. d. Drumcar, co. Louth 12 July 1855.

MC CLURE, SIR ROBERT JOHN LE MESURIER (son of Robert Mc Clure, captain 89 foot, d. 1806). b. Wexford 28 Jany. 1807; ed. at Eton and Sandhurst; entered navy 1824; mate of the Terror in her Arctic voyage 1836–7; commanded the Romney at Havana 1842–6; first lieut. of the Investigator in sir J. C. Ross’s Arctic expedition 1848–9 and commander of her in Collinson’s expedition, sailed from Plymouth 20 Jany. 1850, discovered the north-west passage 26 Oct. 1850, the Investigator was forced into a bay on the north shore of Banks’ Land 23 Sep. 1851 where in 1853 she was abandoned; crossed Banks’s Strait to Winter harbour in Melville Island, April 1852; arrived in England in the North Star 28 Sep. 1854, tried by court martial for loss of his ship when honourably acquitted; captain 18 Dec. 1850; knighted at Windsor Castle 21 Nov. 1855; parliament awarded £10,000 to officers and crew of the Investigator 1855; captain of the Esk 1856; commanded a battalion of the naval brigade at capture of Canton, Dec. 1857; C.B. 20 May 1859; R.A. 20 March 1867, retired V.A. 29 May 1873; awarded good service pension 12 Sep. 1863. d. 25 Duke st. St. James’s, London 17 Oct. 1873. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 25 Oct. The north-west passage. Capt. Mc Clure’s despatches (1853); S. Osborn’s Discovery of a north-west passage 4 ed. (1865); A. Armstrong’s Discovery of the north-west passage (1857); S. Cresswell’s Eight sketches of the voyage of H.M.S. Investigator (1854); Graphic, viii 407, 412 (1873), portrait.

MC CLURE, SIR THOMAS, 1 Baronet (son of William Mc Clure, merchant). b. Belfast 4 March 1806; ed. at Belfast royal academical institution; merchant Belfast; sheriff of Downshire 1864 and vice lieut. 17 June 1872 to 1886; M.P. Belfast 1868–74; contested Belfast 6 Feb. 1874; M.P. Londonderry 1878–85; cr. a baronet 20 March 1874. d. Belmont near Belfast 21 Jany. 1893. Daily Graphic 23 Jany. 1893 p. 8, portrait.

M’COLLUM, THOMAS. Lessee with Wm. Charman of New royal amphitheatre, Holborn, London, opened 25 May 1867. d. 7 Oakden st. Kennington road, London 22 March 1872 aged 44. bur. Brompton cemet. 26 March. Illust. Times 22 June 1867 p. 392, view of interior of Holborn amphitheatre.

MC COMB, WILLIAM (son of Thomas Mc Comb of Coleraine, Londonderry, draper). b. Coleraine 17 Aug. 1793; teacher of Brown st. daily school, Belfast to 1828; bookseller in High st. Belfast 1828, retired 1864; established Mc Comb’s Presbyterian Almanac 1840 which ran to 1873; author of The dirge of O’Neill 1817; The school of the Sabbath 1822, 2 ed. 1825; The voice of a year, or recollections of 1848, with other poems 1849; Poetical works 1864. d. Colin View terrace, Belfast 13 Sep. 1873.

MC COMBIE, WILLIAM (only child of William Mc Combie, farmer). b. Cairnballoch, parish of Alford, Aberdeenshire 8 May 1809; a labourer on his father’s farm; farmed Cairnballoch to 1867; contributed to newspapers, to the British Quarterly Review, and to Journal of sacred literature; joined staff of North of Scotland gazette 1849; edited the Aberdeen Daily Free press from first number 6 May 1853 to death; a preacher in John st. Baptist ch. Aberdeen; author of Hours of thought 1835, 3 ed. 1856; Moral agency and man as a moral agent 1842; Memoirs of Alexander Bethune 1845; Use and abuse, the relation to labour of capital, machinery and land 1852; On education, in its constituents, objects and issues 1857. d. Broadford Bank, Aberdeen 6 May 1870. Aberdeen Daily Free Press 13 May 1870 p. 5; Newspaper Press, iv 153–4 (1870); Nicoll’s James Macdonald, journalist (1890) 34–9.

MC COMBIE, WILLIAM (younger son of Charles Mc Combie, farmer, Tillyfour). b. Tillyfour farm, Aberdeenshire 1805; ed. at Aberdeen univ.; a farmer of 1200 acres and cattle-dealer at Tillyfour; began to breed black-polled cattle 1840, fatted about 300 oxen a year; the first Scottish exhibitioner of fat cattle at Birmingham; won over 500 prizes for his cattle; one of the largest farmers in Aberdeenshire; known as the ‘Grazier King’; M.P. West Aberdeenshire 1868–76, being the first tenant farmer returned from Scotland; author of Cattle and cattle breeders 1867; The Mc Combe annual prize for black-polled cattle establed at Aberdeen 1876. d. Tillyfour farm, Aberdeenshire 1 Feb. 1880. Times 3 Feb. 1880 p. 5; Graphic, xxi 196 (1880), portrait; W. M’Combie’s Cattle breeders 4 ed. (1886), memoir xi–xviii; Aberdeen Daily Free Press 3 Feb. 1880; James Macdonald’s History of polled Angus cattle (1882).

NOTE.--His champion ox Black Prince shown at Smithfield in 1866 was by command sent to Windsor to be inspected by the Queen. On 12 July 1867 she visited Tillyfour farm.

MACCOMO, MARTINI. b. Angola, south-west Africa 1839; lion tamer at circus of Messrs. Stone and Mc Collum, New York 1855; travelled through the United States; came to England 1857, engaged by Wm. Manders proprietor of menagerie, first appeared in England at Deptford 1857; travelled with Manders as the African Lion King 1857 to death. d. from rheumatic fever at Palatine hotel, Sunderland 11 Jany. 1871. Era 15 Jany. 1871 p. 11, col. 1; Baily’s Mag. xliii 15–16 (1885).

MC CONNELL, WILLIAM. b. Warwick st. Regent st. London 29 Sep. 1831; a draughtsman on wood of illustrations to humourous books; on the original staff of The Train, a magazine 1 Jany. 1856; illustrated Oliver Oldfellow’s Our School 1857; G. F. Pardon’s The Months 1858; G. A. Sala’s Twice round the clock 1859; J. Rodenberg’s Tag und Nacht in London 1862; Upside down, or turnover traits with verses by Thomas Hood the younger 1868. d. of consumption at 17 Tavistock st. Bedford sq. London 14 May 1867.

M’COOLE, MICHAEL. b. Ireland 12 March 1837; boatman on the Mississippi river; was 6 feet and ¾ of an inch high and 200 lbs. in weight; beat Wm. Narry at Louisville, Kentuckey, April 1858; beat Tom Jennings near New Orleans 2 May 1861; fought Joseph Coburn for 2000 dollars and the championship at Cecil county, Maryland 5 May 1863 when Coburn won; fought Wm. Davis for 2000 dollars and a champion belt at Rhoads Point near St. Louis 19 Sep. 1866 when M’Coole won; fought Aaron Jones for the championship at Busenburk station, Ohio 31 Aug. 1867 when M’Coole won; fought Tom Allen for 1000 dollars a side and the championship at Foster’s Island, St. Louis 15 June 1869 when M’Coole won; fought Allen again at Chateau island, St. Louis 23 Sep. 1873 when Allen won; arrested 29 Oct. 1873 for shooting Patsy Mavery the pugilist at St. Louis, when put under 20,000 dollars bail; rearrested and found guilty of wilful murder by the coroner’s jury but the matter was squashed. d. New Orleans 17 Oct. 1886. W. E. Harding’s Champions of the American prize ring (1884) 14, 18–20, portrait.

MC CORKINDALE, DUNCAN (son of Duncan Mc Corkindale). b. Campbeltown, Argyllshire 2 Feb. 1809; a clerk in Glasgow, then in London, returned to Glasgow, retired from business 1857; author of Sketches of genius and other poems 1831; Poems of early and later years 1863; A raid in the Highlands 1868. R. Inglis’ Dramatic writers (1868) 134–5.

MACCORMAC, HENRY (son of Cornelius Maccormac an officer in the navy). b. Fairlawn, co. Armagh 1800; studied at Dublin, Paris and Edinb., M.D. Edinb. 1824; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1824; a physician at Belfast; phys. to Belfast fever hospital, took charge of the cholera hospital 1832; visiting phys. to Belfast district lunatic asylum to death; professor of theory and practice of medicine in royal Belfast institution; author of A treatise on the cause and cure of hesitation of speech or stammering 1828; The philosophy of human nature 1837; On the nature, treatment and prevention of pulmonary consumption 1855, 2 ed. 1865; Metanoia, a plea for the insane 1861; Consumption and the breath rebreathed 1872. d. Fisherwick place, Belfast 26 May 1886.

MC CORMICK, ROBERT (son of Robert Mc Cormick, surgeon in the navy, drowned 1811). b. Runham near Great Yarmouth 22 July 1800; studied at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals 1821; M.R.C.S. 6 Dec. 1822, F.R.C.S. 1844; assistant surgeon R.N. 1823; served in sir E. Parry’s expedition to Spitzbergen in the Hecla 1827; surgeon in the Terror, relieving ice bound whaling ships 1836; surgeon of the Erebus in Ross’s expedition to the Antartic 1839–43; surgeon of the William and Mary yacht at Woolwich 1845–8, of the Fisgard flagship at Woolwich 1847 to Dec. 1848; sent out in the North Star in search of Franklin 1852, when in the command of an open boat, the Forlorn Hope, in a 3 weeks’ exploration he settled the question of the opening between Baring bay and Jones’ sound; arctic medal 1857; deputy inspector of hospitals 20 May 1859, placed on retired list 29 July 1865; Greenwich hospital pension 3 Sep. 1876; author of Narrative of a boat expedition up the Wellington channel in the year 1852. 1854. d. Hecla villa, Wimbledon, Surrey 28 Oct. 1890. R. Mc Cormick’s Voyages in the Arctic and Antartic seas 2 vols. (1884), memoir ii 183–368, three portraits.

MC CORMICK, WILLIAM. b. Londonderry 1801; M.P. Londonderry 1860–65; contractor for public works 14 Buckingham st. Strand, London. d. London 12 June 1878.

M’CREA, ROBERT CONTART. b. 13 Jany. 1793; entered navy 23 Nov. 1803; present at Trafalgar; commander Scourge revenue cruiser 1818–21; captain 10 Jany. 1837; commander of the Zebra, forcibly removed the ex-rajah of Queda from his abode at Bruas on the coast of Perak and carried him a prisoner to Penang, April 1837, for which he was presented by H.E.I.C. with a piece of plate value 100 guineas; admiral on h.p. 8 April 1868. d. Guernsey 13 Jany. 1875. United Service mag. March 1875 p. 407.

M’CREE, GEORGE WILSON. b. Newcastle-on-Tyne 28 April 1822; commenced preaching in village chapels 1839; a missionary in London working among the poor of the Five dials and the Seven dials, known as the bishop of St. Giles’ 1848–73; pastor of the Borough road Baptist chapel, Southwark 1873 to death; sec. of Band of hope union; an originator of the London temperance hospital, Hampstead road 1873; edited The band of hope record 4 vols. 1861–4; author of Illustrations of peace principles 1845; Day and night in St. Giles’, a lecture 1862; The pitman’s prayer, a voice from New Hartley colliery 1862; Shadows of city life 1873; William Brock, a biography 3 ed. 1876; Thomas Wilson the silkman 1879; Poets, painters and players 1882; The Queen’s health, a word for the jubilee year 1887. d. 16 Ampton place, Gray’s inn road, London 25 Nov. 1892. Black and White 17 Dec. 1892 p. 696, portrait; Times 28 Nov. 1892 p. 6.

M’CRIE, THOMAS (eld. son of Thomas Mc Crie, ecclesiastical historian 1772–1835). b. Edinburgh 7 Nov. 1797; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edinb.; secession minister of Crieff 1820–8 and of Clola, Aberdeenshire 1828–36; minister of West Richmond st. meeting-house Edinburgh 1836; a contributor to The Witness; professor of theology at the Original secession hall, Edinb. 1836; the Seceders joined the Free church of Scotland 1852; moderator of the Free church assembly 1856; professor of church history and systematic theology at London college of English presbyterian church Oct. 1856 to 1866; D.D. Aberdeen and LL.D. Glasgow; edited The British and foreign evangelical review, Edinb.; author of Life of Thomas Mc Crie 1840; Sketches of Scottish church history 1841, 5 ed. 1875; The ancient history of the Waldensian church 1845; Lectures on Christian baptism 1850; Memoirs of Sir Andrew Agnew 1850, 2 ed. 1851; Thoughts on union with the free church of Scotland 1852; Annals of English presbyterianism 1872; The story of the Scottish church from the reformation to the disruption 1874. d. 39 Minto st. Edinburgh 9 May 1875. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 349–56, portrait.

MACCULLOCH, HORATIO (son of a weaver). b. Glasgow, Nov. 1805, and named after lord Nelson; apprenticed to a house-painter; painter of snuff-boxes for Messrs. Smith at Cumnock, Ayrshire 1824; engaged colouring prints in Edinburgh; landscape painter at Glasgow to 1838, then at Edinb.; exhibited at R.S.A. from 1829, an associate 1834, an academician 1838, exhibited Bothwell castle on the Clyde 1863; exhibited 2 pictures at R.A. London and 1 at B.I. 1843–8; the most popular landscape painter of his day in Scotland; illustrated J. P. Lawson’s Scotland delineated 1847; and with others W. Beattie’s Scotland illustrated 1838. d. St. Colme’s villa, Trinity, Edinburgh 24 June 1867, two portraits of him by Sir Daniel Macnee are in national gallery of Scotland. Fraser’s Scottish landscape, the works of H. Macculloch (1872), life pp. 9–39, portrait; Chambers’s Biog. Dict. of Scotsmen, iii 11–13 (1875).

MC CULLOCH, SIR JAMES (son of George Mc Culloch). b. Glasgow 1819; in office of J. and A. Dennistoun, merchants, Glasgow 1839, became a partner 1853, and going to Melbourne, Australia, opened a branch establishment there April 1853, firm wound up 1862; founded house of Mc Culloch, Sellar and Co. 1862; nominee member of Victoria legislative council 1854; elected for Wimmera to first legislative assembly 24 Oct. 1856; formed a government, himself being commissioner of trade and customs 29 April 1857, resigned 10 March 1858; member for East Melbourne 1858, treasurer 27 Oct. 1859 to 26 Nov. 1860; member for Mornington 1862, chief secretary 27 June 1863 to 6 May 1868, chief sec. and treasurer 11 July 1868 to 20 Sep. 1869, chief sec. 9 April 1870 to 19 June 1871; knighted by patent 4 June 1870; agent general for Victoria in London 1872–3; K.C.M.G. 9 March 1874; premier and treasurer of Victoria 20 Oct. 1875 to 21 May 1877. d. Garbard hall, Ewell, Surrey 30 Jany. 1893.

M’CULLOCH, JAMES MELVILLE (1 son of John M’Culloch 1783–1845). b. St. Andrews 25 Feb. 1801; ed. at the United coll. St. Andrews, M.A. 1821, then at St. Mary’s coll.; master gram. sch. Dunkeld 1821–6; head master Circus place sch. Edinb. Jany. 1826 to Feb. 1829; minister St. Vigean’s chapel, Arbroath 25 Feb. 1829 to 1832; minister of parish ch. Kelso 27 Sep. 1832 to 1843; D.D. of St. Andrews 1841; minister of the west parish, Greenock 23 Nov. 1843 to death; presented on his jubilee with a salver and £1260, Feb. 25, 1879; author of Lectures on the advantages which the church derives from an alliance with the state 1835; Pietas juvenilis, a manual of devotion for schools 1838. d. Greenock 12 Jany. 1883. Sermons by J. M. M’Culloch (1884), memoir pp. vii–lvi, portrait; J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy 2 Ser. (1849) 289–94.

MC CULLOCH, JOHN RAMSAY (eld. son of Edward Mc Culloch). b. Isle of Whithorn, Wigtownshire 1 March 1789; ed. at Kinross and univ. of Edinb.; wrote the economical articles for The Scotsman 1817–27, edited it 1818–20; contributed 76 articles to Edinburgh Review 1818–37; delivered the Ricardo memorial lectures in London 1824; professor of political economy at London univ. 1828–32; comptroller of the Stationery Office 1838 to death; a foreign associate of Institute of France 1843; granted civil list pension of £200, 30 June 1846; author of The principles of political economy, Edinb. 1825, 7 ed. 1886; An essay on the circumstances which determine the rate of wages and the condition of the labouring classes. Edinb. 1826, 4 ed. 1868; A dictionary, practical, theoretical and historical of commerce and commercial navigation 1832–9. d. in the Stationery Office, Prince’s st. Storey’s gate, Westminster 11 Nov. 1864, portrait by Sir Daniel Macnee in National portrait gallery, London. I.L.N. 26 Nov. 1864 p. 541, portrait.

MC CULLOCH, WILLIAM (eld. son of the preceding). b. parish of St. Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh 28 Feb. 1816; ed. at high sch. Edinb. and at Addiscombe; ensign 13 Bengal N.I. 24 Sep. 1835, major 4 Sep. 1857, retired with rank of lieut.-col. 31 Dec. 1861; assistant to political agent at Manipur, April 1840, political agent there 1845–63 and 1864–7; author of An account of Manipur and the Hill tribes. Calcutta 1859. d. 4 April 1885.

MC CULLOUGH, JOHN EDWARD (son of a farmer). b. in Coleraine, Ireland 2 Nov. 1837; apprentice to a chair maker, Philadelphia, U.S. America 1853; appeared in The Belle’s stratagem at Arch theatre, Philadelphia 15 Aug. 1857; acted in Boston and other cities; travelled with Edwin Forrest playing second parts 1866–8; with Lawrence P. Barrett manager of Bush st. theatre, San Francisco, Jany. 1869; Forrest left him his MS. plays, regarding him as his legitimate successor 1872; acted throughout the States 1873–83; first appeared in England at Drury Lane theatre 25 April 1881 as Virginius, then played Othello; returned to New York 1881. d. in a lunatic asylum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 8 Nov. 1885. The Theatre 1 Aug. 1881 p. 121, portrait; Illust. Sport. and Dram. News 14 May 1881 pp. 199, 209, portrait; New monthly mag. cxix 619–23 (1881), portrait.

M’CUTCHEON, JAMES. Editor of the ‘Tyrone Constitution.’ d. Omagh 4 Feb. 1855.

MAC DERMOTT, ROBERT (son of W. C. Mac Dermott, barrister). b. Upper Gloucester st. Dublin 1832; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. and M.B. 1854, M.D. 1858, gained Berkeley gold medal for Greek; professor of materia medica in Catholic univ. Ireland 1856; the best public lecturer of his time. d. of typhoid fever 9 Great Denmark st. Dublin 8 Oct. 1859. Memoir of Dr. R. Mac Dermott, M.R.I.A. Dublin (1860).

M’DIARMID, JOHN (son of Hugh M’Diarmid, minister of Gaelic church, Glasgow). b. Glasgow 1790; clerk in Commercial bank, Edinburgh to 1817; amanuensis to professor John Playfair in Edinb.; with Charles Maclaren and William Ritchie established the Scotsman in Edinb. 25 Jany. 1817; edited the Dumfries and Galloway Courier, Jany. 1817, a proprietor 1820, owner of the paper 1837 to death, his son William Ritchie M’Diarmid admitted a partner 1843; published the Dumfries Magazine 1825–8; the friend of Robert Burns’ widow and her executor 1834; entertained at a public dinner at Dumfries 1847; edited Poems of W. Cooper 1819, 4 ed. 1854; Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield 1823; and Paul and Virginia 1824; author of The scrap book prose and verse. Edinb. 1821, 3 ed. 1825; Letters of Junius, with dissertations and notes. By Atticus Secundus 1822; Sketches from nature 1830; Pictures of Dumfries and its environs 1832. d. Dumfries 18 Nov. 1852; a M’Diarmid bursary of £10 a year founded at Edinb. univ. W. Anderson’s Scottish Nation, iii 720–2 (1863).

MACDONALD, ALEXANDER. 2 lieut. R.A. 3 Dec. 1803; lieut.-colonel 20 July 1840 to 9 Nov. 1846; served in the Peninsula and South of France 1809–14; C.B. 19 July 1838; L.G. 20 June 1854. d. Aix-la-Chapelle 31 May 1856.

MACDONALD, ALEXANDER. b. New Monkland, Lanarkshire, June 1821; commenced working in a coal pit 1831; at the age of 21 had saved £250; ed. Glasgow univ. 1851 still working as a collier during the summer and autumn; a teacher 1853; agitated for release of women and children from working in coal mines 1852–72, and on laws of contract and hiring, and on the truck system; contested Kilmarnocks burghs 1868; M.P. Stafford 1874 to death, the first working man member, known as the Working Men’s member of parliament; sec. of Miners’ association of Scotland; president of Miners’ national union 1863; visited the U.S. America 3 times; presented by the miners with £1500, Jany. 1873; member of royal commission on trade unions 1874. d. Well hall near Hamilton 31 Oct. 1881. bur. New Monkland ch. yard 7 Nov. The Biograph, Aug. 1880 pp. 148–57; I.L.N. lxiv 551, 552 (1874), portrait.

MACDONALD, ANGUS. b. Aberdeen 1816; ed. at King’s coll. Aberdeen and univ. of Edinb., M.D. Edinb. 1864; M.R.C.P. Edinb. 1868, F.R.C.P. 1869; practised at Edinb. 1864 to death; lecturer at Minto house, afterwards at Surgeons’ hall; phys. and clinical lecturer on diseases of women in Edinb. royal infirmary; phys. to royal maternity hospital, Edinb.; F.R.S. Edinb. 1871; edited R. E. S. Jackson’s Notebook of materia medica, Edinb. 1871, another ed. 1875; author of The bearings of chronic diseases of the heart upon pregnancy 1878. d. 29 Charlotte sq. Edinburgh 10 Feb. 1886.

MACDONALD, DUNCAN GEORGE FORBES (youngest son of John Macdonald 1799–1849, called ‘The Apostle of the North’). b. about 1823; agricultural engineer in London and Dingwall 1848, also practised as a civil engineer; one of comrs. to adjust boundary line of British North America about 1858; drainage engineer of improvements under control of enclosure comrs. for England and Wales; engineer in chief to inspector general of Highland destitution; F.G.S., F.R.G.S.; author of What the farmer may do with the land 1852; British Columbia and Vancouver’s island, a description of these dependencies 1862; Hints on farming and estate management 10 ed. 1869; Napoleon III. and the Franco-German war 1871; Cattle, sheep and deer 1872; The Highland crofters of Scotland 1878; Grouse disease 1883. d. Lymington house, Brighton 3 Jany. 1884.

MACDONALD, ELIZABETH (dau. of Renald Macdonald of Scotland). b. 1772; sent by her guardian to school at Calais; received 22 May 1794 at the Benedictine monastery of the Glorious assumption of the B.V.M. founded at Brussels by Lady Mary Percy in 1597; fled with the community to England in 1794; received the habit of religion and took the names of Mary Benedict at the convent St. Peter st. Winchester 11 May 1795 and was the first to be professed there 8 Sep. 1796; elected 15th abbess of the community 9 Sep. 1811, the ceremony of her benediction took place 10 Oct. 1811, tendered her resignation to cardinal Wiseman, resignation accepted 25 Feb. 1848. d. at the convent, Winchester 17 May 1854.

MACDONALD, GEORGE. b. 10 Oct. 1784; ensign 27 foot 5 Sep. 1805, captain 17 Aug. 1815, placed on h.p. 25 Feb. 1816; captain 16 foot 5 Sep. 1816, lieut.-col. 10 Jany. 1837, placed on h.p. 7 July 1841; governor of Sierra Leone 17 Dec. 1841 to March 1845; col. of 96 foot 27 Dec. 1860, of 16 foot 13 Feb. 1863 to death; general 25 Oct. 1871; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877. d. Torquay 1 March 1883. Graphic, xxv 181 (1883) portrait.

MACDONALD, HUGH. b. Bridgeton, Glasgow 4 April 1817; apprenticed to a block-printer; kept a provision shop in Bridgeton; a block-printer at Paisley to 1849; wrote for the Glasgow Citizen 1849–53 and for the Glasgow Sentinel 1855; edited the Glasgow Times; literary editor of Morning Journal 1858 to death; author of Rambles round Glasgow 2 ed. 1856; Days at the coast, sketches of the Frith of Clyde 1874. d. 16 March 1860. Hugh Macdonald’s Poetical Works (1865), memoir; Rev. Charles Rogers’s Leaves from my autobiography (1876) 286–7.

MACDONALD, JAMES. Comedian in North of England; lessee of the Shields, Scarborough and Hartlepool theatres; lessee of T.R. Darlington to 1871; held a responsible position at Drury Lane theatre under F. B. Chatterton 1871–9. d. Newcastle-on-Tyne 25 Jany. 1889 aged 60.

MAC DONALD, JAMES. b. Hopeman, Elginshire 1842; in the house of W. P. Nimmo, bookseller, Edinb. 1860, then a traveller for Nimmo in Scotland; traveller for G. Waterston and Sons, Edinb. till 1870; Canadian traveller for W. Collins, Sons and co. 1870–80; partner with John Walker and William Barringer as J. Walker & Co. booksellers, Warwick lane, Paternoster row, London 1880 to death; killed while crossing the line at Beckenham station, Kent 15 Aug. 1891. bur. Elmer’s End cemetery.

MACDONALD, JAMES WILLIAM BOSVILLE (2 son of Godfrey Macdonald, 3 baron Macdonald 1775–1832). b. 31 Oct. 1810; ensign 81 foot 1 Oct. 1829; cornet 1 life guards 1831, captain 24 June 1837 to 30 Dec. 1842; private sec. to commander in chief at head quarters 15 July 1856 to death; present at battles of Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and at siege of Sebastopol; col. 21 hussars 1 July 1880 to death; general 1 July 1881; deputy ranger of Hyde park; C.B. 5 July 1855. d. St. Leonards-on-Sea 4 Jany. 1882. Army and navy mag. iii 399 (1882), portrait.

MACDONALD, SIR JOHN (eld. son of Alexander Macdonald, major in the army 1762–1808). b. 10 Sep. 1788; ensign 88 foot 17 Dec. 1803, captain 7 Sep. 1809; major Portuguese service 25 Oct. 1814; major 91 foot 29 Nov. 1821, lieut.-col. 23 Sep. 1824 to 26 April 1827 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. 92 foot 21 Nov. 1828 to 9 Nov. 1846; commanded the force sent to suppress Irish insurrection of July 1848; col. 92 foot 25 May 1855 to death; general 7 March 1862; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831, K.C.B. 4 Feb. 1856. d. Dun Alastair, Perthshire 24 June 1866.

MACDONALD, JOHN (son of Wm. Macdonald). b. Strathglass, Invernessshire 2 July 1818; ed. at the Scots seminary, Ratisbon 1830–7 and Scots college at Rome 1837–40; ordained priest 1841; missioner of Tombae, Banffshire 1841–2, of Glenmoriston, Inverness 1842–4, of Dornie Kintail, Ross 1844, and of Braemar 1844–5; assistant at Inverness 1845–8; missioner Frassnakyle, Strathglass 1848–56; chaplain to Lord Lovat at Eskdale 1856–68; co-adjutor vicar-apostolic of northern district of Scotland, Nov. 1868, vicar-apostolic 23 Feb. 1869; consecrated at Aberdeen bishop of northern district by title of bishop of Nicopolis 24 Feb. 1869; bishop of restored diocese of Aberdeen 29 Jany. 1878 to death. d. Aberdeen 4 Feb. 1889. Brady’s Catholic hierarchy, iii 475–6 (1877).

MACDONALD, SIR JOHN ALEXANDER (1 son of Hugh Macdonald, yeoman of Sutherlandshire). b. George st. Glasgow 11 Jany. 1815; emigrated to Canada with his parents 1820; ed. at royal gram. sch. Kingston; member of bar of Upper Canada 1836; bencher of Law Soc. of Ontario; head of firm of Macdonald and Marsh, Toronto; Q.C. 1846; representative of Kingston in house of assembly 1844–67; receiver general May 1847; commissioner of crown lands 1848; attorney general for Canada West 1854, 1858–62 and 1864; leader of the conservative party 1856–8; postmaster general 1858 for one day; minister of militia 1862 and 1865; P.C. of Canada 1867; minister of justice and attorney general 1867–73; K.C.B. 29 June 1867, G.C.B. 21 Aug. 1884; D.C.L. Oxf. 21 June 1865; took an active part in the federation of the British North American provinces 1864–67 under name of Dominion of Canada; premier of the United provinces July 1867 to 6 Nov. 1873 and 1878 to death; one of 5 British commissioners on treaty of Washington, Feb. 1871; P.C. of Great Britain 14 Aug. 1879; favoured construction of Canadian Pacific railway opened 28 June 1886; was so like lord Beaconsfield that he was called the Canadian Disraeli. d. Earnscliffe hall near Ottawa 6 June 1891, memorial marble bust unveiled in south aisle of the crypt chapel of St. Paul’s cathedral, London 16 Nov. 1892. E. G. Collins’s Life of Sir John Macdonald (1892), 2 portraits; Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 237; Appleton’s American biography, iv 102–4 (1888), portrait; Black and White 13 June 1891 p. 602, portrait; St. Stephen’s Review 7 March 1891, portrait; I.L.N. xxxiii 5 (1858), portrait.

MAC DONALD, JOHN CAMERON (son of a factor for lord Abinger). b. Fort William, Invernessshire, June 1822; a reporter on The Times 1842, wrote also descriptive articles on Ireland 1848, on Great Exhibition 1851, Sydenham crystal palace 1854, Chobham camp 1853 and duke of Wellington’s funeral 1852; accompanied prince consort on his visit to emperor of the French at Boulogne 1853; distributed The Times Crimean sick and wounded fund in Russia 1855; a student at an inn of court; manager of The Times printing establishment 1855; printed from stereotype plates 1860; with Joseph Calverley invented the Walter press 1862–71; printed from stereotype plates from continuous rolls of paper 1866; manager of The Times 1873 to death; managed the case of The Times before the special commission on Irish affairs 22 Oct. 1888 to 22 Nov. 1889, which with damages for insertion of forged letters cost The Times a large sum of money. d. Waddon near Croydon 10 Dec. 1889. The Times 11, 12, 16 and 25 Dec. 1889; I.L.N. 21 Dec. 1889 p. 786, portrait; Graphic 21 Dec. 1889 p. 753, portrait.

MACDONALD, LAWRENCE (son of Alexander Macdonald, violinist). b. Boneyview, Findo-Gask, Perthshire 15 Feb. 1799; apprenticed to Thomas Gibson, mason; an ornamental sculptor in Edinburgh to 1822; entered Trustees’ academy, Edinb. 26 Feb. 1822; studied at Rome 1822–6 where he helped to found British academy of arts 1823, trustee to death; sculptor at Edinburgh 1827–32 and at Rome 1832 to death; exhibited 48 pieces of sculpture at R. A. 1828–57; exhibited in royal institution, Edinb. 1829 colossal group of ‘Ajax bearing the dead body of Patroclus and combating a Trojan warrior’; second to Charles Maclaren in his duel with James Browne, fought near Edinb. 12 Nov. 1829; member of Scottish academy 1829–58. d. Rome 4 March 1878. bur. cemetery of Porta San Paolo. P. R. Drummond’s Perthshire (1879) 109–26; R. Brydall’s Art in Scotland (1889) 190.

M’DONALD, NORMAN HILTON (only son of sir John M’Donald, K.C.B., adjutant general). Controller of the lord chamberlain’s department 1852 to death; siezed with apoplexy while talking with the marchioness of Ely at lady Elizabeth Hope Vere’s. d. lord chamberlain’s office, St. James’s palace, London 1 Dec. 1857.

MACDONALD, NORMAN WILLIAM. b. 1808; governor of Sierra Leone 7 April 1846 to 13 Sep. 1852. d. Priory field house, Taunton 13 May 1893.

M’DONALD, PETER (son of Randal M’Donald). b. Kilfinane, co. Limerick 1836; ed. French college, Blackrock; a commercial traveller; partner in firm of Cantwell and M’Donald, wine merchants and distillers, Dublin; M.P. North Sligo division in the Anti-Parnellite interest Dec. 1885 to death; sheriff of Dublin 1886. d. Clarinda park, Kingstown 12 March 1891. Daily Graphic 17 March 1891 p. 8, portrait.

MACDONALD, REGINALD GEORGE (eld. son of John Macdonald of Clanronald, captain 22 dragoons 1764–94). b. Aug. 1788; M.P. Plympton 1812–24. d. 22 Clarendon road, Kensington 11 March 1873.

MACDONALD, ROBERT (son of Alexander Macdonald, wine merchant). b. Perth 18 May 1813; ed. St. Andrew’s univ., D.D. 1870, and at Edinb. univ.; presbyterian minister Longiealmond, Perthshire 1836 and at Blairgowrie 1837–43; Free ch. minister at Blairgowrie 1843–57 and at North Leith 1857; author of Lessons for the present from the records of the past 1848; From day to day, helpful words for christian life 1879. J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy 2 Ser. (1849) 156–61; Wylie’s Disruption worthies (1881) 36–70.

MACDONALD, WILLIAM (son of John Macdonald of Carraden, Linlithgow). b. 1784; ed. at Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1805, M.A. 1807; V. of Broad Hinton, Cricklade 1809; V. of Chitterne 1812; V. of Bishops-Cannings, Wilts. 14 April 1815 to death; canon of Bitton in Salisbury cath. 1823 to death; archdeacon of Wilts. 21 June 1828 to death; author of Select works of John Douglas bishop of Carlisle, with a memoir. Salisbury 1820; A series of plain sermons on the leading articles of the christian faith 1824. d. Bishops-Cannings 24 June 1862. W. H. Jones’s Fasti (1879) 177.

MACDONALD, WILLIAM. b. 21 April 1797; ed. Edinb. univ., M.D. 1818; F.R.C.P. Edinb. 1836; lecturer comparative anatomy, Lane’s medical school, London; professor of natural history in the united colleges, St. Andrews 12 Aug. 1850 to death. d. 20 Queen st. St. Andrews 1 Jany. 1875.

MACDONALD, WILLIAM (son of a bootcloser). b. Newcastle 1859; a newspaper boy in Sunderland; in training stable of James Watson, Belleisle, Richmond, Yorks. 1871–4; won the Princess of Wales plate on Tetrarch at Sandown 27 April 1875, and the Autumn cup on Bugle 18 Oct. 1877; in 1877 had 130 mounts and was a winner in 13, in 1878 had 248 mounts winning 35 times, and in 1880 had 355 mounts winning 47; rode also in France 1878–9; at Epsom in 1881 was second on Retreat for the Derby; won the Cesarewitch stakes on Chippendale 1879 and on Foxhall 1881; won Prince of Wales stakes at Ascot 1880; when riding Buchanan for Liverpool cup, fell and was kicked on the head 12 Nov. 1881. d. Sefton arms hotel, Liverpool 12 Nov. 1881. Sporting Mirror, ii 161–4 (1881), portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news, xvi 238, 245 (1881), portrait.

MACDONALD, WILLIAM BELL (eld. son of Donald Macdonald). b. Scotland 1807; ed. at univ. of Glasgow, B.A. 1827; served as surgeon in sir Pulteney Malcolm’s flagship in the Mediterranean 1828–31; a comr. of supply; one of the greatest linguists of his time, making a special study of Coptic; collected a valuable library at his estate Rammerscales; a contributor to the Ray Society on zoology and botany 1845–6; represented burgh of Lochmaben in general assembly of church of Scotland some years; author of Lusus Philologici. Ex museo Gul. B. Macdonald. Rammerscales 1851; Ten Scottish songs rendered into German 1854; Sketch of a Coptic grammar adapted for self-tuition 1856. d. 114 West Campbell st. Glasgow 5 Dec. 1862. Gent. Mag. March 1863 p. 390; Inglis’s Dramatic Writers of Scotland (1868) 71.

MACDONALD, WILLIAM RUSSELL. b. 1787; editor and part proprietor of Bell’s Life in London, the Sunday Herald, the British Drama, and the Literary Humourist; author of A paraphrase of R. Dodsley’s Economy of human life 1817; Fudge in Ireland, a collection of letters, poems, etc. 1822, anon.; Christianity, protestantism and popery compared and contrasted 1829, anon.; The book of quadrupeds 1838; First and second lessons for the nursery 1838. d. Great James st. Bedford row, London 30 Dec. 1854.

MAC DONELL, SIR ALEXANDER (eld. son of Hugh Mac Donell, consul general, Algiers). b. Algiers 24 Feb. 1820; ensign rifle brigade 23 June 1837, major 22 Dec. 1854, lieut.-col. 16 June 1857 to 22 Feb. 1871; served in Kaffir war 1846–7; present at Balaclava, Alma and Inkerman; commanded 2 bat. May 1855 to fall of Sebastopol, medal with 3 clasps; commanded 3 bat. in Indian mutiny, present at capture of Lucknow; served in campaign of north-west frontier of India 1864; commanded expedition against Mohund tribes 1863–4; brigadier general Bengal 22 March 1867 to 23 Oct. 1871; major general Bengal 12 April 1872 to 31 March 1877; C.B. 27 July 1855, K.C.B. 24 May 1881; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877, retired 1 April 1882 with rank of general; colonel commandant 2 bat. rifle brigade 24 Jany. 1886 to death. d. Hackbridge, Carshalton, Surrey 30 April 1891. I.L.N. 16 May 1891 p. 639, portrait.

MAC DONELL, EWEN (son of lieut.-col. Archibald Mac Donell, lieut. governor of Edinburgh castle). b. 1807; studied medicine; entered H.E.I.C. 1835; a doctor; during the mutiny he raised the Sewan levy, received the mutiny medal, accorded special thanks of government of India and a letter of approbation from the queen. d. 59 Nevern square, Earl’s court, London 20 May 1891.

MACDONELL, SIR JAMES (3 son of Duncan Macdonell, chief of Glengarry). b. Glengarry house, Invernessshire; ensign in an independent company 1793; lieut. 78 foot 1794; captain 17 light dragoons 1 Dec. 1795, major 1802; major 78 foot 17 April 1804, lieut.-col. 7 Sep. 1809; served in Naples, Sicily and Egypt 1806–7; lieut.-col. 2 garrison battalion 21 Feb. 1811; captain 2 foot guards 11 Aug. 1811, lieut.-col. 27 May 1825 to 22 July 1830; served in the Peninsula May 1812 to Jany. 1814, and at battle of Waterloo, where he held the chateau of Hougoumont against the French, was one of the persons who helped to shut the gate of the chateau; commanded the Armagh district 1831–8; commanded brigade of guards in Canada 1838; commanded the troops in Canada to 1841; col. of 79 foot 14 July 1842 to 8 Feb. 1849 and of 71 foot 8 Feb. 1849 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 20 April 1838, G.C.B. 5 July 1855; K.C.H. 1837; had decorations of Maria Theresa of Austria and of St. Vladimir of Russia. d. 15 Wilton place, London 15 May 1857. Stewart’s Scottish Highlanders, ii 292–322 (1822); Mackinnon’s Coldstream Guards, ii 214–17 (1833).

MACDONELL, JAMES (eld. son of James Macdonell, excise officer d. 1858). b. Dyce, Aberdeenshire 21 April 1842; left the church of Rome and joined the Baptists 1860; wrote leading articles in the Aberdeen Free Press 1858; on the staff of Daily Review in Edinb. 1862; editor of the Northern Daily Express at Newcastle 1862 at £150 a year to 1865; on the staff of the Daily Telegraph in London 1865–75, the special correspondent in France 9 Dec. 1871 to May 1872; leader writer on The Times 25 March 1875 to death; wrote many articles in Fraser’s Mag., North British Review and Macmillan’s Mag.; author of France since the first empire 1879. d. 78 Gower st. Bedford sq. London 2 March 1879. bur. Beckenham churchyard, Kent 6 March. James Macdonell, journalist. By W. R. Nicoll (1890), portrait.

MC DONNELL, SIR ALEXANDER, 1 Baronet (eld. son of James Mc Donnell, M.D.) b. Belfast 1794; ed. at Westminster 1809–13, King’s scholar 1809; student of Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1813–26; B.A. 1816, M.A. 1820; barrister L.I. 23 Nov. 1824; a comr. of inquiry into public charities; chief clerk in office of chief secretary for Ireland; resident comr. of Irish board of education 1839 to Dec. 1871, being thus the real creator of England’s one successful institution in Ireland; P.C. Ireland 1846; created baronet 20 Jany. 1872. d. 32 Upper Fitzwilliam st. Dublin 21 Jany. 1875. bur. at Kilsharvan near Drogheda. Spectator 20 Feb. 1875 pp. 240–1.

MC DONNEL, SIR EDWARD. b. Dublin 1806; a paper manufacturer, Dublin; chairman of Great southern and western railway of Ireland 1849 to death, knighted by earl of Clarendon on opening this railway to Cork 1849; lord mayor of Dublin 1854. d. 31 Merrion square south, Dublin 22 Nov. 1860.

MC DONNELL, EDWARD (son of sir Edward Mc Donnell of Dunfeirth house, Kildare). Resident Melbourne, Australia to 1866; professor in Xavier coll. Calcutta, Jany. 1866; on the staff of the Calcutta Englishman 1866; editor of Lahore chronicle 1867; sub-editor of Bombay gazette 1867, then special correspondent on staff of general Napier in Abyssinia; in Dublin, June 1868. The Newspaper Press 1 Feb. 1869 p. 49.

MAC DONNELL, ENEAS (4 son of Charles Mac Donnell of Clonagh, co. Mayo). b. Westport, co. Mayo 27 July 1783; ed. at lay college of Maynooth; one of chief promoters of cause of Catholic emancipation 1810–23, when new catholic association was formed; agent to Irish catholics in England 1824–29; imprisoned for an alleged libel against the government 1816, and for another alleged libel against the character of archdeacon French 1828; author of The hermit of Glenconella, a tale 1820; Catholic question, letters on securities 1829; The Roman catholic oath considered 1835; Vindication of the house of lords, letters to The Times 1836; The ‘Crisis’ unmasked 1843; Letter to W. E. Gladstone respecting the Maynooth grant 1845; Address and advice to his countrymen 1849. d. Lara, Kildare 3 Jany. 1858. Law Times, xxxi 178 (1858).

MC DONNELL, RANDAL W. Called to bar in Ireland 1856; Q.C. 30 Jany. 1869. d. Bournemouth 5 Jany. 1875.

MAC DONNELL, RICHARD (eld. son of Robert Mac Donnell of Douglas, co. Cork). b. 1787; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1803, B.A. 1805, LL.B. 1810, LL.D. 1813, M.A., B.D. and D.D. 1821; fellow of his college 1808, senior fellow Nov. 1836 to 1852, Donegal lecturer 1820–7; professor of oratory in Trin. coll. Dublin 1816–52, regius professor of laws 1840–1, regius professor of Greek 1843–52, provost 24 Jany. 1852 to death. d. Provost’s house, Trinity college, Dublin 24 Jany. 1867. bur. under chapel of Trin. coll. 28 Jany.

MACDONNELL, SIR RICHARD GRAVES (eld. son of Richard Macdonnell d. 1867). b. Dublin 3 Sep. 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1833, B.A. 1835, M.A. 1836, LL.B. 1845, LL.D. 1862; called to Irish bar 1838; barrister L.I. 25 Jany. 1841; chief justice of the Gambia 20 July 1843 to 1 Oct. 1847; governor of British settlements on the Gambia 1 Oct. 1847 to 23 Feb. 1852, conducted several exploring expeditions opening up the interior of Africa from the Gambia to the Senegal; administrator of St. Vincent 23 Feb. 1852 to 6 Nov. 1854; governor of South Australia 8 June 1855 to 4 March 1862; lieut.-governor of Nova Scotia 28 May 1864 to Oct. 1865; governor of Hong Kong 19 Oct. 1865, retired on pension 1872; C.B. 12 Feb. 1852; knighted at Buckingham palace 28 Jany. 1856; K.C.M.G. 23 Feb. 1871. d. Hyères, France 5 Feb. 1881. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 14 Feb. I.L.N. lxxviii 220, 222 (1881), portrait.

MC DONNELL, ROBERT (2 son of John Mc Donnell, M.D. medical commissioner of local government board, b. 1796, living 1889). b. Dublin 15 March 1828; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1844, B.A. and M.B. 1850, M.D. 1857; apprenticed to Richard Carmichael, surgeon 1845–9; M.R.C.S. Ireland 1851, F.R.C.S. 1853, pres. 1877; attached to British hospital at Smyrna 1855 and to general hospital in camp before Sebastopol 1855–6; demonstrator of anatomy in Carmichael school of medicine Dublin 1856, lecturer on anatomy and physiology; medical superintendent of Mountjoy prison 1857–67; surgeon to Jervis st. hospital Dublin 1863; M.D. Queen’s univ. Ireland 1864; surgeon to Stevens’s hospital, Dublin, and professor of descriptive anatomy in its medical school 1866; member of council of univ. of Dublin twice; F.R.S. 1 June 1865; pres. of academy of medicine in Ireland 1885–8; author of many scientific papers; edited Selections from the works of A. Colles in New Sydenham Soc. 1881; author of Observations on the function of the liver 1865; Lectures on surgery, two parts 1871–75; What has experimental physiology done 1882. d. 89 Merrion sq. west, Dublin 6 May 1889. Sir C. Cameron’s History of college of surgeons in Ireland (1886) 429–32.

MC DONNELL, THOMAS. b. 1793; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1811, B.A. 1813; called to Irish bar 1816; Q.C. 1 July 1837; a crown prosecutor for co. of Down. d. Eglantine hill near Belfast 25 Sep. 1878.

MC DONOGH, ALLEN. b. Galway 1804; one of the best known steeplechasers in Ireland; won a steeplechase on Sir William 1830, sold him to John Elmore for £350 who resold him to lord Cranstown for £1000; rode Sir William in a match for £1000 against Jerry for 4 miles over the Quorn country and won; won over 20 steeplechases on Brunette a mare belonging to Mr. Preston 1847 etc. d. Dublin, May 1888. Baily’s Mag. xlix 269–70 (1888).

MC DONOGH, FRANCIS (son of Morgan Mc Donogh of Sligo). b. 1806; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1825, M.A. 1864; called to Irish bar 1829; Q.C. 2 Nov. 1842; counsel to inland revenue department; one of counsel for the defence of D. O’Connell 1843; contested Carrickfergus 2 April 1857; M.P. Sligo 1860–65. d. 41 Rutland sq. Dublin 18 April 1882. Irish law times, xvi 177 (1882).

MAC DOUALL, CHARLES. b. 1814; professor of humanity, Queen’s coll. Belfast, Oct. 1849, then professor of Greek 1851 to death; author of A discourse on the study of oriental languages 1849. d. Belfast 24 Feb. 1883; his library sold at Sotheby’s, London 20–23 Feb. 1884. Testimonials in favor of C. Mac Douall as candidate for Greek chair in Univ. of Edinb. 1852.

MACDOUGAL, DONALD (son of a farmer). b. 1800; apprentice to Mr. Bremner, draper, Inverness; a draper Inverness, waited upon customers in their hotels with selections of his goods, originator of the tweed trade in Scotland; chief exhibitioner at Great Exhibition of 1851 of tweeds, plaids, brooches, shawls, &c., his stall became famous and was figured in I.L.N., he was also noticed in Punch 1851; became an advertiser with the motto ‘When you are in the Highlands visit Macdougal’s’; in 1856 paid his creditors in full and was entertained at a banquet in Glasgow 30 April 1857; made a speciality of tartans and plaids; retired 1861; gave a working men’s club to Inverness 1862; presented with his bust in Carrara marble 18 March 1879. The Biograph, v 544–9 (1881).

MAC DOUGAL, THOMAS ST. CLAIR. b. Jany. 1804; a master in Islington proprietory school; first master of lower department of city of London school 1837 to Dec. 1874; author of Descriptive outlines of modern geography and a short account of Palestine 1835, 12 ed. 1857. d. 107 Stockwell park road, Brixton 10 March 1880. City Press 13 March 1880 p. 3.

MC DOUGALL, ARCHIBALD. b. Tarbut Kintyre, Argyllshire; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; governor of Edinb. orphan hospital 1839–43; minister of Kirkfield ch. Gorbals, Glasgow 1843–47; minister of Argyll ch. Glasgow 1847; author of The family text book 1880. J. Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy (1849) 398–400.

MAC DOUGALL, SIR DUNCAN (son of Patrick Mac Dougall of Soroba, Argyllshire). b. Soroba 1790; entered army 1804, served in Spain, France, America, West Indies and Cape of Good Hope; brigadier general second in command and quartermaster general in British auxiliary legion of Spain; lieut.-col. 79 highlanders 6 Sep. 1833 to 13 March 1835; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 July 1838; raised and disciplined Royal Lancashire artillery 1853, lieut.-col. commandant 15 April 1853 to 23 May 1857; author of Remarks on the military sanitary commission, suggestions for the improvement of the soldiery and prevention of drunkenness 1838; Remarks on national defence and the instruction of volunteer corps 1860; The history of the volunteer movement 2 ed. 1861. d. 112 Eaton sq. London 10 Dec. 1862.

MC DOUGALL, FRANCIS THOMAS (only son of Wm. Adair Mc Dougall, captain 88 foot). b. Sydenham, Kent 1817; medical student King’s college, London 1835, demonstrator of anatomy there 1838; M.R.C.S. 1839, F.R.C.S. 1854; matric. from Magd. hall, Oxf., B.A. 1844, M.A. 1845, D.C.L. 1854; rowed bow oar in the Oxford eight against Cambridge 1842; superintended iron-works in South Wales which failed 1842–4; C. of Framingham, Pigot 1845–6; C. of St. Mark’s, Lakenham 1846; C. of Ch. Ch. Woburn sq. London 1846; went to Borneo as a missionary 30 Dec. 1847; bishop of Labuan 6 Aug. 1855, consecrated at Calcutta 18 Oct. 1855, it was the first consecration that had taken place out of England; also bishop of Sarawak by appointment from the Rajah, Dec. 1855, resigned April 1868; V. of Godmanchester, Hunts. 1868–74; archdeacon of Huntingdon 1870–4; canon of Ely 1871–3; canon of Winchester 16 Oct. 1873 to death; archdeacon of Isle of Wight 1874 to death; V. of Milford, Hants. 1881–5; R. of Mottistone with Shorwell, Isle of Wight 1885 to death; (m. July 1843 Harriette 2 dau. of Robert John Bunyon, she preached to the native women of Borneo, she was author of Letters from Sarawak addressed to a child 1854, and Sketches of our life at Sarawak 1882, she d. Shorwell 7 May 1886); author of Life in death, a sermon with memoir of Capt. J. M. Boyd 3 ed. 1861; A catechism of the christian religion. English and Malay 1868. He d. Winchester 16 Nov. 1886. bur. Shorwell 20 Nov. C. J. Bunyon’s Memoirs of F. T. Mc Dougall and of Harriette his wife (1889), 2 portraits.

MC DOUGALL, HENRY JOHN. b. 1820; pupil and dresser at Exeter hospital; ed. Univ. coll. hospital, London, one of the house surgeons; M.R.C.S. 1844; in practice in Henrietta st. Cavendish sq. London; intense study of the microscope led to disease of the brain; wrote on Spermatorrhœa in the Medical Times; translated F. Lallemand’s A practical treatise on the cause of spermatorrhœa 1847, 2 ed. 1851. d. Exeter 18 June 1853.

M’DOUGALL, SIR JOHN (2 son of Patrick M’Dougall of Dunolly castle, co. Argyle). b. Edinburgh 1790; entered navy 16 Dec. 1802; lieut. of the Superb at bombardment of Algiers 27 Aug. 1816; captain 16 Aug. 1836; commander of Nimrod 1833, Vulture 1845 and La Hogue 1849; senior officer at Hong Kong at capture of Bogue forts 1847; admiralty superintendent of packets at Southampton 1855; R.A. 12 May 1857, V.A. 3 Nov. 1863; K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. d. Dunolly 12 April 1865.

MAC DOUGALL, NIEL PATRICK. b. 1812; entered Bombay army 1826; ensign 9 Bombay N.I. 27 June 1827; lieut. 13 N.I. 21 Aug. 1835, major 1 Aug. 1850 to 1 May 1855; lieut.-col. of 21 N.I. 1 May 1855 to 1857; lieut.-col. of 16 N.I. 1857–8, of 2 N.I. 1858–9, and of 8 N.I. 1859–61; commandant at Skikarpore 1858–9, and at Sattara 1859–60; retired M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. d. Ootacamund, Madras 10 June 1865.

MAC DOUGALL, PATRICK CAMPBELL (son of Hugh Mac Dougall, parish minister at Killin). b. Killin 1806; ed. at Edinburgh high sch. and univ.; classical master in Edinburgh academy 1834–44; prof. of moral philosophy in the New or Free church coll. Edinburgh 1844–53; prof. of moral philosophy in univ. of Edinburgh 1 Nov. 1853 to death; author of Introductory lecture on moral philosophy, at the inauguration of the New college 1851; Papers on literary and philosophical subjects 1852. d. 9 Buckingham terrace, Edinburgh 30 Dec. 1867. Grant’s Univ. of Edinb. ii 77, 347–8 (1884).

M’DOUGALL, WILLIAM. b. Inverary; ed. at univ. of Glasgow; minister of Relief ch. Campbeltown 1823, of Kilmarnock 1827 and of Thread st. ch. Paisley 1843; author of The Saviour’s trouble of soul in anticipation of his sufferings 1836; Discourses 1848. J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1849) 319–25.

MACDOWALL, CHARLES (son of Wm. Macdowall, watchmaker). b. Pontefract 6 April 1790; apprentice to a chemist; repaired a repeater watch without any instruction; a watchmaker at Wakefield; invented the helix lever clock 1831; at 21 Church st. Kensington, London 1836; invented the helix lever watch and the helix lever escape; patronised by the duke of Sussex when at Kensington palace, where he attended at the conversaziones to explain the inventions; removed to 41 St. James’ st. Pall Mall 1839, to 8 Victoria road, Pimlico 1840, and to 30 Hyde st. Bloomsbury 1848; patented the single pin escapement, for which he received bronze medal at Great Exhibition of 1851; experimented on the three-leg gravity escapement; re-invented the spiral drill. d. 26 Jermyn st. London 27 Oct. 1872. The Horological Journal, Sep. 1873 pp. 5–9, portrait.

M’DOWALL, CHARLES (only son of Robert M’Dowall of Sheffield). b. 1837; ed. Univ. coll. Oxf., scholar 1856–62; B.A. 1859, M.A. 1865, B.D. and D.D. 1882; head master’s assistant Rossall sch.; senior assistant master Malvern coll. 1864–74; head master Cholmeley high sch. Highgate, London, Jany. 1874 to death; preb. of St. Paul’s, April 1883 to death. d. Cholmeley school house 29 June 1893.

MACDOWALL, DAY HORT. b. 3 July 1795; ensign 52 foot 15 April 1813; major 44 foot 27 Nov. 1828 to 21 Feb. 1840 when placed on h.p.; col. 3 Buffs. 9 Sep. 1864 to death; L.G. 4 March 1866. d. 14 Sep. 1870.

M’DOWALL, WILLIAM (son of a traveller for a cabinet-making firm). b. Maxwelltown, Kirkcudbrightshire 21 July 1815; learnt bookbinding in Dumfries, Glasgow and London; on the staff of the Scottish Herald 1843; editor of the Dumfries and Galloway Standard 1846–53 and 1854 to death; edited a Sunderland paper 1853–4; author of The man of the woods and other poems 1844, 2 ed. 1882; Burns in Dumfriesshire 1870; History of the burgh Dumfries 1867, 2 ed. 1873; Memorials of St. Michael’s churchyard, Dumfries 1876; The mind in the face 1882, 3 ed. 1888; Chronicles of Lincluden as an abbey and as a college 1886; Among the old Scottish minstrels 1888. d. Dumfries 28 Oct. 1888. M. Harper’s Bards of Galloway (1889) 77, 201, 255.

MAC DOWEL, BENJAMIN GEORGE (son of Ephraim Mac Dowel, physician). b. 1820; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1841, M.B. and M.D. 1858, M. Chir. 1859; L.R.C.S.I. 1841, F.R.C.S. 1845; L.R.C.P. Lond. 1846; physician to house of industry hospitals, Dublin; professor of anatomy and surgery, Trin. coll. Dublin 1858–79; examiner in medicine, royal univ. of Ireland; president of Pathological soc. Dublin 1865; a physician in ordinary to the Queen in Ireland 1881. d. 5 Haddington ter. Kingstown 15 Sep. 1885. Medical times and gazette, ii 417 (1885).

MAC DOWELL, BENJAMIN FRANCIS. b. 1841; M.R.C.S. 1864, F.R.C.S. 1872; M.B. of Dublin univ. 1867; physician and surgeon to Mercer’s hospital and the Lock hospital, Dublin; professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Ledwich school of medicine; a contributor to The Medical Press. d. 29 York st. Dublin 8 Feb. 1879. Medical Press, xxvii 135 (1879).

MACDOWELL, PATRICK (son of a tradesman). b. Belfast 12 Aug. 1799; apprenticed to a coachbuilder in London 1813–7; resided with Peter Francis Chenu a French sculptor in Charles st. London; exhibited 78 sculptures at R.A., 3 at B.I. and 8 at Suffolk st. 1822–70; A.R.A. 1841, R.A. 1846, retired 1870; his greatest work was the group of figures entitled Europe, at corner of the Albert memorial in Hyde Park, completed 1870, illustrated in Art Journal 1871 p. 188. d. 74A Margaret st. Cavendish sq. London 9 Dec. 1870. W. B. Scott’s British school of sculpture (1871) 103–8; Sandby’s History of royal academy, ii 195–7 (1862); Art Journal (1850) p. 8 portrait, and (1871) p. 41; Dublin univ. mag. xxxviii 602–10 (1851), portrait; I.L.N. xxx 417, 418 (1857), lvii 679, 681 (1870), portrait.

MACDUFF, JOHN. b. 1800; ensign 15 foot 3 Aug. 1815; captain 40 foot 13 April 1839, major 13 Nov. 1847; lieut.-col. St. Helena regiment 8 June 1849 to 30 July 1852; lieut. col. 74 foot 30 July 1852 to 11 May 1862 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 23 Oct. 1863; C.B. 28 Jany. 1862; served in India many years; commanded an infantry brigade in the Kaffir war 1852–3; commanded the Oudh division at Lucknow 1857. d. Newmiln-by-Stanley, Perthshire 25 Sep. 1865.

MC ELROY, JOHN. b. Brookeborough, co. Fermanagh 11 May 1782; emigrated to U.S. of America about 1802; entered Society of Jesus as a lay brother 1806, ordained May 1817; priest of Trinity church, Georgetown 1817–22, transferred to Frederick, Maryland 1822; built St. John’s church, a college, an academy, an orphan asylum and the first free school in Frederick; one of the two chaplains for the R.C. soldiers in the Mexican war 1846–7; pastor of St. Mary’s church, Boston 1847–62, built Boston college and the church of the immaculate conception. d. Frederick, Maryland 12 Sep. 1877 being the oldest Jesuit in the world.

M’ENCROE, JOHN. b. Tullamane near Cashel 26 Dec. 1795; ed. St. Patrick’s coll. Maynooth 1814, priest 1819, on the American mission 1822–9; in charge of St. Patrick’s ch. Sydney, Australia 1832–61; dean of Sydney, archdeacon of Sydney to death; founded the Sydney Freeman’s Journal 1850; opposed the reintroduction of convicts into New South Wales 1849; author of The christian doctrine, by A. Donlevy revised 1822; The wanderings of the human mind in searching the scriptures, a history of the principal heresies 1841. d. Sydney 22 Aug. 1868.

MACEWAN, ANDREW. b. Glasgow 1812; apprentice to James Mc Clelland, accountant to 1834; accountant Glasgow 1834 and in partnership with William Auld 1836–66; first sec. of Glasgow stock exchange 1844–5; one of the founders of Institute of accountants and actuaries, Glasgow 3 Oct. 1853. d. Glasgow 11 June 1866. W. C. Maclehose’s Glasgow men, ii 187–8 (1886), portrait.

MACEWEN, ALEXANDER (12 son of Wm. Macewen, minister of Howgate secession ch. near Edinb. d. 1827). b. Howgate 5 April 1822; ed. at Glasgow univ., M.A. 1840, D.D. 1866, and univ. of Halle and Berlin; secession minister of Helensburgh church, Sep. 1845 to 1856; sent with Messrs. Harper and Eadie to report on the German catholic movement and ecclesiastical affairs of Canton de Vaud 1846; minister of Claremont united presbyterian ch. Glasgow, Aug. 1856 to death; author of The revelation embodied in scripture supernatural 1866. d. Glasgow 4 June 1875. J. Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy (1849) 129–34; Sermons by A. Macewen (1877) memoir ix–lvi.

MACFARLANE, DUNCAN (son of Duncan Macfarlane, minister of Drymen, Stirlingshire). b. Auchingray 27 Sep. 1771; ed. Glasgow univ., D.D. 1806; presbyterian minister, Drymen 1792–1823; dean of faculties Glasgow univ. 1810, and principal April 1823 to death; one of king’s chaplains 1815; moderator of general assembly 1819 and 1843; dean of the chapel royal to 1824; minister of the High ch. Glasgow 1823–43; originated colonial mission scheme 1835, its convener over 20 years; entertained at a public dinner 23 Feb. 1842; author of A treatise on the christian sabbath 1832; On the duty of prayer as connected with the day of fasting 1835; The right appointment of ministers in the church 1840; The revivals of the eighteenth century, particularly at Cambuslang 1847; Bible temperance and present duty 1847. d. Glasgow 25 Nov. 1857. Maclehose’s Glasgow men, ii 189–90 (1886), portrait; Scott’s Fasti vol. 2 pt. 1 pp. 7, 235, 353 (1868); J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1849) 72–9.

MACFARLAN, JAMES (son of a weaver who became a pedlar). b. Glasgow 9 April 1832; a professional pedlar in Scotland; walked to London to get a publisher 1854; police court reporter to the Glasgow Bulletin; became a pedlar again and retailed his own books; several of his poems were printed in Household Words; author of Poems 1854; City songs and other poetical pieces 1855; Lyrics of life 1856; The wanderers of the west; An attic study, brief notes on nature, men and books 1862. d. Glasgow 6 Nov. 1862. bur. Cheapside st. ground, Glasgow. The poetical works of James Macfarlan, with a memoir pp. i–x (1882); Rev. C. Rogers’s Leaves from my autobiography (1876) 287–91.

MACFARLAN, JAMES (son of James Macfarlan, minister of Muiravonside near Linlithgow, author of The prophecies of Ezekiel 1845, b. 1800, d. 1871). b. 6 Jany. 1845; ed. at academy and univ. of Edinb.; assistant minister at Dundee 1869–71; minister of Ruthwell 1871 to death; raised money and built an apse to his ch., in which he placed the Runic cross which had been expelled by the General Assembly in 1642; collected materials for a life of Stewart Leslie the vagrant verse writer celebrated by Carlyle. d. Foulden, Berwickshire 7 Oct. 1889. bur. Ruthwell, where a memorial has been built. Memoirs of James Macfarlan (1892).

MACFARLANE, CHARLES (son of Robert Macfarlane). b. Scotland; lived in Italy 1816–27 and in Turkey 1827–9; employed by Charles Knight the publisher many years; nominated a poor brother of the Charterhouse about July 1857; wrote the Civil and military history of England in Knight’s Pictorial history of England 8 vols. 1838–44; author of Constantinople in 1828, 2 vols. 1829; The romance of history, Italy 3 vols. 1832; The book of table talk 1836; The French revolution 4 vols. 1844–5, anon.; The romance of travel, the East 2 vols. 1846, and 30 other books. d. the Charterhouse, London 9 Dec. 1858.

MACFARLANE, DUGALD. b. Perthshire 6 June 1790; 1 lieut. 95 foot 18 July 1815; at Waterloo, and at occupation of Paris; retired on h.p. 29 Feb. 1816; one of the founders of the Canterbury province, south island, New Zealand 16 Dec. 1850. d. Christchurch, N.Z. Oct. 1882. I.L.N. 2 Dec. 1882 pp. 567, 569, portrait.

MACFARLANE, JAMES (2 son of rev. John Macfarlane of Bridgton, Glasgow). b. Waterbeck, Dumfriesshire 27 April 1808; ed. Glasgow univ., M.A., D.D. 1848; presbyterian minister East ch. Stirling 1831, of St. Bernard’s ch. Edinb. 1832 and of Duddingston, Edinb. May 1841 to death; moderator of general assembly 1865; F.R.S. Edinb.; author of Remarks on intrusion 1839; Letter to Sir James Graham on tests 1845; The late secession 1846; The church and nation 1849. d. Duddingston 6 Feb. 1866. Proc. Royal Soc. Edinb. vi 18 (1869).

MACFARLANE, JOHN (3 son of rev. James Macfarlane 1759–1823). b. Dunfermline 1 April 1807; ed. at Dunfermline gr. sch. and univ. of Edinb.; minister of Kincardine-on-Forth 1831–40; minister of Nicholson st. U.P. church, Glasgow, Sep. 1840, then of Erskine church, Glasgow 1840–62; LL.D. Glasgow 1842; minister of church at Clapham, London, April 1862 to death, the members increasing from 36 to about 800; moderator of U.P. synod 1866; moderator of English provincial synod 1870; author of The mountains of the Bible, their scenes and their lessons 1849; Altar zeal 1859; The life and times of George Lawson, D.D. 1862; Pulpit echoes 1868, and 12 other books. d. 14 Victoria road, Clapham Common 7 Feb. 1875. W. Graham’s Memoirs of John Macfarlane (1876) portrait; J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1849) 379–85.

MACFARLANE, ROBERT, LORD ORMIDALE (only son of Parlan Macfarlane of Glenmallashan, Dumbartonshire, tradesman). b. 30 July 1802; ed. at Glasgow and Edinb. univs.; a writer to the signet 29 June 1827, and in practice as an agent 1827–37; an advocate at Edinb. 9 March 1838; sheriff of Renfrewshire 22 Dec. 1853 to Jany. 1862; an ordinary lord of session with title of lord Ormidale 13 Jany. 1862 to death; reformed procedure of court of session; author of The practice of the court of session in jury causes 1837; Reports of jury trials in the courts of session 1838 to 1839, 1841; Practical notes on the structure of issues in jury cases in the court of session, parts i–viii 1844–5. d. Hartrigge, Jedburgh 3 Nov. 1880. Journal of jurisprudence, xxiv 659–61 (1880).

MACFARREN, SIR GEORGE ALEXANDER (son of George Macfarren, dramatist and theatrical manager 1788–1843). b. 24 Villiers st. Strand, London 2 March 1813; pupil of Charles Lucas 1827–9; student R.A. of music 1829–36; taught music in a school in the Isle of Man 1836–7; his Chevy Chase overture produced at the Gewand-haus concerts, Leipsic 1836; professor of harmony and composition at R.A. of music 1837–46 and 1851; his opera The Devil’s Opera produced English opera house 13 Aug. 1838; founded the Handel society 1844, secretary 1844–8 when it ceased, edited Handel’s Belshazzar, Judas Maccabeus and Jephtha; conductor at Covent Garden theatre Jany. 1845; his operas Don Quixote produced at Drury Lane 3 Feb. 1846, Charles the Second, at Princess’s 27 Oct. 1849; his cantata May Day produced at Bradford festival 1857; became nearly blind 1860; his operas Robin Hood, produced at Her Majesty’s theatre Oct. 1860; She stoops to conquer, at Covent Garden 11 Feb. 1864; his oratorios St. John the Baptist, produced at first Bristol festival 23 Oct. 1873; The Resurrection, at Birmingham festival Sep. 1876; Joseph, at Leeds festival 21 Sep. 1877; and King David, at Leeds festival Oct. 1883; principal of R.A. of music, Feb. 1875 to death; professor of music at univ. of Camb. 16 March 1875 to death; Mus. Doc. Camb. 1875, Oxf. 1879 and Dublin 1887; M.A. Camb. 1878; knighted at Windsor Castle 22 May 1883; author of The rudiments of harmony 1860, 16 ed. 1887; Six lectures on harmony delivered at the royal institutions 1869, 3 ed. 1882; On the structure of a sonata 1871; Counterpoint, a practical course of study 1879, 4 ed. 1885. d. 7 Hamilton terrace, London 31 Oct. 1887. bur. Hampstead cemet. 5 Nov. A life of G. A. Macfarren. By H. C. Banister (1891), portrait; Addresses by G. A. Macfarren (1888), portrait; Cazalet’s Royal academy of music (1854) 307–9; I.L.N. lxvi 391, 393 (1875) portrait, lxxxii 573 (1883) portrait; Graphic, xxvii 553 (1883), portrait.

MACFIE, ROBERT ANDREW (son of John Macfie provost of Leith who received George IV. on his landing there in 1822). b. Leith 4 Oct. 1811; ed. at Edinb. univ.; a sugar refiner with his father at Greenock and Leith; agent at Glasgow for National bank of Scotland 1835–8; went to Liverpool 1838 and established firm of Macfie and Sons, sugar refiners; resided at Ashfield hall, Cheshire 1856–71; removed to Dreghorn castle near Edinburgh 1871; an original director of Liverpool chamber of commerce; a trustee of the Liverpool exchange; contested Leith burghs 1859, M.P. Leith burghs 1868–74; knight commander of royal order of Kalakaua of Hawaii 1886 or 1887; author of The patent question 1863; Colonial questions pressing for immediate solution 1871; Cries in a crisis of statesmanship to test and contest free trade 1881; The questions put by the royal commissioners on the depressed state of trade, dealt with by a Former M.P. 1885; The Scotch church question 1885; Off-hand notes on prayers for family worship. By Senex Scotus, an heritor 1892. d. Dreghorn, Collinton near Edinburgh 17 Feb. 1893. The Biograph, July 1879 pp. 61–4; New Monthly Mag. cxvi 936–8 (1879), portrait.

MACGAHAN, JANUARIUS ALOYSIUS (son of a farmer d. 1851). b. New Lexington, Ohio, U.S. America 12 June 1844; a book-keeper, a public reader, a student at law; came to London, Jany. 1869; correspondent of New York Herald in France 1870, correspondent at St. Petersburgh, joined the military expedition to Khiva, sent views to Illust. London News; correspondent with Carlist army in Spain 1874; went in the Pandora to the Polar seas 1875; special correspondent for Daily News in Turkey 1876, narrated the operations of the Russian army in Bulgaria 1876, continually under fire by the side of general Skobeleff, described the engagements from the fights at Shipka Pass to Plevna, Dec. 1877; author of Campaigning on the Oxus and the fall of Khiva 1874, 4 ed. 1876; The Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria 1876; Under the northern lights 1876. d. of typhus fever, Constantinople 9 June 1878. bur. Catholic cemetery 12 June. Appleton’s American biography, iv 115–16 (1888), portrait; The war correspondence of the Daily News 2 vols. 1878; I.L.N. 22 June 1878 pp. 589, 590, portrait; Graphic 25 Aug. 1877 p. 173, portrait, 6 July 1878 pp. 3, 4, view of funeral; The Nineteenth century, Sep. 1891 pp. 414–5.

M’GAULEY, JAMES WILLIAM. Professor of natural philosophy to board of national education in Ireland 1836–56; went to Canada 1856; settled in England about 1865; member of council of the Inventors’ Institute; managing director to the Inventors’ patent right association; editor of Scientific review 1865; author of Lectures on natural philosophy. Dublin 1840, 3 ed. 1851; The elements of architecture 1846; A treatise on algebra 1854. d. 25 Oct. 1867. Times 26 Oct. 1867 p. 9.

M’GAVIN, JOHN. b. Kilwinning, Ayrshire 1816; grain miller of firm of Harvie and M’Gavin, Washington st. Glasgow 1838, joined by his sons 1866, retired 1872; instituted the Commercial abstinence society 1846; chairman of Scottish temperance league; member of Glasgow Institute of Fine arts 1870, paid half the expense of erecting the new picture galleries opened 2 Feb. 1880, hon. treasurer and secretary to death; had a fine collection of modern paintings, which was dispersed at his decease. d. while walking by the banks of the Garnock 12 July 1881, left £21,000 to charities and £5000 to Institute of Fine Arts. Maclehose’s Glasgow men, ii 191–6 (1886), portrait.

MAC GAVIN, JOHN DRUMMOND (son of rev. Mr. Mac Gavin). b. near Edinburgh 1817; physician Paris to death; attended the grand duchess of Hesse at Houlgate, Normandy during 1875; made a member of the legion of honour for his ambulance services during siege of Paris 1871; an elder of church of Scotland congregation in Paris. d. Paris 19 April 1893.

MC GEACHEY, FORSTER ALLEYNE (only son of major Alexander Mc Geachey who fell at siege of Badajoz 1811). b. 1809; ed. at Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1837; a student of L.I. 1834; M.P. Honiton 1841–7; contested Bristol 10 July 1852; sheriff of Herts. 1865; author of A speech delivered in the house of commons on the Maynooth college bill 1845. d. Shenley Hill near Barnet, Herts. 20 March 1887.

MC GEE, THOMAS D’ARCY (2 son of James Mc Gee a coastguard man). b. Carlingford, co. Louth 13 April 1825; went to Providence, Rhode Island 1842; a clerk in office of the Boston Pilot at Boston, June 1842, editor of the paper 1844; editor of Freeman’s Journal, Dublin 1845; assistant editor of The Nation; London correspondent of The Nation newspaper, to which he sent poems signed Montanus, Amergin, Feargail, Sarsfield, An Irish exile, Gilla Eirin, Gilla Patrick, and M.; secretary to the committee of the Irish Confederation, arrested, soon released; sent on secret mission to Scotland 1848; escaped to America disguised as a priest after the rout of his party Oct. 1848; started the New York Nation in New York 26 Oct. 1848; started The American Celt at Boston 1850 which he removed first to Buffalo and then to New York, sold his paper and settled in Montreal 1857, where he started The New Era 1857; member for Montreal in legislative assembly 1858, pres. of the council 1862 and 1864–7; presented with a handsome residence in Montreal 1865; member for Montreal West in the Dominion parliament 6 Nov. 1867; minister of agriculture and emigration 1867; author of Historical sketches of O’Connell and his friends. Boston. 3 ed. 1845; Gallery of Irish writers 1846; A memoir of Art Mac Murrogh, king of Leinster 1847; A history of the Irish settlers in North America 1852; A life of Edward Maginn, bishop of Derry 1857; Canadian ballads 1858; A popular history of Ireland 2 vols. 1865; shot by a Fenian outside his residence in Ottawa 7 April 1868. The poems of T. D. Mc Gee (1869) memoir pp. 15–40, portrait; C. M. Collins’s Celtic Irish songwriters (1885) 103–6; I.L.N. lii 437, 457 (1868), portrait.

MACGEORGE, ANDREW. b. Port-Glasgow 6 Sep. 1774; writer in partnership with William Bogle at Glasgow 1797–1807; extractor in the burgh court 1807; writer by himself with a large practice in all the courts; connected with passing of Lord Aberdeen’s act; a member of the Coul club; a writer of verses; member of municipal council 1832. d. Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire 2 Oct. 1857. Maclehose’s Glasgow men, ii 197–8 (1886), portrait.

MACGEORGE, ANDREW (son of the preceding). b. Glasgow 13 May 1810; ed. at univ. of Glasgow, LL.D. 1891; admitted into faculty of procurators 1836; member of his father’s firm about 1836, head of the firm to 1889; chief founder of royal hospital for sick children Glasgow, secretary long time; author of An inquiry as to the armorial insignia of the city of Glasgow 1866; The Free church, its principles examined by A Layman 1873; Old Glasgow, the place and the people 1880; Flags, some account of their history and use 1881; W. L. Leitch, landscape painter, a memoir 1884. d. Row, Dumbartonshire 4 Sep. 1891.

MACGEORGE, ROBERT JACKSON. b. near Glasgow 1808; ed. at Glasgow and Edinb.; C. of Episcopal church, Glasgow 1837–41; incumbent of Trinity Church, Streetville, Upper Canada 1841–58; incumbent of St. John’s ch. Oban, Argyleshire 1858–81; dean of Argyll and the Isles 1872, resigned 1881; edited the Weekly review at Streetville; the Church and the Anglo American Mag. at Toronto 1853; wrote The students, a farce Jany. 1830, and A Legend of Carrick, a drama 14 Oct. 1830, both played at York st. theatre, Glasgow; author of The Canadian christian offering. Toronto 1848; Tales, sketches and lyrics 1848. d. 14 May 1884. Morgan’s Bibl. Canadensis (1867) 238–9; Inglis’ Dramatic writers (1868) 71.

M’GEORGE, THOMAS. b. 1840; deputy starter for the Jockey club at Epsom, Chester, Ascot and Goodwood 1862, starter in succession to his father 1863 to death, no one ever had the jockeys and the horses under better control and it was rarely that an owner was able to complain that his horse was beaten by a bad start. d. Oatlands park hotel, Weybridge 23 Feb. 1885. Baily’s Mag. March 1885 p. 443; Illust. Sport. and Dram. News 28 Feb. 1885 p. 584, 7 March p. 609, portrait.

M’GETTIGAN, DANIEL (son of Manasses M’Gettigan). b. parish of Mevagh, co. Donegal, Nov. 1815; ed. at Navan seminary and Maynooth; ordained priest Trinity Sunday 1839; priest of Ballyshannon, June 1855; coadjutor bishop of Raphoe 13 Feb. 1856, consecrated at Letterkenny 18 May 1856, bishop of Raphoe 1 May 1861; archbishop of Armagh 11 March 1870 to death, he requested permission to decline the archbishoprick but the Pope overruled his objections. d. Armagh 3 Dec. 1887. Brady’s Episcopal succession, i 233, 313 (1876), ii 360.

M’GHEE, CHARLES (son of a Jamaica negro d. aged 108). b. 1767; swept a crossing which he called his ‘shop’ at Ludgate end of Fleet st. London; was known as Brutus Billy, Timbuctoo and Romeo; after ‘shutting his shop’ he sold nuts and oranges at the doors of the theatres; always attended Rowland Hill’s chapel; Miss Waithman the dau. of the alderman was kind to him and gave him his Sunday dinner; saved money and retired when an old man; lived in White Hart yard leading from Stanhope st. into Drury Lane. d. Chapel court, Strand, London 1854. W. P. Treloar’s Ludgate hill (1881) 116, 118–19, portrait; J. Diprose’s St. Clement’s, i 164 (1868).

MC GHIE, JAMES. b. 1824; M.D. Glasgow 1850; L. and F.F.P.S. Glasgow 1858; librarian F.P.S. Glasgow; assist. physician Glasgow lunatic asylum to 1854; superintendent of royal infirmary, Glasgow, the largest hospital out of London 1854 to death; the chief actor in construction of surgical hospital, Glasgow 1861, much praised by French academy of medicine; edited with G. Buchanan and J. B. Cowan, The Glasgow Medical Journal vols. 6 to 8 (1856–8); invented a tissue paper saturated with oil for use in dressing wounds; Glasgow Medical Journal 1859. d. Glasgow 15 Jany. 1862.

MAC GILCHRIST, JOHN. b. Glasgow 1821; ed. at Glasgow univ.; sheep farmer in the Cape colony; M.D. St. Andrews 1850; practised at Edinb.; author of The Cape of Good Hope. By A Traveller 1844; Remarks on the present state of medicine 1856, 2 ed. 1856; The mutineers, a poem 1859; his dramatic works were Chatelard, a tragedy by J. Mc G. 1852; Roseallan’s daughter, a tragedy 1861. d. Edinburgh 27 March 1864. R. Inglis’s Dramatic writers (1868) 136.

MACGILL, HAMILTON MONTGOMERY. b. Catrine, Ayrshire 1807; ed. at Mauchline, entered Glasgow univ. 1827 and divinity hall of united secession church 1831; minister of Duke st. church, Glasgow, Feb. 1837 to 1840; separated from Duke st. 1840 and formed the Montrose st. church 1840, minister to 1858; home mission secretary of united presbyterian church 1858 and foreign mission secretary 1868 to death; D.D. Glasgow 1870; edited The juvenile missionary magazine 1845; edited The missionary record; author of The life of Hugh Heugh 2 vols. 1850, 2 ed. 1852; Songs of the christian creed and life 1876. d. in Miss de Broen’s villa, Belleville, Paris 3 June 1880. bur. Glasgow necropolis 11 June. C. H. Macgill’s Memories of Dr. H. Macgill (1880), portrait; J. Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy (1848) 67–71.

M’GILL, JAMES. b. 1795; minister of Reformed presbyterian ch.; author of The four centuries or christianity and the military profession. Glasgow 1857. d. Bournemouth, Oct. 1883.

M’GILL, JOHN. Professor of Hebrew and oriental languages at college of St. Mary, univ. of St. Andrews 1868 to death, inducted 21 Nov. 1868; member of Bible revision committee 1870. d. St. Andrews 16 March 1871.

MACGILLIVRAY, CHARLES R. (son of a small farmer). b. Kilfinichen, Mull about 1804; employed in a druggist’s shop, Glasgow about 1824–49; a druggist at Glasgow 1849; M.D. Glasgow 1853; lecturer in Gaelic at Glasgow Institution 1859; author of The rudiments of the Gaelic language 1858; Turus a’ Chriosduidh 1869. d. Glasgow 7 June 1867.

MACGILLIVRAY, JOHN (eld. child of William Macgillivray 1796–1852). b. Aberdeen 18 Dec. 1822; naturalist on board the Fly in the Torres Straits and Eastern Archipelago 1842–6; naturalist on board the Rattlesnake 1846–50; naturalist on board the Herald on the coast of South America 1852–5; collected natural history specimens in the Australasian islands 1855–67; author of Narrative of the voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake 1846–50, to which is added an account of E. B. Kennedy’s exploration of the Cape York peninsula 2 vols. 1852. d. Sydney 6 June 1867. Good Words (1868) 425–9, portrait.

MACGILLIVRAY, WILLIAM. b. Old Aberdeen 25 Jany. 1796; art student at King’s college, Aberdeen 1808, M.A. Aberdeen 1815, LL.D. 1844; assistant and secretary to regius professor of natural history and regius keeper of the museum of univ. of Edinb. 1823; conservator of museum of royal college of surgeons in Edinb. 1831 to March 1841; professor of natural history in Marischal college and univ. of Aberdeen, March 1841 to death; edited the Edinburgh journal of natural history and of physical science Oct. 1835 to May 1840; author of A history of British birds 5 vols. 1837–52; Manuals of botany, ornithology and geology 3 vols. 1840; A history of the molluscous animals of Aberdeen, Kincardine and Banff 1843; The natural history of Dee Side and Braemar 1855. d. Aberdeen 4 Sep. 1852. J. A. Harvie-Brown and T. E. Buckley’s Vertebrate Fauna of the Hebrides (1888), portrait on page 11.

M’GILVRAY, W. b. island of Islay, Scotland; assist. minister New Ch. Dumfries 1834; minister at St. Mark’s, Glasgow 1835 and at Hope st. Gaelic ch. Glasgow, June 1842 to Sep. 1846; a member of the Disruption assembly 1843; Gaelic minister in Glengarry district, Canada 1846–8; wrecked in the Great Britain in Dundrum bay 22 Sep. 1846; again minister of St. Mark’s, Glasgow 1848; D.D. Lafayette coll. U.S. America 1847. J. Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy (1849) 230–7; H. Scott’s Fasti, ii pt. i 44 (1868).

M’GLASHAN, JAMES. Assistant in house of Blackwood and Sons, publishers, Edinburgh; publisher in Dublin with Wm. Curry, junior 1830–46, alone 1846–55 when he retired; proprietor of Dublin university magazine 1833–55, presented with a service of plate on twentieth anniversary of the magazine; the principal publisher in Dublin to 1855. d. of mental disease, Edinburgh 4 March 1858. Bookseller, March 1858 p. 108; Fitzpatrick’s Life of Charles Lever 2 vols. (1879), passim.

MC GLASHAN, JOHN. Solicitor in Edinburgh; member of Society of solicitors-at-law 1824; a solicitor before the supreme court from 1831; went to New Zealand about 1855; author of Practical notes on the act of Sederunt 1831; The law and practice in actions of Aliment 1837; Practical notes on the jurisdiction in the sheriff courts of Scotland 1842, 4 ed. 1868; Digest of the laws relating to pawnbrokers 1844, 2 ed. 1847. d. New Zealand 1866.

MACGLASHAN, JOHN (1 son of John Macglashan). b. Peterborough 5 Sep. 1842; articled to Bell and Miller, engineers, Westminster and Glasgow; assist. resident at Albert docks, Greenock; resident engineer of graining docks at Partick; in charge of works between Hurda and Sohagpore on Great Indian peninsula railway 1865–8; assist. resident engineer on the Nagpore extension 1869–76, then on the Sholapore and Raichore portion 1876; had special thanks of directors for his exertions during water famine in 1878; had sole charge of the Dond and Munmar line 1881–3; A.I.C.E. 23 Sep. 1875. d. Aboyne, Deeside, Scotland 23 Sep. 1884. Min. of Proc. I.C.E. lxxx 338–40 (1885).

MC GOUGAN, EUGENE MALCOLM. b. 1828; in general post office, London to 1853; attendant in British museum library 1853–92; a great friend of the costermongers of London, and of institutions for the blind in north of London. d. St. Albans 21 July 1893. Civil Service prayer union Oct. 1893 p. 3.

MACGOWAN, EDWARD, M.D.; practised at Exeter; physician to the mission of London Society for promoting Christianity among the Jews 1841; arrived at Jerusalem 21 Jany. 1842. d. Jerusalem 6 Feb. 1860 aged 65. W. H. Hunt’s Jerusalem. Bishop Gobat in re Hanna Hadoub (1858) 22 etc.

M’GRATH, HENRY WALTER (3 son of Nicholas M’Grath of Dublin). b. Dublin 1803; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1825, M.A. 1830; deacon 1829; P.C. of Walton le Dale near Preston 1832–7; R. of St. Ann’s, Manchester, Aug. 1837 to 1852; R. of St. Paul’s, Kersal Moor 29 May 1852 when the church was consecrated to 1865; hon. canon of Manchester 1858 to death; built a house called Ditton at Torquay about 1878, lived there 1878 to death; author of The sacraments practically rejected by Unitarians, in Unitarianism confuted (1839) 593–646. d. Ditton, Lower Warberry road, Torquay about 17 July 1884. C. W. Bardsley’s Memorials of St. Ann’s church (1877) 17, 20; J. Evans’s Lancashire authors and orators (1850) 174–78.

MAC GREGOR, ARTHUR TREVOR. b. 1799 or 1800; lieut. R.N. 22 Oct. 1823; captain 8 Aug. 1857, retired 7 March 1868; retired admiral 7 April 1885. d. Ardmore, Cheltenham 21 Dec. 1886.

MACGREGOR, SIR CHARLES METCALFE (2 son of Robert Guthrie Macgregor). b. Agra 12 Aug. 1840; ed. at Marlborough 1853–5; ensign 57 Bengal N.I. 5 Jany. 1857; commanded a squadron of Hodson’s horse in Indian mutiny Aug. 1858, second in command 1861–4; served in Fane’s horse through Chinese campaign 1860; served in the Afghan war 1878–80; assist. deputy quartermaster general in India 1865–7 and in Abyssinia 1867–8; commanded the Punjab frontier force 28 Nov. 1885 to death; major general 22 Jany. 1887; author of Mountain warfare, an essay 2 ed. 1866; A military report on the country of Bhutan 1873; Narrative of a journey through the province of Khorassan 2 vols. 1879; Wanderings in Balochistan 1882; compiled History of the Second Afghan war 6 vols. 1885–6, suppressed by Indian government; The defence of India 1884, suppressed by the government; C.S.I. 31 Dec. 1875; C.I.E. 1 Jany. 1878; C.B. 1879; K.C.B. 17 Jany. 1881; compiled the Gazetteer of Central Asia 1868 which occupied him 5 years. d. Shepheard’s hotel, Cairo 5 Feb. 1887. bur. Glengyle on shores of Loch Katrine. The life of Sir C. M. Macgregor. Ed. by Lady Macgregor 2 vols. (1883), portrait.

MC GREGOR, SIR DUNCAN. b. 16 March 1787; ensign or lieut. 72 foot 31 Aug. 1801; captain 78 foot 17 April 1804, major 25 Nov. 1813, placed on h.p. 25 April 1816; major 31 foot 29 Jany. 1824, placed on h.p. 26 May 1825; lieut.-col. 93 foot 23 March 1826, placed on h.p. 27 July 1838; served in Sicily and Italy 1806, in Egypt 1807 and in the Peninsula 1813–4; lieut.-col. 93 foot 23 March 1826 to 27 July 1838 when placed on h.p.; inspector general of constabulary force, Ireland 1838–58; general 28 Oct. 1864; K.C.B. 28 Dec. 1848 for his services in Ireland; retired from the army Oct. 1877; author of A narrative of the loss of the Kent. By A Passenger 1825, 7 ed. 1860. d. 2 Vanbrugh park, Blackheath, Kent 8 June 1881.

NOTE.--While major of 31 regt. on board the Kent East Indiaman, she took fire 1 March 1825 in the Bay of Biscay, and he was instrumental in saving the lives of the passengers.

MACGREGOR, SIR GEORGE HALL (son of general John A. P. Macgregor d. 1868). b. 1810; ed. Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 16 June 1826, lieut.-col. 18 May 1856, retired 22 Dec. 1858; political assistant and military sec. to sir W. H. Macnaghten, envoy to Shah Soojah 1838, present at capture of Ghuznee 1839; assisted in capturing Hyder Khan; political agent with Sale’s brigade 1841, present at capture of Cabul; assistant to sir Henry Lawrence at Lahore 1846; brigade general during the mutiny 1857, present at capture of Lucknow 1858; had 3rd class of the Douranee empire 1839 and second class 1840; major general on retired list 18 March 1859; C.B. 10 Oct. 1842, K.C.B. 24 June 1861. d. Glencarnock, Torquay 2 Jany. 1883. C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the Victorian age, i 141–207 (1880).

M’GREGOR, JAMES. b. Liverpool 1808; manager of Liverpool commercial bank many years; chairman South Eastern railway co. 1848 to death; contested Banbury 31 July 1847; M.P. Sandwich 1852–6; contested Sandwich 28 March 1857; resided at 25 Eccleston sq. London. d. of paralysis in house of Robert Douglas, hair dresser 23 New Bond st. London 5 Sep. 1858.

MC GREGOR, JOHN (eld. son of David Mc Gregor of Drynie, Rosshire). b. Stornoway, Rosshire 1797; emigrated to Prince Edward island 1802, a school teacher, clerk in a store, engaged in shipbuilding, member of house of assembly; returned to Europe 1828; one of the joint secretaries of board of trade 24 Jany. 1840 to 6 Aug. 1847; M.P. Glasgow July 1847; accepted stewardship of manor of Northstead, Feb. 1857; author of Historical sketches of the colonies of British America 1828; The resources and statistics of nations 1835, one vol. only; My note 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.

MACKENZIE, SIR MORELL (eld. son of Stephen Mackenzie, surgeon, d. 1851). b. Leytonstone, Essex 7 July 1837; clerk in Union Assurance company’s office 1853; studied at London hospital; M.R.C.S. 1858, M.B. London 1861, and M.D. 1862; assistant physician London hospital 5 Sep. 1866, phys. 1873, resigned 1873; chief founder of Hospital for diseases of the throat in King st. Golden sq. 1863; the first Englishman who became expert in operations on the larynx; attended at Berlin from 18 May 1887 to 13 June 1888 crown prince of Germany, afterwards the emperor Frederick III. who died from cancer in the throat 15 June 1888; published Oct. 1888 The fatal illness of Frederick the Noble, of which 100,000 copies were circulated, and for which he was censured by royal college of surgeons 10 Jany. 1889, returned his diploma to the college; knighted at Balmoral 7 Sep. 1887; granted grand cross of Hohenzollern order 1888; edited The pharmacopia of the hospital for disease of the throat 1872, 4 ed. 1881; The journal of laryngology 1887; author of Treatment of hoarseness and loss of voice 1863, 3 ed. 1871; Essays on growths in the larynx 1871; The use of the laryngoscope 1865, 3 ed. 1871; Diphtheria, its nature and treatment 1879; A manual of diseases of the throat and nose 2 vols. 1880–4; Hay fever, its etiology and treatment 1884, 5 ed. 1889. d. 19 Harley st. London 3 Feb. 1892. bur. in graveyard of St. Mary’s church, Wargrave, Berkshire 8 Feb. H. R. Haweis’s Sir M. Mackenzie (1893), portrait; Sir M. Mackenzie’s Essays (1893), portrait; Journal of laryngology, vi 95–108 (1892), portrait; Strand Mag. ii 371 (1891), 5 portraits; Victoria Mag. xxxiii 185 (1879), portrait; Provincial Medical Journal 1 April 1886 pp. 145–6, portrait.

MC KENZIE, PETER. b. Dumbarton 1799; a writer at Glasgow about 1825; a volunteer in The Glasgow sharpshooters 1819; established and edited The Loyal reformers’ gazette 7 May 1831, renamed it The Reformers’ gazette 12 May 1832, it ran as a weekly and then as a monthly to May 1836 and forms 6 vols., Northern Notes and Queries 4 vols. 1852–4 were compiled from the columns of this newspaper; imprisoned for publishing an unstamped newspaper; exposed Richmond the Glasgow spy; brought to light the fraudulent design of The Independent West Middlesex Fire and life insurance co.; author of An exposure of the spy-system pursued in Glasgow. Ed. by a Ten-Pounder 1833; The life of Thomas Muir, with a report of his trial 1831; Reminiscences of Glasgow and the west of Scotland 3 vols. d. while on a visit to his daughter in London 17 March 1875. bur. Glasgow necropolis. W. C. Maclehose’s Glasgow men, ii 199–202 (1886), portrait.

MACKENZIE, RICHARD JAMES (4 son of Richard Mackenzie of Dolphington, deputy keeper of her majesty’s signet). b. Edinburgh 31 March 1821; ed. at the new academy 1829–36; apprenticed to Adam Hunter, F.R.C.S. 1838; M.D. 1 Aug. 1842; M.R.C.S. 1841, F.R.C.S. 1844; studied in London, Paris, Hamburg, Vienna and Berlin 1842–4; practised in Edinburgh 1844–9; assistant surgeon in royal infirmary 1848, surgeon there 1850; lecturer on systematic surgery in Extra Academical sch. 1849; with the army in the Crimea attached to 79 regt. 1849, performed 27 operations after the battle of the Alma. d. of cholera on the heights of Bornoo, Crimea 25 Sep. 1854. Begbie and Struthers’ Memoir of R. J. Mackenzie (1855), portrait.

MACKENZIE, ROBERT (son of a parish schoolmaster). b. Barry, Forfarshire 1823; reporter to the Northern Warder at Dundee about 1843, then sub-edited the paper; partner in mercantile firm of Mackenzie, Ramsay & Co. Dundee, which failed 1857; frequently visited America; agent for Westinghouse brake co.; author of The United States of America 1870; The nineteenth century 1880; America, a history 1882. d. Magdalen yard road, Dundee 2 Feb. 1881.

MACKENZIE, ROBERT SHELTON (2 son of Kenneth Mackenzie, captain in the army, author of books in Gaelic). b. Drew’s court, Limerick 22 June 1809; apprentice to an apothecary in Cork 1822 and passed his medical examination 1825; opened a school at Fermoy 1825; newspaper reporter; editor of a newspaper at Hanley, Staffs. 1829; wrote memoirs for The Georgian Era, London 1830–1; editor of Liverpool journal; English correspondent of New York Evening star 1834–51, being the first European correspondent for the American press; editor of a railway journal, London 1845; official assignee in commissioner Skirrow’s bankruptcy court, Manchester, dismissed from office 25 Oct. 1852; went to U.S. of America 1852; book and foreign editor of Philadelphia Press 1857; LL.D. of Glasgow univ. 1834; author of Lays of Palestine 1828; Titian, a romance of Venice 3 vols. 1843; Partnership en commandité 1847; Mornings at Matlock 3 vols. 1850; Life of C. Dickens 1870; Sir Walter Scott, the story of his life 1871; compiled, edited and issued many works in America 1854–71. d. Philadelphia 30 Nov. 1880. Law Times 30 Oct. 1852 pp. 66–7.

MACKENZIE, THOMAS (son of Kenneth Mackenzie). b. 1793; a writer to the signet 4 March 1816; M.P. Ross and Cromarty 1837–47. d. Heriot row, Edinburgh 9 June 1856.

MACKENZIE, THOMAS, Lord Mackenzie (son of George Mackenzie, tradesman, Perth). b. Perth 16 April 1807; ed. at St. Andrew’s and Edinb.; called to Scottish bar 1832; sheriff of Ross and Cromarty 28 June 1851; solicitor general 10 Jany. 1855; a lord of session with title of Lord Mackenzie 29 Jany. 1855, retired 1864; author of Studies in Roman law, with comparative views of the laws of France, England and Scotland 1862, 6 ed. 1886. d. 24 Heriot row, Edinb. 26 Sep. 1869. Journal of Jurisprudence, Nov. 1869 pp. 609–10; Law mag. and law rev. xxix 271–3 (1870).

MACKENZIE, WILLIAM. b. Burnley, Lancs. 20 March 1794; apprenticed to Thomas Claphan, lock carpenter of Leeds and Liverpool canal 1811; resident engineer on Birmingham canal to 1832, where his works are still considered finest of the kind in Great Britain; made a great many railways in France with Thomas Brassey 1840–48; M.I.C.E. 1837. d. 19 Oct. 1851. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xi 102–5 (1852).

MACKENZIE, WILLIAM (son of James Mackenzie, muslin manufacturer, d. 1800). b. Queen st. Glasgow 29 April 1791; ed. Glasgow univ., M.D. 1833; studied in France and Italy 1816; learnt ophthalmology under Beer in Vienna 1817; M.R.C.S. 1818, F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon in London 1818, and in Glasgow 1819 to death; with George Monteath established an eye infirmary, Glasgow 1824; Waltonian lecturer and lecturer on diseases of the eye, Glasgow univ. 1828; edited Glasgow medical journal vols. 1 and 2, 1828–9; surgeon occulist to the queen in Scotland 1838; author of An essay on the diseases of the excreting parts of the lachrymal organs 1819; Practical treatise of the diseases of the eye 1830, 4 ed. 1854, which gave him an European reputation; The cure of strabismus by surgical operation 1841; The physiology of vision 1841. Outlines of ophthalmology 3 ed. 1856. d. Bath st. Glasgow 30 July 1868. Maclehose’s Memoirs of Glasgow men, ii 203–4 (1886), portrait; Glasgow Medical journal, i 6–13 (1868).

MACKENZIE, WILLIAM. Ed. Edinb. univ.; presbyterian minister Poolewe 1827; minister at Comrie 1829, at Dunblane 1841–3; minister North Leith Free ch. 1844; author of Gershom, or the 33,000 words of Jesus Christ, the central fountain of truth, unity and healing. Edinb. 1847; Christ’s own teaching, in portions for all the days in the year 1847. Scott’s Fasti, ii pt. 2 p. 754 (1869).

MACKENZIE, WILLIAM BELL (son of James Mackenzie d. 1822). b. Sheffield 7 April 1806; studied at Magd. hall Oxf. 1830–4, B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; C. of St. James’s, Bristol 1834–8; V. of St. James’s, Holloway, London 1838 to death; one of the first to start special services in St. Paul’s cathedral; author of Bible characters 2 vols. 1854–5; Gleanings from the gospel story 1860; Handbook for the sick 1859, 4 ed. 1861; Married life, its duties, trials and joys 1861, 3 ed. 1890; Saul of Tarsus, his life and lessons 1864; Bible studies for family reading 1867 and 35 other books. d. Ramsgate 22 Nov. 1870. bur. Highgate cemetery 30 Nov. Gordon Calthrop’s Memorials of W. B. Mackenzie (1872), biographical sketch pp. ix–xci, portrait.

MACKENZIE, WILLIAM FORBES (brother of Charles Frederick Mackenzie 1825–62). b. Portmore, Peebleshire 18 April 1807; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf.; called to the bar 1827; M.P. Peeblesshire 1837–52; a lord of treasury April 1845 to Feb. 1846, joint secretary to treasury Feb. to Dec. 1852; M.P. Liverpool 9 July 1852, unseated on petition 21 June 1853; contested Derby 28 March 1857; unpaid comr. and chairman of general board of comrs. in lunacy for Scotland 13 June 1859 to death; author of the act for the regulation of public-houses in Scotland 16 & 17 Vict. c. 67, 15 Aug. 1853 known as the Forbes Mackenzie’s act which provides for the closing of public-houses on Sundays and at ten p.m. on weekdays. d. The Glen, Peeblesshire 24 Sep. 1862.

MACKENZIE, WILLIAM LYON (son of Daniel Mackenzie d. 1795). b. Springfield, Dundee 12 March 1795; kept a store at Alyth 1814–17; emigrated to Canada 1820; established a book store at Queenstown 1823; removed to Toronto where he established the Colonial Advocate, May 1824, discontinued 1834, revived under name of The Constitution 1836; member for county of York in legislative assembly of Upper Canada 1828, expelled for his violent language 1831, re-elected twice in 1831, re-expelled twice, finally excluded by disfranchisement of co. York; chosen mayor of Toronto, May 1834; re-elected for co. York Oct. 1834, and allowed to take his seat which he lost in 1836; publicly proclaimed establishment of a provisional government 25 Nov. 1837; appeared at head of 800 rebels near Toronto 4 Dec. 1837, utterly defeated by the government troops at Montgomery’s Tavern 7 Dec., escaped to Navy Island on the Niagara river where he tried to prolong the insurrection but was condemned to 12 months’ imprisonment for breaking the neutrality laws 1839; contributed to New York Tribune some years; returned to Canada on proclamation of amnesty 1849; member of legislature of the united provinces 1850–8; started a journal ‘Mackenzie’s Message,’ which failed; author of Sketches of Canada and the United States 1833; The lives and opinions of R. F. Butler and J. Hoyt 1845; The life and times of M. Van Buren 1846. d. Toronto 28 Aug. 1861. C. Lindsey’s Life of W. L. Mackenzie. Toronto 2 vols. (1862), portrait; Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 241; Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 201; G.M. xi 566–8 (1861).

MC KERROW, JOHN. b. Mauchline, Ayrshire 15 May 1789; ed. at Glasgow univ. 1803–7, and divinity hall of Secession ch. at Selkirk 1807–12; minister of Ecclefechan and Bridge of Teith 1813 to death; D.D. Washington college, U.S.A. 1841; author of History of the Secession church 1839, new ed. 1841; The office of ruling elder in the Christian church 1846; History of the foreign missions of the Secession and united presbyterian churches 1867. d. at Bridge of Teith 13 May 1867. John Smith’s Our Scottish clergy 3 series (1851) 297–303; United Presbyterian Mag. Sep. 1867 p. 285.

MC KERROW, WILLIAM (son of William Mc Kerrow d. 1851, wheelwright and turner). b. Kilmarnock 7 Sep. 1803; ed. at Glasgow univ. and at theological hall of Secession ch.; minister of Lloyd st. chapel, Manchester 1827 to 1869; moderator of the synod 1877; wrote a series of letters in Manchester Times on church establishments 1834 which were published as pamphlets, and led to formation of Manchester Voluntary church association 1839; projected the Manchester Examiner 1846 and was one of the four proprietors; a founder of United Kingdom alliance, vice pres. 20 years; member of Manchester school board 1870 to death; D.D. Heidelberg 1851; author of On solid reading and its advantages, a lecture 1853. d. Springfield, Bowdon, Cheshire 4 June 1878. Memoir of Wm. Mc Kerrow, D.D. By His son (1881), portrait; John Evans’s Lancashire authors (1850) 178–82.

MACKESON, FREDERICK (son of Wm. Mackeson). b. Hythe, Kent 28 Sep. 1807; ensign 14 Bengal N.I. 4 Dec. 1825, captain 24 Jany. 1845 to death; superintendent of the Cis-Sutlej territory 16 March 1846; comr. at Peshawur 1851 to death; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842; assassinated when sitting in his verandah at Peshawur by a fanatic from Koner 10 Sep. 1853.

MACKESON, WILLIAM WYLLYS (2 son of John Mackeson of Blue Mountain, Jamaica). b. 1813; ed. at Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1836; barrister I.T. 1 Feb. 1836, bencher 28 April 1868 to death, treasurer 1884; edited The supreme court of judicature acts 1873 and 1875. 1875; edited 4th ed. of The law of mortgage. By R. H. Coote 1880, and with H. A. Smith 5th ed. of same book 2 vols. 1884. d. Laurel Bank, Lancaster 4 March 1892.

MACKESY, THOMAS LEWIS. b. Waterford 1790; assist. surgeon in artillery at battle of Corunna; in practice at Waterford; M.R.C.S. Lond. 1809; F.R.C.S. Ireland 1844; M.D. Dublin univ. 1863; lecturer at Leper hospital Waterford; president of R. coll. of surgeons, Ireland 1862, the first provincial surgeon ever elected to the presidency, member of council 1863 to death; last mayor of Waterford under the old regime. d. 47 Lady lane, Waterford 9 April 1869.

MC KEWAN, DAVID HALL (son of David Mc Kewan). b. London 16 Feb. 1816; pupil of David Cox the elder; associate of royal institute of painters in water-colours 1848, member 1850; exhibited 22 landscapes at R.A., 2 at B.I. and 20 at Suffolk st. 1836–53; author of Lessons on trees in water-colours 1859; made the drawings for R. P. Leitch’s Landscapes and other studies in sepia 1870. d. 11 Upper Park road, Haverstock hill, London 2 Aug. 1873. Baines’s Hampstead (1890) 396–7.

MACKIE, IVIE. b. 1805; of firm of Findlater, and Mackie, Manchester; represented Exchange ward in city council 1847–56 and New Cross ward from 1856, alderman 1856, mayor 1857–60; presented city with clock in steeple of St. Peter’s church; a munificent contributor to local charities. d. Manchester 23 Feb. 1873.

MACKIE, JAMES (eld. son of John Mackie, M.P., d. 1858). b. 18 May 1821; ed. at Rugby and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847; advocate at Scottish bar 1847; M.P. Kirkcudbrightshire 3 April 1857 to death. d. Ernespie, Kirkcudbrightshire 28 Dec. 1867.

MC KIE, JAMES. b. Kilmarnock 7 Oct. 1816; bookseller at Saltcoats to 1844; publisher at Kilmarnock in the shop from which first edition of Burns’ poems was issued 1844; started the Kilmarnock Journal and Kilmarnock Weekly Post; published Bibliotheca Burnsiana 1866; Poems chiefly in the Scotch dialect. By R. Burns, facsimile ed. 1869; Burns’ Calendar 1874; The bibliography of Robert Burns 1881 and other books about Burns; his own library of nearly 800 vols. concerning Burns was purchased by subscription for £350 and is in museum of the Burns’ Monument at Kilmarnock. d. Kilmarnock 26 Sep. 1891. Kilmarnock Standard 3 Oct. 1891, portrait.

NOTE.--He was twice publicly entertained, once on the jubilee of his business and again on the transfer of his library to the museum.

MACKIE, JOHN (son of James Mackie of Bargaly, Kirkcudbrightshire). M.P. Kirkcudbrightshire 1850–7. d. Bargaly 3 July 1858.

MACKIE, ROBERT BOWNAS (son of Robert J. Mackie). b. Wakefield 1829; ed. Wesley coll. Sheffield; partner in firm of Robert Mackie and Sons, corn merchants, Wakefield; contested Wakefield 2 Feb. 1874 and 6 May 1874; M.P. Wakefield 1880 to death. d. 35 Hertford st. Mayfair, London 18 June 1885.

M’KILLOP, HENRY FREDERICK. Sub-lieutenant R.N. 10 Aug. 1847; captain R.N. 24 Nov. 1862, retired 1 April 1870; retired R.A. 9 March 1878; C.B. 2 June 1877; captain of the port and comptroller general of ports and lighthouses in Egypt to death; knight of legion of honour; received 1st class Medjidie 1875; raised to rank of Fereek by the Khedive 1877; author of Reminiscences of twelve months’ service in New Zealand as a midshipman 1849. d. Ramlet, Alexandria, Egypt 5 June 1879.

MC KIM, ROBERT. b. co. Tyrone 24 May 1816; apprenticed to a stone-mason; emigrated to U.S. of America; a stone-mason at Philadelphia, then at Madison, Indiana 1837–55; a coal merchant 1855; purchased and mounted in his observatory one of the best telescopes in America; presented to observatory of De Pauw univ. a complete astronomical outfit at cost of over 10,000 dollars. d. Madison 9 May 1887.

MC KINLAY, JOHN. b. Sandbank on the Clyde 1819; emigrated to New South Wales 1836 where he took up several runs near the South Australian border; commanded expedition sent to trace the fate of Burke and Wills by South Australian government, left Adelaide 16 Aug. 1861, proved that Lake Torrens did not exist but found several new lakes, explored the country between Eyre’s Creek and Central Mount Stuart; reached Port Denison 25 Sep. 1862; voted £1000 by the government of S. Australia 1862; explored northern part of S. Australia 1865–6. d. 31 Dec. 1872, monument erected at Gawler, S. Australia. Mackinlay’s Journal of exploration in the interior of Australia (1862); J. Davis’s Tracts of Mc Kinlay across Australia (1863); W. Howilt’s History of discovery in Australia, ii 254–83 (1865); J. E. T. Wood’s History of discovery of Australia, ii 475–91 (1875); I.L.N. xlvi 36 (1865), portrait.

M’KINLEY, GEORGE. b. Devonport 1766; entered navy 5 Aug. 1773; captain 20 Oct. 1801; superintendent of royal navy asylum Greenwich, April 1821 to 22 July 1830; admiral on h.p. 11 June 1851, pensioned 16 Sep. 1851. d. Anglesey near Gosport 17 Jany. 1852.

MACKINNON, DANIEL HENRY (youngest son of Daniel Mackinnon of Binfield, Berkshire, barrister). b. 18 Sep. 1813; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; cornet 16 lancers 1 July 1836; captain 6 dragoon guards 12 Nov. 1847; paymaster of 43 foot 27 Oct. 1848, placed on h.p. 6 June 1851; staff officer of pensioners Feb. 1854 to 1 Nov. 1877 when he retired on full pay with hon. rank of M.G.; author of Military services and adventures in the far east 2 ed. 2 vols. 1849; British military power in India. d. 7 Jany. 1884.

MACKINNON, DONALD (son of rev. John Mackinnon, minister of Strath, d. 1856). Presbyterian minister Fearn near Tain, Rossshire 1846–56 and minister of Strath 1856 to death, the grandfather, father and son held Strath 110 years; arbiter among his flock, his decisions being accepted as final. d. Kilbridge, Skye 3 Jany. 1888. The Times 10 Jany. 1888 p. 5.

MACKINNON, KENNETH M. b. 1805; assistant surgeon Bengal army 19 Nov. 1826, surgeon 1 March 1843, retired 11 Jany. 1857; apothecary general Bengal 1853–7; author of A treatise on the public health, climate, hygiene and diseases of the north-west provinces. Cawnpore 1848. d. Edinburgh 13 Feb. 1861.

MACKINNON, LAUCHLAN (brother of Donald Mackinnon d. 1888). b. Kilbride, Isle of Skye 26 Feb. 1817; ed. Aberdeen; emigrated to Australia 1838; came overland with cattle from Sydney to Adelaide, the first journey of the kind made 1839; settled in Avoca, Victoria as a squatter; member of N.S.W. legislative assembly for Port Philip district 1848; member for Belfast and Warrnambool in legislative council of Victoria; the great opponent to the introduction of English convicts into Australia; with Edward Wilson one of the proprietors of The Argus a Melbourne daily journal 1852; returned to England in 1868 and lived in Devonshire. d. Torquay 21 March 1888.

MACKINNON, LAUCHLAN BELLINGHAM (2 son of Wm. Alexander Mackinnon 1789–1870). b. Portswood park, Southampton 21 April 1815; entered navy 1 Oct. 1829, commander 1 Nov. 1847, retired captain 1 July 1864; M.P. Rye 1865–8; author of Some account of the Falkland islands 1840; Steam warfare in the Parana 2 vols. 1848; Atlantic and transatlantic sketches 2 vols. 1852. d. Ormley lodge, Ham common, Surrey 10 July 1877.

MACKINNON, LIONEL DANIEL (brother of the preceding). b. 1825; ensign and lieut. Coldstream guards 30 May 1843, capt. and lieut.-col. 20 Oct. 1854; advancing in front of his regiment at Inkerman was shot and fell mortally wounded and died soon after being brought in 5 Nov. 1854. G. Ryan’s Our heroes of the Crimea (1855) pp. 77–80.

MACKINNON, SIR WILLIAM (son of Duncan Mackinnon). b. Campbeltown, Argyleshire 1823; trained to business in Glasgow to 1847; partner with Mr. Mackenzie in a general store at a town on the Ganges 1847, removed the business to Calcutta 1855; senior partner in Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co. East India merchants; commenced a trade with Burmah 1855 which developed into the British India steam navigation co., one of the greatest shipping companies in the world, having 110 vessels, 1300 officers and 10,000 European and native seamen etc.; the means of annexing part of Zanzibar to Great Britain; the chief adviser of the government on granting the charter to the Imperial British East Africa co. of which he was chairman to his death; obtained funds for the Emim relief expedition under Stanley; contested Argyleshire 4 Dec. 1885; C.I.E. 23 May 1882; cr. a baronet 15 July 1889. d. of quinsy, Burlington hotel, 30 Old Burlington st. London 22 June 1893, personalty sworn at £560,563 Oct. 1893. Black and White 1 July 1893 p. 3, portrait; I.L.N. 1 July 1893 p. 7, portrait.

MACKINNON, WILLIAM ALEXANDER (eld. son of Wm. Mackinnon of Mackinnon). b. 2 Aug. 1789; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; student at Lincoln’s Inn; M.P. Dunwich 1819–20; M.P. Lymington 1831–2 and 1835–52; M.P. Rye 1853–65; brought in bills for the amendment of the patent laws, to prevent intramural interments in populous places and to abate the smoke nuisance; a comr. for colonization of South Australia; F.S.A. 1820; F.R.S. 14 June 1827; author of On public opinion in Great Britain and other parts of the world 1828, anon., published subsequently as The history of civilisation 2 vols. 1846. d. Belvidere, Broadstairs, Kent 30 April 1870. I.L.N. xv 44 (1849), portrait.

MACKINTOSH, ANGUS (son of John Mackintosh of Holme, Inverness, d. 1847). b. 1826; ed. Edinb. acad.; matric. from univ. coll. Oxf. 15 May 1845; led a dissipated life; became very violent in London, April and May 1852, attracted great attention at one of the Queen’s drawing rooms, his name was consequently dropped from the list of presentations, applied for redress to the lord chamberlain in vain; confined in Saughton Hall asylum, Edinburgh from 13 June to 20 July 1852 when he escaped; brought an action for illegal detention against Dr. John Smith and Dr. Lowe proprietors of the asylum, verdict given against him 29 July 1859, began another action against them May 1863, verdict given in their favour after a 7 days’ trial in Edinburgh 12 Feb. 1864; resided at Holme, Invernesshire. A.R. (1864) 19–22.

MACKINTOSH, CHARLES CALDER (son of Dr. Angus Mackintosh d. Tain 1831). b. Tain 5 Oct. 1806; ed. at Aberdeen and Glasgow; co-pastor of Tain 1828, and minister 1831–43; minister of Free ch. Tain 1843 and of Free ch. Dunoon 1854 to death; a very popular revival preacher; D.D. of Union coll. Shenectady, Sep. 1850. d. Pau 24 Nov. 1868. W. Taylor’s Memorials of C. C. Mackintosh (1871), biographical sketch pp. 23–51, portrait; Scott’s Fasti, iii pt. i p. 310 (1870).

MACKINTOSH, DANIEL (son of the owner of a water-power mill). b. Blairgowrie, Perthshire 1815; lecturer on astronomy, geology and physical geology in England; contributed to Quart. Journ. of Geological Soc. and to Geological Mag.; F.G.S. 1861, received grant from the Lyell fund 1886; took an active part in the controversies on marine denudation; made researches on glacial geology and on erratic blocks and boulders; received 4 grants from Royal Society in aid of original research; presented with Kingsley medal of Chester Soc. of natural science 1881; president of Liverpool Geological Society 1881–3; author of Supplement to the Bridgewater treatises. The highest generalizations in geology and astronomy illustrating the greatness of the creator 1843; The scenery of England and Wales, its character and origin 1869. d. Birkenhead 19 July 1891. bur. Flaybrick cemetery, Birkenhead. Geol. Mag. Sep. 1891 p. 432.

MACKINTOSH, MACKAY. Presbyterian minister at Laggan to 1831 and at Dunoon 1831–43; moderator of the Free general assembly 24 May 1849; minister of Melbourne Gaelic ch. Australia 1854–6, and to a congregation in Sydney 1856–61; minister of Free ch. Tarbert, Harris, Scotland 1862; superintended and corrected press of Gaelic Dictionary 1828; author of Memoir of Rob. Don 1829; Four sermons. Liverpool 1833; Sermons on the christian warfare 1836; The treasure, selections from the Olney hymns, in Gaelic; Practical exposition of Matthew V. 1845; Sermon on rev. Roderick Macleod with memorials 1869. Scott’s Fasti, iii pt. i p. 19 (1870).

MACKMURDO, GILBERT WAKEFIELD. b. 1799; M.R.C.S. 1824, F.R.C.S.; practised at 7 New Broad, city of London; surgeon St. Thomas’s hospital, London; consulting surgeon and lecturer on ophthalmic surgery royal London ophthalmic hospital. d. Chigwell-row, Essex 26 Aug. 1869.

MACKNESS, JAMES (elder son of Thomas Mackness a lace man). b. Wellingborough, Northamptonshire 31 March 1804; member of College of Surgeons 22 Dec. 1824; practised at Turvey near Bedford 1827, then at Northampton 1831–7; M.D. St. Andrew’s 15 May 1840; physician at Hastings 1840 to death; phys. to Hastings dispensary Nov. 1840; L.R.C.P. Jany. 1843; author of Hastings considered as a resort for invalids 1842, 2 ed. 1850; The moral aspects of medical life 1846; Dysphonia clericorum or clergyman’s sore throat 1848. d. Wellington sq. Hastings 8 Feb. 1851. Memorials of J. Mackness. By Miss M. M. Howard (1851).

MACKONOCHIE, ALEXANDER HERIOT (3 son of George Mackonochie, retired colonel). b. Farnham, Hants. 11 Aug. 1825; ed. at Bath, Exeter, Edinb. univ. and Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1848, M.A. 1851; C. of Westbury, Wilts. 1849–52; C. of Wantage, Berkshire 1852; C. of St. George’s-in-the-East, London 1858–62; C. in charge of St. Alban’s, Holborn, London 1862, church was consecrated 21 Feb. 1863; his advanced ritualistic practices were the cause of a long series of law suits by the Church Association; suspended for 3 months 25 Nov. 1878 for disobedience to judgment of privy council given against him 1868, a fresh suit was commenced 1874, on 12 June 1875 he was suspended for six weeks, and on 1 June 1878 for three years; resigned his living 1 Dec. 1882 but worked there unofficially Dec. 1883 to death; domestic chaplain to lord Eliot Nov. 1870; V. of St. Peter’s, London Docks, Jany. 1883, resigned 23 Dec. 1883; author of First principles v. Erastianism, sermons 1876; went on a visit to the bishop of Argyll and the Isles at Ballachulish 10 Dec. 1887, found dead in the deer forest of Manore 15 Dec. 1887. bur. in the ground of St. Alban’s Guild, Working 23 Dec. E. A. Towle’s A. H. Mackonochie, a memoir (1890), portrait; Church portrait journal n.s. iii 49–56 (1882), portrait; Judgment delivered by Sir Robert Phillimore in the cases of Martin v. Mackonochie and Flamank v. Simpson. By W. G. F. Phillimore (1868); Legal Ritual. By J. Mc Dale (1871).

MACKONOCHIE, JAMES (brother of the preceding). b. 1823; advocate at Scotch bar 1845; barrister I.T. 6 June 1855; a revising barrister 1873–88; recorder of Winchester, Jany. 1880 to Dec. 1888; judge of county court, circuit 55 (Hants. and Dorset), Nov. 1888 to death. d. Kenilworth, Cavendish road, Bournemouth 18 Dec. 1892.

MC KOWEN, JAMES. b. Lambeg near Lisburn, co. Antrim 11 Feb. 1814; employed at bleach works of Richardson, Sons & Owden, Belfast about 1833 to death; contributed many racy poems to Northern Whig and other Ulster papers from about 1840, generally under pseudonym of Kitty Connor; one of his pieces The old Irish cow, became very popular in Ulster, and another The ould Irish jig, is known throughout Ireland; 9 of his poems are in The harp of Erin. Dublin 1867; resided at Millbrook. d. Beechside, Lisburn 22 April 1889. bur. Lambeg 25 April. The Northern Whig 24 April 1889 pp. 1, 5.

MACKWORTH, SIR DIGBY, 4 Baronet (eld. son of sir Digby Mackworth, 3 bart. 1766–1838). b. Oxford 13 June 1789; ed. at Westminster; lieut. 7 fusiliers 9 July 1807; carried the colours at Talavera 27 and 28 July 1809; one of lord Hill’s aides de camp; captain 13 light dragoons 31 Dec. 1818 to 23 Oct. 1823 when placed on h.p.; brevet colonel 11 Nov. 1851; K.H. 1832 for his assistance in suppressing riots in forest of Dean 1830 and at Bristol 1831; succeeded his father as 4 bart. 2 May 1838; sheriff of Monmouthshire 1843; chief founder of National club, London 1845; contested Derby 1846 and Liverpool 1847. d. Glen Uske, Monmouthshire 23 Sep. 1852. G.M. xxxviii 524–26 (1852); I.L.N. xxi 282 (1852).

NOTE.--He was in that charge at Albuera 16 May 1811 in which out of the 1500 men composing the 7 and 23 regiments only 150 escaped; the brigade going into action under three colonels and coming out under only one captain and with 3 battalions each commanded by a lieutenant. There was no parallel slaughter of British officers and soldiers during the war.

MACKWORTH, HUBERT FRANCIS. b. Trinidad 27 Sep. 1823; ed. at King’s college, London; inspector of mines and collieries in southern district of England and Wales 1851 to death; F.G.S.; author of Lectures in connection with the educational exhibition of the Society of arts 1854; The ventilation, underground gases and sanitary condition of mines. Bristol 1859. d. Clifton wood house, Bristol 13 July 1858.

MACLACHLAN, ALEXANDER. b. 1789; 2 lieut. R.A. 3 Dec. 1803, col. 11 Nov. 1851, col. commandant 19 May 1863 to death; served in Spain 1813 and 1814; L.G. 22 June 1860; knight of St. Maurice and Lazare. d. Dublin 26 Feb. 1866.

MACLACHLAN, ARCHIBALD. Ensign 69 foot 6 May 1795; captain O’Conner’s recruiting corps 1 Dec. 1797, placed on h.p. 1799; major 69 foot 4 June 1813 to 25 Nov. 1816 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 20 June 1854. d. Rockstone place, Southampton 29 Dec. 1854.

MACLACHLAN, DANIEL. b. Glasgow 1807; M.R.C.S. Edinb. 1827; F.R.C.P. 1859; M.D. Glasgow; army hospital assistant on coast of Africa 1827; assist. surgeon 79 highlanders 1828–40; physician and surgeon Chelsea hospital 8 May 1840 to 1863; author of A practical treatise on the diseases and infirmities of advanced life 1863. d. Claremont, Ventnor, Isle of Wight 15 June 1870. Proc. Med. and Chir. Soc. vi 350 (1871).

MAC LACHLAN, JOHN. b. 1789; senior partner in firm of Mac Lachlan and Stewart, publishers and university booksellers, Edinburgh. d. Blackford Brae, Oswald road, Edinburgh 9 Nov. 1876. Scotsman 10 Nov. 1876 p. 8.

MAC LACHLAN, JOHN. b. 1827; ordained in Rome 1850; R.C. bishop of Galloway 29 Jany. 1878 to death, consecrated in Glasgow cathedral 23 May 1878. d. Dumfries 16 Jany. 1893.

MACLAGAN, ALEXANDER (1 son of Thomas Maclagan). b. Bridgend, Perth 3 April 1811; apprentice to a plumber 1823–9, then a journeyman; contributed to Edinburgh literary journal 1829; manager of a plumbery in Dunfermline 1833; junior clerk in inland revenue office, Edinb. 1850; entertained at a public dinner in the hall of Burns’ cottage 1851; granted civil list pension of £30, 29 Sep. 1856; author of Sketches from nature and other poems 1851; Ragged school rhymes 1851, new ed. 1871; National songs and ballads 1878. d. Edinburgh 20 April 1879. C. Rogers’ Modern Scottish minstrel, v 226–40 (1857).

MACLAGAN, DAVID. b. Edinburgh, Feb. 1785; ed. Edinb. univ., M.D. 1805; M.R.C.S. Edinb. 1804; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1807, F.R.C.S. 1816; assistant surgeon to 91 regt. 10 Sep. 1807, served at Walcheren; staff surgeon 9 Portuguese brigade 1811 and served in Spain to 1814; phys. in the army 26 May 1814, placed on h.p. 1816; in practice at Edinb. 1816 to death; pres. of R.C.S. 1826; pres. R.C.P. 1856; surgeon in ordinary to the queen in Scotland 1838 to death; F.R.S. Edinb. d. 129 George st. Edinb. 6 June 1865. Proc. Royal Soc. of Edinb. v 476–7 (1866).

MACLAGAN, DAVID (son of the preceding). Actuary at 9 Royal circus, Edinburgh; manager of Edinburgh life insurance co. 1873–83; F.R.S. Edinb. 1872; author of St. George’s, Edinburgh, a history of St. George’s church and of St. George’s Free church 1876. d. Mentone 30 March 1883.

MACLAGAN, PHILIP WHITESIDE (son of David Maclagan, M.D., d. 1865). L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1839; M.D. Edinb. 1840; assistant surgeon in the army 15 Jany. 1841; assistant surgeon royal Canadian rifle regiment 19 Dec. 1845; surgeon 20 foot 24 Sep. 1850, resigned 3 Dec. 1853; much interested in philanthropic movements; botanist. d. Berwick 26 May 1892; memorial fountain unveiled in High st. Berwick 14 June 1893. Daily Graphic 17 June 1893 p. 5, view of fountain.

MACLAINE, SIR ARCHIBALD (2 son of Gillean Maclaine of Scalasdale in the Isle of Mull, d. 23 Nov. 1778 aged 64). b. 13 Jany. 1773; ensign 94 foot 16 April 1794; held Matagorda an outwork of Cadiz with 155 men against 8000 French under marshal Soult 22 Feb. to 22 April 1810; major 87 foot 4 Oct. 1810; lieut.-col. 7 West India regiment of foot 25 Jany. 1813 to 25 April 1816; lieut.-col. 14 foot 9 Aug. 1821 to 4 Nov. 1822; lieut.-col. 17 foot 4 Nov. 1822 to 30 July 1829 when placed on h.p.; colonel of 52 foot 8 Feb. 1847 to death; C.B. 4 June 1815; knighted at St. James’s palace 19 Oct. 1831; K.C.B. 6 April 1852; knight of order of Charles the Third of Spain 1816; general 5 June 1855. d. 68 Cumberland st. Hyde park, London 9 March 1861. bur. Highgate cemet.

MACLAINE, HECTOR (1 son of William Osborne Maclaine). b. Murtle, Aberdeenshire 24 Nov. 1851; ed. Eton and Woolwich; lieut. R.A. 6 Jany. 1872 to death; in India 1873–4, returned to India 1879, on service in Kandahar 1880, in the action at Maiwand 27 July 1880 showed great bravery and energy in working his guns under fire; while in search of water on 28 July was taken prisoner, was returned as killed or missing and name taken out of army list in Aug.; imprisoned at Kokaran from 30 July; murdered by his captors at Kandahar 1 Sep. 1880 and his body soon after found by 92nd highlanders. bur. Kandahar with military honours. Shadbolt’s Afghan Campaign (1882) 131–4, portrait.

MAC LAREN, ARCHIBALD. b. 1819; proprietor of the Gymnasium, Alfred st. Oxford to death; the British army is trained on his principles and in gymnasia which he invented; wrote Systematized exercise, expansion and developement of the chest. Macmillan’s Mag. Nov. 1890 pp. 35–40; author of A military system of gymnastic exercises for the use of instructors 1862, 2 ed. 1868; A system of fencing for the use of instructors in the army 1864; A system of physical education, theoretical and practical 1866; Training in theory and practice 1866, 2 ed. 1874. d. Summertown near Oxford 19 Feb. 1884.

MACLAREN, CHARLES (only child of a small farmer). b. Ormiston, Haddingtonshire 7 Oct. 1782; clerk to several firms at Edinburgh; established with others The Scotsman 25 Jany. 1817, joint editor 1817–18 and 1820–45; a clerk in the custom house 1818–20; edited 6th ed. of Encyclopædia Britannica 20 vols. 1822, for which he wrote articles America, Europe, Greece, Physical geography and Troy; F.R.S. Edinb. 1837; F.G.S. 1846, pres. of Geol. Soc. of Edinb. 1864 to death; author of A dissertation on the topography of the plain of Troy, 1822, reissued as The plains of Troy described 1863; A sketch of the geology of Fife and the Lothians 1839, 2 ed. 1866. d. Moreland cottage, Edinburgh 10 Sep. 1866. R. Cox and J. Nicol’s Select writings of C. Maclaren 2 vols. (1869), portrait.

MC LAREN, DUNCAN (son of John Mc Laren, farmer). b. Renton, Dumbartonshire 12 Jany. 1800; a draper in a shop opposite St. Giles’s ch. Edinb. 1824; member of town council Edinb. 1833, baillie, treasurer, lord provost 1851–4; chairman of Edinburgh chamber of commerce; contested Edinb. 1852, M.P. Edinb. 1865–81, used to be called in the house the Member for Scotland; established the Heriot free schools, Edinb. 1836; author of History of the resistance to the annuity tax under each of the four church establishments for which it has been levied 1836, 4 ed. 1851; Facts regarding the seat rents of the city churches of Edinburgh 1840. d. Newington house, Edinburgh 26 April 1886, portrait in council chamber, Edinb. J. B. Mackie’s Life and works of D. Mc Laren 2 vols. (1888), 2 portraits.

M’LAREN, JAMES. b. Polmont, Stirlingshire 1829; general superintendent North British railway co. 1843 to death, the oldest official connected with the company. d. Edinburgh 30 Oct. 1893.

M’LAREN, JOHN H. b. Scotland 1827; assistant secretary to Royal insurance company at Liverpool about 1855, general manager 1872 to death; effected amalgamations with other companies, that with the Queen insurance co. in 1891 being the greatest. d. Claughton, Birkenhead 13 Nov. 1893.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

M’LETCHIE, JAMES. b. Maybole, Ayrshire 24 Dec. 1800; apprentice to a surgeon at Maybole; ed. Glasgow univ., D.D.; presbyterian minister at Larkhall 1837, at Gartsherrie to 1841, at St. Thomas’, Leith 1841, at Blackfriars’ parish, Glasgow 1842; minister of the second charge, High ch. Edinb. 1843 to death. d. Edinburgh 18 Sep. 1866. bur. Grange cemetery 24 Sep. Sermons by J. M’Letchie (1871) memoir pp. vii–xxvii, portrait.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MACMILLAN, DANIEL (3 son of Duncan Macmillan of Upper Corrie, island of Arran, farmer d. 1823). b. Upper Corrie 13 Sep. 1813; apprenticed to Maxwell Dick of Irvine, bookseller 1 Jany. 1824 for 7 years; worked for Mr. Atkinson of Glasgow, bookseller 1831–33; shopman to Mr. Johnson of Cambridge 1833–37; employed by Messrs. Seeley of Fleet st. London, publishers 1837–43; bookseller and publisher at 57 Aldersgate st. Feb. 1843; bought business of Mr. Newby of Trinity st. Cambridge 1843 where he issued his first university catalogue March 1844; issued Kingsley’s Westward Ho! 1855 and Tom Brown’s school days 1857; gave up his business in London end of 1843. d. Cambridge 27 June 1857. T. Hughes’ Memoir of D. Macmillan (1882), portrait; A bibliographical catalogue of Macmillan and Co.’s publications (1891), portrait.

MACMILLAN, JAMES. b. 1815; editor of the Worcester Herald 1836 to death; projector and founder of Worcestershire association for promotion of science; the regenerator of the Worcester races. d. Worcester 3 Feb. 1868. Newspaper Press, ii 69 (1868).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

MAHER, JAMES. b. Donore, co. Carlow 24 May 1793; ed. Carlow coll. 1808–16; studied in the Vincentian house of retreat, Monte Citorio, Rome 1817–21; C. of Kildare 1821; C. of Carlow 1822; parish priest of Leighlin Bridge 1827; priest of Goresbridge and Paulstown 1830–33; assistant to James Doyle, bishop of Kildare 1833–4; administrator of parish of Carlow 1833–7; professor of theology and sacred scriptures Carlow coll. 1837–41; priest of Carlow Graigue 1841 to death; resident in Rome 1844–6. d. Carlow college 2 April 1874, at the obsequies in Carlow cath. 200 priests were present. bur. Carlow Graigue. Comerford’s Collections of Kildare (1883) 177–8; Letters of Father Maher (1877).

MAHER, JOHN. b. 24 July 1801; M.P. co. Wexford 1835–41; sheriff of Wexford 1853. d. 28 May 1860.

MAHER, NICHOLAS VALENTINE (1 son of Thomas Maher, M.D.) b. Cashel 1820; M.P. co. Tipperary 1844–52; inherited the estates of his cousin Valentine Maher 1844. d. Turtulla near Thurles 18 Oct. 1871. I.L.N. 28 Oct. 1871 p. 411.

MAHOMED, FREDERICK HENRY HORATIO AKBAR (grandson of succeeding). b. Brighton, April 1849; ed. at Guy’s hospital, London 1869; M.R.C.S. 1872; assist. medical officer Highgate infirmary 1872; resident medical officer at London fever hospital, April 1873; medical tutor and pathologist at St. Mary’s hospital 1875; medical registrar at Guy’s hospital 1877, assistant phys. 1881; M.D. Brussels 1875; M.B. Cambridge 1881; F.R.C.P. 1880; author of many papers in Trans. of Pathological Soc. and British medical journal, chiefly on Observations with the sphygmograph and on the Pre-albuminuric state of scarlatinal dropsy. d. of enteric fever at 24 Manchester sq. London 22 Nov. 1884. bur. Highgate cemet. 27 Nov. Medical times and gazette, ii 745, 763 (1884); Guy’s Hospital Reports (1886) 1–10.

MAHOMED, SAKE DEEN. b. Patna, Bahar, Hindoostan 1759; surgeon in H.E.I.C.S.; served in the army 1780–84; came to England 1784; learnt English at a school in Cork; eloped from the school at Cork with an Irish girl, she d. about Dec. 1850; carried on a vapour bath and shampooing business at Brighton 1786 to death; author of Shampooing or benefits resulting from the use of the Indian vapour bath as introduced by S. D. Mahomed. Brighton 2 ed. 1826, portrait. d. 32 Grand Parade, Brighton 24 Feb. 1851. Arthur Mahomed succeeded to the business and Frederick Mahomed kept a fencing academy. The travels of Deen Mahomed 2 vols. Cork (1794); Willis’s Current notes (1852) 23; G.M. xxxv 444 (1851).

MAHON, CHARLES JAMES PATRICK, known as The O’Gorman Mahon (son of Patrick Mahon d. 1821). b. Ennis, co. Clare 17 March 1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1819, M.A. 1826; member of the Catholic association; M.P. Clare 17 Aug. 1830, but unseated for bribery 23 March 1831; contested Clare 19 May 1831; called to bar in Ireland 1834; travelled in Europe, Africa, Asia and South America 1835–46; M.P. Ennis 1847–52; a lieut. in the Czar’s international body guard; hunted bears in Finland with the Czarewitch; fought against the Tartars, travelled in China and India and served in the Turkish and Austrian armies; general under the government during civil war in Uruguay 1863; commanded a Chilian fleet in the Spanish war 1865; colonel in the army of Brazil; fought for the federals in the American civil war; colonel in a French regiment of chasseurs 1866–7; intimate with Bismark at Berlin 1867; reappeared in Ireland 1871 and took part in home rule conference 1873; M.P. Clare 1879–85, M.P. Carlow 1887 to death; fought many duels, including one with Smith O’Brien in 1829. d. Sidney st. Chelsea, London 15 June 1891. bur. Glasnevin cemetery, Dublin 21 June. I.L.N. 27 June 1891 p. 854, portrait; Pictorial World 27 June 1891 p. 832, portrait.

MAHON, MATTHEW. Ensign 16 foot 31 Dec. 1789, major 28 Nov. 1805; major royal York rangers 11 Aug. 1808, lieut.-col. 2 Jany. 1812 to 25 Dec. 1818 when placed on h.p. on his corps being disbanded; M.G. 28 June 1838. d. Brighton 18 March 1851.

MAHONY, FRANCIS SYLVESTER (2 son of Martin Mahony of Blarney, woollen manufacturer). b. Cork 1804; ed. at Jesuits’ seminary in Rue de Sèvres, Paris, and the Jesuits’ college at Rome; prefect of studies at the Jesuits’ college at Clongoweswood, co. Kildare, Aug. 1830, master of rhetoric Oct. to Nov. 1830; ceased to be a Jesuit 1830; attended theological lectures at Rome 1830–2, ordained priest 1832; a missioner at Cork 1832–3; contributed Reliques of Father Prout to Fraser’s Mag. 1834–6, many poems to Bentley’s Miscellany 1837, and became known as Father Prout; travelled in Hungary, Greece and Asia Minor 1838–41; correspondent for the Daily News at Rome 1846–7; lived in Paris 1848 to death where he was correspondent for The Globe 1858 to death; author of The tour of De La Boullaye Le Gouz in Ireland 1837; The reliques of Father Prout 1870; The final reliques of Father Prout 1876; The works of Father Prout (1881), memoir pp. vii–xxxix, portrait. d. at his hotel in the Rue des Moulins, Paris 18 May 1866. bur. in vaults of Shandon church, Cork. W. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery (1883) 463–88, portrait; C. M. Collins’s Celtic Irish song writers (1885) 91–4; S. C. Hall’s A book of memories 2 ed. (1877) 238; Dublin Univ. mag. xxx 442–52 (1847) signed Morgan Rattler; I.L.N. xlix 137 (1866), portrait.

MAHONY, PIERCE. Member of firm of Pierce Mahony and Co. solicitors to the Alliance and four other insurance companies, at 22 and 23 William st. Dublin to 1849; M.P. Kinsale 7 Aug. 1837, unseated on petition 11 April 1838; agent for D. O’Connell 1829 and solicitor for him in 1844; clerk of the crown in court of queen’s bench, Ireland 1849 to death; author of the Leinster declaration of 1830, which stopped first agitation for repeal of the Union. d. 18 Feb. 1853. I.L.N. iv 41, 42 (1814), portrait.

MAHONY, RICHARD JOHN (1 son of rev. Denis Mahony of Tralee, Kerry). b. Dromore castle 1827; ed. Worcester coll. Oxf., B.A. 1849; sheriff of Kerry 1853; a practical agriculturalist, Dromore being a pattern estate; a kind and considerate landlord, all the press correspondents wrote about his lands, J. A. Froude was a visitor at Dromore, the land act confiscated his estate; author of The crime and penalty of ownership, and of several other pamphlets and of articles in Fraser’s Mag. d. 4 Philbeach gardens, London 22 Dec. 1892. bur. in family vault near Dromore castle 27 Dec. Times 28 Dec. 1892 p. 4.

MAIDEN, JOSEPH. b. close to Barrow churchyard, Shropshire 1795; whip to Mr. Whitmore at Albrighton 1809; second whip to sir Bellingham Graham; whip to sir Harry Goodricke and others at Sandway 1831–45; presented with a silver tankard and 250 sovereigns by the Cheshire hunt 1845; farmer and publican at Sandway Head 1845; huntsman to Mr. Davenport at Wolstanton 1845–64; had his left leg amputated Nov. 1855; presented by his master with a silver cup and 750 sovereigns 12 Dec. 1856. d. Sidway Mill farm near Market Drayton 20 Oct. 1864. bur. Maer. Sporting Review, xxxviii 383–7 (1857) portrait, lii 318, 392 (1864); The Post and the Paddock. By The Druid (1880) 313–18; Cecil’s Records of the chase (1877) 211–2.

NOTE.--The first picture in Mr. Facey Romford’s hounds [By R. S. Surtees] 1865 represents Maiden’s widow and children.

MAIDLOW, JOHN MOTT (2 son of William Maidlow of Sydenham, Kent). b. 1839; ed. King’s coll. sch. London and Queen’s coll. Oxf., taberdar 1857–62, fellow 1862–75; double first class 1861, B.A. 1861; Eldon law scholar 1864–7; barrister L.I. 11 June 1867; a leading junior in the Chancery division; author of Essay on the law of commons and open spaces and the rights of the public therein. Printed in Sir H. W. Peek’s Six essays on commons preservation 1867. d. 1 Cleveland terrace, Hyde park, London 26 Sep. 1893.

MAIDMENT, JAMES (son of James Maidment, solicitor, Dowgate hill, London). b. London about 1795; called to Scottish bar 1817; much engaged in disputed peerage cases; a friend of sir Walter Scott; edited works for the Bannatyne, Maitland, Abbotsford, and Hunterian clubs, and for the Spottiswoode society 1837–73; principal editor of Kay’s Edinburgh Portraits 2 vols. 1837; edited with W. H. Logan The dramatists of the restoration 14 vols. Edinburgh 1877; edited and wrote 63 works; the sale of his library in May 1880 lasted 15 days. d. Edinburgh 26 Oct. 1879. T. G. Stevenson’s Bibliography of Maidment (1883), portrait; Journal of jurisprudence, xxiii 601–3 (1879).

MAIN, DAVID M. (son of a Scottish banker). b. 1847; edited A treasury of English sonnets, with notes and illustrations. Manchester 1879, 2 ed. London 1880; Three hundred English sonnets 1884. d. 1888.

MAIN, JOHN FREDERIC. b. 1854 or 1855; ed. at Southsea diocesan gr. sch.; matric. at univ. of London, Jany. 1872; studied at Trin. coll. Camb., scholar, 10th wrangler 1876; B.Sc. London 1876, D.Sc. 1877; lecturer in engineering, Univ. coll. Bristol; assistant professor of mechanics, Royal college of science South Kensington. d. Denver, Colorado 10 May 1892.

MAIN, ROBERT (son of Thomas Main). b. Upnor, Kent 12 July 1808; assistant master Bishop’s Waltham gr. sch., foundation scholar at Queen’s coll. Camb., fellow 1836–8; 6th wrangler 1834; B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; at Pemb. coll. Oxf., M.A. 1860; chief assistant at royal observatory, Greenwich 1835–60; ordained 1836; F.R.A.S. 11 March 1836, member of council 1837–41 and 1861–76, secretary 1841–6, vice pres. 1856–9, president 1859–61, gold medallist 12 Feb. 1858; F.R.S. 7 June 1860, member of council 1875–7; Radcliffe observer at Oxford 19 June 1860 to death; author of Rudimentary astronomy 1852, 3 ed. 1882; Astronomical observations made at the Radcliffe observatory 1859 etc.; Twelve sermons preached at St. Mary’s, Greenwich 1860; Plain and spherical astronomy 1863. d. Radcliffe observatory, Oxford 9 May 1878. E. Dunkin’s Obituary notices of astronomers (1879) 165–88; Nature 16 May 1878 pp. 72–3.

MAIN, THOMAS. b. 1806; presbyterian minister Kilmarnock 1839–43; Free ch. minister Kilmarnock 1843–57; minister St. Mary’s, Edinb. 1857 to death; moderator of Free ch. general assembly 1880; D.D.; author of Speech on the Union question in the Free church presbytery of Edinburgh 1868. d. 7 Bellevue crescent, Edinburgh 28 May 1881. J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1851) 55–62.

MAIN, THOMAS JOHN (brother of Robert Main 1808–78). b. 1818; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., fellow 3 April 1838 to 1843; senior wrangler and first Smith’s prizeman 1838, B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; F.R.A.S. 10 Jany. 1840; chaplain in navy 11 Nov. 1842, retired 22 Sep. 1871; professor of mathematics at royal naval college, Portsmouth 1837–71; author with Thomas Brown of The indicator and dynamometer 1847, 3 ed. 1857; The marine steam engine 1849, 5 ed. 1865, and in German. Vienna 1868; Questions on subjects connected with the marine steam engine 1857, 2 ed. 1863. d. 15 Elsworthy road, Primrose hill, London 28 Dec. 1885. Nature 7 Jany. 1886 p. 233.

MAINE, MISS E. S. (cousin of the succeeding). Author of Among strangers, an autobiography 1870; Annie, an excellent person 1872; Marchmont of Redlands 2 vols. 1872; Scarscliff rocks 3 vols. 1875; Angus Gray 3 vols. 1878. d. Wales 24 Jany. 1891.

MAINE, SIR HENRY JAMES SUMNER (son of James Maine, M.D.) b. Caversham Grove, Oxon. 15 Aug. 1822; ed. at Christ’s hospital 1829, exhibitioner to Pemb. coll. Camb. 1840, scholar 1841; Craven univ. scholar 1843, senior classic and first chancellor’s medallist 1844, B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847, LL.D. 1847; tutor of Trinity hall 1845–7; regius professor of civil law at Camb. 28 April 1847 to 1854; barrister L.I. 11 June 1850; barrister M.T. 4 Oct. 1862, bencher of M.T. 21 Nov. 1873 to death; contributed to Morning Chronicle 1851; reader on Roman law and jurisprudence to the Inns of Court, London 7 July 1852; an original contributor to the Saturday Review from Nov. 1855, wrote in it to 1861; legal member of council of India at Calcutta 1862–9; vice chancellor of univ. of Calcutta 1863; elected a member of the Athenæum club 1862; Corpus professor of jurisprudence Oxford, Dec. 1869 to 1878; fellow of C.C. coll. Oxf. 1867–79; fellow of univ. of London 1871–85; K.C.S.I. 20 May 1871; member of council of India 2 Nov. 1871; F.R.S. 4 June 1874; Rede’s lecturer at Cambridge 26 Jany. 1875; master of Trinity hall, Cambridge 28 Dec. 1877 to death; Whewell professor of international law at Cambridge 1887 to death; hon. fellow of Pemb. coll. Camb. 1887; author of Ancient law, its connection with the early history of society and its relation to modern ideas 1861, 10 ed. 1885; Village Communities 1871, 3 ed. 1876; Lectures on the early history of institutions 1875 and 10 other books; resided 27 Cornwall gardens, London. d. Cannes 3 Feb. 1888. Sir H. Maine: a memoir. By Sir M. E. Grant Duff, with his speeches (1892), memoir pp. 1–83, portrait; Bristed’s Five years at an English university, i 174, 234, 237, 268–70 (1852); Escott’s Pillars of the empire (1879) 197–204; The Biograph, Jany. 1882 pp. 69–74.

MAINWARING, EDWARD VINCENT. b. 1809; M.R.C.S. 1827; served in the H.E.I.C. service; M.D. Glasgow 1842; practised at Bournemouth, Hants. to death; originated and promoted the Bournemouth Sanatorium for consumption 1854; contributed to The Lancet. d. of pleuro-pneumonia at Bournemouth 30 Jany. 1855.

MAINWARING, FREDERICK. Ensign 51 foot 1 Nov. 1810, major 27 June 1838, placed on h.p. 4 Sep. 1849; lieut.-col. 59 foot 7 Sep. 1852, sold out 29 April 1853. d. Jersey 25 Sep. 1858 aged 62.

MAINWARING, GEORGE BYRES. b. 18 July 1825; ensign 2 Bengal N.I. 1 July 1842; ensign 16 Bengal N.I. 20 April 1843, captain 1 Oct. 1856; lieut.-col. Bengal staff corps 8 Jany. 1868; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 Jany. 1884; L.G. 1 July 1887; author of A grammar of the Róng, Lepcha, language as it exists in the Dorjeling and Sikim hills, Calcutta 1876. d. Serampore, Bengal 16 Jany. 1893.

MAINWARING, SIR HENRY MAINWARING, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Thomas Wetenhall 1736–98, who assumed surname of Mainwaring). b. 25 April 1782; master of the Cheshire hounds 1818–37, Joe Maiden was for some time his huntsman; created a baronet 26 May 1804. d. Marbury, Cheshire 11 Jany. 1860. Sporting Review, xliii 83 (1860).

MAINWARING, ROWLAND (2 son of Rowland Mainwaring of Four Oaks, Warwickshire 1745–1815). b. 31 Dec. 1783; entered navy May 1795; midshipman in the Majestic at battle of the Nile 1798; commander of the Caledonia 120 guns 13 Aug. 1812; captain 22 July 1830, retired R.A. 27 Sep. 1855; author of Instructive gleanings from the best writers on painting and drawing 1832; Annals of Bath from 1800 to the passing of the new municipal act. Bath 1838. d. Whitmore hall, Newcastle-under-Lyme 11 April 1862.

MAINWARING, SWEEDLAND. b. 28 May 1819; ensign Indian army 15 Jany. 1839; ensign 2 Madras N.I. 8 Nov. 1839, captain 23 Nov. 1856; lieut.-col. Madras staff corps 15 Jany. 1865, placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; M.G. 1 July 1881. d. Wiesbaden 15 Feb. 1883.

MAINWARING, TOWNSHEND (2 son of rev. Charles Kynaston Mainwaring of Oteley park, Shropshire 1768–1807). b. Oteley park 16 March 1807; ed. at Rugby; matric. from Brasenose coll. Oxf. 3 Nov. 1825; sheriff of Denbigh 1840; M.P. Denbigh district 1841–7 and 1857–68. d. Galltfaenan near Rhyl 25 Dec. 1883.

MAINZER, JOSEPH. b. Trèves 21 Oct. 1801; ed. in the maitrise of Trèves cathedral; ordained priest 1826, became an abbé; singing master to the college at Trèves; left Germany on account of his political opinions and went to Brussels 1833; musical editor of L’Artiste; taught singing classes at Paris 1834; came to England 1839, in Edinburgh 1842 to 1848, at Manchester 1848 to death; LL.D.; author of Singing for the million 1841–2, 6 ed. 1843; A treatise on musical grammar with principles of harmony 1843; The Gaelic psalm tunes of Rossshire and the neighbouring counties. Edinb. 1844; The standard psalmody of Scotland. Edinb. 1845; Music and education 1848; edited The musical athenæum 1842, four numbers only; edited Mainzer’s musical times 1842–4, continued as The musical times 1844. d. Manchester 10 Nov. 1851. A. Guilbert’s Sketch of life of J. Mainzer (1844); Chambers’s Journal 14 Feb. 1852 pp. 103–5.

MAIR, JAMES ALLAN. b. Aberdeen 1843; assistant in house of W. H. Smith & Son, Dublin about 1866; author of The book of modern Scotch anecdotes 1871; The book of Scottish readings in prose and verse 1872; A handbook of proverbs 1873, 2 ed. 1874; A handbook of sayings and phrases 1873; Two thousand familiar quotations 1873; Proverbs and family mottoes 1891. drowned while bathing at Aberdeen 25 July 1875.

MAIR, JOHN. b. Aberdeen 1798; ed. at St. George’s hospital, London, and univ. of Edinb., member of royal medical society; hospital assistant in army 8 Nov. 1821, surgeon 30 Oct. 1840, surgeon major 2 Aug. 1850, placed on h.p. 12 Nov. 1852; served in nearly all the colonies; settled at Kingston, Upper Canada 1852; author of The cup of the lord, not the cup of devils. Reprinted from The gospel tribune, Toronto 1855; Nephaleia, or total abstinence from intoxicating liquors in man’s normal state of health, the doctrine of the Bible. Albany 1861. d. Kingston 5 Oct. 1877. H. J. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 246–7.

MAIR, ROBERT HENRY (son of Francis Henry Mair of Wragg, Marsh hall, Lincs.) b. 1832; edited Debrett’s Illustrated house of commons and judicial bench 1867 to death; Debrett’s Illustrated baronetage and knightage 1870 to death; and Debrett’s Illustrated peerage 1870 to death; author of Mair’s School list 1861; Scholastic experience, the experience of Mr. Ferule Birch and Miss Gentle Mary Birch 1862, two parts only; The educator’s guide 1866; The school boards, our educational parliaments 1872; Short rules for cribbage 1878. d. Osbert house, Skegness, Lincs. 19 Sep. 1888.

MAISEY, FREDERICK CHARLES. b. 27 Aug. 1825; ensign 67 Bengal N.I. 14 June 1843, major 1 Jany. 1862; served in Burmese war 1852–3, served throughout siege of Delhi; colonel Bengal infantry 16 July 1876; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 16 July 1883; general 1 Dec. 1888; author of Description of the antiquities of Kalinjar. Calcutta 1848; Military law and the procedure of military courts 1874, 2 ed. 1877; fell down the cellar stairs at 35 Upperton gardens, Eastbourne, and fracturing his skull. d. 2 Sep. 1892.

MAISTER, JOHN (3 son of Arthur Maister of Kingston upon Hull, d. 18 Feb. 1790). b. 1778; ensign 54 foot 13 Nov. 1793; captain 117 foot 30 March 1795; captain 20 foot 3 Sep. 1795, major 20 June 1801; major 39 foot 9 July 1803 to 20 Aug. 1807; lieut. col. 34 foot 20 Aug. 1807 to 25 June 1817 when placed on h.p.; served in Helder expedition 1799 and in Malta, Portugal and Spain; colonel 2 West India regt. 3 June 1841 to 25 Aug. 1843; colonel 86 foot 25 Aug. 1843 to death; commanded forces in Windward and Leeward islands Oct. 1839 to 1843; general 11 Nov. 1851. d. Wells 18 May 1852. bur. in the minster at Ripon. I.L.N. xx 479 (1852); G.M. xxxviii 92 (1852).

MAITLAND, SIR ALEXANDER CHARLES RAMSAY-GIBSON, 3 Baronet (son of Alexander M. G. Maitland). b. Edinburgh 7 Jany. 1820; succeeded his grandfather 7 Feb. 1848; lieut. col. commandant Stirlingshire militia 12 March 1855 to 26 April 1871, hon. col. 3 March 1875 to death; M.P. co. of Edinburgh 1868–74; assumed surname of Ramsay before that of Gibson 1865. d. Clifton hall, Ratho, Midlothian 15 May 1876. I.L.N. lxviii 551 (1876).

MAITLAND, CHARLES (eld. son of Charles David Maitland, captain R.A., afterwards minister of St. James’s chapel, Brighton 1828, d. Oct. 1865). b. Woolwich 6 Jany. 1815; ed. at Brighton and Edinb. univ., M.D. 1838; extra L.R.C.P. July 1842; practised at Windsor; matric. Magd. hall, Oxf. 1848, B.A. 1852; C. of All Saints’, Southampton 1852–3; C. of Lyndhurst, Hampshire; C. in the Forest of Dean, Gloucs.; author of The church in the catacombs: a description of the primitive church of Rome, illustrated by its sepulchral remains 1846; The apostles’ school of prophetic interpretation, with its history down to the present time 1849. d. London 31 July 1866.

MAITLAND, CHARLES DAVID. b. 1785; ed. at St. Cath. hall, Camb., B.A. 1824; minister of St. James’ chapel, Brighton 14 April 1828 to death; author of Two discourses on the conflagration predicted by St. Peter 1829; Nine discourses on the parable of the ten virgins 1830, 2 ed. 1831; Discourse on the humanity of Jesus Christ 1832; The history of Noah’s day and the coming of the Son of Man 1832; The parable of the prodigal son, eight discourses 1844. d. Brighton 12 Oct. 1865.

MAITLAND, CHARLES LENNOX BROWNLOW (son of sir Peregrine Maitland 1777–1854). b. 27 Sep. 1823; ensign Grenadier guards 9 April 1841, captain 28 Sep. 1854 to 14 April 1863 when placed on h.p.; assist. military sec. Cape of Good Hope 1844–47; D.A.A.G. in Crimea 1854–5; major Chelsea hospital 1868–74, lieut. governor 1871–4; lieut. of Tower of London 22 July 1876 to 4 June 1884; col. of 1 battalion Wiltshire regiment 12 March 1884 to death; general 1 Dec. 1884; placed on retired list 17 March 1886. d. Crookham, Hants. 5 Jany. 1891. Graphic 24 Jany. 1891 p. 103, portrait.

MAITLAND, EBENEZER FULLER. b. 1780; F.R.S. 28 May 1829; F.S.A.; resided at Park place, Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire. d. Brighton 1 Nov. 1858. Cautionary hints to testators, suggested by the conduct of E. F. Maitland, with a correspondence between that gentleman and Benjamin Flower of Harlow 1813.

MAITLAND, EDWARD FRANCIS, Lord Barcaple (son of Adam Maitland of Barcaple). b. Edinburgh 16 April 1803; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edinb., LL.D.; an advocate 1831; sheriff of Argyllshire 9 July 1851; solicitor general 14 Feb. 1855 to 17 March 1858 and 27 June 1859 to 10 Nov. 1862; a lord of the court of session with title of lord Barcaple 10 Nov. 1862 to death; curator and assessor of univ. of Edinb. 1859; rector of univ. of Aberdeen 1860. d. 3 Ainslie place, Edinburgh 23 Feb. 1870. Law mag. and law review, xxix 273–4 (1870).

MAITLAND, JOHN (3 son of sir Alexander C. M. Gibson Maitland, 2 baronet 1755–1848). b. 17 Jany. 1803; an accountant Edinb. to death; an organizer of the National security savings’ bank; joined the Free church of Scotland 1843, an elder in St. George’s, Edinb. 1846, a founder of the Sustentation fund; accountant to the court of session 1850–65; a director of the Commercial bank and of the North British insurance co.; built offices for the Free ch. Edinb. at cost of £5000; author of National savings’ banks, suggestions for rendering such savings’ banks self supporting 1847. d. Swinton Bank near Peebles 6 Sep. 1865. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 389–96.

MAITLAND, JOHN. b. 1807; 2 lieut. Madras artillery 16 Dec. 1824, colonel commandant 28 Jany. 1879 to death; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. d. Perrymead house, Bath 16 March 1881.

MAITLAND, JOHN GORHAM (son of Samuel Roffey Maitland 1792–1866). b. 1818; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., fellow 1839–47; 7 wrangler and 3 in the classical tripos 1839; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1843; an examiner in the civil service commission, secretary to death; F.R.S. 15 April 1847; author of Church Leases 1849; Property and income tax 1853. d. 51 Rutland gate, London 27 April 1863.

MAITLAND, JULIA CHARLOTTE (dau. of Mr. Barrett). m. (1) James Thomas a judge at Rajahmundry, Madras, who d. 6 Jany. 1840; m. (2) Nov. 1842 Charles Maitland 1815–66; author of Letters from Madras during the years 1836 to 1839. By A Lady 1843, another ed. 1846; Historical charades 1847, new ed. 1858; The doll and her friends 185-, 4 ed. 1862; Cat and dog, or memoirs of the puss and the captain 1854. d. Stowe Provost near Shaftesbury 29 Jany. 1864.

MAITLAND, SIR PEREGRINE (son of Thomas Maitland of Shrubs Hall, New Forest, Hants.) b. Longparish house, Hants. 1777; ensign 1 foot guards 25 June 1792, captain 25 June 1803; commanded first brigade of guards at passage of the Nive 9–12 Dec. 1813 and at Waterloo and the occupation of Paris; M.G. 4 June 1814; lieut. governor of Upper Canada 3 June 1818 to 14 Aug. 1828, and of Nova Scotia 21 Aug. 1828 to 24 Jany. 1834; commander-in-chief of Madras army 11 Oct. 1836 to Dec. 1838; governor and commander-in-chief at Cape of Good Hope 19 Dec. 1843 to 1 Oct. 1846; col. of 1 West India foot 22 Feb. 1830 to 19 July 1834; col. of 76 foot 19 July 1834 and of 17 foot 2 Jany. 1843 to death; general 9 Nov. 1846; K.C.B. 22 June 1815, G.C.B. 6 April 1852. d. 7 Eaton place West, London 30 May 1854. Hamilton’s History of the grenadier guards, vols. 2 and 3 (1874); Narrative of transactions connected with the Kaffir war (1848).

MAITLAND, SAMUEL ROFFEY (son of Alexander Maitland, merchant). b. King’s road (now Theobald’s road), Holborn, London 7 Jany. 1792; pupil of rev. Launcelot Sharpe 1807–9; admitted at St. John’s coll. Camb. 7 Oct. 1809, migrated to Trin. coll. 1810, left Cambridge 1811; entered again at St. John’s coll. 10 Oct. 1815, stayed there 3 terms; barrister I.T. 1816; C. of St. Edmund, Norwich 1821; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Gloucester 1823–7; travelled in France, Germany and Poland 1828; his pamphlet An enquiry into the grounds on which the prophetic period of Daniel and St. John has been supposed to consist of 1260 years. 1826, 2 ed. 1837, completely refuted the ‘Year-day theory’; librarian and keeper of manuscripts at Lambeth palace 1838–48; D.D. by abp. of Canterbury 1 Feb. 1848; F.R.S. 18 April 1839; lived at Gloucester 1848 to death; edited British Mag. 1839–49; contributed to earlier vols. of Notes and Queries, sometimes under signature of Rufus; author of Facts and documents illustrative of the history of the ancient Albigenses and Waldenses 1832; The dark ages: a series of essays intended to illustrate the state of religion and literature in the ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries 1844; Essays on subjects connected with the reformation in England 1849 and about 40 other books. d. Gloucester 19 Jany. 1866. Proc. of royal soc. xvi 31–3 (1868).

NOTE.--Long before Sir Rowland Hill’s time he proposed to the prime minister that the government should carry letters for nothing. In literature he was decidedly of opinion that it would be amply worth its cost for the government to pay for the construction of an index which should give reference to every human name mentioned in every book from the invention of printing downwards.

MAITLAND, THOMAS, Lord Dundrennan (eld. son of Adam Maitland). b. Dundrennan abbey, Kirkcudbrightshire 9 Oct. 1792; called to Scottish bar Dec. 1813; solicitor general 9 May 1840 to Sep. 1841 and 6 July 1846 to Jany. 1850; M.P. Kirkcudbrightshire 1845–50; a lord of the court of session 6 Feb. 1850 to death, took title of lord Dundrennan; issued reprints of works by Geoffrey Mynshull, John Bellenden, Marlowe, bishop Hall and Thomas Carew; edited 3 books for the Maitland club, and The works of Robert Herrick 1823; his library was sold 10 Nov. 1851 and 8 following days. d. of paralysis at 31 Melville st. Edinburgh 10 June 1851. B. W. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 111–2, portrait.

MAITLAND, WILLIAM FULLER (2 son of Ebenezer Fuller Maitland 1780–1858). b. 10 March 1813; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1835, M.A. 1839; lived at Stansted, Essex 1842 to death; made a collection of pictures, most of which were exhibited at South Kensington museum after his death, 9 of the best were bought for the National Gallery; lent pictures to the Old Masters’ exhibitions at the R.A. during many years. d. Stansted 15 Feb. 1876. G. H. Rogers-Harrison’s Genealogical account of the Maitland family (1869); Waagen’s Treasures of art, iii 1–7 (1854).

MAJENDIE, ASHURST (eld. son of Lewis Majendie of Hedingham castle, Essex, d. 1833 aged 77). b. London 24 April 1784; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; barrister L.I. 12 June 1809; resided at Penzance 1814–8; one of founders of Geological society of Cornwall 1814; assist. poor law comr. for Sussex, Kent and part of Essex 1832; F.R.S. 28 June 1821; F.S.A. d. Hedingham castle 7 Oct. 1867. Law Journal xliii 440 (1867).

MAJENDIE, LEWIS ASHURST (eld. son of rev. Henry Lewis Majendie, V. of Great Dunmow, Essex, d. 1863). b. Great Dunmow 19 May 1835; ed. at Marlborough and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1858, M.A. 1860; a student of Lincoln’s inn 1859; M.P. Canterbury, Feb. 1874 to April 1879. d. Hedingham castle, Essex 22 Oct. 1885.

MAJOR, HENRY ARCHIBALD (son of Mr. Major, compositor, who d. Reading, June 1863). b. One Bell yard, Strand, London 30 Dec. 1828; employed by J. B. Chamberlain, picture dealer 203 High Holborn 1845–8; a letter carrier in Lincoln’s Inn Fields post office 4 Dec. 1848 to June 1876 when granted pension of 14 shillings and 7 pence per week; played Doggrass in Francis Talfourd’s pantomime Black-eyed Susan at Strand theatre 12 weeks from 24 Dec. 1855, also in his own dramas at Grecian theatre 1871–4; known as “The Postman artist of Lincoln’s Inn Fields”; his picture of Grapes and butterflies took first-class prize at Floral hall, Covent Garden 1865; he gained 8 more first-class prizes at picture shows; presented a large painting of fruit worth £50 to King’s college hospital 7 Jany. 1870; exhibited 6 fruit pictures at Suffolk st. gallery 1859–73; lived at 14 Brownlow st. Holborn. J. Diprose’s Parish of St. Clement Danes, ii 65–7 (1876).

NOTE.--He wrote for the Soho theatre A cure for the gout, farce 1859, and A sketch from the Louvre, farce 1860, for the Grecian theatre 5 farces namely It never rains but it pours 1862, A Rye House plot 1865, The expected general 1870, The man of mystery 1870 and The rural poet 1871, and 4 dramas namely Primrose farm 1871, The blind fiddler 1872, The mystic number 7, 1872, and My pretty Jane 1874, for the Britannia theatre The Ku Klux Klan drama 1873, and for Croydon theatre The lock out 1879; he wrote 7 other dramas and 8 other farces which were not produced; two of his dramas The lock out and The Nondescript, and two of his farces A Jack of both sides and Irish home rule were printed.

MAJOR, JAMES. Called to Irish bar 1818; Q.C. 1 July 1837; resided at Londonderry. d. 1877.

MAJOR, JOHN RICHARDSON (son of John Major). b. London 1797; ed. at Reading sch. and Trin. coll. Camb., scholar; B.A. 1819, M.A. 1827; D.D. 1838; master of Wisbeach gr. sch. 1826–30; head master of King’s coll. sch. London 1830 to July 1866; V. of Wartling, Sussex 1846–51; V. of Arrington, Cambs. 1871 to death; author of Extracts from Virgil and from the Fasti of Ovid 1857, anon.; ed. The journal of the Photographic soc. 1853; re-edited many classical and other school books, about 30 in number 1820–57. d. Twickenham, Middlesex 29 Feb. 1876. Men of the time (1875) 691; Times 9 March 1876 p. 11.

MAJOR, JOSHUA. b. 1787; landscape gardener at Knostrop near Leeds; assisted in formation of the first Sunday school in Leeds, superintendent many years; author of A treatise on the insects most prevalent on fruit trees and garden produce 1829; The theory and practice of landscape gardening 1852; The ladies’ assistant in the formation of their flower gardens 1861. d. Knostrop 26 Jany. 1866. Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis (1865) 609; Gardeners’ Chronicle 10 Feb. 1866 p. 128.

MAJOR, RICHARD HENRY (son of Richard Henry Major, surgeon). b. London 3 Oct. 1818; an assistant in department of printed books in British Museum in charge of the maps and charts Jany. 1844, keeper of department of printed maps and plans Jany. 1867, resigned Nov. 1880; hon. sec. to Hakluyt Soc. 1849–58; F.S.A. 25 Jany. 1855; made researches on the early history of Australia 1861 etc.; hon. sec. of Royal geogr. soc. 1861–81, vice pres. 1881–4; knight of the Tower and Sword, of the orders of Santiago, Oct. 1875 and of the Rose of Brazil; knight commander of Crown of Italy, May 1875; edited for the Hakluyt Soc., Select letters of Christopher Columbus 1847, 2 ed. 1870, and 9 other books 1849–58; author of The life of prince Henry of Portugal, surnamed the navigator 1868 and other books. d. 51 Holland road, Kensington 25 June 1891. Cowtan’s Memories of the British Museum (1872) 377–80; I.L.N. 4 July 1891 p. 3, portrait.

MAKELLAR, ANGUS. b. Argyllshire 1780; D.D. of univ. of Glasgow 1835; presbyterian minister of Carmunnock near Glasgow 1812–4 and of Pencaitland, Haddington 1814–43; moderator of the general assembly 1840; Free ch. minister Pencaitland 1843; chairman of the board of missions, Edinb. Oct. 1843 to death; moderator 1843 and 1852. d. Edinburgh 10 May 1859. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 397–404, portrait.

MALAN, CHARLES HENRY (son of rev. Solomon Cæsar Malan b. 1812). b. 19 Aug. 1837; ed. Sandhurst; ensign 7 royal fusiliers 6 Nov. 1854, captain 4 June 1858; wounded in assault on Redan 18 June 1855; captain 75 foot 10 Dec. 1858, major 14 Oct. 1868; aide de camp to sir David Russell in Canada; served in China, then at Cape Town; sold his commission 17 July 1872 and devoted himself to Africa and Africa’s mission work. d. 42 Stanhope gardens, London 17 May 1881. bur. Brompton cemetery 20 May.

MALCOLM, ALEXANDER. b. 1813; timber merchant at Venice, leased forests in the Tyrol and established saw mills at Longarone; known as signor Alessandro; lent his palace on the grand canal, Venice, to the empress Frederick in 1890 and 1892; consulted by the Italian government on commercial matters; hon. representative of the P. & O.S.N. Co. at Venice. d. Venice 22 Jany. 1893.

MALCOLM, ANDREW GEORGE. b. 1820; M.D. and L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1842; practised at 81 York st. Belfast 1842 to death; physician Belfast general hospital 1856; V.P. of Belfast clinical and pathological soc. 1856; contributed to Dublin quarterly journal; author of The sanitary state of Belfast with suggestions for its improvement 1852; An introduction to clinical study or an interpretation of symptoms and signs 1856. d. Rathmines, Dublin 19 Sep. 1856.

MALCOLM, SIR CHARLES (10 son of George Malcolm of Burnfoot, Dumfriesshire, d. 1803). b. Burnfoot 5 Sep. 1782; entered navy April 1795; captain 29 Dec. 1802; commanded royal yachts William and Mary 1822–6 and Royal Charlotte in attendance on the marquess Wellesley lord lieut. of Ireland 1826–7; knighted by marquess Wellesley 1826; superintendent of Bombay marine 28 Nov. 1827 to 1837, its name was changed to the Indian navy 1 May 1830; R.A. 10 Jany. 1837, V.A. 28 April 1847; member of council of Royal Geogr. Soc. d. Brighton 14 June 1851. C.R. Low’s History of the Indian navy 2 vols. (1877) i 494 etc.

MALCOLM, DUNCAN ARCHIBALD. Entered Bombay army 1823; lieut. 3 Bombay N.I. 17 Jany. 1827, major 27 May 1849 to death; political agent Gwalior 2 Aug. 1851 to death. d. Baroda 1 Oct. 1855.

MALCOLM, GEORGE ALEXANDER (son of general sir John Malcolm). b. 21 Jany. 1810; ensign in the army on h.p. 31 Dec. 1825; lieut. 3 foot 7 June 1827, captain 30 Dec. 1831; captain 60 foot 20 April 1832; captain 3 light dragoons 18 Dec. 1835, major 13 Dec. 1839, placed on h.p. 16 May 1845; A.D.C. to governor of Bombay 1828–30; A.D.C. to lieut. general in China war 1841–42; A.Q.M.G. Egypt 1858–59; col. 105 foot 10 March 1866 to death; general 16 May 1874; placed on retired list 21 Jany. 1880; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842; (m. 4 Dec. 1845 Georgiana 16 and youngest child of Edward Vernon archbishop of York, she was b. June 1807 and d. 29 Oct. 1886). d. 87 Sloane st. London 2 June 1888. J. Burke’s Portrait gallery of distinguished females, i 43 (1833), portrait of his wife.

MALDEN, HENRY (4 son of Jonas Malden of Putney, surgeon). b. 1800; entered Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1818, Craven scholar 1821, chancellor’s classical medallist 1822; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; fellow of Trinity 1824; professor of Greek at London univ. (afterwards Univ. coll. London) 1831–76; joint head master of Univ. college school 1833–42; author of History of Rome to B.C. 390. 1830,; On the origin of universities and academical degrees 1835; contributed to Connop Thirlwall’s Philological Museum 1830, to Leonard Schmitz’s Classical Museum 1843–50, and to Trans. of Philological-Soc. d. 39 Belsize sq. South Hampstead 4 July 1876, portrait by Lawlor in Univ. coll. London. Graphic, xiv 102, 108 (1876), portrait; Testimonials in favor of H. Malden, candidate for office of rector of Edinburgh academy 1824.

MALDEN, JONAS. b. Putney 1792; pupil of John Abernethy; ed. at univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1815; practised at Worcester about 1816 to 1858; physician to Worcester infirmary 1818–58; author of Practical observations on the cow pox. d. Cheltenham 31 March 1860.

MALET, SIR ALEXANDER, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir Charles Warre Malet, 1 bart. d. 24 Jany. 1815). b. 23 July 1800; ed. at Winchester and at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1822; student M.T. 1822; attached to embassy at St. Petersburgh, March 1824, and at Paris, Feb. 1827; paid attaché at Lisbon, Dec. 1833; sec. of legation at Turin, July 1835, and at the Hague, Jany. 1836; sec. of embassy at Vienna, Nov. 1843; envoy at Stuttgart, Sep. 1844; envoy to Germanic confederation 12 Feb. 1852 to 20 Sep. 1866 when mission was withdrawn, retired on a pension; K.C.B. 23 June 1866; author of Some account of the fagging at Winchester school, with remarks on the expulsion for resistance to the prefects 1828; The Canadas, the nature of their connection with Great Britain, the discontents of the colonies discussed 1831; The conquest of England from Wace’s poem of the Roman de Rou 1860; The overthrow of the German confederation by Prussia 1870. d. 19 Queensberry place, Cromwell road, London 28 Nov. 1886. The Biograph, iii 458–62 (1880).

MALET, ARTHUR (brother of the preceding). b. 7 Nov. 1806; ed. at Winchester, Addiscombe and Haileybury; entered Bombay civil service 1824; political agent and resident at Kutch 1842; political agent at Kathiawar 1843; secretary to government of Bombay, political and secret departments 1846; chief secretary to Bombay government 1847; member of legislative council of India 1854; member of Bombay council April 1855–60; chief judge of court of Sudder Dewannee and Sudder Foujdarree Adawlut 1857; retired 1860; author of The marriage of Solomon with the daughter of Pharoah, a drama 1876; A metrical version of the Psalms 1863, another ed. 1880; The book of Job in blank verse 1880; Koheleth, Ecclesiastes arranged in verse 1880; The book of Revelation arranged 1880; Notices of English branch of Malet family 1885. d. 45 Linden gardens, Bayswater, London 13 Sep. 1888.

MALET, JOHN ADAM. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1827, fellow Trinity Monday 1838 to 26 March 1867; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1838, B.D. and D.D. 1856; librarian of Trin. coll. 1869 to death; author of A catalogue of the Roman silver coins in the library of Trinity college, Dublin 1839. d. 2 Richmond hill, Monkstown, Dublin 6 April 1879.

MALET, WILLIAM WYNDHAM (3 son of sir Charles Warre Malet, baronet d. 1815). b. 29 Sep. 1804; on the Bombay establishment of H.E.I.Co.’s civil service 1823–34; matric. from Magd. hall, Oxf. 15 Dec. 1834; C. of Dowlish Wake, Somerset 1837–40; C. of St. Cuthbert, Wells 1840–43; C. of St. John, Bedminster 1840–43; V. of Ardeley, Beds. 1843 to death; author of On church extension 1840; The tithe redemption trust 1849; The Ardeley petition for alteration in the poor law 1849; An errand to the south 1863; The olive leaf, a pilgrimage to Rome, Jerusalem and Constantinople for reunion of the faithful 1868; St. Swithin’s day 1879. d. Ardeley vicarage 12 June 1885.

MALEY, THOMAS. b. 21 Dec. 1817; beat John Hannan £25 a side 30 Aug. 1838; beat Sam Merryman £25 a side, 28 rounds in 2 hours 23 June 1840; beaten by Edward Adams £50 a side, 64 rounds in 2 hours 6 Oct. 1840; fought a drawn battle with James Cross £50 a side, 110 rounds in 4 hours and 22 minutes 21 Sep. 1841; beat Cross at Woodford heath, Warwickshire £100 a side, 22 rounds in 44 minutes 25 July 1842; beaten by John M’Grath at Canvey Isle, Essex £100 a side, 76 rounds in 2 hours and 38 minutes 21 Feb. 1843; beaten by Sam Merryman at Horley £50 a side, 79 rounds in 205 minutes 20 Feb. 1844, beat him at Lower Hope Point £100 a side, 52 rounds in 95 minutes 31 March 1846; beaten by Wm. Gill at Andover Road £100 a side, 77 rounds in 159 minutes 7 Nov. 1848; beaten by James Cross at Woking £50 a side, 52 rounds in 130 minutes 25 Sep. 1849; won 10 out of 17 fights 1834–49; his fighting weight was 9 stone and his height 5 feet 5 inches; his style of getting away and of avoiding punishment was inimitable; a capital teacher of boxing. d. Coach and Horses public house, 90 St. Martin’s lane, London 13 Feb. 1858. John Hannan’s Guide to British boxing (1852) 37–9.

MALINS, DAVID (son of a brass founder). b. Great Charles st. Birmingham 5 June 1803; entered his father’s works and made himself practically acquainted with all its branches, learnt drawing and modelling and improved the designs of all the brass work, his foundry became famous for the excellency of the work; high bailiff of Birmingham 1846; made a collection of books and maps relating to Birmingham and Warwickshire, which after the fire on 11 Jany. 1879 at the Reference library Birmingham, he presented to that institution 1879. d. 1882. Edgbastonia, ii 2–4 (1882), portrait.

MALINS, SIR RICHARD (3 son of Wm. Malins of Ailston, Warws.) b. Evesham, Worcs. 9 March 1805; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1827; barrister I.T. 14 May 1830; equity draftsman 1830–42; Q.C. 1849; bencher of Lincoln’s inn 23 April 1849 to death, treasurer 1871; shared with James Bacon leadership of court of vice chancellors Parker and Stuart; M.P. Wallingford 1852–65; contested Wallingford 13 July 1865; the Infants’ marriage settlement act 1855 and the Married womens’ reversionary property act 1857 are known as Malins’s acts; vice chancellor 3 Dec. 1866 to Nov. 1875; a judge of high court of justice, Nov. 1875 to 18 March 1881; knighted at Osborne 2 Feb. 1867; P.C. and member of judicial committee 18 May 1881. d. 57 Lowndes sq. London 15 Jany. 1882. bur. in churchyard of Bray near Maidenhead 21 Jany. Saturday Review, liii 76 (1882); Pen and ink sketches in chancery (1867) No. 3 pp. 12–13; A generation of judges. By Their Reporter (1886) 146–56; The bench and the bar (1860) part viii, portrait; Graphic, xxv 68 (1882), portrait; I.L.N. lxxx 85 (1882), portrait; Rugby school. Remarks and judgment of sir R. Malins on Dr. Hayman and Rugby school 1874.

MALLANDAINE, JOHN ELLIOT. b. 1841; conductor at Queen’s theatre, London, under Alfred Wigan 1868–73, and of the Olympic theatre under Henry Neville 1873–6, lastly of the Lyceum theatre under Mrs. Bateman 1876–8; went to U.S. of America 1881; composer of I’d sooner be a violet, a song 1862; The fairy queen, a rondo 1865; The Countess Rosa, an opera 1865; Happy moments, a canzonet 1870; Sick songs, words by J. Ellison. Liverpool 1871; Three songs for the drama of The two orphans 1874; Ali Baba, an operetta; Love’s limit, a comic opera in one set, written by R. Reece 1875; Bread and cheese and kisses a song 1876; Les Vendangeurs, a set of waltzes 1877; My lady Blanche, song 1877; A selection of songs and choruses sung in Uncle Tom’s cabin 1879 and about 50 other compositions. d. 11 Shaftesbury ter. West Regent st. Glasgow 24 Nov. 1886.