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.