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_.