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).