_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.