Rosshire). _b._ Stornoway, Rosshire 1797; emigrated to Prince
Edward island 1802, a school teacher, clerk in a store, engaged
in shipbuilding, member of house of assembly; returned to
Europe 1828; one of the joint secretaries of board of trade 24
Jany. 1840 to 6 Aug. 1847; M.P. Glasgow July 1847; accepted
stewardship of manor of Northstead, Feb. 1857; author of
Historical sketches of the colonies of British America 1828; The
resources and statistics of nations 1835, one vol. only; My note
book 3 vols. 1835; The commercial and financial legislation of
Europe and America 1841; Commercial statistics of all nations
5 vols. 1844–50; The progress of America from the discovery by
Columbus 2 vols. 1847; Sketches of the Austrian and Ottoman
empires 1851; The history of the British empire from James I. 2
vols. 1852; one of the founders of Royal British bank opened 17
Nov. 1849, a director, chairman of the board, and the governor,
advanced to himself £13,700 all of which except £700 became a
bad debt, bank failed 3 Sep. 1856 and all the shareholders were
ruined; escaped trial and imprisonment by his death at Boulogne
23 April 1857. _D. Morier Evans’ Facts, failures and frauds_
(1859) 268–390; _I.L.N. xii_ 75 (1848), _portrait_.
MAC GREGOR, SIR JOHN (2 son of Duncan Mac Andrew of Culross,
Perthshire). _b._ 20 Oct. 1791; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; entered
medical department of army as hospital assistant 27 June 1809;
inspector general of hospitals 28 Nov. 1856 to 31 Dec. 1858
when placed on h.p.; hon. physician to the queen 16 Aug. 1859;
K.C.B. 10 June 1859; took by r.l. name of Mac Gregor instead of
Mac Andrew 24 July 1863. _d._ Corstorphine lodge, Ryde, Isle of
Wight 13 Jany. 1866.
MACGREGOR, JOHN (son of Sir Duncan Macgregor 1787–1881). _b._
Gravesend 24 Jany. 1825; saved from Kent East Indiaman 1 March
1825; ed. at King’s school, Canterbury and 6 other schools;
studied at Trin. coll. Dublin 1839–40 and at Trin. coll.
Camb. 1844–7, 34th wrangler 1847; B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850; wrote
and sketched for Punch 1845; barrister I.T. 31 Jany. 1851;
travelled in his canoe the Rob Roy 15 feet long, from France to
Switzerland 1865, the first of his many canoe journeys; always
known as Rob Roy Macgregor; a founder of Shoeblack brigade 1851;
hon. sec. of the Open-Air mission of the Pure literature society
and of the Protestant Alliance 1853; member for Greenwich on
the London school board 28 Nov. 1870 to 1876; the profits of
his books and receipts from his many lectures were all given to
charities; author of Three days in the East 1851; The law of
reformatories 1856; Our brothers and cousins, a tour in Canada
1859; A description of the Rob Roy canoe 1866; A thousand miles
in the Rob Roy canoe 1866, 13 ed. 1891; A voyage alone in the
yawl Rob Roy 1867; The Rob Roy on the Baltic 1867; The Rob
Roy on the Jordan, Red Sea and Gennesareth 1869, 6 ed. 1880.
_d._ Lochiel, Boscombe near Bournemouth 16 July 1892. _bur._
Bournemouth cemet. 20 July. _Leisure Hour_, _xx_ 248, 782,
_portrait_.
MC GREGOR, JOHN ALEXANDER PAUL. _b._ 1780; entered Bengal army
1795; lieut. 2 Bengal N.I. 30 Oct. 1797, major 12 July 1814;
lieut.-col. commandant 22 N.I. 1824, col. 5 June 1829 to 1 Nov.
1830; military auditor general 1830 to 1845; col. of 37 N.I. 1
Nov. 1830, of 61 N.I. 1833, of 28 N.I. 1836 to 27 Aug. 1847,
of 54 N.I. 27 Aug. 1847 to death; general 20 June 1854. _d._ 7
Sussex place, Hyde park gardens, London 5 March 1868.
MACGREGOR, JOHN MURRAY. _b._ 12 May 1819; entered Madras army
1 March 1838; engaged in important operations in Central India
1842 and 1843; served during the Indian mutiny; placed on
unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; general 22 Jany.
1889. _d._ 17 Castle hill avenue, Folkestone 18 Dec. 1891.
MACGREGOR, ROBERT. _b._ Ardchattan, Bonar near Oban, Argyleshire
1810; ed. at Glasgow univ., M.D. 1842; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1833;
superintendent and apothecary in Glasgow royal infirmary, where
his investigations into nature of diabetes acquired for him
an European reputation, then physician; fellow of faculty of
physicians and surgeons, Glasgow 1837; lecturer on chemistry in
Portland street school of medicine; physician to Glasgow royal
infirmary to death; author of An enquiry into the state of urea
in healthy and diseased urine and the formation of sugar in
diabetes 1836. _d._ 93 West Regent st. Glasgow 20 March 1855.
_bur._ Ardchattan 29 March. _Glasgow Medical Journal_, _iii_
126–8 (1856).
M’GRIGOR, ALEXANDER BENNET. _b._ 1827; head of firm of M’Grigor,
Donald and Co. writers, 172 St. Vincent st. Glasgow; he carried
through parliament scheme for city of Glasgow Union railway
1863–4; connected with speedy liquidation of City of Glasgow
bank, originated the Assets company by means of which the
creditors of the bank were promptly paid off; member of supreme
court of univ. of Glasgow; one of the most prominent citizens of
Glasgow; author of Contributions towards an index of passages on
the topography of Jerusalem 1876; The British parliament, its
history and functions 1887. _d._ Glasgow 22 March 1891.
MC GRIGOR, SIR JAMES (eld. son of Colquhoun Mc Grigor of
Aberdeen, merchant, _d._ 1800). _b._ Lethendrey in Strathspey,
Invernesshire 9 April 1771; ed. at gr. sch. and Marischal coll.
Aberdeen, M.A. 1788, M.D. 20 Feb. 1804; studied medicine at
Aberdeen and Edinb. to 1793; surgeon 88 foot 13 Sep. 1793;
surgeon to royal horse guards 9 Feb. 1804 to 18 July 1805;
inspector general of hospitals 25 Aug. 1809; chief of medical
staff under lord Wellington in the Peninsula 10 Jany. 1812,
retired 1814; physician of Portsmouth garrison 13 June 1811 to
death; director general of army medical department 13 June 1815,
retired on pension 1851; founded Museum of natural history and
pathological anatomy at Fort Pitt, Chatham; K.T.S.; baronet 30
Sep. 1831; K.C.B. 16 Aug. 1850; L.R.C.P. 26 June 1815 and fellow
25 June 1825; physician extraord. to the sovereign 30 March 1821
to death; lord rector of univ. of Aberdeen 1826, 1827 and 1841;
F.R.S. 14 March 1816; fellow of univ. of London 1836 to death;
author of Medical sketches of the expedition to Egypt from
India 1804; A letter to the commissioners on military enquiry
1808. _d._ 3 Harley st. Cavendish sq. London 2 April 1858. _The
autobiography of Sir J. Mc Grigor_ (1861), _portrait_; _Munk’s
Royal college of physicians_, _iii_ 309–13 (1878); _Illustrated
news of the world_, _i_ 204 (1858), _portrait_; _Proc. Royal
society_, _ix_ 532–34 (1858); _Pettigrew’s Medical portrait
gallery_, _iv_ (1840), _portrait_.
MC GRIGOR, JAMES (son of Charles Mc Grigor, barrackmaster at
Nottingham, _d._ 1841). _b._ 1819; ed. at Addiscombe; ensign
21 Bombay N.I. 24 Feb. 1835, captain 24 Jany. 1845, most
courageously disarmed his regiment for mutiny 16 Sep. 1857 for
which he received the thanks of the government; major of 30
Bombay N.I. 20 July 1858; lieut.-col. 15 Bombay N.I. 1 Jany.
1862 to death; _drowned_ while bathing at Aden 28 June 1863.
MC GUFFOG, SAMUEL. M.D. Aberdeen 10 Nov. 1804; licentiate
of college of physicians 5 Dec. 1814; physician to the
English embassy at Constantinople, April 1816 to death.
_d._ Constantinople 15 June 1856. _Munk’s Royal college of
physicians_, _iii_ 129 (1878).
MC GUIRE, JOHN HERON. _b._ Ireland; C. of St. Ann’s, Manchester;
V. of St. Luke’s, Chorlton-upon-Medlock 1843–57; a great
opponent of the Unitarians and the Roman Catholics. _d._
Taymouth terrace, Stepney, London 22 Feb. 1860. _J. Evans’s
Lancashire authors and orators_ (1850) 170–74.
MC HAFFIE, JAMES. _b._ 1777; 2 lieut. 21 foot 7 Sep. 1797,
captain 24 Aug. 1804 to 26 Nov. 1818 when placed on h.p.; L.G.
12 Nov. 1862. _d._ Torhousemuir house, Wigtonshire 22 Nov. 1865.
MAC HALE, JOHN (5 child of Patrick Mac Hale of Tobber-navine,
barony of Tyrawley, co. Mayo, farmer). _b._ Tobber-navine 6
March 1791; ed. at Castlebar and at Maynooth 1807–14; ordained
priest 1814; lecturer and professor of dogmatic theology
in Maynooth college 1814–25; published 32 letters signed
Hierophilos, Feb. 1820 to March 1824; elected bishop of Maronia
in partibus infidelium 31 Jany. 1825, appointed 8 March,
consecrated 5 June and became coadjutor bishop of Killala and
priest of Crossmolina; bishop of Killala 20 May 1834; visited
Rome 1831 and 1854; archbishop of Tuam 21 July 1834, consecrated
26 Aug., helped by a coadjutor bishop from 1878; preached often
in the Irish language; the most popular man after D. O’Connell
who called him ‘the lion of St. Jarlath’s’ and ‘the lion of
the fold of Judah’; opposed Newman’s residence in Ireland
1854; author of The evidences and doctrines of the catholic
church 1827, 2 ed. 1842; The letters of J. Mac Hale under their
respective signatures of Hierophilos, John bishop of Maronia,
bishop of Killala, and archbishop of Tuam 1847; Sermons and
discourses 1883, and many works in the Irish language 1842–73.
_d._ St. Jarlath’s, Tuam 7 Nov. 1881. _B. O’Reilly’s J. Mac
Hale_ 2 _vols._ _New York_ (1890), 2 _portraits_; _Brady’s
Episcopal succession_, _ii_ 148–50 (1876); _Burke’s History of
catholic archbishops of Tuam_ (1882) 240–374; _I.L.N. xvii_ 225
(1850), _portrait_; _Biograph iv_ 85–91 (1880).
M’HARDY, JOHN BUNCH BONNEMAISON. _b._ 3 Dec. 1801; entered
navy 25 May 1812; captain 1 Jany. 1840; chief constable Essex
constabulary 11 Feb. 1840 to Nov. 1881; admiral on half pay 1
April 1870. _d._ Clan lodge, Bath 19 Dec. 1882.
M’HENRY, JAMES. _b._ 1816 or 1817; merchant Liverpool; the
originator of the provision trade between Liverpool and U.S.
America; submitted first samples of Indian corn as food to sir
R. Peel during the Irish famine 1846; contractor for the western
extension of the railway under facilities afforded by the
government, disagreements arose, and it took him 20 years to
substantiate his claims, which were not paid when he died. _d._
25 Addison road, Kensington, London 26 May 1891.
M’IAN, ROBERT RONALD (son of Robert M’Ian, sheep farmer). _b._
Inverness 1805; ed. Liverpool and Resscliff; apprentice to a
nurseryman at Dingwall; a soldier in 42 regt.; scene painter
Glasgow theatre; a provincial actor in Penley’s companies; acted
at Bath and Bristol 1827–31; a good swordsman; his best part was
the Dougal Creature, in Sir Walter Scott’s Two Drovers; first
appeared in London at Lyceum theatre in Lo Zingaro 1834; acted
at Covent Garden 1838, at Drury Lane 1839; was the jester at
Eglinton tournament 28 to 30 Aug. 1839; painter of historical
subjects 1835 to death; exhibited 13 pictures at R.A., 13 at
B.I. and 13 at Suffolk st. 1835–47; A.R.S.A. 1852; illustrated
J. Logan’s 3 works, The clans of the Scottish highlands 1845,
new ed. 1857, Gaelic gatherings 1848, Highlanders at home 1863;
and E. A. H. Ogilvy’s A book of highland minstrelsy 1846, 2 ed.
1848; (his wife Fanny M’Ian was also an historical painter and
mistress of school of design at Somerset House, exhibited 10
pictures at R.A., 10 at B.I. and 13 at Suffolk st. 1835–47); he
lived latterly at 36 Charlotte st. Portman sq. London, and _d._
Heath Mount, Hampstead 13 Dec. 1856. _The Era 21 Dec. 1856 p._
11; _Actors by gaslight_ (1838) 185–6, _portrait_.
MACILWAIN, GEORGE (son of an Irish country surgeon). _b._
1797; M.R.C.S. 1818, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon to Finsbury
dispensary 20 years; surgeon to City of London truss society;
M.R.I.A.; author of A treatise on stricture of the urethra 1824,
2 ed. entitled Surgical observations on diseases of the mucous
canals of the body 1830; Remarks on the unity of the body 1836;
The general nature and treatment of tumours 1845; Memoirs of
John Abernethy 2 vols. 1853, 3 ed. 1 vol. 1856. _d._ Matching
near Harlow, Essex 22 Jany. 1882.
MAC INNIS, JOHN. _b._ 1779; entered Bengal army 1798; lieut. 2nd
European regiment 4 March 1800; lieut. 20 (or Marine) Bengal
N.I. 1803, major 3 June 1816; lieut.-col. commandant 61 N.I. 13
May 1825, col. 5 June 1829 to 1831; col. of 73 N.I. 1831 to 23
June 1842, of 40 N.I. 23 June 1842 to 1843, of 59 N.I. 1843 to
30 Sep. 1845, of 24 N.I. 30 Sep. 1845 to 1851, of 64 N.I. 1851
to 1855, of 1 European fusiliers (right wing) 1855 to death;
general 4 July 1856. _d._ Hale-end, Woodford, Essex 12 March
1859.
MACINTIRE, ANDREW WILLIAM. _b._ 24 Feb. 1815; 2 lieut. Madras
artillery 9 June 1831; col. R.A. 6 May 1867, col. commandant
19 June 1884 to death; commanded Southern district brigade in
Madras 1869–74; commanded Hyderabad subsidiary force 1874–81;
placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; general 31
March 1883; C.B. 16 Nov. 1858. _d._ 14 Leinster sq. London 26
Feb. 1885.
MACINTOSH, ALEXANDER FISHER. _b._ 1795; cornet 14 light dragoons
31 Oct. 1811; captain 79 foot 17 June 1819; lieut.-col. 15 foot
15 Dec. 1825 to 8 April 1834 when placed on h.p.; col. of 90
foot 4 March 1857, col. of 93 foot 3 June 1862 to death; general
27 Dec. 1864; K.H. 1833. _d._ Oatlands park, Walton-on-Thames 28
Aug. 1868.
M’INTOSH, CHARLES (son of a gardener). _b._ Abercairny,
Perthshire, Aug. 1794; in charge of Abercairny gardens; gardener
to marquis of Breadalbane at Taymouth castle, then to sir Thomas
Baring at Stratton park, Hants.; under Mr. Horner laid out and
planted grounds of Colosseum, London 1824; gardener to prince
Leopold at Claremont many years; remodelled royal gardens at
Laecken, Brussels; gardener to duke of Buccleuch at Dalkeith
1838–58, where he planned the grounds and conservatories; a
landscape gardener and garden architect 1858 to death; A.L.S.;
edited The British year book for the country 1856; author of
The practical gardener 2 vols. 1828–9; Flora and pomana, or the
British fruit and flower garden 1829; The greenhouse, hothouse
and stove 1838; The orchard 1839; The new and improved practical
gardener 1839; The book of the garden 2 vols. 1853–5; The larch
disease 1860. _d._ Newcome villa, Murray field, Scotland 9 Jany.
1864. _Proc. of Linnæan society 1864 p. xlii._
MC INTYRE, ÆNEAS JOHN (only son of Æneas Mc Intyre of Hackney,
LL.D.) _b._ 1821; barrister M.T. 20 Nov. 1846, bencher 6 May
1873 to death; Q.C. 8 Feb. 1872; county court judge of circuit
12 (West Riding of Yorkshire) 1 Jany. 1889 to death; member of
the bar committee 1883 to death; M.P. Worcester, April 1880 to
18 Nov. 1885; contested North Hackney, Dec. 1885; a well known
Freemason, _d._ Mirfield near Dewsbury, Yorkshire 19 Sep. 1889.
_Masonic Portraits. By J.G._ (1876) 32–6.
MC INTYRE, COLIN CAMPBELL. _b._ 1806 or 1807; ensign 78 foot 9
April 1825, lieut.-col. 28 Oct. 1864, retired on full pay 2 Oct.
1866; L.G. 4 March 1880; hon. general 1 July 1881; C.B. 24 March
1858. _d._ Grandholm, Teignmouth 24 Aug. 1887.
MC INTYRE, MARTIN. _b._ Eastwood, Notts. 15 Aug. 1847;
professional bowler with the Germanstown club, Philadelphia
1869–70; in the Nottingham eleven 1871–5; engaged by the Hull
club, Yorkshire 1871; first appeared at Lords in the match
Gentlemen _v._ Players 3–5 July 1871 when he bowled G. F. Grace
out with his first ball; a very fast round-arm bowler; played in
Australia as one of W. G. Grace’s eleven 1873–4. _d._ Moorgreen,
Eastwood 28 Feb. 1885. _W. G. Grace’s Cricket_ (1891) 342–3;
_Bell’s Life in London 7 March 1885 p._ 2.
MAC INTYRE, WILLIAM. _b._ 1792; M.D. Edinb. 1811; F.R.C.P.
London 1851; practised at 84 Harley st. London and then at
Brighton; wrote On apoplectic affections. Lancet 1841; On the
gastric origin of diabetes. London Med. Journ. 1850; author of
Case of mollities and fragilitas ossium 1850. _d._ 21 Clifton
road, Brighton 4 March 1857.
M’INTYRE, WILLIAM. First appeared in London at Surrey theatre
as Paul in The idiot of the mountain 18 Nov. 1861; played at
the Lyceum and at Drury Lane under Falconer and Chatterton’s
management; acted Black Mullins in Falconer’s Peep o’ Day at
Lyceum, and Mogg a convict in Halliday’s The Great City at Drury
Lane 22 April to 17 Aug. 1867; played Strozzi in Bernard’s Doge
of Venice, at Drury Lane 2 Nov. 1867; acted Jenkinson in The
Vicar of Wakefield, at Standard theatre 1 Nov. 1870, Claudius
in Hamlet at Gaiety 31 July 1871, Gurth in Halliday’s Rebecca
at Drury Lane 23 Sep. 1871; played Hickory in Merritt’s Rough
and Ready at Adelphi 31 Jany. 1874, Black Jack in Janet Pride
at Princess’s 1 Aug. 1874, Simon Legree in Lemon and Taylor’s
Slave life or Uncle Tom’s Cabin at Adelphi 11 Feb. 1875, and
Spreadeagle in Round the world in eighty days at Princess’s 15
March 1875; acted Ham in Little Emly at Adelphi 30 Oct. 1875,
Corry Kinchela in The Shaughraun at Adelphi 18 Nov. 1876, Sir
John Murray in Willing’s Under two reigns at Park theatre 3 May
1879, Hallo in Simpson and Templar’s Zillah at Lyceum 2 April
1879, Silas Swayne in Buchanan’s The Exiles of Erin at Olympic
7 May 1881, and Varney in Amy Robsart at Sadler’s Wells 10 Dec.
1881. _d._ 5 Aldine st. Shepherd’s Bush, London 8 May 1885.
MC INTYRE, WILLIAM (brother of Martin Mc Intyre 1847–85). _b._
Eastwood, Notts. 24 May 1844; a fine fast round-arm bowler;
played in the Notts. eleven 1869–71; played in the Lancashire
eleven 1872–81; first played at Lord’s in North _v._ South 6 and
7 June 1870; the Lancashire county committee gave him a benefit
on his retirement in 1881 which realised over £1000. _d._
Prestwich asylum, Lancs. 13 Sep. 1892. _bur._ Bolton 15 Sep.
MAC IVOR, JAMES. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1839,
fellow 1844 to death; B.A. 1842, M.A. 1848, B.D. and D.D.
1857; professor of moral philosophy 9 Nov. 1872 to 1878; R.
of Ardstraw, Derry 1858 to death; author of An essay upon the
versification of Homer 1839; Dis-endowment or co-endowment 1869;
Some papers on intermediate education in Ireland 1869; Religious
progress, its criterion, instruments and laws, sermons 1871.
_d._ Ardstraw 17 July 1886.
MC KANE, JOHN (son of J. Mc Kane of Belfast, linen manufacturer
at Ballymena). Ed. at Queen’s coll. Belfast; LL.D. Queen’s
univ. Ireland; called to Irish bar 1864; professor of civil law
Queen’s coll. Belfast to 1885; M.P. Mid Armagh, Dec. 1885 to
death. _d._ 64 Lower Leeson st. Dublin 11 Jany. 1886.
MACKARNESS, GEORGE RICHARD (2 son of John Mackarness of
Islington, West India merchant, then of Bath, _d._ 2 Jany.
1870). _b._ London 1823; ed. at Merton coll. Oxf., postmaster
1841–5; B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848, D.D. 10 March 1874; fellow of
St. Columba’s coll. Ireland 1846–7; C. of Chilton Foliatt,
Wilts. 1846–47; C. of Barnwell, Northants. 1848–54; V. of Ilam,
Stafford 1854–74; chaplain to bishop of Oxford 1870–74; fellow
of St. Chad’s coll. Denstone 1872; bishop of Argyll and the
Isles 14 Jany. 1874 to death, consecrated 25 March; edited Ilam
anastatic drawing society, vol. xi 1868. _d._ 43 Marine parade,
Brighton 20 April 1883.
MACKARNESS, JOHN FIELDER (the elder brother of the preceding).
_b._ Islington, London 3 Dec. 1820; ed. at Eton and Merton
college Oxf., postmaster 1840–4; rowed in the Merton boat when
it bumped every college boat but one; president of the Oxford
Union; B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847, D.D. 1869; fellow of Exeter coll.
30 June 1844 to 11 Aug. 1846; V. of Tardebigge, Worcs. 1845 to
1855; hon. canon of Worcester 1847–58; R. of Honiton, Devon, and
head master of gram. sch. 1855–69; preb. of Exeter 1858–69; V.
of Monkton, Devon 1867–70; proctor in convocation for diocese of
Exeter 1865–9; bishop of Oxford 15 Dec. 1869, resigned 17 Nov.
1888, consecrated 25 Jany. 1870; chancellor of order of the
Garter 5 Feb. 1870 to 1888; refused to allow proceedings to be
taken against canon Carter rector of Clewer, his decision upheld
in court of appeal 23 March 1880; edited Eighteen years of a
clerical meeting, minutes of Alcester clerical association 1862;
author of A few words to the country parsons on the election
for Oxford university. By One of themselves 1840; A plea for
toleration in answer to the No Popery cry 1850; May or must, a
letter on a case in the court of queen’s bench 1879 _i.e._ The
Clewer case. _d._ Angus house, Eastbourne 16 Sep. 1889. _bur._
Sandhurst churchyard, Berkshire 21 Sep., memorial window in the
new schoolroom of All Hallows’ school Honiton, opened 10 Dec.
1892. _C. C. Mackarness’s Memorials of the episcopate of J. F.
Mackarness_ (1892), _portrait_; _C. M. Davies’s Orthodox London_
(1875) 129–34, 394; _Church portrait journal_, _iii_ 65 (1882),
_portrait_; _Illust. Times 26 Jany. 1870 p._ 73, _portrait_;
_I.L.N. lvi_ 13, 14 (1870), _portrait_.
MACKARNESS, MATILDA ANNE (younger dau. of James Robinson
Planché, Somerset herald 1796–1880). _b._ 1826; author of Old
Jolliffe not a goblin story 1845; A trap to catch a sunbeam
1849, 42 ed. 1882; Thrift or hints for cottage housekeeping
1855; Minnie’s love 1860; Sunbeam stories 2 vols. 1860; The
naughty girl of the family 1866; A peerless wife 3 vols. 1871;
A mingled yarn 3 vols. 1872; The young lady’s book 1876; Sweet
flowers, ten stories 1877; A woman without a head 1892, and 50
other books for young people; (_m._ Henry Smith Mackarness,
vicar of Ash, Kent 1857, he _d._ 26 Dec. 1868). She _d._ 1 Royal
crescent, Margate 6 May 1881. _bur._ in churchyard of Ash.
MACKAY, MRS. _b._ Strathy, Sutherlandshire; (_m._ sergeant
Mackay of the 42 highlanders); went with the army to the Crimea
1854; one of the first nurses enlisted by Florence Nightingale
for service in the Crimea 1854. _d._ Golspie, Scotland, Oct.
1890.
MACKAY, ALEXANDER. _b._ Scotland 1808; conducted a newspaper in
Toronto; resided in Canada several years; on the staff of the
Morning Chronicle in London to 1849; barrister M.T. 7 May 1847;
sent by chambers of commerce of Manchester, Liverpool, Blackburn
and Glasgow to inquire into cultivation of cotton in India
1851; author of Electoral districts 1848; The Western world, or
travels in the United States 3 vols. 1849; The crisis in Canada
1849. _d._ at sea on his way home from India 15 April 1852.
MACKAY, ALEXANDER MURDOCH (son of Alexander Mackay, free church
minister of Rhynie, Aberdeenshire, D.D., residing at Ventnor).
_b._ Rhynie 13 Oct. 1849; studied engineering in Edinb. univ.
1870–3; draughtsman with an engineering firm in Berlin 1873,
chief of the locomotive department to Sep. 1875; sailed from
Southampton as missionary to Uganda 27 April 1876, made a road
from the coast to Mpwapwa 1877, arrived at Uganda Nov. 1878,
where he resided to July 1887, driven away by Arab traders
12 Oct., went to the Great Lake 1887; taught the people of
Uganda and converted many to christianity, reduced the language
to writing and made translation of portions of scripture;
prepared reading sheets by which many learnt to read, worked
the printing presses himself; built houses, boats, &c. for the
king of Uganda; sent constant news to England about Emin Pasha;
recovered and sent bishop Hannington’s diary to England, Oct.
1886; with R. P. Ashe translated St. Matthew’s Gospel into
Ganda 1888. _d._ Usambiro 8 Feb. 1890. _A. M. Mackay, pioneer
missionary of the church missionary society in Uganda. By his
sister_ (1890) _portrait_; _The story of Mackay of Uganda. By
his sister_ (1891), _portrait_; _I.L.N. 26 April 1890 p._ 515,
_portrait_.
MACKAY, ANGUS (son of Murdoch Mackay of the 78th highlanders
and a settler in Sydney). _b._ Aberdeen 26 Jany. 1824; taken
to New South Wales 1827; ed. at Australian college, Sydney; a
schoolmaster; edited The Atlas newspaper 1847–50; manager of
a general business for sir Henry Parkes at Geelong 1850–1; a
digger in Victoria 1853; proprietor and editor of the Bendigo
Advertiser 1854; founded Riverina Herald in Echuca; started the
Sydney Daily Telegraph 1879, manager to 1883; sat for Sandhurst
burghs in Victorian legislature Feb. 1868 to 1879 and 1883;
minister of mines 9 April 1870 to June 1871 and June 1872 to
July 1874; minister for education May to July 1874; minister of
mines and education July 1874 to Aug. 1875; played against the
All England eleven 1865; author of The great goldfield, a tour
through the first discovered gold district of New South Wales
1853; A visit to Sydney and the Cudgegong diamond mines 1870;
The semi-tropical agriculturalists and colonists’ guide 1875.
_d._ Sandhurst 7 July 1886.
MC KAY, ARCHIBALD. _b._ Kilmarnock 1801; apprenticed to a
handloom weaver; a bookbinder at Kilmarnock to death; kept a
circulating library in King st. Kilmarnock; author of Droathy
Tam 1828, many editions; Poems 1830; Recreations of leisure
hours 1832, 2 ed. 1844; A history of Kilmarnock 1848, 3 ed.
1864; Ingleside lilts 1855. _d._ Kilmarnock 14 April 1883. _C.
Rogers’s Modern Scottish Minstrel_, _v_ 85–90 (1857).