Binfield, Berkshire, barrister). _b._ 18 Sep. 1813; ed. at Trin.
coll. Dublin; cornet 16 lancers 1 July 1836; captain 6 dragoon
guards 12 Nov. 1847; paymaster of 43 foot 27 Oct. 1848, placed
on h.p. 6 June 1851; staff officer of pensioners Feb. 1854 to 1
Nov. 1877 when he retired on full pay with hon. rank of M.G.;
author of Military services and adventures in the far east 2
ed. 2 vols. 1849; British military power in India. _d._ 7 Jany.
1884.
MACKINNON, DONALD (son of rev. John Mackinnon, minister of
Strath, _d._ 1856). Presbyterian minister Fearn near Tain,
Rossshire 1846–56 and minister of Strath 1856 to death, the
grandfather, father and son held Strath 110 years; arbiter
among his flock, his decisions being accepted as final. _d._
Kilbridge, Skye 3 Jany. 1888. _The Times 10 Jany. 1888 p._ 5.
MACKINNON, KENNETH M. _b._ 1805; assistant surgeon Bengal army
19 Nov. 1826, surgeon 1 March 1843, retired 11 Jany. 1857;
apothecary general Bengal 1853–7; author of A treatise on the
public health, climate, hygiene and diseases of the north-west
provinces. Cawnpore 1848. _d._ Edinburgh 13 Feb. 1861.
MACKINNON, LAUCHLAN (brother of Donald Mackinnon _d._ 1888).
_b._ Kilbride, Isle of Skye 26 Feb. 1817; ed. Aberdeen;
emigrated to Australia 1838; came overland with cattle from
Sydney to Adelaide, the first journey of the kind made 1839;
settled in Avoca, Victoria as a squatter; member of N.S.W.
legislative assembly for Port Philip district 1848; member for
Belfast and Warrnambool in legislative council of Victoria; the
great opponent to the introduction of English convicts into
Australia; with Edward Wilson one of the proprietors of The
Argus a Melbourne daily journal 1852; returned to England in
1868 and lived in Devonshire. _d._ Torquay 21 March 1888.
MACKINNON, LAUCHLAN BELLINGHAM (2 son of Wm. Alexander Mackinnon
1789–1870). _b._ Portswood park, Southampton 21 April 1815;
entered navy 1 Oct. 1829, commander 1 Nov. 1847, retired captain
1 July 1864; M.P. Rye 1865–8; author of Some account of the
Falkland islands 1840; Steam warfare in the Parana 2 vols. 1848;
Atlantic and transatlantic sketches 2 vols. 1852. _d._ Ormley
lodge, Ham common, Surrey 10 July 1877.
MACKINNON, LIONEL DANIEL (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1825;
ensign and lieut. Coldstream guards 30 May 1843, capt. and
lieut.-col. 20 Oct. 1854; advancing in front of his regiment
at Inkerman was shot and fell mortally wounded and _died_ soon
after being brought in 5 Nov. 1854. _G. Ryan’s Our heroes of the
Crimea_ (1855) _pp._ 77–80.
MACKINNON, SIR WILLIAM (son of Duncan Mackinnon). _b._
Campbeltown, Argyleshire 1823; trained to business in Glasgow to
1847; partner with Mr. Mackenzie in a general store at a town on
the Ganges 1847, removed the business to Calcutta 1855; senior
partner in Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co. East India merchants;
commenced a trade with Burmah 1855 which developed into the
British India steam navigation co., one of the greatest shipping
companies in the world, having 110 vessels, 1300 officers and
10,000 European and native seamen etc.; the means of annexing
part of Zanzibar to Great Britain; the chief adviser of the
government on granting the charter to the Imperial British East
Africa co. of which he was chairman to his death; obtained
funds for the Emim relief expedition under Stanley; contested
Argyleshire 4 Dec. 1885; C.I.E. 23 May 1882; cr. a baronet 15
July 1889. _d._ of quinsy, Burlington hotel, 30 Old Burlington
st. London 22 June 1893, personalty sworn at £560,563 Oct. 1893.
_Black and White 1 July 1893 p._ 3, _portrait_; _I.L.N. 1 July
1893 p._ 7, _portrait_.
MACKINNON, WILLIAM ALEXANDER (eld. son of Wm. Mackinnon of
Mackinnon). _b._ 2 Aug. 1789; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; student at Lincoln’s Inn; M.P. Dunwich
1819–20; M.P. Lymington 1831–2 and 1835–52; M.P. Rye 1853–65;
brought in bills for the amendment of the patent laws, to
prevent intramural interments in populous places and to abate
the smoke nuisance; a comr. for colonization of South Australia;
F.S.A. 1820; F.R.S. 14 June 1827; author of On public opinion
in Great Britain and other parts of the world 1828, anon.,
published subsequently as The history of civilisation 2 vols.
1846. _d._ Belvidere, Broadstairs, Kent 30 April 1870. _I.L.N.
xv_ 44 (1849), _portrait_.
MACKINTOSH, ANGUS (son of John Mackintosh of Holme, Inverness,
_d._ 1847). _b._ 1826; ed. Edinb. acad.; matric. from univ.
coll. Oxf. 15 May 1845; led a dissipated life; became very
violent in London, April and May 1852, attracted great attention
at one of the Queen’s drawing rooms, his name was consequently
dropped from the list of presentations, applied for redress to
the lord chamberlain in vain; confined in Saughton Hall asylum,
Edinburgh from 13 June to 20 July 1852 when he escaped; brought
an action for illegal detention against Dr. John Smith and Dr.
Lowe proprietors of the asylum, verdict given against him 29
July 1859, began another action against them May 1863, verdict
given in their favour after a 7 days’ trial in Edinburgh 12 Feb.
1864; resided at Holme, Invernesshire. _A.R._ (1864) 19–22.
MACKINTOSH, CHARLES CALDER (son of Dr. Angus Mackintosh _d._
Tain 1831). _b._ Tain 5 Oct. 1806; ed. at Aberdeen and Glasgow;
co-pastor of Tain 1828, and minister 1831–43; minister of Free
ch. Tain 1843 and of Free ch. Dunoon 1854 to death; a very
popular revival preacher; D.D. of Union coll. Shenectady, Sep.
1850. _d._ Pau 24 Nov. 1868. _W. Taylor’s Memorials of C. C.
Mackintosh_ (1871), _biographical sketch pp._ 23–51, _portrait_;
_Scott’s Fasti_, _iii pt. i p._ 310 (1870).
MACKINTOSH, DANIEL (son of the owner of a water-power mill).
_b._ Blairgowrie, Perthshire 1815; lecturer on astronomy,
geology and physical geology in England; contributed to Quart.
Journ. of Geological Soc. and to Geological Mag.; F.G.S. 1861,
received grant from the Lyell fund 1886; took an active part
in the controversies on marine denudation; made researches on
glacial geology and on erratic blocks and boulders; received
4 grants from Royal Society in aid of original research;
presented with Kingsley medal of Chester Soc. of natural
science 1881; president of Liverpool Geological Society 1881–3;
author of Supplement to the Bridgewater treatises. The highest
generalizations in geology and astronomy illustrating the
greatness of the creator 1843; The scenery of England and Wales,
its character and origin 1869. _d._ Birkenhead 19 July 1891.
_bur._ Flaybrick cemetery, Birkenhead. _Geol. Mag. Sep. 1891 p._
432.
MACKINTOSH, MACKAY. Presbyterian minister at Laggan to 1831 and
at Dunoon 1831–43; moderator of the Free general assembly 24 May
1849; minister of Melbourne Gaelic ch. Australia 1854–6, and to
a congregation in Sydney 1856–61; minister of Free ch. Tarbert,
Harris, Scotland 1862; superintended and corrected press of
Gaelic Dictionary 1828; author of Memoir of Rob. Don 1829;
Four sermons. Liverpool 1833; Sermons on the christian warfare
1836; The treasure, selections from the Olney hymns, in Gaelic;
Practical exposition of Matthew V. 1845; Sermon on rev. Roderick
Macleod with memorials 1869. _Scott’s Fasti_, _iii pt. i p._ 19
(1870).
MACKMURDO, GILBERT WAKEFIELD. _b._ 1799; M.R.C.S. 1824,
F.R.C.S.; practised at 7 New Broad, city of London; surgeon
St. Thomas’s hospital, London; consulting surgeon and lecturer
on ophthalmic surgery royal London ophthalmic hospital. _d._
Chigwell-row, Essex 26 Aug. 1869.
MACKNESS, JAMES (elder son of Thomas Mackness a lace man).
_b._ Wellingborough, Northamptonshire 31 March 1804; member of
College of Surgeons 22 Dec. 1824; practised at Turvey near
Bedford 1827, then at Northampton 1831–7; M.D. St. Andrew’s
15 May 1840; physician at Hastings 1840 to death; phys. to
Hastings dispensary Nov. 1840; L.R.C.P. Jany. 1843; author of
Hastings considered as a resort for invalids 1842, 2 ed. 1850;
The moral aspects of medical life 1846; Dysphonia clericorum
or clergyman’s sore throat 1848. _d._ Wellington sq. Hastings
8 Feb. 1851. _Memorials of J. Mackness. By Miss M. M. Howard_
(1851).
MACKONOCHIE, ALEXANDER HERIOT (3 son of George Mackonochie,
retired colonel). _b._ Farnham, Hants. 11 Aug. 1825; ed. at
Bath, Exeter, Edinb. univ. and Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1848,
M.A. 1851; C. of Westbury, Wilts. 1849–52; C. of Wantage,
Berkshire 1852; C. of St. George’s-in-the-East, London
1858–62; C. in charge of St. Alban’s, Holborn, London 1862,
church was consecrated 21 Feb. 1863; his advanced ritualistic
practices were the cause of a long series of law suits by the
Church Association; suspended for 3 months 25 Nov. 1878 for
disobedience to judgment of privy council given against him
1868, a fresh suit was commenced 1874, on 12 June 1875 he was
suspended for six weeks, and on 1 June 1878 for three years;
resigned his living 1 Dec. 1882 but worked there unofficially
Dec. 1883 to death; domestic chaplain to lord Eliot Nov. 1870;
V. of St. Peter’s, London Docks, Jany. 1883, resigned 23 Dec.
1883; author of First principles _v._ Erastianism, sermons
1876; went on a visit to the bishop of Argyll and the Isles at
Ballachulish 10 Dec. 1887, _found dead_ in the deer forest of
Manore 15 Dec. 1887. _bur._ in the ground of St. Alban’s Guild,
Working 23 Dec. _E. A. Towle’s A. H. Mackonochie, a memoir_
(1890), _portrait_; _Church portrait journal n.s. iii_ 49–56
(1882), _portrait_; _Judgment delivered by Sir Robert Phillimore
in the cases of Martin v. Mackonochie and Flamank v. Simpson.
By W. G. F. Phillimore_ (1868); _Legal Ritual. By J. Mc Dale_
(1871).
MACKONOCHIE, JAMES (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1823;
advocate at Scotch bar 1845; barrister I.T. 6 June 1855; a
revising barrister 1873–88; recorder of Winchester, Jany. 1880
to Dec. 1888; judge of county court, circuit 55 (Hants. and
Dorset), Nov. 1888 to death. _d._ Kenilworth, Cavendish road,
Bournemouth 18 Dec. 1892.
MC KOWEN, JAMES. _b._ Lambeg near Lisburn, co. Antrim 11 Feb.
1814; employed at bleach works of Richardson, Sons & Owden,
Belfast about 1833 to death; contributed many racy poems to
Northern Whig and other Ulster papers from about 1840, generally
under pseudonym of Kitty Connor; one of his pieces The old Irish
cow, became very popular in Ulster, and another The ould Irish
jig, is known throughout Ireland; 9 of his poems are in The harp
of Erin. Dublin 1867; resided at Millbrook. _d._ Beechside,
Lisburn 22 April 1889. _bur._ Lambeg 25 April. _The Northern
Whig 24 April 1889 pp._ 1, 5.
MACKWORTH, SIR DIGBY, 4 Baronet (eld. son of sir Digby
Mackworth, 3 bart. 1766–1838). _b._ Oxford 13 June 1789; ed. at
Westminster; lieut. 7 fusiliers 9 July 1807; carried the colours
at Talavera 27 and 28 July 1809; one of lord Hill’s aides de
camp; captain 13 light dragoons 31 Dec. 1818 to 23 Oct. 1823
when placed on h.p.; brevet colonel 11 Nov. 1851; K.H. 1832 for
his assistance in suppressing riots in forest of Dean 1830 and
at Bristol 1831; succeeded his father as 4 bart. 2 May 1838;
sheriff of Monmouthshire 1843; chief founder of National club,
London 1845; contested Derby 1846 and Liverpool 1847. _d._ Glen
Uske, Monmouthshire 23 Sep. 1852. _G.M. xxxviii_ 524–26 (1852);
_I.L.N. xxi_ 282 (1852).
NOTE.--He was in that charge at Albuera 16 May 1811 in which out of the
1500 men composing the 7 and 23 regiments only 150 escaped; the brigade
going into action under three colonels and coming out under only one
captain and with 3 battalions each commanded by a lieutenant. There was
no parallel slaughter of British officers and soldiers during the war.
MACKWORTH, HUBERT FRANCIS. _b._ Trinidad 27 Sep. 1823; ed. at
King’s college, London; inspector of mines and collieries in
southern district of England and Wales 1851 to death; F.G.S.;
author of Lectures in connection with the educational exhibition
of the Society of arts 1854; The ventilation, underground gases
and sanitary condition of mines. Bristol 1859. _d._ Clifton wood
house, Bristol 13 July 1858.
MACLACHLAN, ALEXANDER. _b._ 1789; 2 lieut. R.A. 3 Dec. 1803,
col. 11 Nov. 1851, col. commandant 19 May 1863 to death; served
in Spain 1813 and 1814; L.G. 22 June 1860; knight of St. Maurice
and Lazare. _d._ Dublin 26 Feb. 1866.
MACLACHLAN, ARCHIBALD. Ensign 69 foot 6 May 1795; captain
O’Conner’s recruiting corps 1 Dec. 1797, placed on h.p. 1799;
major 69 foot 4 June 1813 to 25 Nov. 1816 when placed on h.p.;
L.G. 20 June 1854. _d._ Rockstone place, Southampton 29 Dec.
1854.
MACLACHLAN, DANIEL. _b._ Glasgow 1807; M.R.C.S. Edinb. 1827;
F.R.C.P. 1859; M.D. Glasgow; army hospital assistant on coast of
Africa 1827; assist. surgeon 79 highlanders 1828–40; physician
and surgeon Chelsea hospital 8 May 1840 to 1863; author of A
practical treatise on the diseases and infirmities of advanced
life 1863. _d._ Claremont, Ventnor, Isle of Wight 15 June 1870.
_Proc. Med. and Chir. Soc. vi_ 350 (1871).
MAC LACHLAN, JOHN. _b._ 1789; senior partner in firm of Mac
Lachlan and Stewart, publishers and university booksellers,
Edinburgh. _d._ Blackford Brae, Oswald road, Edinburgh 9 Nov.
1876. _Scotsman 10 Nov. 1876 p._ 8.
MAC LACHLAN, JOHN. _b._ 1827; ordained in Rome 1850; R.C. bishop
of Galloway 29 Jany. 1878 to death, consecrated in Glasgow
cathedral 23 May 1878. _d._ Dumfries 16 Jany. 1893.
MACLAGAN, ALEXANDER (1 son of Thomas Maclagan). _b._ Bridgend,
Perth 3 April 1811; apprentice to a plumber 1823–9, then a
journeyman; contributed to Edinburgh literary journal 1829;
manager of a plumbery in Dunfermline 1833; junior clerk in
inland revenue office, Edinb. 1850; entertained at a public
dinner in the hall of Burns’ cottage 1851; granted civil list
pension of £30, 29 Sep. 1856; author of Sketches from nature
and other poems 1851; Ragged school rhymes 1851, new ed. 1871;
National songs and ballads 1878. _d._ Edinburgh 20 April 1879.
_C. Rogers’ Modern Scottish minstrel_, _v_ 226–40 (1857).
MACLAGAN, DAVID. _b._ Edinburgh, Feb. 1785; ed. Edinb. univ.,
M.D. 1805; M.R.C.S. Edinb. 1804; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1807, F.R.C.S.
1816; assistant surgeon to 91 regt. 10 Sep. 1807, served at
Walcheren; staff surgeon 9 Portuguese brigade 1811 and served
in Spain to 1814; phys. in the army 26 May 1814, placed on h.p.
1816; in practice at Edinb. 1816 to death; pres. of R.C.S. 1826;
pres. R.C.P. 1856; surgeon in ordinary to the queen in Scotland
1838 to death; F.R.S. Edinb. _d._ 129 George st. Edinb. 6 June
1865. _Proc. Royal Soc. of Edinb. v_ 476–7 (1866).
MACLAGAN, DAVID (son of the preceding). Actuary at 9 Royal
circus, Edinburgh; manager of Edinburgh life insurance co.
1873–83; F.R.S. Edinb. 1872; author of St. George’s, Edinburgh,
a history of St. George’s church and of St. George’s Free church
1876. _d._ Mentone 30 March 1883.
MACLAGAN, PHILIP WHITESIDE (son of David Maclagan, M.D., _d._
1865). L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1839; M.D. Edinb. 1840; assistant
surgeon in the army 15 Jany. 1841; assistant surgeon royal
Canadian rifle regiment 19 Dec. 1845; surgeon 20 foot 24 Sep.
1850, resigned 3 Dec. 1853; much interested in philanthropic
movements; botanist. _d._ Berwick 26 May 1892; memorial fountain
unveiled in High st. Berwick 14 June 1893. _Daily Graphic 17
June 1893 p._ 5, _view of fountain_.
MACLAINE, SIR ARCHIBALD (2 son of Gillean Maclaine of Scalasdale
in the Isle of Mull, _d._ 23 Nov. 1778 aged 64). _b._ 13 Jany.
1773; ensign 94 foot 16 April 1794; held Matagorda an outwork of
Cadiz with 155 men against 8000 French under marshal Soult 22
Feb. to 22 April 1810; major 87 foot 4 Oct. 1810; lieut.-col.
7 West India regiment of foot 25 Jany. 1813 to 25 April 1816;
lieut.-col. 14 foot 9 Aug. 1821 to 4 Nov. 1822; lieut.-col. 17
foot 4 Nov. 1822 to 30 July 1829 when placed on h.p.; colonel
of 52 foot 8 Feb. 1847 to death; C.B. 4 June 1815; knighted at
St. James’s palace 19 Oct. 1831; K.C.B. 6 April 1852; knight of
order of Charles the Third of Spain 1816; general 5 June 1855.
_d._ 68 Cumberland st. Hyde park, London 9 March 1861. _bur._
Highgate cemet.
MACLAINE, HECTOR (1 son of William Osborne Maclaine). _b._
Murtle, Aberdeenshire 24 Nov. 1851; ed. Eton and Woolwich;
lieut. R.A. 6 Jany. 1872 to death; in India 1873–4, returned
to India 1879, on service in Kandahar 1880, in the action at
Maiwand 27 July 1880 showed great bravery and energy in working
his guns under fire; while in search of water on 28 July was
taken prisoner, was returned as killed or missing and name
taken out of army list in Aug.; imprisoned at Kokaran from 30
July; _murdered_ by his captors at Kandahar 1 Sep. 1880 and his
body soon after found by 92nd highlanders. _bur._ Kandahar with
military honours. _Shadbolt’s Afghan Campaign_ (1882) 131–4,
_portrait_.
MAC LAREN, ARCHIBALD. _b._ 1819; proprietor of the Gymnasium,
Alfred st. Oxford to death; the British army is trained on his
principles and in gymnasia which he invented; wrote Systematized
exercise, expansion and developement of the chest. Macmillan’s
Mag. Nov. 1890 pp. 35–40; author of A military system of
gymnastic exercises for the use of instructors 1862, 2 ed. 1868;
A system of fencing for the use of instructors in the army
1864; A system of physical education, theoretical and practical
1866; Training in theory and practice 1866, 2 ed. 1874. _d._
Summertown near Oxford 19 Feb. 1884.
MACLAREN, CHARLES (only child of a small farmer). _b._
Ormiston, Haddingtonshire 7 Oct. 1782; clerk to several firms
at Edinburgh; established with others The Scotsman 25 Jany.
1817, joint editor 1817–18 and 1820–45; a clerk in the custom
house 1818–20; edited 6th ed. of Encyclopædia Britannica 20
vols. 1822, for which he wrote articles America, Europe,
Greece, Physical geography and Troy; F.R.S. Edinb. 1837; F.G.S.
1846, pres. of Geol. Soc. of Edinb. 1864 to death; author of
A dissertation on the topography of the plain of Troy, 1822,
reissued as The plains of Troy described 1863; A sketch of the
geology of Fife and the Lothians 1839, 2 ed. 1866. _d._ Moreland
cottage, Edinburgh 10 Sep. 1866. _R. Cox and J. Nicol’s Select
writings of C. Maclaren_ 2 _vols._ (1869), _portrait_.
MC LAREN, DUNCAN (son of John Mc Laren, farmer). _b._ Renton,
Dumbartonshire 12 Jany. 1800; a draper in a shop opposite St.
Giles’s ch. Edinb. 1824; member of town council Edinb. 1833,
baillie, treasurer, lord provost 1851–4; chairman of Edinburgh
chamber of commerce; contested Edinb. 1852, M.P. Edinb. 1865–81,
used to be called in the house the Member for Scotland;
established the Heriot free schools, Edinb. 1836; author of
History of the resistance to the annuity tax under each of the
four church establishments for which it has been levied 1836, 4
ed. 1851; Facts regarding the seat rents of the city churches of
Edinburgh 1840. _d._ Newington house, Edinburgh 26 April 1886,
portrait in council chamber, Edinb. _J. B. Mackie’s Life and
works of D. Mc Laren_ 2 _vols._ (1888), 2 _portraits_.
M’LAREN, JAMES. _b._ Polmont, Stirlingshire 1829; general
superintendent North British railway co. 1843 to death, the
oldest official connected with the company. _d._ Edinburgh 30
Oct. 1893.
M’LAREN, JOHN H. _b._ Scotland 1827; assistant secretary to
Royal insurance company at Liverpool about 1855, general manager
1872 to death; effected amalgamations with other companies, that
with the Queen insurance co. in 1891 being the greatest. _d._
Claughton, Birkenhead 13 Nov. 1893.
MC LAUCHLAN, HENRY. _b._ 1791; surveyor in connection with the
manors commission, and resident at Truro for some years; F.G.S.
1832; employed on ordnance trigonometrical survey 1830; wrote
Notes to accompany geological map of forest of Dean, in Trans.
Geol. Soc. v. pt. 1; Memoir made during a survey of the Watling
street from the Tees to the Scotch border 1852; The Roman wall
and vestiges of Roman occupation in the North of England 1857;
Memoir written during a survey of the Roman wall 1858. _d._ 14
Liston road, Clapham, Surrey 4 Jany. 1881. _Quart. Journ. Geol.
Soc. xxxviii proceedings p._ 53 (1882); _Boase and Courtney’s
Bibl. Cornub._ (1874) 333.
MACLAUCHLAN, THOMAS (youngest son of James Maclauchlan, minister
of Moy, Inverness). _b._ Moy, Jany. 1816; ed. at Aberdeen univ.,
M.A. 1833, LL.D. 1864; colleague to his father at Moy 1837–43;
Free church minister at Stratherrick, Loch Ness, Invernessshire
1844–9 and at Free St. Columba’s, Edinb. 1849; convener of
committee on highlands and islands 1850; moderator of Free
church assembly 1876; F.S.A. Scotland 1856, member of council
1875–8, vice pres. 1879–82; author of The depopulation system in
the Highlands 1849; The way to God, or the doctrine of Christ’s
mediatorship explained 1853; The poems of Ossian 1859 in Gaelic;
Celtic gleanings, history and literature of the Scottish Gaels
1857; The early Scotch church 1865. _d._ Edinburgh 21 March 1886.
MC LAUGHLAN, JOHN (son of a Highland Scotchman). _b._ Dovenby
near Cockermouth 1791; a labourer known as Clattan; tallest man
in Cumberland, 6 feet 6 inches in height; appeared as a wrestler
at Carlisle 1817, threw all his competitors; thrown by Wm.
Wilson at Keswick 1819; carried off prizes at Whitehaven, Aug.
1825, at Workington races Aug. 1828, and at Keswick, Sep. 1828;
umpire at Dovenby races June 1829; gained prize at Cockermouth,
Aug. 1830, and at Liverpool 1837; thrown by John Selkirk at
Liverpool 1840; made a tour with the pugilists Tom Molyneaux and
Jack Carter in England and Scotland lasting 5 years; landlord of
The Highlandman or Rising Sun in Market place, Whitehaven many
years to 1839; employed about the docks in Liverpool several
years. _d._ Liverpool, Oct. 1876. _J. Robinson and S. Gilpin’s
Wrestling_ (1893) 208–218.
MC LAUGHLIN, HUBERT. _b._ 1805; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A.
1828, M.A. 1832; chaplain at Nice; R. of Burford, Salop, 1st
portion, 9 March 1838 to death; rural dean of West division of
Burford 1843 to death; preb. of Hereford 1857 to death; author
of A tract on church extension 1851; Biographical sketches of
ancient Irish saints 1874. _d._ Boraston rectory 15 Dec. 1882.
_Times 21 Dec. 1882 p._ 4 _col._ 4.
MACLAY, ARCHIBALD. _b._ Killearn near Glasgow 14 May 1776;
ed. Edinb. univ.; presbyterian minister Kirkcaldy 1802–1805;
minister of a congregational ch. in New York 1805–1809; pastor
of a baptist ch. New York 1809–38; general agent of American
and foreign Bible soc. 1838; an organizer of Bible translation
soc. of England, and in forming American Bible union 1850, of
which he became general agent and then president; obtained an
endowment for Maclay baptist coll. Canada; author of A selection
of hymns. New York 1816; An address at Hope st. Baptist chapel,
Glasgow 1840. _d._ New York city 2 May 1860. _Appleton’s
American biography iv_ 141–2 (1888).
MACLAY, MIKLUOHO (of Scottish and Cossack parentage). _b._ 1846;
ed. at St. Petersburg univ. and in Germany in 1860; a traveller
and explorer in New Guinea 1866 etc.; known as the king of the
Papuans; proposed to the Russian government to found a colony in
New Guinea 1887. _d._ Wylie’s hospital, St. Petersburg 15 April
1888.
MACLEA, CHARLES GASCOIGNE. _b._ 1793; member of firm of Maclea
and March, machine-makers, Dewsbury road, Leeds; had an European
fame as a maker of flax-spinning and other machinery; retired
from business Jany. 1843; chairman of Leeds and Yorkshire
insurance co. 1847–63; alderman of Leeds 1842–62, mayor 1846; a
juror for tools and manufacturing machines at Great Exhibition
1851; presented a font to St. Mark’s ch. Woodhouse. _d._
Blenheim terrace, Leeds 24 May 1864. _R. V. Taylor’s Biographia
Leodiensis_ (1865) 516–8; _Mayhall’s Annals of Yorkshire_, _i_
641, _ii_ 251–2 (1878).
MACLEAN, ALEXANDER (son of David Maclean of Glasgow,
manufacturer). _b._ Nov. 1840; in business at Glasgow to 1861;
studied painting at Rome, Florence and Antwerp; exhibited 7
pictures at R.A. 1872–7; his best pictures are Covent Garden
Market 1874, Looking Back 1876, At the railings, St. Paul’s,
Covent Garden 1877. _d._ St. Leonard’s-on-Sea 30 Oct. 1877.