seminary and Maynooth college, ordained Maynooth 1833; one of
the founders of Castleknock college, co. Dublin 1834, affiliated
with the Congregation of the Mission 1839, gave missions
throughout Ireland; founded with others the Catholic institution
for deaf and dumb mutes at Cabra near Dublin 1846; superior of
Castleknock college and visitor of the Irish province of the
Congregation of the Mission 1864; rector of the Irish college in
Paris 1868–89; author of Programmes of sermons and instructions.
Dublin 1881; Sacred rhetoric, or the art of rhetoric as applied
to the preaching of the word of God. Dublin 1882. _d._ St.
Joseph’s, Blackrock, co. Dublin 8 March 1892. _bur._ in cemetery
at Castleknock 11 March. _College Chronicle_ (_Castleknock_),
_June 1892 pp._ 5–6.
MACNAMARA, WILLIAM NUGENT (brother of sir Burton Macnamara
1794–1876). _b._ 1776; second of Daniel O’Connell in his duel
with J. N. D’Esterre at Bishop’s Court, co. Kildare 1 Feb. 1815;
M.P. co. Clare 1830 to 1852. _d._ Ennistymon, co. Clare 11 Nov.
1856.
MACNAUGHT, JOHN (son of John Macnaught of Clarendon, Jamaica).
_b._ 1826; ed. Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1847, M.A. 1852; P.C.
St. Chrysostom, Everton, Lancashire 1853, Hugh M’Neill’s
opposition to Macnaught’s broad doctrine caused him to resign
in 1861; minister of Laura chapel, Bath 1867–71; incumbent of
Holy Trinity ch. Conduit st. London 1871–5 when chapel was
pulled down; V. of St. Mary’s, Northend, Fulham 1881–6; author
of Peter, confession and absolution, three essays 1851; The
doctrine of inspiration of holy writ 1856, 2 ed. 1857, to which
many replies were made; Free discussion versus intolerance, or
the Liverpool clerical society’s method of expelling a brother
clergyman 1856; Christianity and its evidences 1863; Cœna Domini
1878. _d._ 2 Rutland gate, Kensington, London 13 May 1890,
cremated. _Pictorial World 21 May 1890 p._ 697, _portrait_.
MACNAUGHTAN, JOHN. _b._ Greenock; minister of Scotch
congregation, Crown court, Drury Lane, London 1831; minister
of high church, Paisley 1832–43; pastor of free high church,
Paisley 1843; minister at Belfast 1849; author of A discourse
preached in the High church, Paisley 1837; Sketch of the life of
William Perry; Slander against the Free church met and answered
1846; The interdicted farewell sermon. Paisley 1849. _Scott’s
Fasti vol. ii pt. i p._ 207 (1868); _J. Smith’s Our Scottish
clergy_ (1848) 215–22.
M’NAUGHTEN, DANIEL (son of Daniel M’Naughten a turner). A turner
at Glasgow from age of 15; imagined that he was persecuted
and always watched by order of the Tories; came to London and
near the Salopian coffee house, Charing Cross, fired twice at
and killed Edward Drummond private sec. to sir Robert Peel,
mistaking him for the baronet, 20 Jany. 1843; tried at central
criminal court 3 March 1843 and acquitted as being insane;
confined in Bedlam, then removed to criminal lunatic asylum,
Broadmoor, where he _died_ 3 May 1865, inquest held same day,
verdict death from natural causes. _W. C. Townsend’s Modern
state trials_, _i_ 314–402 (1850); _Fraser’s Mag. April 1843
pp._ 444–54; _Annual Register_ (1843) 6–9 _and_ 345–62; _Law
Journal 12 Sep. 1891 pp._ 583–4; _I.L.N. ii_ 80, 151 (1843),
_portrait_; _The Globe 5 May 1865 p._ 1.
NOTE.--Mr. Drummond was _b._ 30 March 1792 and became a clerk in the
treasury at an early age, he was _bur._ at Charlton near Woolwich 31
Jany. 1843.
MC NAUGHTON, JAMES. _b._ Kenmore, Scotland 10 Dec. 1796; ed.
Edinb. univ., M.D. 1816; settled as a physician at Albany, U.S.
America 1817; lectured at College of physicians and surgeons at
Fairfield, New York 1818–38; professor of theory and practice
of medicine, Albany medical coll. 1840 to death; president of
Albany county medical soc. 1848–9; president of medical and
surgical staff of Albany hospital. _d._ Paris, France 12 June
1874. _Appleton’s American biography_, _iv_ 153 (1888).
MACNEE, SIR DANIEL (son of Robert Macnee). _b._ Fintry,
Stirlingshire 1806; ed. at Glasgow, LL.D. 27 April 1876;
apprenticed to John Knox, landscape painter 1819–23; drew and
coloured plates for W. H. Lizars the engraver at Edinb. 1825;
A.R.S.A. 1830, contributed to its exhibitions from 1825, pres.
9 Feb. 1876; resided in Kent painting portraits 1832; portrait
painter at Glasgow 1832–77, at Edinb. 1877 to death; exhibited
97 paintings at R.A. London 1840–80; pres. of West of Scotland
academy 1866–76; knighted at Osborne 21 July 1876; painted many
subject pictures, his picture The Bracelet is now in National
gallery of Scotland; his portrait of Dr. Wardlaw was awarded
a gold medal at Paris international exhibition 1855. _d._ 6
Learmonth terrace, Edinburgh 17 Jany. 1882. _Maclehose’s Glasgow
men_, _ii_ 213–17 (1886), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xiii_ 199, 200
(1876), _portrait_; _Armstrong’s Scottish Painters_ (1888) 46.
MAC NEECE, THOMAS (1 son of James Mac Neece). _b._ near
Markethill, co. Armagh 4 Jany. 1807; sizar at Trin. coll. Dublin
1825, univ. scholar 1828, B.A. 1830, M.A. 1838, B.D. and D.D.
1848, fellow June 1836 to death; tutor, lecturer and examiner
1836–42; archbishop King’s lecturer in divinity 1842 to death;
R. of Arboe, Armagh 1842 to death; author of On faith, two
sermons 1850; Sermons preached in the chapel of Trinity college,
Dublin 1863. _d._ Boulogne 26 Sep. 1862. _bur._ Arboe. _Sermons
by T. Mac Neece_ (1863), _memoir pp. ix–xxi_, _portrait_.
MACNEIL, RODERICK (elder son of Roderick Macneil of Barra,
Invernessshire). _b._ 1790; ensign in army 17 March 1808;
captain 60 foot 1 Dec. 1814; captain 1 life guards 1 July
1819; major 84 foot 9 Aug. 1821; major 2 life guards 29 Dec.
1821, placed on h.p. 17 June 1828; lieut. col. 91 foot 16 July
1841; lieut.-col. 78 Highlanders 15 April 1842 to 9 Nov. 1846;
commanded a division of the army in Madras 1846–51; granted
distinguished service reward 1 Sep. 1848; colonel of 8 foot 18
March 1855 to 3 June 1860; colonel of 78 highlanders 3 June
1860 to death; general 21 Dec. 1862. _d._ 35 Hyde park gardens,
London 22 Oct. 1863.
MC NEILE, EDMUND HUGH (son of the succeeding). _b._ 1841; ed.
Trin. coll. Camb., scholar; 32 wrangler and B.A. 1863, M.A.
1866; C. of Emmanuel ch. Liverpool 1865; C. of Steeple Claydon,
Bucks. 1866; V. of St. Paul’s, Prince’s park, Liverpool 1867 to
death; hon. canon of Liverpool 1880 to death; chaplain to bishop
of Chester 1877–84. _d._ St. Paul’s vicarage, Liverpool 8 Jany.
1893.
MC NEILE, HUGH (son of Alexander Mc Neile, sheriff of Antrim).
_b._ Ballycastle, co. Antrim 15 July 1795; ed. Trin. coll.
Dublin, B.A. 1815, M.A. 1821, B.D. and D.D. 1847; served his
terms at King’s inns, Dublin, and at Lincoln’s inn; C. of
Stranorlar, Donegal 1820; R. of Albury, Surrey 1822–34; P.C.
of St. Jude, Liverpool 1834–48; hon. canon of Chester cath.
1845–68; P.C. of St. Paul, Prince’s park, Liverpool 1848–67;
canon residentiary of Chester cath. July 1860; dean of Ripon
9 Sep. 1868, resigned Oct. 1875; author of Seventeen sermons
1825, 2 ed. 1828; Popular lectures on the prophecies 1830;
The church and the churches 1846, 3 ed. 1867; The collected
works of Dean Mc Neile 1877, vol. i. _d._ Bournemouth 28 Jany.
1879. _bur._ Bournemouth cemetery 1 Feb. _J. R. Dix’s Pulpit
portraits_ (_Boston_ 1854) 228–55; _John Evans’s Lancashire
authors and orators_ (1850) 182–9; _Orators of the age. By G.
H. Francis_ (1847) 406–15; _J. Grant’s Portraits of public
characters_ (1841) 239–50; _E. M. Roose’s Ecclesiastica_ (1842)
420–4; _Church of England photographic portrait gallery_ (1859),
_portrait_ 36; _Christian cabinet illustrated almanack for
1860 p._ 30; _Drawing room portrait gallery 3 series_ (1860),
_portrait_ 11; _Dublin univ. mag. xxix_ 462, _portrait_; _I.L.N.
lxxiv_ 105 (1879), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xix_ 241 (1879),
_portrait_.
M’NEILL, ALEXANDER DUNCAN (1 son of Alexander M’Neill,
advocate). _b._ Edinburgh 1829; ed. Edinb. high sch. and univ.;
an actor in the English provinces; played at Drury Lane, at
Lyceum and at Birmingham; manager of old Theatre royal, Aberdeen
1862 and lessee 1869; manager of Royal Princess’ Edinb. 14 Sep.
1868 to death; first appeared as Richelieu 28 Sep., and first
time in Edinb. as Rob Roy 7 Nov. 1868; also directed Theatres
royal Dumfries and Dundee, and the Gaiety theatre Glasgow; a
good actor as Rob Roy, as Jacques in As you like it, and as sir
John Falstaff; made his last appearance as Rob Roy at Lyceum,
Edinb. 21 July 1884; wrote The gloamin’ and the mirk, a story
of modern Athens, a drama at the Princess’ 8 Feb. 1869. _d._ 4
Buccleuch place, Edinb. 7 Nov. 1884. His son W. A. M’Neill was
lessee of the Princess’ Nov. 1884 to 22 May 1886 when the house
closed. _J. C. Dibdin’s Edinburgh stage_ (1888) 482–7.
M’NEILL, ARCHIBALD (5 son of John M’Neill of Colonsay,
Argyllshire). _b._ Colonsay, Sep. 1803; writer to the signet
18 June 1829; director and principal clerk at chancery office
Edinb. 24 March 1843 to 1858; one of the principal clerks of
session 6 July 1858 to death; took great interest in the breed
of the deer hounds possessed by his family, and contributed
to W. Scrope’s Days of deer stalking 1883, An account of the
original Scotch greyhounds and details of deer coursing; author
of Notes on the authenticity of Ossian’s Poems. By a member of
the Society of antiquaries of Scotland 1868. _d._ Edinburgh 2
June 1870. _Journal of jurisprudence_, _July 1870 p._ 375.
M’NEILL, ARCHIBALD. _b._ 1852; ed. at Baptist theological coll.
near Birmingham; connected with Birmingham Daily Mail, and
Birmingham Morning News; leader writer and dramatic critic on
Newcastle chronicle; came to London 1878, writer and dramatic
critic on The Sportsman from 1882; sent on 18 Dec. 1887 to
Rouen to report the prize fight between James Smith and Jake
Kilrain 19 Dec., missed at Boulogne on 20 Dec., found drowned on
the beach near the jetty on 6 Jany. 1888 having probably been
murdered. _I.L.N. 21 Jany. 1888 pp._ 57, 58, _portrait_; _Daily
Graphic 10 Dec. 1891 p._ 9, _view of house where he is said to
have been murdered_.
MC NEILL, SIR JOHN (brother of Archibald Mc Neill 1803–70).
_b._ Colonsay, Aug. 1795; ed. at univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1814;
assistant surgeon Bombay army 6 Sep. 1816, surgeon 1 May 1824,
retired 4 June 1836; attached to H.E.I.Co.’s legation in Persia
1824–35; secretary of special embassy at Teheran 30 June 1835;
minister plenipotentiary to shah of Persia 9 Feb. 1836, envoy
and min. plenipo. 25 May 1836 to 5 Aug. 1842; notwithstanding
his protests Herat was besieged by the Persians Nov. 1837 to
Sep. 1838; he concluded a treaty of commerce with Persia 11 Oct.
1841; F.R.S. 5 April 1838; chairman of board of supervision
entrusted with working of Scottish poor law act of 1845,
1845–68; sent to the Crimea with A. M. Tulloch, Feb. 1855, to
report on the commissariat department, &c., their final report
was signed in London, Jany. 1856; knight of Persian order of the
Sun and Lion 1835; G.C.B. 15 April 1839; P.C. 6 May 1857; the
last survivor of original members of Royal Asiatic Society 1823;
F.R.S. Edinb. 1840; D.C.L. 24 June 1857; author of Progress and
present position of Russia in the East 1836, another ed. 1854.
_d._ Cannes 17 May 1883, bust in National portrait gallery,
Edinb. _Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea 6 ed. vol. vii passim_
(1877); _I.L.N. lxxxii_ 549 (1883), _portrait_; _Sir A. M.
Tulloch’s Crimean Commission_ (1880) _with preface by Mc Neill
pp. v–xiv_.
MACNEILL, SIR JOHN BENJAMIN (son of Torquil P. Macneill).
_b._ Mount Pleasant, Dundalk 1794; lieut. in Louth militia
29 April 1811; one of principal assistants to Thomas Telford
the engineer, having the turnpike roads in north of England
entrusted to him; a consulting engineer in London and Glasgow
about 1834; constructed the Wishaw and Coltness railway and
other small lines in Scotland; conducted a series of important
experiments in canal-boat traction; made known his system of
sectio-planography 1837, adopted for railway plans by standing
orders of house of commons; surveyed North of Ireland for the
Irish railway commission; professor of civil engineering,
Trinity college, Dublin 1842–52; completed the Dublin and
Drogheda railway; completed first section to Kildare of Great
southern and western railway 1844 for which he was knighted by
earl de Grey 1844; F.R.S. 5 April 1838; author of Tables for
calculating the cubic quantities of earthwork in the cuttings
for canals, railways and turnpike roads 1833, 2 ed. 1846;
translated C. L. M. H. Navier’s On the means of comparing the
advantages of different lines of railway 1836. _d._ 186 Cromwell
road, South Kensington, London 2 March 1880. _Min. of proc. of
instit. of C.E. lxxiii_ 361–7 (1883).
MAC NICHOLAS, PATRICK. Professor of Greek in Maynooth college;
bishop of Achonry 23 Feb. 1818 to death, consecrated 17 May
1818. _d._ Ballaghadareen, co. Mayo 13 Feb. 1852.
MC NICOLL, THOMAS (5 son of rev. David Mc Nicoll). _b._ 1822;
M.R.C.S. Eng.; editor of London Quarterly Rev. 1853 and a
contributor to its pages to death; conducted The Planet. London
1862, four numbers; author of Essay on English literature 1861.
_d._ 102 Crown street, Liverpool 1 March 1863. _London Quarterly
Review_, _xxxix_ 270, 419 (1863).
MACONOCHIE, ALEXANDER, Lord Meadowbank (eld. son of Allan
Maconochie, Scottish judge 1748–1816). _b._ 2 March 1777;
admitted advocate 2 March 1799; one of the lord advocates depute
1807; sheriff of Haddingtonshire 28 April 1810; solicitor
general 13 Feb. 1813; lord advocate July 1816; M.P. Yarmouth,
Isle of Wight, Feb. 1817 to March 1818; M.P. Kilrenny district
of burghs, March 1818 to June 1819; an ordinary lord of session
and a lord of justiciary with title of lord Meadowbank 1 July
1819 to Nov. 1843; entertained the archduke Nicholas afterwards
emperor of Russia at Meadowbank 1816; succeeded to estates of
Garvock and Pitliver, June 1854, when he assumed additional
surname of Welwood. _d._ Meadowbank house 30 Nov. 1861. _Kay’s
Series of portraits_, _ii_ 21, 353, 432–4, 444, 450, 451 (1877),
2 _portraits_; _Omond’s Lord advocates of Scotland_, _ii_ 225,
231–55 (1883).
MACONOCHIE, ALEXANDER. _b._ 1787; entered R.N. Aug. 1803,
midshipman March 1804; served in West Indies, while on the
Grasshopper taken prisoner by the Dutch 24 Dec. 1811; commander
8 Sep. 1815, retired as a captain 17 Feb. 1855; K.H. 4 May 1836;
in Van Diemen’s Land 1837; governor of Norfolk island 6 March
1840 to 1845; invented the mark system of prison discipline
1846; sec. to London geographical society; sec. to lieut.
governor of Van Diemen’s Land 1849; governor of Birmingham
gaol Oct. 1849 to 17 Oct. 1851; author of Thoughts on convict
management and the Australian penal colonies. Hobart Town 1838,
3 ed. 1839; Crime and punishment, the mark system framed to
mix persuasion with punishment 1846; Emigration with advice
to emigrants 1848; Norfolk island 1847; The principles of
punishment on which the mark system is advocated 1850. _d._
Morden, Surrey 25 Oct. 1860. Mary his widow granted civil list
pension of £60, 14 Feb. 1868.
MACONOCHIE, ALLAN ALEXANDER (1 son of preceding). _b._ 1806;
professor of civil law and law of Scotland in Univ. of Glasgow
1842–55. _d._ Meadowbank house, Kirknewton, Edinburgh 29 May
1885.
MACONOCHIE, ROBERT BLAIR (brother of preceding). _b._ 21 May
1814; ed. Edinb. univ.; writer to the signet 23 Nov. 1837,
partner with Allan Menzies to 1856; clerk of lieutenancy of
Midlothian; clerk and treasurer to trustees of the Dick bequest
1856 to death. _d._ Gattonside near Melrose 4 Oct. 1883.
_Journal of jurisprudence_, _Nov. 1883 p._ 600.
M’OSCAR, WILLIAM. _b._ Lochwinnock, Renfrewshire 7 May 1807;
taught classics and modern languages at Paisley some years;
edited the Ayrshire news letter at Irvine; founded the Glasgow
theatrical review; wrote most of his verse in London, where
he resided over 20 years; assisted in compilation of The
Renfrewshire annual 1841 and contributed The Dominie’s goat,
a tale. _d._ Kilbarchan 11 Jany. 1877. _W. M’Oscar’s Poetical
Works_ (1878), _memoir pp. ix–xiii_, _portrait_.
MACPHERSON, ALEXANDER. _b._ Gairloch 1781; ed. univ. and King’s
coll. Aberdeen, M.A. 1803, D.D. 1849; R. of the Academy at Tain
1814–6; minister of Golspie 5 March 1816 to death; author of On
the perspicuity, perfection and power of the holy scriptures.
Edinb. 1836. _d._ Golspie 6 Aug. 1861. _H. Scott’s Fasti_, _iii
part i_, _pp._ 336–7 (1870).
MC PHERSON, DUNCAN. _b._ 1778; entered Bengal army 1794; lieut.
10 Bengal N.I. 3 Oct. 1796, major 1 Oct. 1815; lieut.-col.
commandant 67 N.I. 182-, col. 5 June 1829 to 8 Oct. 1836;
col. of 16 N.I. 8 Oct. 1836 to death; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846. _d._
Cheltenham 24 Nov. 1853.
MACPHERSON, DUNCAN. Assistant surgeon in Madras army 1836,
surgeon 11 Dec. 1852; served with 37 grenadier regiment in
China 1840–2; served with the irregular horse in the Hyderabad
contingent; head of the medical staff of the Turkish contingent
1855–6; inspector general of medical service of Madras 8 Jany.
1858 to 1 Aug. 1864; hon. phys. and surgeon to the queen 1861
to death; author of Two years in China 1842, 3 ed. 1843;
Antiquities of Kertch and researches in the Cimmerian Bosphorus
1857. _d._ Merkára, Coorg 8 June 1867.
MACPHERSON, DUNCAN (1 son of Cluny Macpherson 1804–85). _b._ 9
March 1833; ensign 42 foot 25 June 1852, lieut.-col. 29 Sep.
1877, placed on h.p. 10 Jany. 1883; brevet col. 1 April 1879;
served in Indian mutiny and in Ashantee war; wounded at battle
of Amodful; C.B. 31 March 1874; granted service reward 13 Sep.
1882; chief of the clan Macpherson 1885 to death. _d._ Cluny
castle, Kingussie 3 Oct. 1886.
MACPHERSON, EWEN, known as Cluny Macpherson (1 son of Duncan
Macpherson 1750–1817, lieut.-col. of 3 foot guards). _b._ 24
April 1804; became chief of the clan Macpherson 1817; ensign
1 foot 13 Nov. 1823, lieut. 5 Nov. 1825, placed on h.p. as
captain 1 Oct. 1826; lieut.-col. Invernessshire highland rifle
volunteers 3 June 1861 to 2 Nov. 1882, hon. col. 2 Nov. 1882
to death; permanent steward of Northern athletic meetings; his
piper always played during his meal time; first chief of the
Gaelic soc. 1871, served again in 1872; kept up breeds of pure
highland cattle and black faced sheep; made a fine collection of
arms and Scottish relics at Cluny castle; C.B. 24 May 1881. _d._
Cluny castle, Kingussie 11 Jany. 1885. _Biograph_, _April 1881
pp._ 337–41; _I.L.N. lxxix_ 189 (1881), _portrait_.
MACPHERSON, GERARDINE (elder child of Mr. Bate of London,
artist). _b._ 1830 or 1831; discovered Michael Angelo’s picture
The Entombment at Rome, and sold it to the National gallery,
London 1868; executed the etchings for the second edition of
Mrs. Jameson’s Legends of the Madonna 1857; wrote Memoirs of
the life of Anna Jameson, which was published in 1878 after her
death; gave lessons in English, worked as an amanuensis and as
a newspaper correspondent in Rome; (_m._ 4 Sep. 1849 Robert
Macpherson, artist, who settled in Rome as a painter, then as
a photographer, and _d._ there 1873). _d._ Rome 24 May 1878.
_Macpherson’s Memoirs of Anna Jameson_ (1878), _memoir of G.
Macpherson pp. xiii–xvii_, 360.
MACPHERSON, SIR HERBERT TAYLOR (son of Duncan Macpherson, major
78 foot). _b._ Ardersier, co. Inverness 27 Feb. 1827; ensign 78
foot 28 Feb. 1845, captain 5 Oct. 1857; captain 82 foot 26 Feb.
1859; captain Bengal staff corps 18 Feb. 1861, lieut.-col. 28
Feb. 1871; obtained V.C. 18 June 1858 for his conduct at defence
of Lucknow 25 Sep. 1857; brigadier general Bengal 15 April
1876 to 9 Nov. 1878; commanded first brigade of first division
of Khyber column in Afghan war 1878–9; M.G. Bengal 1880–5;
commanded the Indian contingent in expeditionary force to Egypt
4 Aug. to Oct. 1882; C.B. 30 Aug. 1869, K.C.B. 22 Feb. 1881;
K.C.S.I. 17 Nov. 1882; M.G. 1 July 1882; commander-in-chief at
Madras 1 March 1886, assumed command of force of 30,000 men in
Burmah 9 Sep. 1886. _d._ on board steamer Irrawaddy directly
after leaving Prome for Rangoon 20 Oct. 1886. _J. F. Maurice’s
Campaign in Egypt_ (1887) _p._ 208; _Graphic xxvi_ 553 (1882),
_portrait_.
MACPHERSON, HUGH. _b._ 1768; a surgeon in the army; professor of
Greek in univ. and King’s coll. of Aberdeen 1797 to death, and
sub-principal 1817 to death; proprietor of the island of Eigg,
Invernessshire. _d._ Old Aberdeen 12 March 1854.
MACPHERSON, SIR JAMES DUNCAN (brother of Sir H. T. Macpherson
1827–86). _b._ 1811; ed. at King’s coll. Aberdeen; ensign Bengal
army 4 Dec. 1828; brigade major during Punjaub campaign 1848–49;
military sec. to government of the Punjaub 1852–8; commanded
Agra brigade 20 Aug. 1862; commissary general of Bengal army 5
March 1864 to 22 July 1869; M.G. 24 Jany. 1867; C.B. 27 July
1858, K.C.B. 24 May 1873. _d._ 31 Belsize park gardens, London
29 May 1874. _I.L.N. lxiv_ 547 (1874).
M’PHERSON, JOHN. _b._ Blairnamarrow, Strathavon, Lanarkshire
29 Aug. 1801; in Paris from 1818 where he was ordained a R.C.
priest 9 June 1827; professor at Aquhorties coll. Scotland
1827–32; priest of the Meadows ch. Dundee 1832, erected St.
Andrew’s ch. in the Nethergate where he remained to 1847;
president of Blair coll. for training the priesthood 1847–58;
created D.D. at Rome 1857; vicar general of the district
1858–61; priest at New abbey 1861, and at Perth 1864–9 where he
founded a convent for ladies teaching the schools and visiting
the prisons; priest of St. Mary’s, Dundee 1869 to death. _d._
Dundee 16 July 1871. _W. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities_ (1873) 366.
MACPHERSON, JOHN (son of Hugh Macpherson, professor of Greek
in univ. of Aberdeen 1768–1854). _b._ Old Aberdeen 1817; ed.
at Aberdeen gr. sch. and univ., M.A., hon. M.D. 1845; studied
medicine in London, Bonn, Vienna and Berlin; M.R.C.S. Oct.
1839; surgeon H.E.I.C.S. 1840–64; civil surgeon of Howrah near
Calcutta 1843–6; assist. surgeon European general hospital,
Calcutta 1846; presidency surgeon and superintendent general
of vaccination to 1864; retired 1864 after 24 years of service
without taking any furlough; in practice 35 Curzon st. London
1864 to 1890; made a fine collection of engravings; with J. Mc
Clelland conducted The Calcutta journal of natural history,
vols. 6–8, 1841; author of The mineral waters of India. Calcutta
1854; Cholera in its home 1866; The baths and wells of Europe
1869, 3 ed. 1888; Our baths and wells, the mineral waters of
the British islands 1871; Annals of cholera from the earliest
periods 1884. _d._ 35 Curzon st. London 17 March 1890. _I.L.N. 5
April 1890 p._ 419, _portrait_; _Pictorial World 27 March 1890
pp._ 399, 408, _portrait_.
MACPHERSON, PHILIP. _b._ 1790; ensign 43 foot 2 Nov. 1809; aide
de camp and military sec. to sir Charles James Napier in the
operations in Scinde; captain 17 foot 26 Nov. 1829, lieut.-col.
3 Dec. 1852 to 7 Sep. 1855; C.B. 4 July 1843; commanded 1
brigade of 4 division in the Crimea 18 Dec. 1854 to 15 June
1855; M.G. 24 Dec. 1858; colonel 13 foot 15 Aug. 1863 to death.
_d._ Clifton, York 2 Feb. 1864. _T. Carter’s Historical record
of thirteenth light infantry_ (1867) _p._ 194.
MACPHERSON, ROBERT BARCLAY. _b._ 1775; ensign 88 foot 3 June
1795, major 17 March 1808 to 28 Nov. 1816 when placed on h.p.;
colonel 73 foot 29 July 1852 to 11 Feb. 1857; colonel 88 foot 11
Feb. 1857 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854; C.B. 4 June 1815; K.H.
1835. _d._ Viewfield lodge, Stirling 23 Dec. 1858.
MACPHERSON, SAMUEL CHARTERS (brother of John Macpherson
1817–90). _b._ King’s college, Old Aberdeen 7 Jany. 1806;
studied at college of Edinb. 1822–3 and at Trin. coll. Camb.
1823–5; ensign 8 Madras N.I. 28 Feb. 1827, captain 18 Jany.
1845 to death; principal assistant to the collector and agent
in Gangam 1842–5; conquered the Gumsur Khond county by the
use of moral influences 1842–4; governor general’s agent for
suppression of Meriah or human sacrifice and female infanticide
in hill tracts of Orissa, Nov. 1845, but was superseded 1847;
agent at Benares, Aug. 1853, agent at Bhopal 1853; political
agent at Gwalior, capital of Scindhia 13 June 1854 to death;
brevet major 20 June 1854; gazetted C.B. 18 May 1860 after his
death; author of Account of the religion of the Khonds in Orissa
1852. _d._ in his brother’s house at Calcutta 15 April 1860.
_Memorials of service in India from the correspondence of major
S. C. Macpherson. Ed. by W. Macpherson_ (1865), _portrait_.