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116 (1878), _portrait_. MACBEAN, WILLIAM FORBES. _b._ 5 June 1821; ensign 86 foot 7 July 1837; lieut. St. Helena regt. 7 Jany. 1842, lieut.-col. 1 May 1859; lieut.-col. 5 West India regt. 23 June 1863 to 1 April 1865 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. 13 foot 1 July 1865; lieut.-col. brigade depot 1 April 1873; M.G. 1 Aug. 1869; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 Oct. 1882. _d._ Ashbourne, Derbyshire 26 Feb. 1890. MACBETH, JAMES. _b._ Ayr; ed. Glasgow univ., took Thomas Campbell’s silver medal for poetry; minister Arbroath 1837; minister Norfolk st. Free church, Laurieston; author of The Bible argument for a Free church 1843; The church and the slave-holder 1850; A calm review of the debate in the Free assembly on slavery; Morrisonianism refuted. _John Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1848) 266–71. MACBETH, NORMAN (son of James Macbeth of Greenock, officer of excise). _b._ Greenock 1821; apprenticed to an engraver in Glasgow 7 years; studied in London and Paris; portrait painter at Greenock 1845–8 and 1856–61, at Glasgow 1848–56, at Edinburgh 1861–85; exhibited at R.S.A. from 1845; A.R.S.A. 1870, R.S.A. 10 Feb. 1880; removed to London about 1885; exhibited 24 portraits at R.A. 1837–77. _d._ 10 Belsize avenue, Hampstead, London 27 Feb. 1888. MACBRIDE, JOHN ALEXANDER PATERSON (son of Archibald Macbride of Cambeltown, Argyllshire). _b._ Feb. 1819; pupil of Wm. Spence of Liverpool, sculptor; pupil of and manager for Samuel Joseph, sculptor, London; associate of Liverpool academy 1848, member 1850, secretary 1851 and 1852; showed many important works at Liverpool academy from 1836; executed many portrait-busts and monuments in and near Liverpool; executed the full-size statues of the four seasons in front of Garswood hall for Lord Gerard; exhibited 3 pieces of sculpture at R.A. 1848–53. _d._ Southend-on-Sea 4 April 1890. _Graphic 3 May 1890 p._ 508, _portrait_. MACBRIDE, JOHN DAVID (only son of John Macbride, admiral, _d._ 1800). _b._ Plympton, Devon 28 June 1778; ed. at Cheam in Surrey and Exeter coll. Oxf., fellow 30 June 1800 to 19 July 1805; B.A. 1799, M.A. 1802, B.C.L. and D.C.L. 1811; lord almoner’s reader in Arabic 15 Feb. 1813 to death; principal of Magdalen hall, Oxf. 18 Oct. 1813 to death, the society of Magdalen hall was moved in 1822 from near Magdalen college to Catte st., the jubilee of his headship was celebrated by foundation of a Macbride scholarship 1863; F.S.A. 1805; author of Lectures explanatory of the Diatessaron. Oxford 1835; Lectures on the articles of the united church of England and Ireland. Oxford 1853; The Mohammedan religion explained 1857; Lectures on the acts of the apostles and on the epistles. Oxford 1858. _d._ Magdalen hall, Oxford 24 Jany. 1868. M’BRIDGE, JAMES. _b._ 1831; huntsman to R. C. Hill 1866–9, at Berkeley castle 1869 and to the Quorn under Mr. Coupland 1870–80; commanded the parade at the hound show, Birmingham; huntsman at Meath 1880–4, and to the Shropshire hounds under Hulton Harrop 1884, received a testimonial; first whip and kennel huntsman to Mr. Corbet in Cheshire to death. _d._ Addesley, Shropshire, May 1886. _Baily’s Mag. June 1886 p._ 76. M’CABE, EDWARD. _b._ Dublin 14 Feb. 1816; ed. at Maynooth 1833–9; curate of Clontarf, June 1839; C. of cathedral parish, Marlborough st. Dublin 1851, then administrator; refused the bishopric of Grahamstown, Africa 1854; a canon of Timothan; parish priest of St. Nicholas Without, Dublin 1856–65 where he built a new church and schools; vicar general of Dublin diocese; parish priest of Kingstown 1865–77; consecrated bishop of Gadara in partibus as assistant to Paul Cullen archbishop of Dublin 25 July 1877, succeeded him as archbishop 23 March 1879, enthroned 4 May 1879; created a cardinal priest 12 March 1882; member of senate of royal univ. of Ireland 1880 to death. _d._ 3 Eblana avenue, Kingstown 11 Feb. 1885. _bur._ Glasnevin. _Memoir of Edward M’Cabe, archbishop_ (1879); _Saturday Review_, _lix_ 243; _Graphic_, _xxv_ 521 (1882), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxx_ 372 (1882), _portrait_. MACCABE, JOSEPH. _b._ Dublin 22 Feb. 1863; partner with Frank Hilton as knockabout performers on the music hall stage 1882–93, they were well known as the Two Macs; partner with Daniel Kennedy 1893; played in pantomime of Jack and Jill, at Prince’s theatre, Manchester 1883–4; performed in U.S. of America 1884; played in pantomime of Cinderella, at T.R. Birmingham 1886–7 and in Miss Esmeralda, at Gaiety theatre, London 8 Oct. 1887; (_m._ 27 June 1887 Alice Maydue, burlesque actress); performed at Pavilion and Tivoli music halls, London 5 Jany. 1893. _d._ of gastric catarrh at Stag House, Tooting Bec road, Tooting, Surrey 11 Jany. 1893. _bur._ St. Mary’s R.C. cemetery, Kensal Green 17 Jany. NOTE.--The original Two Macs who introduced the knockabout business to England were called Frank Hilton and J. P. Macnally. M’CABE, RICHARD. Printer Drogheda; foreman of The Examiner, the Drogheda Argus and the Coleraine Chronicle; manager of the Dundalk Patriot to 1848; a paragraphist and reporter on Dublin and Belfast newspapers to death. _d._ Drogheda 27 Jany. 1872. _bur._ Chord 29 Jany. _Newspaper Press 1 March 1872 p._ 88. MACCABE, WILLIAM BERNARD. _b._ Dublin 23 Nov. 1801; reporter on the Dublin Morning register from 1823; edited provincial Irish newspapers; employed on the Morning Chronicle in London from about 1833, to which he contributed critical reviews; a reviewer on the Morning Herald 1835 to about 1850; edited The Telegraph newspaper in Dublin in the interest of cardinal Wiseman 1852–7; lived in Brittany many years; translated J. Venedy’s Ireland and the Irish during the repeal year, 1844, and J. J. I. Von Doellinger’s The church and the churches 1862; author of A catholic history of England 3 vols. 1847–54; Bertha, a romance of the dark ages 3 vols. 1851; Adelaide queen of Italy 1856, 2 ed. 1860; Florine princess of Burgundy 1855, 3 ed. 1873; contributed to Once a Week, Notes and Queries, and the Dublin Review. _d._ Donnybrook, co. Dublin 8 Dec. 1891. M’CALL, ALLAN. _b._ Dumfries 1850; an architect; leader of Livingstonia mission in Nyasa-Land, travelled between fifteen and twenty thousand miles in South Africa 1872–8. _d._ Madeira 25 Nov. 1881. _bur._ Leicester cemet. 18 Jany. 1882. MC CALL, WILLIAM. Ensign 79 foot 29 March 1839, major 12 Dec. 1854 to 5 Aug. 1857 when placed on h.p.; standard bearer to corps of gentlemen at arms 30 Sep. 1872 to death. _d._ 7 Bruton st. Berkeley sq. London 20 Dec. 1875. MACCALL, WILLIAM (eld. son of John Maccall of Largs, Ayrshire, tradesman). _b._ Largs 25 Feb. 1812; entered Glasgow univ. 1827, M.A. 1833; Unitarian minister at Bolton, Lancs. 1837–40 and at Crediton, Devon 1841–6; preacher, lecturer and writer for the press in London 1846–61; edited The Propagandist 1862; author of The agents of civilization 1843; Sacramental services 1847; The elements of individualism 1847; Foreign biographies 2 vols. 1873; Russian Hymns 1878; Moods and memories 1885. _d._ Stanhope cottage, Woolwich road, Bexley Heath, Kent 19 Nov. 1888. MAC CALMONT, FREDERICK HAYNES (2 son of rev. Thomas Mac Calmont of Highfield near Southampton). _b._ Highfield 1846; ed. at Eton and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1869, B.C.L. and M.A. 1872; barrister M.T. 30 April 1872; resided at Southampton, member of the school board, alderman; author of The parliamentary poll book of all elections 1832–79, 1879, Second ed. 1880, Third ed. 1885. _d._ Radley’s hotel, Southampton 4 Nov. 1880. _Solicitors’ Journal_, _xxv_ 56 (1880). M’CALMONT, HUGH (3 son of Hugh M’Calmont of Abbeylands, co. Antrim, _d._ 1839). _b._ 1809; member of firm of M’Calmont Brothers & Co., merchants at 15 Philpot Lane, Cannon st. London; resided at 8 Grosvenor place, London and at Abbeylands, co. Antrim; bequeathed £100,000 to St. George’s hospital, London. _d._ 9 Oct. 1887, the value of his personal property was declared at £3,121,931 7s. 8d., Dec. 1887. MC CANN, NICHOLAS (son of Thomas Mc Cann of Lismoy house, co. Longford). _b._ 1802; M.R.C.S. 1827, L.S.A. 1834; M.D. St. Andrews 1855; L.R.C.P. Edinb. 1859; surgeon to Western dispensary, London 1831–43; surgeon to royal humane soc. 1837; fellow of Medical soc. of London; surgeon to A division of police 1839; examining physician to foreign service messengers 22 Nov. 1858 to death. _d._ 50 Parliament st. London 24 Jany. 1867. MACCARTHY, SIR CHARLES JUSTIN. _b._ Brighton 1811; auditor general of Ceylon 1847, colonial secretary there 1851; governor of Ceylon 23 Aug. 1860 to death; knighted by patent 10 July