Modern English biography

M’CARTHY, DANIEL. _b._ near Kenmare, co. Kerry 1823; ed. Maynooth coll., teacher of rhetoric 1846, professor of scripture and Hebrew 1854, vice president 1872–8; bishop of Kerry and Aghadoe, consecrated 25 Aug. 1878; editor of L. F. Renehan’s Collections on Irish church history 1861; M. Kelly’s Dissertations on Irish church history 1864; author of Sermons on the immaculate conception 1880. _d._ Killarney, July 1881. _Times 28 July 1881 p._ 10. MACCARTHY, DENIS FLORENCE. _b._ Lower Sackville st. Dublin 26 May 1817; ed. at Dublin and Maynooth; called to Irish bar 1846; contributed a series of political verse to The Nation newspaper over signature of Desmond 1842; an original member of the ’82 club formed in 1844, on the council of the confederation 1847; resided in London 1872–82; contributed poems and humorous prose papers to periodicals signed Desmond, Vig, Trifolium, Antonio, S. E. Y. and D. F. M.; his translations of Calderon’s works appeared in six issues as follows, Justina, a play 1848; Dramas 1853; Love the greatest enchantment 1861; Mysteries of Corpus Christi 1867; The two lovers of heaven 1870; The wonder-working musician, &c. 1873; for the six volumes he was granted medal of royal academy of Spain 1881; granted civil list pension of £100, 3 Aug. 1870; author of The poets and dramatists of Ireland 1 vol. 1846; Ballads, poems and lyrics 1850; The bell founder 1857; Shelley’s Early life 1872; Poems 1882. _d._ Blackrock near Dublin 7 April 1882. _Dublin Review_, _April 1883 pp._ 261–93. MAC CARTHY, HAMILTON WRIGHT (2 son of John James Alexander Mac Carthy, artist). _b._ 1810; sculptor and poet; exhibited 23 pieces of sculpture at R.A. and 13 at B.I. 1838–67. _d._ 17 Springfield villas, Kilburn, London 2 Feb. 1882. MC CARTHY, JOHN F. (son of Michael Mc Carthy). _b._ 1862; provision merchant at Tipperary; M.P. mid division of Tipperary 18 July 1892. _d._ Roscrea, Tipperary 8 Feb. 1893. MACCARTHY, JOHN GEORGE (son of John Maccarthy of Cork). _b._ Cork, June 1829; founded with Justin Mac Carthy, Cork historical society 1849; founded Cork Young men’s society 1852; solicitor at Cork 1853–81; M.P. Mallow 1874–80; assistant comr. under Land act of 1881, 1881–6; one of the two comrs. under land purchase act of 1885, 1886 to death; made a knight of the order of St. Gregory by Leo XIII. Feb. 1880; author of The history of Cork, a lecture. Cork 1856; Irish land questions plainly stated and answered 1870; The French revolution of 1792, its causes etc. Dublin 1884; Henry Grattan, a historical study, Dublin 1886. _d._ Euston hotel, London 7 Sep. 1892. _bur._ Glasnevin cemet. Dublin. _Irish Law Times_, _xxii_ 116 (1888). MC CAUL, ALEXANDER. _b._ Dublin 16 May 1799; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 3 Oct. 1814, B.A. 1819, M.A. 1831, B.D. and D.D. 1837; tutor to Earl of Rosse; sent to Poland by London Soc. for promoting Christianity among the Jews 1821; C. of Huntley near Gloucester 1823; head of the mission to the Jews, and English chaplain at Warsaw 1823–30; settled in London 1832; published Old Paths, a weekly pamphlet on Jewish ritual 60 numbers 1836–37; principal of the Hebrew college, London 1840; declined bishopric of Jerusalem 1841; professor of Hebrew and Rabbinical literature in King’s college, London 1841–6, professor of divinity 1846–53, professor of ecclesiastical history Dec. 1853 to 1863; R. of St. James’s, Duke’s place, London 1843–50; preb. of St. Paul’s 1845 to death; declined bishoprics of Adelaide, Newcastle and Capetown 1847; R. of St. Magnus, St. Margaret and St. Michael, Fish st. hill, London 21 Jany. 1850 to death; proctor for the London clergy in convocation 1852 to death; author of A Hebrew primer 4 ed. 1836; Lectures on the Prophecies and The Messiahship of Christ, being Warburtonian lectures 2 series 1846–52; Rationalism and the divine interpretation of scripture 1850; Some notes on the first chapter of Genesis 1861; Testimonies to the divine authority of the holy scripture 1862; An examination of bishop Colenso’s difficulties with regard to the Pentateuch 2 vols. 1863–4 and 50 other works. _d._ St. Magnus’s rectory, London 13 Nov. 1863. _bur._ Ilford, Essex 20 Nov. _J. B. Mc Caul’s Memoir of A. Mc Caul_ (1863); _I.L.N. xxiv_ 400 (1854), _portrait_. MC CAUL, JOHN. _b._ Dublin 7 March 1807; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1824, B.A. 1825, M.A. 1829, LL.B. and LL.D. 1835, classical tutor and examiner; principal of the Upper Canadian coll. Nov. 1838; V.P. of King’s coll. Toronto and professor of classics, logic, rhetoric and belles lettres 1842; pres. of univ. of Toronto 1849; pres. of univ. coll. and V.C. of univ. of Toronto 1853–81; M.R.I.A.; author of Remarks explanatory and illustrative on the Terentian metres 1828; The metres of the Greek tragedians explained 1828; Selections from Lucian, with English notes 1829; Remarks on the classical studies pursued in the university of Dublin 1834; Scansion of the Hecuba and Medea of Euripides 1836; Britanno-Roman inscriptions with critical notes. Toronto and London 1863; Christian epitaphs of the first six centuries 1869. _d._ 15 April 1887. _H. J. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) 254–5. MC CAUL, JOSEPH BENJAMIN (son of Alexander Mc Caul 1799–1863). Ed. King’s coll. London, theological associate 1850; assistant in British Museum 1846–9 and engaged upon the compilation of the catalogue March 1851 to 1865; censor, reader and divinity lecturer, King’s coll. 1852–54; C. of St. Magnus the Martyr, London 1851–4; C. of All Saints’, Gordon sq. London 1854–5; C. of St. Edmund the King, Lombard st. 1858–65; chaplain at Amsterdam 1877–9; R. of St. Michael, Bassishaw 1865 to death; hon. canon of Rochester 1865 to death; author of The abbé Migne and the Bibliothèque universelle du clergé 1857; The ten commandments, the christian’s spiritual instructor 1861; Bishop Colenso’s Criticism criticised 1862; The epistle to the Hebrews in a paraphrastic commentary 1871; Dark sayings of old, an attempt to elucidate certain passages of scripture 1873; A concise exposition of St. Paul’s epistle to the Romans 1882; The last plague of Egypt and other poems 1879. _d._ 11 Flander’s road, Turnham Green near London 3 Feb. 1892. MC CAUSLAND, DOMINICK (3 son of Marcus Langford Mc Causland of Roe park, co. Londonderry). _b._ Roe park 20 Aug. 1806; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1822, gold medallist for science 1827, B.A. 1827, LL.B. and LL.D. 1859; called to Irish bar 1835, went north western circuit; a crown prosecutor for co. Fermanagh 1859 to death; Q.C. 4 July 1860; author of The latter days of the Jewish church and nation as revealed in the Apocalypse. Dublin 1841; The times of the Gentiles as revealed in the Apocalypse. Dublin 1852, reissued 1857, both were combined in a 2nd ed. as The latter days of Jerusalem and Rome 1859; Sermons in stones 1856, 13 ed. 1873; Adam and the Adamite 1864, 2 ed. 1868; Shinar the confusion of language 1867; The builders of Babel 1871. _d._ 12 Fitzgibbon st. Dublin 29 June 1873. _W. D. Ferguson’s Memoir of D. Mc Causland_ (1873); _Irish Law Times_, _vii_ 354 (1873). MC CAUSLAND, JOHN KENNEDY. _b._ 1803; entered Bengal army 1818; commanded Gwalior district 20 Jany. 1860 to 13 Feb. 1861; retired L.G. 31 Dec. 1861; C.B. 21 March 1859. _d._ Melrose villa, Cheltenham 23 July 1879. MC CAW, WILLIAM. _b._ Antrim; minister of presbyterian church, Bridge st. Strangeways near Manchester, Nov. 1846; author of Truth frae ’mang the heather 1856, 5 ed. 1880; The gospel and total abstinence 1857; Romanism, ritualism and revelation 1876. _J. Evans’ Lancashire authors_ (1850) 166–70. MC CLEAN, JOHN ROBINSON. _b._ Belfast 1813; studied at univ. of Glasgow; a civil engineer in London 1844; constructed harbour, docks and railways of Barrow in Furness; partner with F. C. Stileman 1849; engineer of harbours of Dover 1851, Alderney 1862 and St. Catherine’s, Jersey 1862 &c.; sent to Egypt as comr. to report on the Suez canal route; served on several royal commissions; retired from practice 1868; contested Belfast 3 April 1857; M.P. east Staffs. 17 Nov. 1868 to death; chairman of Anglo-American telegraph co.; M.I.C.E. June 1844, member of council 1848, vice pres. 1858, pres. 1864 and 1865; F.R.S.; F.G.S.; F.R.A.S. 8 Jany. 1858. _d._ Stonehouse, Isle of Thanet 13 July 1873, personalty sworn under £700,000, 6 Sep. 1873. _Monthly notices of R.A.S. xxxiv_ 148 (1874); _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxviii_ 287–91 (1874); _Humber’s Modern engineering 3rd series_ (1865), _portrait_. MC CLELLAND, JAMES. _b._ Ayr 18 Jany. 1799; accountant Glasgow, March 1824, retired 1874, had many apprentices in his business; president of royal institution of accountants, Glasgow 1853; great friend of George Combe the phrenologist; removed to London 1874. _d._ 32 Pembridge sq. London 24 Oct. 1879. _W. C. Maclehose’s Glasgow men_, _ii_ 185–6 (1886), _portrait_. MC CLELLAND, JOHN. Surgeon Bengal army 30 Nov. 1846; inspector general of hospitals 8 Nov. 1860, principal inspector general 1864 to 24 Nov. 1865 when he retired; conducted The Calcutta journal of natural history 1841; author of Reports on investigation of coal and mineral resources of India 1838; Some inquiries in Kemaon relative to geology 1835; Sketches of the medical topography and soils of Bengal 1859. _d._ 29 Marina, St. Leonards-on-Sea 31 July 1883. M’CLINTOCK, JOHN (eld. son of John M’Clintock of Drumcar, M.P. Enniskillen, _d._ 1799). _b._ 14 Aug. 1770; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1790; sheriff of co. Louth 1798; present at battles of Arklow 10 June 1798 and Vinegar Hill 12 June 1798; serjeant at arms with his younger brother Wm. Foster M’Clintock 1794 to 1800 when a pension of £2545 was assigned to them in compensation for the office; M.P. Athlone, Westmeath 24 March 1820 to May 1820 when he was appointed escheator of Munster. _d._ Drumcar, co. Louth 12 July 1855. MC CLURE, SIR ROBERT JOHN LE MESURIER (son of Robert Mc Clure, captain 89 foot, _d._ 1806). _b._ Wexford 28 Jany. 1807; ed. at Eton and Sandhurst; entered navy 1824; mate of the Terror in her Arctic voyage 1836–7; commanded the Romney at Havana 1842–6; first lieut. of the Investigator in sir J. C. Ross’s Arctic expedition 1848–9 and commander of her in Collinson’s expedition, sailed from Plymouth 20 Jany. 1850, discovered the north-west passage 26 Oct. 1850, the Investigator was forced into a bay on the north shore of Banks’ Land 23 Sep. 1851 where in 1853 she was abandoned; crossed Banks’s Strait to Winter harbour in Melville Island, April 1852; arrived in England in the North Star 28 Sep. 1854, tried by court martial for loss of his ship when honourably acquitted; captain 18 Dec. 1850; knighted at Windsor Castle 21 Nov. 1855; parliament awarded £10,000 to officers and crew of the Investigator 1855; captain of the Esk 1856; commanded a battalion of the naval brigade at capture of Canton, Dec. 1857; C.B. 20 May 1859; R.A. 20 March 1867, retired V.A. 29 May 1873; awarded good service pension 12 Sep. 1863. _d._ 25 Duke st. St. James’s, London 17 Oct. 1873. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 25 Oct. _The north-west passage. Capt. Mc Clure’s despatches_ (1853); _S. Osborn’s Discovery of a north-west passage 4 ed._ (1865); _A. Armstrong’s Discovery of the north-west passage_ (1857); _S. Cresswell’s Eight sketches of the voyage of H.M.S. Investigator_ (1854); _Graphic_, _viii_ 407, 412 (1873), _portrait_. MC CLURE, SIR THOMAS, 1 Baronet (son of William Mc Clure, merchant). _b._ Belfast 4 March 1806; ed. at Belfast royal academical institution; merchant Belfast; sheriff of Downshire 1864 and vice lieut. 17 June 1872 to 1886; M.P. Belfast 1868–74; contested Belfast 6 Feb. 1874; M.P. Londonderry 1878–85; cr. a baronet 20 March 1874. _d._ Belmont near Belfast 21 Jany. 1893. _Daily Graphic 23 Jany. 1893 p._ 8, _portrait_. M’COLLUM, THOMAS. Lessee with Wm. Charman of New royal amphitheatre, Holborn, London, opened 25 May 1867. _d._ 7 Oakden st. Kennington road, London 22 March 1872 aged 44. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 26 March. _Illust. Times 22 June 1867 p._ 392, _view of interior of Holborn amphitheatre_. MC COMB, WILLIAM (son of Thomas Mc Comb of Coleraine, Londonderry, draper). _b._ Coleraine 17 Aug. 1793; teacher of Brown st. daily school, Belfast to 1828; bookseller in High st. Belfast 1828, retired 1864; established Mc Comb’s Presbyterian Almanac 1840 which ran to 1873; author of The dirge of O’Neill 1817; The school of the Sabbath 1822, 2 ed. 1825; The voice of a year, or recollections of 1848, with other poems 1849; Poetical works 1864. _d._ Colin View terrace, Belfast 13 Sep. 1873. MC COMBIE, WILLIAM (only child of William Mc Combie, farmer). _b._ Cairnballoch, parish of Alford, Aberdeenshire 8 May 1809; a labourer on his father’s farm; farmed Cairnballoch to 1867; contributed to newspapers, to the British Quarterly Review, and to Journal of sacred literature; joined staff of North of Scotland gazette 1849; edited the Aberdeen Daily Free press from first number 6 May 1853 to death; a preacher in John st. Baptist ch. Aberdeen; author of Hours of thought 1835, 3 ed. 1856; Moral agency and man as a moral agent 1842; Memoirs of Alexander Bethune 1845; Use and abuse, the relation to labour of capital, machinery and land 1852; On education, in its constituents, objects and issues 1857. _d._ Broadford Bank, Aberdeen 6 May 1870. _Aberdeen Daily Free Press 13 May 1870 p._ 5; _Newspaper Press_, _iv_ 153–4 (1870); _Nicoll’s James Macdonald, journalist_ (1890) 34–9. MC COMBIE, WILLIAM (younger son of Charles Mc Combie, farmer, Tillyfour). _b._ Tillyfour farm, Aberdeenshire 1805; ed. at Aberdeen univ.; a farmer of 1200 acres and cattle-dealer at Tillyfour; began to breed black-polled cattle 1840, fatted about 300 oxen a year; the first Scottish exhibitioner of fat cattle at Birmingham; won over 500 prizes for his cattle; one of the largest farmers in Aberdeenshire; known as the ‘Grazier King’; M.P. West Aberdeenshire 1868–76, being the first tenant farmer returned from Scotland; author of Cattle and cattle breeders 1867; The Mc Combe annual prize for black-polled cattle establed at Aberdeen 1876. _d._ Tillyfour farm, Aberdeenshire 1 Feb.