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_portrait_; _W. M’Combie’s Cattle breeders 4 ed._ (1886), _memoir xi–xviii_; _Aberdeen Daily Free Press 3 Feb. 1880_; _James Macdonald’s History of polled Angus cattle_ (1882). NOTE.--His champion ox Black Prince shown at Smithfield in 1866 was by command sent to Windsor to be inspected by the Queen. On 12 July 1867 she visited Tillyfour farm. MACCOMO, MARTINI. _b._ Angola, south-west Africa 1839; lion tamer at circus of Messrs. Stone and Mc Collum, New York 1855; travelled through the United States; came to England 1857, engaged by Wm. Manders proprietor of menagerie, first appeared in England at Deptford 1857; travelled with Manders as the African Lion King 1857 to death. _d._ from rheumatic fever at Palatine hotel, Sunderland 11 Jany. 1871. _Era 15 Jany. 1871 p._ 11, _col._ 1; _Baily’s Mag. xliii_ 15–16 (1885). MC CONNELL, WILLIAM. _b._ Warwick st. Regent st. London 29 Sep. 1831; a draughtsman on wood of illustrations to humourous books; on the original staff of The Train, a magazine 1 Jany. 1856; illustrated Oliver Oldfellow’s Our School 1857; G. F. Pardon’s The Months 1858; G. A. Sala’s Twice round the clock 1859; J. Rodenberg’s Tag und Nacht in London 1862; Upside down, or turnover traits with verses by Thomas Hood the younger 1868. _d._ of consumption at 17 Tavistock st. Bedford sq. London 14 May 1867. M’COOLE, MICHAEL. _b._ Ireland 12 March 1837; boatman on the Mississippi river; was 6 feet and ¾ of an inch high and 200 lbs. in weight; beat Wm. Narry at Louisville, Kentuckey, April 1858; beat Tom Jennings near New Orleans 2 May 1861; fought Joseph Coburn for 2000 dollars and the championship at Cecil county, Maryland 5 May 1863 when Coburn won; fought Wm. Davis for 2000 dollars and a champion belt at Rhoads Point near St. Louis 19 Sep. 1866 when M’Coole won; fought Aaron Jones for the championship at Busenburk station, Ohio 31 Aug. 1867 when M’Coole won; fought Tom Allen for 1000 dollars a side and the championship at Foster’s Island, St. Louis 15 June 1869 when M’Coole won; fought Allen again at Chateau island, St. Louis 23 Sep. 1873 when Allen won; arrested 29 Oct. 1873 for shooting Patsy Mavery the pugilist at St. Louis, when put under 20,000 dollars bail; rearrested and found guilty of wilful murder by the coroner’s jury but the matter was squashed. _d._ New Orleans 17 Oct. 1886. _W. E. Harding’s Champions of the American prize ring_ (1884) 14, 18–20, _portrait_. MC CORKINDALE, DUNCAN (son of Duncan Mc Corkindale). _b._ Campbeltown, Argyllshire 2 Feb. 1809; a clerk in Glasgow, then in London, returned to Glasgow, retired from business 1857; author of Sketches of genius and other poems 1831; Poems of early and later years 1863; A raid in the Highlands 1868. _R. Inglis’ Dramatic writers_ (1868) 134–5. MACCORMAC, HENRY (son of Cornelius Maccormac an officer in the navy). _b._ Fairlawn, co. Armagh 1800; studied at Dublin, Paris and Edinb., M.D. Edinb. 1824; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1824; a physician at Belfast; phys. to Belfast fever hospital, took charge of the cholera hospital 1832; visiting phys. to Belfast district lunatic asylum to death; professor of theory and practice of medicine in royal Belfast institution; author of A treatise on the cause and cure of hesitation of speech or stammering 1828; The philosophy of human nature 1837; On the nature, treatment and prevention of pulmonary consumption 1855, 2 ed. 1865; Metanoia, a plea for the insane 1861; Consumption and the breath rebreathed 1872. _d._ Fisherwick place, Belfast 26 May 1886. MC CORMICK, ROBERT (son of Robert Mc Cormick, surgeon in the navy, drowned 1811). _b._ Runham near Great Yarmouth 22 July 1800; studied at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals 1821; M.R.C.S. 6 Dec. 1822, F.R.C.S. 1844; assistant surgeon R.N. 1823; served in sir E. Parry’s expedition to Spitzbergen in the Hecla 1827; surgeon in the Terror, relieving ice bound whaling ships 1836; surgeon of the Erebus in Ross’s expedition to the Antartic 1839–43; surgeon of the William and Mary yacht at Woolwich 1845–8, of the Fisgard flagship at Woolwich 1847 to Dec. 1848; sent out in the North Star in search of Franklin 1852, when in the command of an open boat, the Forlorn Hope, in a 3 weeks’ exploration he settled the question of the opening between Baring bay and Jones’ sound; arctic medal 1857; deputy inspector of hospitals 20 May 1859, placed on retired list 29 July 1865; Greenwich hospital pension 3 Sep. 1876; author of Narrative of a boat expedition up the Wellington channel in the year 1852.