Modern English biography

Charles Rogers’s Leaves from my autobiography_ (1876) 286–7. MACDONALD, JAMES. Comedian in North of England; lessee of the Shields, Scarborough and Hartlepool theatres; lessee of T.R. Darlington to 1871; held a responsible position at Drury Lane theatre under F. B. Chatterton 1871–9. _d._ Newcastle-on-Tyne 25 Jany. 1889 aged 60. MAC DONALD, JAMES. _b._ Hopeman, Elginshire 1842; in the house of W. P. Nimmo, bookseller, Edinb. 1860, then a traveller for Nimmo in Scotland; traveller for G. Waterston and Sons, Edinb. till 1870; Canadian traveller for W. Collins, Sons and co. 1870–80; partner with John Walker and William Barringer as J. Walker & Co. booksellers, Warwick lane, Paternoster row, London 1880 to death; _killed_ while crossing the line at Beckenham station, Kent 15 Aug. 1891. _bur._ Elmer’s End cemetery. MACDONALD, JAMES WILLIAM BOSVILLE (2 son of Godfrey Macdonald, 3 baron Macdonald 1775–1832). _b._ 31 Oct. 1810; ensign 81 foot 1 Oct. 1829; cornet 1 life guards 1831, captain 24 June 1837 to 30 Dec. 1842; private sec. to commander in chief at head quarters 15 July 1856 to death; present at battles of Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and at siege of Sebastopol; col. 21 hussars 1 July 1880 to death; general 1 July 1881; deputy ranger of Hyde park; C.B. 5 July 1855. _d._ St. Leonards-on-Sea 4 Jany. 1882. _Army and navy mag. iii_ 399 (1882), _portrait_. MACDONALD, SIR JOHN (eld. son of Alexander Macdonald, major in the army 1762–1808). _b._ 10 Sep. 1788; ensign 88 foot 17 Dec. 1803, captain 7 Sep. 1809; major Portuguese service 25 Oct. 1814; major 91 foot 29 Nov. 1821, lieut.-col. 23 Sep. 1824 to 26 April 1827 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. 92 foot 21 Nov. 1828 to 9 Nov. 1846; commanded the force sent to suppress Irish insurrection of July 1848; col. 92 foot 25 May 1855 to death; general 7 March 1862; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831, K.C.B. 4 Feb. 1856. _d._ Dun Alastair, Perthshire 24 June 1866. MACDONALD, JOHN (son of Wm. Macdonald). _b._ Strathglass, Invernessshire 2 July 1818; ed. at the Scots seminary, Ratisbon 1830–7 and Scots college at Rome 1837–40; ordained priest 1841; missioner of Tombae, Banffshire 1841–2, of Glenmoriston, Inverness 1842–4, of Dornie Kintail, Ross 1844, and of Braemar 1844–5; assistant at Inverness 1845–8; missioner Frassnakyle, Strathglass 1848–56; chaplain to Lord Lovat at Eskdale 1856–68; co-adjutor vicar-apostolic of northern district of Scotland, Nov. 1868, vicar-apostolic 23 Feb. 1869; consecrated at Aberdeen bishop of northern district by title of bishop of Nicopolis 24 Feb. 1869; bishop of restored diocese of Aberdeen 29 Jany. 1878 to death. _d._ Aberdeen 4 Feb. 1889. _Brady’s Catholic hierarchy_, _iii_ 475–6 (1877). MACDONALD, SIR JOHN ALEXANDER (1 son of Hugh Macdonald, yeoman of Sutherlandshire). _b._ George st. Glasgow 11 Jany. 1815; emigrated to Canada with his parents 1820; ed. at royal gram. sch. Kingston; member of bar of Upper Canada 1836; bencher of Law Soc. of Ontario; head of firm of Macdonald and Marsh, Toronto; Q.C. 1846; representative of Kingston in house of assembly 1844–67; receiver general May 1847; commissioner of crown lands 1848; attorney general for Canada West 1854, 1858–62 and 1864; leader of the conservative party 1856–8; postmaster general 1858 for one day; minister of militia 1862 and 1865; P.C. of Canada 1867; minister of justice and attorney general 1867–73; K.C.B. 29 June 1867, G.C.B. 21 Aug. 1884; D.C.L. Oxf. 21 June 1865; took an active part in the federation of the British North American provinces 1864–67 under name of Dominion of Canada; premier of the United provinces July 1867 to 6 Nov. 1873 and 1878 to death; one of 5 British commissioners on treaty of Washington, Feb. 1871; P.C. of Great Britain 14 Aug. 1879; favoured construction of Canadian Pacific railway opened 28 June 1886; was so like lord Beaconsfield that he was called the Canadian Disraeli. _d._ Earnscliffe hall near Ottawa 6 June 1891, memorial marble bust unveiled in south aisle of the crypt chapel of St. Paul’s cathedral, London 16 Nov. 1892. _E. G. Collins’s Life of Sir John Macdonald_ (1892), 2 _portraits_; _Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) 237; _Appleton’s American biography_, _iv_ 102–4 (1888), _portrait_; _Black and White 13 June 1891 p._ 602, _portrait_; _St. Stephen’s Review 7 March 1891_, _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxxiii_ 5 (1858), _portrait_. MAC DONALD, JOHN CAMERON (son of a factor for lord Abinger). _b._ Fort William, Invernessshire, June 1822; a reporter on The Times 1842, wrote also descriptive articles on Ireland 1848, on Great Exhibition 1851, Sydenham crystal palace 1854, Chobham camp 1853 and duke of Wellington’s funeral 1852; accompanied prince consort on his visit to emperor of the French at Boulogne 1853; distributed The Times Crimean sick and wounded fund in Russia 1855; a student at an inn of court; manager of The Times printing establishment 1855; printed from stereotype plates 1860; with Joseph Calverley invented the Walter press 1862–71; printed from stereotype plates from continuous rolls of paper 1866; manager of The Times 1873 to death; managed the case of The Times before the special commission on Irish affairs 22 Oct. 1888 to 22 Nov. 1889, which with damages for insertion of forged letters cost The Times a large sum of money. _d._ Waddon near Croydon 10 Dec. 1889. _The Times 11, 12, 16 and 25 Dec. 1889_; _I.L.N. 21 Dec. 1889 p._ 786, _portrait_; _Graphic 21 Dec. 1889 p._ 753, _portrait_. MACDONALD, LAWRENCE (son of Alexander Macdonald, violinist). _b._ Boneyview, Findo-Gask, Perthshire 15 Feb. 1799; apprenticed to Thomas Gibson, mason; an ornamental sculptor in Edinburgh to 1822; entered Trustees’ academy, Edinb. 26 Feb. 1822; studied at Rome 1822–6 where he helped to found British academy of arts 1823, trustee to death; sculptor at Edinburgh 1827–32 and at Rome 1832 to death; exhibited 48 pieces of sculpture at R. A. 1828–57; exhibited in royal institution, Edinb. 1829 colossal group of ‘Ajax bearing the dead body of Patroclus and combating a Trojan warrior’; second to Charles Maclaren in his duel with James Browne, fought near Edinb. 12 Nov. 1829; member of Scottish academy 1829–58. _d._ Rome 4 March 1878. _bur._ cemetery of Porta San Paolo. _P. R. Drummond’s Perthshire_ (1879) 109–26; _R. Brydall’s Art in Scotland_ (1889) 190. M’DONALD, NORMAN HILTON (only son of sir John M’Donald, K.C.B., adjutant general). Controller of the lord chamberlain’s department 1852 to death; siezed with apoplexy while talking with the marchioness of Ely at lady Elizabeth Hope Vere’s. _d._ lord chamberlain’s office, St. James’s palace, London 1 Dec. 1857. MACDONALD, NORMAN WILLIAM. _b._ 1808; governor of Sierra Leone 7 April 1846 to 13 Sep. 1852. _d._ Priory field house, Taunton 13 May 1893. M’DONALD, PETER (son of Randal M’Donald). b. Kilfinane, co. Limerick 1836; ed. French college, Blackrock; a commercial traveller; partner in firm of Cantwell and M’Donald, wine merchants and distillers, Dublin; M.P. North Sligo division in the Anti-Parnellite interest Dec. 1885 to death; sheriff of Dublin 1886. _d._ Clarinda park, Kingstown 12 March 1891. _Daily Graphic 17 March 1891 p._ 8, _portrait_. MACDONALD, REGINALD GEORGE (eld. son of John Macdonald of Clanronald, captain 22 dragoons 1764–94). _b._ Aug. 1788; M.P. Plympton 1812–24. _d._ 22 Clarendon road, Kensington 11 March 1873. MACDONALD, ROBERT (son of Alexander Macdonald, wine merchant). _b._ Perth 18 May 1813; ed. St. Andrew’s univ., D.D. 1870, and at Edinb. univ.; presbyterian minister Longiealmond, Perthshire 1836 and at Blairgowrie 1837–43; Free ch. minister at Blairgowrie 1843–57 and at North Leith 1857; author of Lessons for the present from the records of the past 1848; From day to day, helpful words for christian life 1879. _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy 2 Ser._ (1849) 156–61; _Wylie’s Disruption worthies_ (1881) 36–70. MACDONALD, WILLIAM (son of John Macdonald of Carraden, Linlithgow). _b._ 1784; ed. at Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1805, M.A. 1807; V. of Broad Hinton, Cricklade 1809; V. of Chitterne 1812; V. of Bishops-Cannings, Wilts. 14 April 1815 to death; canon of Bitton in Salisbury cath. 1823 to death; archdeacon of Wilts. 21 June 1828 to death; author of Select works of John Douglas bishop of Carlisle, with a memoir. Salisbury 1820; A series of plain sermons on the leading articles of the christian faith 1824. _d._ Bishops-Cannings 24 June 1862. _W. H. Jones’s Fasti_ (1879) 177. MACDONALD, WILLIAM. _b._ 21 April 1797; ed. Edinb. univ., M.D. 1818; F.R.C.P. Edinb. 1836; lecturer comparative anatomy, Lane’s medical school, London; professor of natural history in the united colleges, St. Andrews 12 Aug. 1850 to death. _d._ 20 Queen st. St. Andrews 1 Jany. 1875. MACDONALD, WILLIAM (son of a bootcloser). _b._ Newcastle 1859; a newspaper boy in Sunderland; in training stable of James Watson, Belleisle, Richmond, Yorks. 1871–4; won the Princess of Wales plate on Tetrarch at Sandown 27 April 1875, and the Autumn cup on Bugle 18 Oct. 1877; in 1877 had 130 mounts and was a winner in 13, in 1878 had 248 mounts winning 35 times, and in 1880 had 355 mounts winning 47; rode also in France 1878–9; at Epsom in 1881 was second on Retreat for the Derby; won the Cesarewitch stakes on Chippendale 1879 and on Foxhall 1881; won Prince of Wales stakes at Ascot 1880; when riding Buchanan for Liverpool cup, fell and was kicked on the head 12 Nov. 1881. _d._ Sefton arms hotel, Liverpool 12 Nov. 1881. _Sporting Mirror_, _ii_ 161–4 (1881), _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news_, _xvi_ 238, 245 (1881), _portrait_. MACDONALD, WILLIAM BELL (eld. son of Donald Macdonald). _b._ Scotland 1807; ed. at univ. of Glasgow, B.A. 1827; served as surgeon in sir Pulteney Malcolm’s flagship in the Mediterranean 1828–31; a comr. of supply; one of the greatest linguists of his time, making a special study of Coptic; collected a valuable library at his estate Rammerscales; a contributor to the Ray Society on zoology and botany 1845–6; represented burgh of Lochmaben in general assembly of church of Scotland some years; author of Lusus Philologici. Ex museo Gul. B. Macdonald. Rammerscales 1851; Ten Scottish songs rendered into German 1854; Sketch of a Coptic grammar adapted for self-tuition 1856. _d._ 114 West Campbell st. Glasgow 5 Dec. 1862. _Gent. Mag. March 1863 p._ 390; _Inglis’s Dramatic Writers of Scotland_ (1868) 71. MACDONALD, WILLIAM RUSSELL. _b._ 1787; editor and part proprietor of Bell’s Life in London, the Sunday Herald, the British Drama, and the Literary Humourist; author of A paraphrase of R. Dodsley’s Economy of human life 1817; Fudge in Ireland, a collection of letters, poems, etc. 1822, anon.; Christianity, protestantism and popery compared and contrasted 1829, anon.; The book of quadrupeds 1838; First and second lessons for the nursery 1838. _d._ Great James st. Bedford row, London 30 Dec. 1854. MAC DONELL, SIR ALEXANDER (eld. son of Hugh Mac Donell, consul general, Algiers). _b._ Algiers 24 Feb. 1820; ensign rifle brigade 23 June 1837, major 22 Dec. 1854, lieut.-col. 16 June 1857 to 22 Feb. 1871; served in Kaffir war 1846–7; present at Balaclava, Alma and Inkerman; commanded 2 bat. May 1855 to fall of Sebastopol, medal with 3 clasps; commanded 3 bat. in Indian mutiny, present at capture of Lucknow; served in campaign of north-west frontier of India 1864; commanded expedition against Mohund tribes 1863–4; brigadier general Bengal 22 March 1867 to 23 Oct. 1871; major general Bengal 12 April 1872 to 31 March 1877; C.B. 27 July 1855, K.C.B. 24 May 1881; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877, retired 1 April 1882 with rank of general; colonel commandant 2 bat. rifle brigade 24 Jany. 1886 to death. _d._ Hackbridge, Carshalton, Surrey 30 April 1891. _I.L.N. 16 May 1891 p._ 639, _portrait_. MAC DONELL, EWEN (son of lieut.-col. Archibald Mac Donell, lieut. governor of Edinburgh castle). _b._ 1807; studied medicine; entered H.E.I.C. 1835; a doctor; during the mutiny he raised the Sewan levy, received the mutiny medal, accorded special thanks of government of India and a letter of approbation from the queen. _d._ 59 Nevern square, Earl’s court, London 20 May 1891. MACDONELL, SIR JAMES (3 son of Duncan Macdonell, chief of Glengarry). _b._ Glengarry house, Invernessshire; ensign in an independent company 1793; lieut. 78 foot 1794; captain 17 light dragoons 1 Dec. 1795, major 1802; major 78 foot 17 April 1804, lieut.-col. 7 Sep. 1809; served in Naples, Sicily and Egypt 1806–7; lieut.-col. 2 garrison battalion 21 Feb. 1811; captain 2 foot guards 11 Aug. 1811, lieut.-col. 27 May 1825 to 22 July 1830; served in the Peninsula May 1812 to Jany. 1814, and at battle of Waterloo, where he held the chateau of Hougoumont against the French, was one of the persons who helped to shut the gate of the chateau; commanded the Armagh district 1831–8; commanded brigade of guards in Canada 1838; commanded the troops in Canada to 1841; col. of 79 foot 14 July 1842 to 8 Feb. 1849 and of 71 foot 8 Feb. 1849 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 20 April 1838, G.C.B. 5 July 1855; K.C.H. 1837; had decorations of Maria Theresa of Austria and of St. Vladimir of Russia. _d._ 15 Wilton place, London 15 May