Modern English biography

_Mackinnon’s Coldstream Guards_, _ii_ 214–17 (1833). MACDONELL, JAMES (eld. son of James Macdonell, excise officer _d._ 1858). _b._ Dyce, Aberdeenshire 21 April 1842; left the church of Rome and joined the Baptists 1860; wrote leading articles in the Aberdeen Free Press 1858; on the staff of Daily Review in Edinb. 1862; editor of the Northern Daily Express at Newcastle 1862 at £150 a year to 1865; on the staff of the Daily Telegraph in London 1865–75, the special correspondent in France 9 Dec. 1871 to May 1872; leader writer on The Times 25 March 1875 to death; wrote many articles in Fraser’s Mag., North British Review and Macmillan’s Mag.; author of France since the first empire 1879. _d._ 78 Gower st. Bedford sq. London 2 March 1879. _bur._ Beckenham churchyard, Kent 6 March. _James Macdonell, journalist. By W. R. Nicoll_ (1890), _portrait_. MC DONNELL, SIR ALEXANDER, 1 Baronet (eld. son of James Mc Donnell, M.D.) _b._ Belfast 1794; ed. at Westminster 1809–13, King’s scholar 1809; student of Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1813–26; B.A. 1816, M.A. 1820; barrister L.I. 23 Nov. 1824; a comr. of inquiry into public charities; chief clerk in office of chief secretary for Ireland; resident comr. of Irish board of education 1839 to Dec. 1871, being thus the real creator of England’s one successful institution in Ireland; P.C. Ireland 1846; created baronet 20 Jany. 1872. _d._ 32 Upper Fitzwilliam st. Dublin 21 Jany. 1875. _bur._ at Kilsharvan near Drogheda. _Spectator 20 Feb. 1875 pp._ 240–1. MC DONNEL, SIR EDWARD. _b._ Dublin 1806; a paper manufacturer, Dublin; chairman of Great southern and western railway of Ireland 1849 to death, knighted by earl of Clarendon on opening this railway to Cork 1849; lord mayor of Dublin 1854. _d._ 31 Merrion square south, Dublin 22 Nov. 1860. MC DONNELL, EDWARD (son of sir Edward Mc Donnell of Dunfeirth house, Kildare). Resident Melbourne, Australia to 1866; professor in Xavier coll. Calcutta, Jany. 1866; on the staff of the Calcutta Englishman 1866; editor of Lahore chronicle 1867; sub-editor of Bombay gazette 1867, then special correspondent on staff of general Napier in Abyssinia; in Dublin, June 1868. _The Newspaper Press 1 Feb. 1869 p._ 49. MAC DONNELL, ENEAS (4 son of Charles Mac Donnell of Clonagh, co. Mayo). _b._ Westport, co. Mayo 27 July 1783; ed. at lay college of Maynooth; one of chief promoters of cause of Catholic emancipation 1810–23, when new catholic association was formed; agent to Irish catholics in England 1824–29; imprisoned for an alleged libel against the government 1816, and for another alleged libel against the character of archdeacon French 1828; author of The hermit of Glenconella, a tale 1820; Catholic question, letters on securities 1829; The Roman catholic oath considered 1835; Vindication of the house of lords, letters to The Times 1836; The ‘Crisis’ unmasked 1843; Letter to W. E. Gladstone respecting the Maynooth grant 1845; Address and advice to his countrymen 1849. _d._ Lara, Kildare 3 Jany. 1858. _Law Times_, _xxxi_ 178 (1858). MC DONNELL, RANDAL W. Called to bar in Ireland 1856; Q.C. 30 Jany. 1869. _d._ Bournemouth 5 Jany. 1875. MAC DONNELL, RICHARD (eld. son of Robert Mac Donnell of Douglas, co. Cork). _b._ 1787; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1803, B.A. 1805, LL.B. 1810, LL.D. 1813, M.A., B.D. and D.D. 1821; fellow of his college 1808, senior fellow Nov. 1836 to 1852, Donegal lecturer 1820–7; professor of oratory in Trin. coll. Dublin 1816–52, regius professor of laws 1840–1, regius professor of Greek 1843–52, provost 24 Jany. 1852 to death. _d._ Provost’s house, Trinity college, Dublin 24 Jany. 1867. _bur._ under chapel of Trin. coll. 28 Jany. MACDONNELL, SIR RICHARD GRAVES (eld. son of Richard Macdonnell _d._ 1867). _b._ Dublin 3 Sep. 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1833, B.A. 1835, M.A. 1836, LL.B. 1845, LL.D. 1862; called to Irish bar 1838; barrister L.I. 25 Jany. 1841; chief justice of the Gambia 20 July 1843 to 1 Oct. 1847; governor of British settlements on the Gambia 1 Oct. 1847 to 23 Feb. 1852, conducted several exploring expeditions opening up the interior of Africa from the Gambia to the Senegal; administrator of St. Vincent 23 Feb. 1852 to 6 Nov. 1854; governor of South Australia 8 June 1855 to 4 March 1862; lieut.-governor of Nova Scotia 28 May 1864 to Oct. 1865; governor of Hong Kong 19 Oct. 1865, retired on pension 1872; C.B. 12 Feb. 1852; knighted at Buckingham palace 28 Jany. 1856; K.C.M.G. 23 Feb. 1871. _d._ Hyères, France 5 Feb. 1881. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 14 Feb. _I.L.N. lxxviii_ 220, 222 (1881), _portrait_. MC DONNELL, ROBERT (2 son of John Mc Donnell, M.D. medical commissioner of local government board, _b._ 1796, living 1889). _b._ Dublin 15 March 1828; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1844, B.A. and M.B. 1850, M.D. 1857; apprenticed to Richard Carmichael, surgeon 1845–9; M.R.C.S. Ireland 1851, F.R.C.S. 1853, pres. 1877; attached to British hospital at Smyrna 1855 and to general hospital in camp before Sebastopol 1855–6; demonstrator of anatomy in Carmichael school of medicine Dublin 1856, lecturer on anatomy and physiology; medical superintendent of Mountjoy prison 1857–67; surgeon to Jervis st. hospital Dublin 1863; M.D. Queen’s univ. Ireland 1864; surgeon to Stevens’s hospital, Dublin, and professor of descriptive anatomy in its medical school 1866; member of council of univ. of Dublin twice; F.R.S. 1 June 1865; pres. of academy of medicine in Ireland 1885–8; author of many scientific papers; edited Selections from the works of A. Colles in New Sydenham Soc. 1881; author of Observations on the function of the liver 1865; Lectures on surgery, two parts 1871–75; What has experimental physiology done 1882. _d._ 89 Merrion sq. west, Dublin 6 May 1889. _Sir C. Cameron’s History of college of surgeons in Ireland_ (1886) 429–32. MC DONNELL, THOMAS. _b._ 1793; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1811, B.A. 1813; called to Irish bar 1816; Q.C. 1 July 1837; a crown prosecutor for co. of Down. _d._ Eglantine hill near Belfast 25 Sep. 1878. MC DONOGH, ALLEN. _b._ Galway 1804; one of the best known steeplechasers in Ireland; won a steeplechase on Sir William 1830, sold him to John Elmore for £350 who resold him to lord Cranstown for £1000; rode Sir William in a match for £1000 against Jerry for 4 miles over the Quorn country and won; won over 20 steeplechases on Brunette a mare belonging to Mr. Preston 1847 etc. _d._ Dublin, May 1888. _Baily’s Mag. xlix_ 269–70 (1888). MC DONOGH, FRANCIS (son of Morgan Mc Donogh of Sligo). _b._ 1806; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1825, M.A. 1864; called to Irish bar 1829; Q.C. 2 Nov. 1842; counsel to inland revenue department; one of counsel for the defence of D. O’Connell 1843; contested Carrickfergus 2 April 1857; M.P. Sligo 1860–65. _d._ 41 Rutland sq. Dublin 18 April 1882. _Irish law times_, _xvi_ 177 (1882). MAC DOUALL, CHARLES. _b._ 1814; professor of humanity, Queen’s coll. Belfast, Oct. 1849, then professor of Greek 1851 to death; author of A discourse on the study of oriental languages 1849. _d._ Belfast 24 Feb. 1883; his library sold at Sotheby’s, London 20–23 Feb. 1884. _Testimonials in favor of C. Mac Douall as candidate for Greek chair in Univ. of Edinb._ 1852. MACDOUGAL, DONALD (son of a farmer). _b._ 1800; apprentice to Mr. Bremner, draper, Inverness; a draper Inverness, waited upon customers in their hotels with selections of his goods, originator of the tweed trade in Scotland; chief exhibitioner at Great Exhibition of 1851 of tweeds, plaids, brooches, shawls, &c., his stall became famous and was figured in I.L.N., he was also noticed in Punch 1851; became an advertiser with the motto ‘When you are in the Highlands visit Macdougal’s’; in 1856 paid his creditors in full and was entertained at a banquet in Glasgow 30 April 1857; made a speciality of tartans and plaids; retired 1861; gave a working men’s club to Inverness 1862; presented with his bust in Carrara marble 18 March 1879. _The Biograph_, _v_ 544–9 (1881). MAC DOUGAL, THOMAS ST. CLAIR. _b._ Jany. 1804; a master in Islington proprietory school; first master of lower department of city of London school 1837 to Dec. 1874; author of Descriptive outlines of modern geography and a short account of Palestine 1835, 12 ed. 1857. _d._ 107 Stockwell park road, Brixton 10 March 1880. _City Press 13 March 1880 p._ 3. MC DOUGALL, ARCHIBALD. _b._ Tarbut Kintyre, Argyllshire; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; governor of Edinb. orphan hospital 1839–43; minister of Kirkfield ch. Gorbals, Glasgow 1843–47; minister of Argyll ch. Glasgow 1847; author of The family text book 1880. _J. Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy_ (1849) 398–400. MAC DOUGALL, SIR DUNCAN (son of Patrick Mac Dougall of Soroba, Argyllshire). _b._ Soroba 1790; entered army 1804, served in Spain, France, America, West Indies and Cape of Good Hope; brigadier general second in command and quartermaster general in British auxiliary legion of Spain; lieut.-col. 79 highlanders 6 Sep. 1833 to 13 March 1835; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 July 1838; raised and disciplined Royal Lancashire artillery 1853, lieut.-col. commandant 15 April 1853 to 23 May 1857; author of Remarks on the military sanitary commission, suggestions for the improvement of the soldiery and prevention of drunkenness 1838; Remarks on national defence and the instruction of volunteer corps 1860; The history of the volunteer movement 2 ed. 1861. _d._ 112 Eaton sq. London 10 Dec. 1862. MC DOUGALL, FRANCIS THOMAS (only son of Wm. Adair Mc Dougall, captain 88 foot). _b._ Sydenham, Kent 1817; medical student King’s college, London 1835, demonstrator of anatomy there 1838; M.R.C.S. 1839, F.R.C.S. 1854; matric. from Magd. hall, Oxf., B.A. 1844, M.A. 1845, D.C.L. 1854; rowed bow oar in the Oxford eight against Cambridge 1842; superintended iron-works in South Wales which failed 1842–4; C. of Framingham, Pigot 1845–6; C. of St. Mark’s, Lakenham 1846; C. of Ch. Ch. Woburn sq. London 1846; went to Borneo as a missionary 30 Dec. 1847; bishop of Labuan 6 Aug. 1855, consecrated at Calcutta 18 Oct. 1855, it was the first consecration that had taken place out of England; also bishop of Sarawak by appointment from the Rajah, Dec. 1855, resigned April 1868; V. of Godmanchester, Hunts. 1868–74; archdeacon of Huntingdon 1870–4; canon of Ely 1871–3; canon of Winchester 16 Oct. 1873 to death; archdeacon of Isle of Wight 1874 to death; V. of Milford, Hants. 1881–5; R. of Mottistone with Shorwell, Isle of Wight 1885 to death; (_m._ July 1843 Harriette 2 dau. of Robert John Bunyon, she preached to the native women of Borneo, she was author of Letters from Sarawak addressed to a child 1854, and Sketches of our life at Sarawak 1882, she _d._ Shorwell 7 May 1886); author of Life in death, a sermon with memoir of Capt. J. M. Boyd 3 ed. 1861; A catechism of the christian religion. English and Malay 1868. He _d._ Winchester 16 Nov. 1886. _bur._ Shorwell 20 Nov. _C. J. Bunyon’s Memoirs of F. T. Mc Dougall and of Harriette his wife_ (1889), 2 _portraits_. MC DOUGALL, HENRY JOHN. _b._ 1820; pupil and dresser at Exeter hospital; ed. Univ. coll. hospital, London, one of the house surgeons; M.R.C.S. 1844; in practice in Henrietta st. Cavendish sq. London; intense study of the microscope led to disease of the brain; wrote on Spermatorrhœa in the Medical Times; translated F. Lallemand’s A practical treatise on the cause of spermatorrhœa 1847, 2 ed. 1851. _d._ Exeter 18 June 1853. M’DOUGALL, SIR JOHN (2 son of Patrick M’Dougall of Dunolly castle, co. Argyle). _b._ Edinburgh 1790; entered navy 16 Dec. 1802; lieut. of the Superb at bombardment of Algiers 27 Aug. 1816; captain 16 Aug. 1836; commander of Nimrod 1833, Vulture 1845 and La Hogue 1849; senior officer at Hong Kong at capture of Bogue forts 1847; admiralty superintendent of packets at Southampton 1855; R.A. 12 May 1857, V.A. 3 Nov. 1863; K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. _d._ Dunolly 12 April 1865. MAC DOUGALL, NIEL PATRICK. _b._ 1812; entered Bombay army 1826; ensign 9 Bombay N.I. 27 June 1827; lieut. 13 N.I. 21 Aug. 1835, major 1 Aug. 1850 to 1 May 1855; lieut.-col. of 21 N.I. 1 May 1855 to 1857; lieut.-col. of 16 N.I. 1857–8, of 2 N.I. 1858–9, and of 8 N.I. 1859–61; commandant at Skikarpore 1858–9, and at Sattara 1859–60; retired M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. _d._ Ootacamund, Madras 10 June 1865. MAC DOUGALL, PATRICK CAMPBELL (son of Hugh Mac Dougall, parish minister at Killin). _b._ Killin 1806; ed. at Edinburgh high sch. and univ.; classical master in Edinburgh academy 1834–44; prof. of moral philosophy in the New or Free church coll. Edinburgh 1844–53; prof. of moral philosophy in univ. of Edinburgh 1 Nov. 1853 to death; author of Introductory lecture on moral philosophy, at the inauguration of the New college 1851; Papers on literary and philosophical subjects 1852. _d._ 9 Buckingham terrace, Edinburgh 30 Dec. 1867. _Grant’s Univ. of Edinb. ii_ 77, 347–8 (1884). M’DOUGALL, WILLIAM. _b._ Inverary; ed. at univ. of Glasgow; minister of Relief ch. Campbeltown 1823, of Kilmarnock 1827 and of Thread st. ch. Paisley 1843; author of The Saviour’s trouble of soul in anticipation of his sufferings 1836; Discourses 1848. _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1849) 319–25. MACDOWALL, CHARLES (son of Wm. Macdowall, watchmaker). _b._ Pontefract 6 April 1790; apprentice to a chemist; repaired a repeater watch without any instruction; a watchmaker at Wakefield; invented the helix lever clock 1831; at 21 Church st. Kensington, London 1836; invented the helix lever watch and the helix lever escape; patronised by the duke of Sussex when at Kensington palace, where he attended at the conversaziones to explain the inventions; removed to 41 St. James’ st. Pall Mall 1839, to 8 Victoria road, Pimlico 1840, and to 30 Hyde st. Bloomsbury 1848; patented the single pin escapement, for which he received bronze medal at Great Exhibition of 1851; experimented on the three-leg gravity escapement; re-invented the spiral drill. _d._ 26 Jermyn st. London 27 Oct. 1872. _The Horological Journal_, _Sep. 1873 pp._ 5–9, _portrait_. M’DOWALL, CHARLES (only son of Robert M’Dowall of Sheffield). _b._ 1837; ed. Univ. coll. Oxf., scholar 1856–62; B.A. 1859, M.A. 1865, B.D. and D.D. 1882; head master’s assistant Rossall sch.; senior assistant master Malvern coll. 1864–74; head master Cholmeley high sch. Highgate, London, Jany. 1874 to death; preb. of St. Paul’s, April 1883 to death. _d._ Cholmeley school house 29 June 1893. MACDOWALL, DAY HORT. _b._ 3 July 1795; ensign 52 foot 15 April 1813; major 44 foot 27 Nov. 1828 to 21 Feb. 1840 when placed on h.p.; col. 3 Buffs. 9 Sep. 1864 to death; L.G. 4 March 1866. _d._ 14 Sep. 1870. M’DOWALL, WILLIAM (son of a traveller for a cabinet-making firm). _b._ Maxwelltown, Kirkcudbrightshire 21 July 1815; learnt bookbinding in Dumfries, Glasgow and London; on the staff of the Scottish Herald 1843; editor of the Dumfries and Galloway Standard 1846–53 and 1854 to death; edited a Sunderland paper 1853–4; author of The man of the woods and other poems 1844, 2 ed. 1882; Burns in Dumfriesshire 1870; History of the burgh Dumfries 1867, 2 ed. 1873; Memorials of St. Michael’s churchyard, Dumfries 1876; The mind in the face 1882, 3 ed. 1888; Chronicles of Lincluden as an abbey and as a college 1886; Among the old Scottish minstrels 1888. _d._ Dumfries 28 Oct.