Modern English biography

of James Macfarlan, with a memoir pp. i–x_ (1882); _Rev. C. Rogers’s Leaves from my autobiography_ (1876) 287–91. MACFARLAN, JAMES (son of James Macfarlan, minister of Muiravonside near Linlithgow, author of The prophecies of Ezekiel 1845, _b._ 1800, _d._ 1871). _b._ 6 Jany. 1845; ed. at academy and univ. of Edinb.; assistant minister at Dundee 1869–71; minister of Ruthwell 1871 to death; raised money and built an apse to his ch., in which he placed the Runic cross which had been expelled by the General Assembly in 1642; collected materials for a life of Stewart Leslie the vagrant verse writer celebrated by Carlyle. _d._ Foulden, Berwickshire 7 Oct. 1889. _bur._ Ruthwell, where a memorial has been built. _Memoirs of James Macfarlan_ (1892). MACFARLANE, CHARLES (son of Robert Macfarlane). _b._ Scotland; lived in Italy 1816–27 and in Turkey 1827–9; employed by Charles Knight the publisher many years; nominated a poor brother of the Charterhouse about July 1857; wrote the Civil and military history of England in Knight’s Pictorial history of England 8 vols. 1838–44; author of Constantinople in 1828, 2 vols. 1829; The romance of history, Italy 3 vols. 1832; The book of table talk 1836; The French revolution 4 vols. 1844–5, anon.; The romance of travel, the East 2 vols. 1846, and 30 other books. _d._ the Charterhouse, London 9 Dec. 1858. MACFARLANE, DUGALD. _b._ Perthshire 6 June 1790; 1 lieut. 95 foot 18 July 1815; at Waterloo, and at occupation of Paris; retired on h.p. 29 Feb. 1816; one of the founders of the Canterbury province, south island, New Zealand 16 Dec. 1850. _d._ Christchurch, N.Z. Oct. 1882. _I.L.N. 2 Dec. 1882 pp._ 567, 569, _portrait_. MACFARLANE, JAMES (2 son of rev. John Macfarlane of Bridgton, Glasgow). _b._ Waterbeck, Dumfriesshire 27 April 1808; ed. Glasgow univ., M.A., D.D. 1848; presbyterian minister East ch. Stirling 1831, of St. Bernard’s ch. Edinb. 1832 and of Duddingston, Edinb. May 1841 to death; moderator of general assembly 1865; F.R.S. Edinb.; author of Remarks on intrusion 1839; Letter to Sir James Graham on tests 1845; The late secession 1846; The church and nation 1849. _d._ Duddingston 6 Feb. 1866. _Proc. Royal Soc. Edinb. vi_ 18 (1869). MACFARLANE, JOHN (3 son of rev. James Macfarlane 1759–1823). _b._ Dunfermline 1 April 1807; ed. at Dunfermline gr. sch. and univ. of Edinb.; minister of Kincardine-on-Forth 1831–40; minister of Nicholson st. U.P. church, Glasgow, Sep. 1840, then of Erskine church, Glasgow 1840–62; LL.D. Glasgow 1842; minister of church at Clapham, London, April 1862 to death, the members increasing from 36 to about 800; moderator of U.P. synod 1866; moderator of English provincial synod 1870; author of The mountains of the Bible, their scenes and their lessons 1849; Altar zeal 1859; The life and times of George Lawson, D.D. 1862; Pulpit echoes 1868, and 12 other books. _d._ 14 Victoria road, Clapham Common 7 Feb. 1875. _W. Graham’s Memoirs of John Macfarlane_ (1876) _portrait_; _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1849) 379–85. MACFARLANE, ROBERT, LORD ORMIDALE (only son of Parlan Macfarlane of Glenmallashan, Dumbartonshire, tradesman). _b._ 30 July 1802; ed. at Glasgow and Edinb. univs.; a writer to the signet 29 June 1827, and in practice as an agent 1827–37; an advocate at Edinb. 9 March 1838; sheriff of Renfrewshire 22 Dec. 1853 to Jany. 1862; an ordinary lord of session with title of lord Ormidale 13 Jany. 1862 to death; reformed procedure of court of session; author of The practice of the court of session in jury causes 1837; Reports of jury trials in the courts of session 1838 to 1839, 1841; Practical notes on the structure of issues in jury cases in the court of session, parts i–viii 1844–5. _d._ Hartrigge, Jedburgh 3 Nov. 1880. _Journal of jurisprudence_, _xxiv_ 659–61 (1880). MACFARREN, SIR GEORGE ALEXANDER (son of George Macfarren, dramatist and theatrical manager 1788–1843). _b._ 24 Villiers st. Strand, London 2 March 1813; pupil of Charles Lucas 1827–9; student R.A. of music 1829–36; taught music in a school in the Isle of Man 1836–7; his Chevy Chase overture produced at the Gewand-haus concerts, Leipsic 1836; professor of harmony and composition at R.A. of music 1837–46 and 1851; his opera The Devil’s Opera produced English opera house 13 Aug. 1838; founded the Handel society 1844, secretary 1844–8 when it ceased, edited Handel’s Belshazzar, Judas Maccabeus and Jephtha; conductor at Covent Garden theatre Jany. 1845; his operas Don Quixote produced at Drury Lane 3 Feb. 1846, Charles the Second, at Princess’s 27 Oct. 1849; his cantata May Day produced at Bradford festival 1857; became nearly blind 1860; his operas Robin Hood, produced at Her Majesty’s theatre Oct. 1860; She stoops to conquer, at Covent Garden 11 Feb. 1864; his oratorios St. John the Baptist, produced at first Bristol festival 23 Oct. 1873; The Resurrection, at Birmingham festival Sep. 1876; Joseph, at Leeds festival 21 Sep. 1877; and King David, at Leeds festival Oct. 1883; principal of R.A. of music, Feb. 1875 to death; professor of music at univ. of Camb. 16 March 1875 to death; Mus. Doc. Camb. 1875, Oxf. 1879 and Dublin 1887; M.A. Camb. 1878; knighted at Windsor Castle 22 May 1883; author of The rudiments of harmony 1860, 16 ed. 1887; Six lectures on harmony delivered at the royal institutions 1869, 3 ed. 1882; On the structure of a sonata 1871; Counterpoint, a practical course of study 1879, 4 ed. 1885. _d._ 7 Hamilton terrace, London 31 Oct. 1887. _bur._ Hampstead cemet. 5 Nov. _A life of G. A. Macfarren. By H. C. Banister_ (1891), _portrait_; _Addresses by G. A. Macfarren_ (1888), _portrait_; _Cazalet’s Royal academy of music_ (1854) 307–9; _I.L.N. lxvi_ 391, 393 (1875) _portrait_, _lxxxii_ 573 (1883) _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xxvii_ 553 (1883), _portrait_. MACFIE, ROBERT ANDREW (son of John Macfie provost of Leith who received George IV. on his landing there in 1822). _b._ Leith 4 Oct. 1811; ed. at Edinb. univ.; a sugar refiner with his father at Greenock and Leith; agent at Glasgow for National bank of Scotland 1835–8; went to Liverpool 1838 and established firm of Macfie and Sons, sugar refiners; resided at Ashfield hall, Cheshire 1856–71; removed to Dreghorn castle near Edinburgh 1871; an original director of Liverpool chamber of commerce; a trustee of the Liverpool exchange; contested Leith burghs 1859, M.P. Leith burghs 1868–74; knight commander of royal order of Kalakaua of Hawaii 1886 or 1887; author of The patent question 1863; Colonial questions pressing for immediate solution 1871; Cries in a crisis of statesmanship to test and contest free trade 1881; The questions put by the royal commissioners on the depressed state of trade, dealt with by a Former M.P. 1885; The Scotch church question 1885; Off-hand notes on prayers for family worship. By Senex Scotus, an heritor 1892. _d._ Dreghorn, Collinton near Edinburgh 17 Feb. 1893. _The Biograph_, _July 1879 pp._ 61–4; _New Monthly Mag. cxvi_ 936–8 (1879), _portrait_. MACGAHAN, JANUARIUS ALOYSIUS (son of a farmer _d._ 1851). _b._ New Lexington, Ohio, U.S. America 12 June 1844; a book-keeper, a public reader, a student at law; came to London, Jany. 1869; correspondent of New York Herald in France 1870, correspondent at St. Petersburgh, joined the military expedition to Khiva, sent views to Illust. London News; correspondent with Carlist army in Spain 1874; went in the Pandora to the Polar seas 1875; special correspondent for Daily News in Turkey 1876, narrated the operations of the Russian army in Bulgaria 1876, continually under fire by the side of general Skobeleff, described the engagements from the fights at Shipka Pass to Plevna, Dec. 1877; author of Campaigning on the Oxus and the fall of Khiva 1874, 4 ed. 1876; The Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria 1876; Under the northern lights 1876. _d._ of typhus fever, Constantinople 9 June 1878. _bur._ Catholic cemetery 12 June. _Appleton’s American biography_, _iv_ 115–16 (1888), _portrait_; _The war correspondence of the Daily News 2 vols._ 1878; _I.L.N. 22 June 1878 pp._ 589, 590, _portrait_; _Graphic 25 Aug. 1877 p._ 173, _portrait_, _6 July 1878 pp._ 3, 4, _view of funeral_; _The Nineteenth century_, _Sep. 1891 pp._ 414–5. M’GAULEY, JAMES WILLIAM. Professor of natural philosophy to board of national education in Ireland 1836–56; went to Canada 1856; settled in England about 1865; member of council of the Inventors’ Institute; managing director to the Inventors’ patent right association; editor of Scientific review 1865; author of Lectures on natural philosophy. Dublin 1840, 3 ed. 1851; The elements of architecture 1846; A treatise on algebra 1854. _d._ 25 Oct. 1867. _Times 26 Oct. 1867 p._ 9. M’GAVIN, JOHN. _b._ Kilwinning, Ayrshire 1816; grain miller of firm of Harvie and M’Gavin, Washington st. Glasgow 1838, joined by his sons 1866, retired 1872; instituted the Commercial abstinence society 1846; chairman of Scottish temperance league; member of Glasgow Institute of Fine arts 1870, paid half the expense of erecting the new picture galleries opened 2 Feb. 1880, hon. treasurer and secretary to death; had a fine collection of modern paintings, which was dispersed at his decease. _d._ while walking by the banks of the Garnock 12 July 1881, left £21,000 to charities and £5000 to Institute of Fine Arts. _Maclehose’s Glasgow men_, _ii_ 191–6 (1886), _portrait_. MAC GAVIN, JOHN DRUMMOND (son of rev. Mr. Mac Gavin). _b._ near Edinburgh 1817; physician Paris to death; attended the grand duchess of Hesse at Houlgate, Normandy during 1875; made a member of the legion of honour for his ambulance services during siege of Paris 1871; an elder of church of Scotland congregation in Paris. _d._ Paris 19 April 1893. MC GEACHEY, FORSTER ALLEYNE (only son of major Alexander Mc Geachey who fell at siege of Badajoz 1811). _b._ 1809; ed. at Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1837; a student of L.I. 1834; M.P. Honiton 1841–7; contested Bristol 10 July 1852; sheriff of Herts. 1865; author of A speech delivered in the house of commons on the Maynooth college bill 1845. _d._ Shenley Hill near Barnet, Herts. 20 March 1887. MC GEE, THOMAS D’ARCY (2 son of James Mc Gee a coastguard man). _b._ Carlingford, co. Louth 13 April 1825; went to Providence, Rhode Island 1842; a clerk in office of the Boston Pilot at Boston, June 1842, editor of the paper 1844; editor of Freeman’s Journal, Dublin 1845; assistant editor of The Nation; London correspondent of The Nation newspaper, to which he sent poems signed Montanus, Amergin, Feargail, Sarsfield, An Irish exile, Gilla Eirin, Gilla Patrick, and M.; secretary to the committee of the Irish Confederation, arrested, soon released; sent on secret mission to Scotland 1848; escaped to America disguised as a priest after the rout of his party Oct. 1848; started the New York Nation in New York 26 Oct. 1848; started The American Celt at Boston 1850 which he removed first to Buffalo and then to New York, sold his paper and settled in Montreal 1857, where he started The New Era 1857; member for Montreal in legislative assembly 1858, pres. of the council 1862 and 1864–7; presented with a handsome residence in Montreal 1865; member for Montreal West in the Dominion parliament 6 Nov. 1867; minister of agriculture and emigration 1867; author of Historical sketches of O’Connell and his friends. Boston. 3 ed. 1845; Gallery of Irish writers 1846; A memoir of Art Mac Murrogh, king of Leinster 1847; A history of the Irish settlers in North America 1852; A life of Edward Maginn, bishop of Derry 1857; Canadian ballads 1858; A popular history of Ireland 2 vols. 1865; _shot_ by a Fenian outside his residence in Ottawa 7 April 1868. _The poems of T. D. Mc Gee_ (1869) _memoir pp._ 15–40, _portrait_; _C. M. Collins’s Celtic Irish songwriters_ (1885) 103–6; _I.L.N. lii_ 437, 457 (1868), _portrait_. MACGEORGE, ANDREW. _b._ Port-Glasgow 6 Sep. 1774; writer in partnership with William Bogle at Glasgow 1797–1807; extractor in the burgh court 1807; writer by himself with a large practice in all the courts; connected with passing of Lord Aberdeen’s act; a member of the Coul club; a writer of verses; member of municipal council 1832. _d._ Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire 2 Oct.