Modern English biography

MACGEORGE, ANDREW (son of the preceding). _b._ Glasgow 13 May 1810; ed. at univ. of Glasgow, LL.D. 1891; admitted into faculty of procurators 1836; member of his father’s firm about 1836, head of the firm to 1889; chief founder of royal hospital for sick children Glasgow, secretary long time; author of An inquiry as to the armorial insignia of the city of Glasgow 1866; The Free church, its principles examined by A Layman 1873; Old Glasgow, the place and the people 1880; Flags, some account of their history and use 1881; W. L. Leitch, landscape painter, a memoir 1884. _d._ Row, Dumbartonshire 4 Sep. 1891. MACGEORGE, ROBERT JACKSON. _b._ near Glasgow 1808; ed. at Glasgow and Edinb.; C. of Episcopal church, Glasgow 1837–41; incumbent of Trinity Church, Streetville, Upper Canada 1841–58; incumbent of St. John’s ch. Oban, Argyleshire 1858–81; dean of Argyll and the Isles 1872, resigned 1881; edited the Weekly review at Streetville; the Church and the Anglo American Mag. at Toronto 1853; wrote The students, a farce Jany. 1830, and A Legend of Carrick, a drama 14 Oct. 1830, both played at York st. theatre, Glasgow; author of The Canadian christian offering. Toronto 1848; Tales, sketches and lyrics 1848. _d._ 14 May 1884. _Morgan’s Bibl. Canadensis_ (1867) 238–9; _Inglis’ Dramatic writers_ (1868) 71. M’GEORGE, THOMAS. _b._ 1840; deputy starter for the Jockey club at Epsom, Chester, Ascot and Goodwood 1862, starter in succession to his father 1863 to death, no one ever had the jockeys and the horses under better control and it was rarely that an owner was able to complain that his horse was beaten by a bad start. _d._ Oatlands park hotel, Weybridge 23 Feb. 1885. _Baily’s Mag. March 1885 p._ 443; _Illust. Sport. and Dram. News 28 Feb. 1885 p._ 584, _7 March p._ 609, _portrait_. M’GETTIGAN, DANIEL (son of Manasses M’Gettigan). _b._ parish of Mevagh, co. Donegal, Nov. 1815; ed. at Navan seminary and Maynooth; ordained priest Trinity Sunday 1839; priest of Ballyshannon, June 1855; coadjutor bishop of Raphoe 13 Feb. 1856, consecrated at Letterkenny 18 May 1856, bishop of Raphoe 1 May 1861; archbishop of Armagh 11 March 1870 to death, he requested permission to decline the archbishoprick but the Pope overruled his objections. _d._ Armagh 3 Dec. 1887. _Brady’s Episcopal succession_, _i_ 233, 313 (1876), _ii_ 360. M’GHEE, CHARLES (son of a Jamaica negro _d._ aged 108). _b._ 1767; swept a crossing which he called his ‘shop’ at Ludgate end of Fleet st. London; was known as Brutus Billy, Timbuctoo and Romeo; after ‘shutting his shop’ he sold nuts and oranges at the doors of the theatres; always attended Rowland Hill’s chapel; Miss Waithman the dau. of the alderman was kind to him and gave him his Sunday dinner; saved money and retired when an old man; lived in White Hart yard leading from Stanhope st. into Drury Lane. _d._ Chapel court, Strand, London 1854. _W. P. Treloar’s Ludgate hill_ (1881) 116, 118–19, _portrait_; _J. Diprose’s St. Clement’s_, _i_ 164 (1868). MC GHIE, JAMES. _b._ 1824; M.D. Glasgow 1850; L. and F.F.P.S. Glasgow 1858; librarian F.P.S. Glasgow; assist. physician Glasgow lunatic asylum to 1854; superintendent of royal infirmary, Glasgow, the largest hospital out of London 1854 to death; the chief actor in construction of surgical hospital, Glasgow 1861, much praised by French academy of medicine; edited with G. Buchanan and J. B. Cowan, The Glasgow Medical Journal vols. 6 to 8 (1856–8); invented a tissue paper saturated with oil for use in dressing wounds; Glasgow Medical Journal 1859. _d._ Glasgow 15 Jany. 1862. MAC GILCHRIST, JOHN. _b._ Glasgow 1821; ed. at Glasgow univ.; sheep farmer in the Cape colony; M.D. St. Andrews 1850; practised at Edinb.; author of The Cape of Good Hope. By A Traveller 1844; Remarks on the present state of medicine 1856, 2 ed. 1856; The mutineers, a poem 1859; his dramatic works were Chatelard, a tragedy by J. Mc G. 1852; Roseallan’s daughter, a tragedy 1861. _d._ Edinburgh 27 March 1864. _R. Inglis’s Dramatic writers_ (1868) 136. MACGILL, HAMILTON MONTGOMERY. _b._ Catrine, Ayrshire 1807; ed. at Mauchline, entered Glasgow univ. 1827 and divinity hall of united secession church 1831; minister of Duke st. church, Glasgow, Feb. 1837 to 1840; separated from Duke st. 1840 and formed the Montrose st. church 1840, minister to 1858; home mission secretary of united presbyterian church 1858 and foreign mission secretary 1868 to death; D.D. Glasgow 1870; edited The juvenile missionary magazine 1845; edited The missionary record; author of The life of Hugh Heugh 2 vols. 1850, 2 ed. 1852; Songs of the christian creed and life 1876. _d._ in Miss de Broen’s villa, Belleville, Paris 3 June 1880. _bur._ Glasgow necropolis 11 June. _C. H. Macgill’s Memories of Dr. H. Macgill_ (1880), _portrait_; _J. Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy_ (1848) 67–71. M’GILL, JAMES. _b._ 1795; minister of Reformed presbyterian ch.; author of The four centuries or christianity and the military profession. Glasgow 1857. _d._ Bournemouth, Oct. 1883. M’GILL, JOHN. Professor of Hebrew and oriental languages at college of St. Mary, univ. of St. Andrews 1868 to death, inducted 21 Nov. 1868; member of Bible revision committee 1870. _d._ St. Andrews 16 March 1871. MACGILLIVRAY, CHARLES R. (son of a small farmer). _b._ Kilfinichen, Mull about 1804; employed in a druggist’s shop, Glasgow about 1824–49; a druggist at Glasgow 1849; M.D. Glasgow 1853; lecturer in Gaelic at Glasgow Institution 1859; author of The rudiments of the Gaelic language 1858; Turus a’ Chriosduidh