Modern English biography

Mackarness_ (1892), _portrait_; _C. M. Davies’s Orthodox London_ (1875) 129–34, 394; _Church portrait journal_, _iii_ 65 (1882), _portrait_; _Illust. Times 26 Jany. 1870 p._ 73, _portrait_; _I.L.N. lvi_ 13, 14 (1870), _portrait_. MACKARNESS, MATILDA ANNE (younger dau. of James Robinson Planché, Somerset herald 1796–1880). _b._ 1826; author of Old Jolliffe not a goblin story 1845; A trap to catch a sunbeam 1849, 42 ed. 1882; Thrift or hints for cottage housekeeping 1855; Minnie’s love 1860; Sunbeam stories 2 vols. 1860; The naughty girl of the family 1866; A peerless wife 3 vols. 1871; A mingled yarn 3 vols. 1872; The young lady’s book 1876; Sweet flowers, ten stories 1877; A woman without a head 1892, and 50 other books for young people; (_m._ Henry Smith Mackarness, vicar of Ash, Kent 1857, he _d._ 26 Dec. 1868). She _d._ 1 Royal crescent, Margate 6 May 1881. _bur._ in churchyard of Ash. MACKAY, MRS. _b._ Strathy, Sutherlandshire; (_m._ sergeant Mackay of the 42 highlanders); went with the army to the Crimea 1854; one of the first nurses enlisted by Florence Nightingale for service in the Crimea 1854. _d._ Golspie, Scotland, Oct. 1890. MACKAY, ALEXANDER. _b._ Scotland 1808; conducted a newspaper in Toronto; resided in Canada several years; on the staff of the Morning Chronicle in London to 1849; barrister M.T. 7 May 1847; sent by chambers of commerce of Manchester, Liverpool, Blackburn and Glasgow to inquire into cultivation of cotton in India 1851; author of Electoral districts 1848; The Western world, or travels in the United States 3 vols. 1849; The crisis in Canada