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_v_ 224, 241, 249 (1821), _portrait_; _Dibdin’s Edinburgh Stage_ (1888) 285–92, 320, 379, 401–3, 416–7, 436, 450–1, _portrait_; _The Scotsman 4 Nov. 1857 p._ 2; _The Era 8 Nov. 1857 p._ 10; _Lockhart’s Life of sir W. Scott_ (1845) 389, 789. NOTE.--He was the original representative in the following dramas founded on Scott’s works, John Dumbie in The Heart of Midlothian 23 Feb. 1820; Edie Ochiltree in The Antiquary 20 Dec. 1820; Dugal Dalgetty in The Legend of Montrose 13 March 1822; Caleb Balderston in The Bride of Lammermoor 1 May 1822; Tony Foster in Kenilworth 1 July 1822; Richie Moniplies in George Heriot 6 Feb. 1823; Sir Geoffrey Peveril in Peveril of the Peak 12 April 1823; Friar Tuck in Ivanhoe 24 Nov. 1823; the baron of Brawardine in Waverley 22 May 1824; Meg Dodds in St. Ronan’s Well 5 June 1824; Peter Peebles in Redgauntlet 28 May 1825; and Hughie Morrison in The Two Drovers 10 Nov. 1828. MACKAY, CHARLES (son of George Mackay of the royal artillery). _b._ Perth 27 March 1814; ed. at Woolwich 1822, in London 1825 and in Brussels 1828; sec. to William Cockerill, mechanician, Seraing 1830–2; on staff of Morning Chronicle 1835 to July 1844; edited the Glasgow Argus, Sep. 1844 to July 1847; LL.D. of Glasgow univ.; political and literary editor of Illustrated London News 1848–52 and manager 1852 to Dec. 1859; lectured on poetry and song in the United States and Canada, Oct. 1857 to May 1858; editor of The London review and weekly journal which appeared 7 July 1860; correspondent for the Times in New York, March 1862 to Dec. 1865; granted civil list pension of £100, 19 June 1862; presented with testimonial of £770 at St. James’s hall, London 27 Dec. 1877; author of A history of London 1838; The Thames and its tributaries 2 vols. 1840; Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions 3 vols. 1841, 4 ed. 1892; Songs of Scotland 1857; The collected songs of C. Mackay 1859; The Jacobite songs of Scotland 1861; Forty years recollections of life, literature and public affairs 2 vols. 1877; Luck or what came of it, a tale 3 vols. 1881; The poetry and humour of the Scottish language 1882; Through the long day, or memorial of a literary life 2 vols. 1887. _d._ 47 Longridge road, Earl’s Court, London 24 Dec. 1889. _Biograph_, _Aug. 1879 pp._ 145–8; _The Critic_, _xvii_ 752 (1858), _portrait_; _T. Powell’s Pictures of living authors of Britain_ (1851) 146–49; _I.L.N. xviii_ 180, 181 (1851) _portrait_, _xx_ 68 (1852) _portrait_; _Pictorial World 2 Jany. 1890 pp._ 21, 23, _portrait_; _Reynolds’s Miscellany_, _xxvii_ 105 (1862), _portrait_. M’KAY, DAVID. _b._ near Brechin 1810; a shoemaker at Lochee near Dundee 1828 to death; wrote verses for Chambers’ Journal and the local papers; greatly promoted the welfare of Lochee; chairman of Burns’ centenary festival Lochee 1859; Lochee correspondent of Dundee Advertiser 1864. _d._ Lochee 19 Dec. 1868. _Norrie’s Dundee celebrities_ (1873) 331–3. MACKAY, GEORGE. L.F.P.S. Glasgow 1833; M.D. Glasgow 1835; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1841; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1860; senior assist. surgeon to H.M. ships in attack on Bogue forts, Canton river 1841; senior medical officer of Agamemnon before Sebastopol 1854; staff surgeon and medical storekeeper, royal hospital, Plymouth, June 1855; deputy inspector general Hong Kong 29 Dec. 1860 and at Haslar hospital 1865; hon. surgeon to the queen to death; retired inspector general of hospitals 26 Oct. 1870; wrote Notes on the cholera at Varna, in Edinb. Med. Journal 1857, and on Medical arrangement in naval actions, in Medical Times 1854. _d._ Sutherland house, Wellington 26 April 1879. _The Lancet 3 May 1879 p._ 640. MACKAY, GEORGE R. ABERIGH (son of James Aberigh Mackay, D.D., senior British chaplain, Paris). _b._ 1849; junior professor government coll. Delhi; on staff of the Pioneer newspaper; principal of Rájkumár college, Indore; sent newspaper correspondence to Vanity Fair 1878, Ali Baba letters 1879, and Baby in partibus 1880; a correspondent of the Bombay Gazette under name of Political Orphan; author of Notes on Western Turkistan, Calcutta 1875; The chiefs of Central India 1879, vol. 1 only; The prince’s guide book. The Times of India, handbook of Hindustan 1875; Twenty-one days in India, being the tour of Sir Ali Baba 1880, 3 ed. 1881; Serious reflections and other contributions 1881. _d._ Calcutta 13 Jany. 1881. _Vanity Fair_ (1881) 80, 90, 118; _S. W. O’Neil’s Preparation for death. Funeral sermon_ (1881). MACKAY, JAMES TOWNSEND. _b._ Kirkcaldy, Fifeshire 1775; trained as a gardener; went to Ireland 1803; curator of botanical garden of Trin. coll. Dublin 1806 to death; A.L.S. 2 Dec. 1806; LL.D. Dublin 1850; discovered several species of plants new to the British Isles; contributed much to Sir J. E. Smith’s English Botany 1790–1814 and to Trans. Royal Irish academy; M.R.I.A.; author of Flora Hibernica 1836. _d._ 1 Dawson grove, Beggar’s bush road, Dublin 25 Feb. 1862. MC KAY, JOHN. _b._ 19 Feb. 1823; served in the ranks 1841–54; ensign and quartermaster school of musketry 25 Aug. 1854; lieut. 41 foot 1855–9; major 12 foot 1 Aug. 1867, lieut.-col. 1 May 1871, placed on h.p. 10 April 1878; D.A.A.G. school of musketry, Hythe 1 April 1856 to 30 Sep. 1867; commanded the brigade depot for counties of Suffolk and Cambridge at Bury St. Edmund’s, April 1878; awarded distinguished service reward; retired on pension with rank of M.G. 1 April 1882. _d._ 13 Gwendwr road, West Kensington, London 14 Oct. 1887. MACKAY, JOSEPH REILLY (son of rev. Joseph William Mackay 1819–91). _b._ 1849; an artist in black and white; wrote largely in prose and verse; wrote Peggy 3 act drama produced at Royalty theatre 14 Feb. 1881; wrote with H. Agoust, Macfarlane’s Will, pantomime vaudeville in 3 acts produced Imperial theatre 26 Dec. 1881; The Novel Reader, an adaptation by Joseph Mackay and Sydney Grundy of Meilhac and Halévy’s La Petite Marquise, was privately performed at Globe theatre 28 Sep. 1882 the lord chamberlain having refused to license the piece, but on the 25 April 1887 it was produced under title of May and December at Criterion theatre. _d._ 16 Waterford road, Fulham near London 18 Dec. 1889. M’KAY, JOSEPH WILLIAM. _b._ Shinrone, King’s county, Ireland 21 May 1819; Wesleyan Methodist minister 1840; D.D. of Victoria univ. Coburg, Canada; minister at Belfast 1843–5, 1853–6, 1862–5 and from 1871 to death; minister at Dublin 1850–3, 1859–62 and 1868–71; at Cork 1856–9; senior assist. sec. of the conference 1855–70, secretary of the conference 1870–80, vice president of the conference 1870, 1876 and 1886; representative of the Irish conference in general conference America 1872, and at the œcumenical conference London 1881; president Methodist coll. Belfast 1880 to death; professor of systematic theology to death. _d._ Belfast college 6 Feb. 1891. _bur._ City cemet. 9 Feb. _Daily Graphic 12 Feb. 1891 p._ 5, _portrait_; _Belfast News-letter 7 Feb. 1891 p._ 5, _10 Feb. p._ 7. MACKAY, MACKINTOSH (son of captain Alexander Mackay of Duard Beg, Sutherlandshire). _b._ 1800; minister of Laggan, Invernessshire 1825–32; LL.D. Glasgow; minister of Dunoon 1832–43; of Free church, Dunoon 1843–54; moderator of Free church assembly 1849; minister of the Gaelic church at Melbourne 1854–6 and at Sydney 1856 etc.; minister of Free church at Tarbett, Harris, Scotland to death; edited Dictionarium Scoto-Celticum 1828; Songs and poems in Gaelic by R. Mackay. Inverness 1829; author of Memoirs of J. Ewing, provost of Glasgow 1866. _d._ 1873. MACKAY, ROBERT WILLIAM (only son of John Mackay of St. James’, London). _b._ Piccadilly, London 27 May 1803; ed. at Winchester and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1828; barrister L.I. 25 Nov. 1828; an original member of Athenæum club, London 1824; author of The progress of the intellect as exemplified in the religious development of the Greeks and Hebrews 2 vols. 1850; A sketch of the rise and progress of Christianity 1854; The Tübingen school and its antecedents, a review of modern theology 1863; translated The Sophistes of Plato 1868, and Plato’s Meno