Modern English biography

China_ (1891), _portrait_. MACKENZIE, JOSHUA HENRY, Lord Mackenzie (eld. son of Henry Mackenzie, author of The man of feeling 1745–1831). _b._ 1777; passed advocate 19 Jany. 1799; sheriff of Linlithgow 1811; judge of court of session 14 Nov. 1822 to 1851 with courtesy title of lord Mackenzie; judge of court of justiciary 1824–51; one of comrs. of tentative jury court 1825–51. _d._ Belmont near Edinb. 17 Nov. 1851. _G.M. xxxvii_ 93–4 (1852). MACKENZIE, KENNETH DOUGLAS (only son of Donald Mackenzie). _b._ 1 Feb. 1811; ensign 92 foot 25 Nov. 1831, captain 1844, major 26 Dec. 1857, placed on h.p. 15 Feb. 1861; deputy assistant A.G. in Dublin; deputy assistant Q.M.G. in the Crimea 1855, assistant A.G. at head quarters before Sebastopol 1855; assistant A.G. in Dublin during Fenian disturbances 1865–6; assistant Q.M.G. at the horse guards 1 April 1870 to death; C.B. 1 March 1861. _d._ on bank of river Meavy near Roborough, Devon 24 Aug. 1873 after being upset in a gig crossing the river Meavy. _A.R._ (1873) 79, 148. MACKENZIE, SIR MORELL (eld. son of Stephen Mackenzie, surgeon, _d._ 1851). _b._ Leytonstone, Essex 7 July 1837; clerk in Union Assurance company’s office 1853; studied at London hospital; M.R.C.S. 1858, M.B. London 1861, and M.D. 1862; assistant physician London hospital 5 Sep. 1866, phys. 1873, resigned 1873; chief founder of Hospital for diseases of the throat in King st. Golden sq. 1863; the first Englishman who became expert in operations on the larynx; attended at Berlin from 18 May 1887 to 13 June 1888 crown prince of Germany, afterwards the emperor Frederick III. who died from cancer in the throat 15 June 1888; published Oct. 1888 The fatal illness of Frederick the Noble, of which 100,000 copies were circulated, and for which he was censured by royal college of surgeons 10 Jany. 1889, returned his diploma to the college; knighted at Balmoral 7 Sep. 1887; granted grand cross of Hohenzollern order 1888; edited The pharmacopia of the hospital for disease of the throat 1872, 4 ed. 1881; The journal of laryngology 1887; author of Treatment of hoarseness and loss of voice 1863, 3 ed. 1871; Essays on growths in the larynx 1871; The use of the laryngoscope 1865, 3 ed. 1871; Diphtheria, its nature and treatment 1879; A manual of diseases of the throat and nose 2 vols. 1880–4; Hay fever, its etiology and treatment 1884, 5 ed. 1889. _d._ 19 Harley st. London 3 Feb. 1892. _bur._ in graveyard of St. Mary’s church, Wargrave, Berkshire 8 Feb. _H. R. Haweis’s Sir M. Mackenzie_ (1893), _portrait_; _Sir M. Mackenzie’s Essays_ (1893), _portrait_; _Journal of laryngology_, _vi_ 95–108 (1892), _portrait_; _Strand Mag. ii_ 371 (1891), 5 _portraits_; _Victoria Mag. xxxiii_ 185 (1879), _portrait_; _Provincial Medical Journal 1 April 1886 pp._ 145–6, _portrait_. MC KENZIE, PETER. _b._ Dumbarton 1799; a writer at Glasgow about 1825; a volunteer in The Glasgow sharpshooters 1819; established and edited The Loyal reformers’ gazette 7 May 1831, renamed it The Reformers’ gazette 12 May 1832, it ran as a weekly and then as a monthly to May 1836 and forms 6 vols., Northern Notes and Queries 4 vols. 1852–4 were compiled from the columns of this newspaper; imprisoned for publishing an unstamped newspaper; exposed Richmond the Glasgow spy; brought to light the fraudulent design of The Independent West Middlesex Fire and life insurance co.; author of An exposure of the spy-system pursued in Glasgow. Ed. by a Ten-Pounder 1833; The life of Thomas Muir, with a report of his trial 1831; Reminiscences of Glasgow and the west of Scotland 3 vols. _d._ while on a visit to his daughter in London 17 March 1875. _bur._ Glasgow necropolis. _W. C. Maclehose’s Glasgow men_, _ii_ 199–202 (1886), _portrait_. MACKENZIE, RICHARD JAMES (4 son of Richard Mackenzie of Dolphington, deputy keeper of her majesty’s signet). _b._ Edinburgh 31 March 1821; ed. at the new academy 1829–36; apprenticed to Adam Hunter, F.R.C.S. 1838; M.D. 1 Aug. 1842; M.R.C.S. 1841, F.R.C.S. 1844; studied in London, Paris, Hamburg, Vienna and Berlin 1842–4; practised in Edinburgh 1844–9; assistant surgeon in royal infirmary 1848, surgeon there 1850; lecturer on systematic surgery in Extra Academical sch. 1849; with the army in the Crimea attached to 79 regt. 1849, performed 27 operations after the battle of the Alma. _d._ of cholera on the heights of Bornoo, Crimea 25 Sep. 1854. _Begbie and Struthers’ Memoir of R. J. Mackenzie_ (1855), _portrait_. MACKENZIE, ROBERT (son of a parish schoolmaster). _b._ Barry, Forfarshire 1823; reporter to the Northern Warder at Dundee about 1843, then sub-edited the paper; partner in mercantile firm of Mackenzie, Ramsay & Co. Dundee, which failed 1857; frequently visited America; agent for Westinghouse brake co.; author of The United States of America 1870; The nineteenth century 1880; America, a history 1882. _d._ Magdalen yard road, Dundee 2 Feb. 1881. MACKENZIE, ROBERT SHELTON (2 son of Kenneth Mackenzie, captain in the army, author of books in Gaelic). _b._ Drew’s court, Limerick 22 June 1809; apprentice to an apothecary in Cork 1822 and passed his medical examination 1825; opened a school at Fermoy 1825; newspaper reporter; editor of a newspaper at Hanley, Staffs. 1829; wrote memoirs for The Georgian Era, London 1830–1; editor of Liverpool journal; English correspondent of New York Evening star 1834–51, being the first European correspondent for the American press; editor of a railway journal, London 1845; official assignee in commissioner Skirrow’s bankruptcy court, Manchester, dismissed from office 25 Oct. 1852; went to U.S. of America 1852; book and foreign editor of Philadelphia Press 1857; LL.D. of Glasgow univ. 1834; author of Lays of Palestine 1828; Titian, a romance of Venice 3 vols. 1843; Partnership en commandité 1847; Mornings at Matlock 3 vols. 1850; Life of C. Dickens 1870; Sir Walter Scott, the story of his life 1871; compiled, edited and issued many works in America 1854–71. _d._ Philadelphia 30 Nov. 1880. _Law Times 30 Oct. 1852 pp._ 66–7. MACKENZIE, THOMAS (son of Kenneth Mackenzie). _b._ 1793; a writer to the signet 4 March 1816; M.P. Ross and Cromarty 1837–47. _d._ Heriot row, Edinburgh 9 June 1856. MACKENZIE, THOMAS, Lord Mackenzie (son of George Mackenzie, tradesman, Perth). _b._ Perth 16 April 1807; ed. at St. Andrew’s and Edinb.; called to Scottish bar 1832; sheriff of Ross and Cromarty 28 June 1851; solicitor general 10 Jany. 1855; a lord of session with title of Lord Mackenzie 29 Jany. 1855, retired 1864; author of Studies in Roman law, with comparative views of the laws of France, England and Scotland 1862, 6 ed. 1886. _d._ 24 Heriot row, Edinb. 26 Sep. 1869. _Journal of Jurisprudence_, _Nov. 1869 pp._ 609–10; _Law mag. and law rev. xxix_ 271–3 (1870). MACKENZIE, WILLIAM. _b._ Burnley, Lancs. 20 March 1794; apprenticed to Thomas Claphan, lock carpenter of Leeds and Liverpool canal 1811; resident engineer on Birmingham canal to 1832, where his works are still considered finest of the kind in Great Britain; made a great many railways in France with Thomas Brassey 1840–48; M.I.C.E. 1837. _d._ 19 Oct. 1851. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xi_ 102–5 (1852). MACKENZIE, WILLIAM (son of James Mackenzie, muslin manufacturer, _d._ 1800). _b._ Queen st. Glasgow 29 April 1791; ed. Glasgow univ., M.D. 1833; studied in France and Italy 1816; learnt ophthalmology under Beer in Vienna 1817; M.R.C.S. 1818, F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon in London 1818, and in Glasgow 1819 to death; with George Monteath established an eye infirmary, Glasgow 1824; Waltonian lecturer and lecturer on diseases of the eye, Glasgow univ. 1828; edited Glasgow medical journal vols. 1 and 2, 1828–9; surgeon occulist to the queen in Scotland 1838; author of An essay on the diseases of the excreting parts of the lachrymal organs 1819; Practical treatise of the diseases of the eye 1830, 4 ed. 1854, which gave him an European reputation; The cure of strabismus by surgical operation 1841; The physiology of vision 1841. Outlines of ophthalmology 3 ed. 1856. _d._ Bath st. Glasgow 30 July 1868. _Maclehose’s Memoirs of Glasgow men_, _ii_ 203–4 (1886), _portrait_; _Glasgow Medical journal_, _i_ 6–13 (1868). MACKENZIE, WILLIAM. Ed. Edinb. univ.; presbyterian minister Poolewe 1827; minister at Comrie 1829, at Dunblane 1841–3; minister North Leith Free ch. 1844; author of Gershom, or the 33,000 words of Jesus Christ, the central fountain of truth, unity and healing. Edinb. 1847; Christ’s own teaching, in portions for all the days in the year 1847. _Scott’s Fasti_, _ii pt._ 2 _p._ 754 (1869). MACKENZIE, WILLIAM BELL (son of James Mackenzie _d._ 1822). _b._ Sheffield 7 April 1806; studied at Magd. hall Oxf. 1830–4, B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; C. of St. James’s, Bristol 1834–8; V. of St. James’s, Holloway, London 1838 to death; one of the first to start special services in St. Paul’s cathedral; author of Bible characters 2 vols. 1854–5; Gleanings from the gospel story 1860; Handbook for the sick 1859, 4 ed. 1861; Married life, its duties, trials and joys 1861, 3 ed. 1890; Saul of Tarsus, his life and lessons 1864; Bible studies for family reading 1867 and 35 other books. _d._ Ramsgate 22 Nov. 1870. _bur._ Highgate cemetery 30 Nov. _Gordon Calthrop’s Memorials of W. B. Mackenzie_ (1872), _biographical sketch pp. ix–xci_, _portrait_. MACKENZIE, WILLIAM FORBES (brother of Charles Frederick Mackenzie 1825–62). _b._ Portmore, Peebleshire 18 April 1807; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf.; called to the bar 1827; M.P. Peeblesshire 1837–52; a lord of treasury April 1845 to Feb. 1846, joint secretary to treasury Feb. to Dec. 1852; M.P. Liverpool 9 July 1852, unseated on petition 21 June 1853; contested Derby 28 March 1857; unpaid comr. and chairman of general board of comrs. in lunacy for Scotland 13 June 1859 to death; author of the act for the regulation of public-houses in Scotland 16 & 17 Vict. c. 67, 15 Aug. 1853 known as the Forbes Mackenzie’s act which provides for the closing of public-houses on Sundays and at ten p.m. on weekdays. _d._ The Glen, Peeblesshire 24 Sep. 1862. MACKENZIE, WILLIAM LYON (son of Daniel Mackenzie _d._ 1795). _b._ Springfield, Dundee 12 March 1795; kept a store at Alyth 1814–17; emigrated to Canada 1820; established a book store at Queenstown 1823; removed to Toronto where he established the Colonial Advocate, May 1824, discontinued 1834, revived under name of The Constitution 1836; member for county of York in legislative assembly of Upper Canada 1828, expelled for his violent language 1831, re-elected twice in 1831, re-expelled twice, finally excluded by disfranchisement of co. York; chosen mayor of Toronto, May 1834; re-elected for co. York Oct. 1834, and allowed to take his seat which he lost in 1836; publicly proclaimed establishment of a provisional government 25 Nov. 1837; appeared at head of 800 rebels near Toronto 4 Dec. 1837, utterly defeated by the government troops at Montgomery’s Tavern 7 Dec., escaped to Navy Island on the Niagara river where he tried to prolong the insurrection but was condemned to 12 months’ imprisonment for breaking the neutrality laws 1839; contributed to New York Tribune some years; returned to Canada on proclamation of amnesty 1849; member of legislature of the united provinces 1850–8; started a journal ‘Mackenzie’s Message,’ which failed; author of Sketches of Canada and the United States 1833; The lives and opinions of R. F. Butler and J. Hoyt 1845; The life and times of M. Van Buren 1846. _d._ Toronto 28 Aug. 1861. _C. Lindsey’s Life of W. L. Mackenzie. Toronto_ 2 _vols._ (1862), _portrait_; _Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) 241; _Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 201; _G.M. xi_ 566–8 (1861). MC KERROW, JOHN. _b._ Mauchline, Ayrshire 15 May 1789; ed. at Glasgow univ. 1803–7, and divinity hall of Secession ch. at Selkirk 1807–12; minister of Ecclefechan and Bridge of Teith 1813 to death; D.D. Washington college, U.S.A. 1841; author of History of the Secession church 1839, new ed. 1841; The office of ruling elder in the Christian church 1846; History of the foreign missions of the Secession and united presbyterian churches 1867. _d._ at Bridge of Teith 13 May 1867. _John Smith’s Our Scottish clergy 3 series_ (1851) 297–303; _United Presbyterian Mag. Sep. 1867 p._ 285. MC KERROW, WILLIAM (son of William Mc Kerrow _d._ 1851, wheelwright and turner). _b._ Kilmarnock 7 Sep. 1803; ed. at Glasgow univ. and at theological hall of Secession ch.; minister of Lloyd st. chapel, Manchester 1827 to 1869; moderator of the synod 1877; wrote a series of letters in Manchester Times on church establishments 1834 which were published as pamphlets, and led to formation of Manchester Voluntary church association 1839; projected the Manchester Examiner 1846 and was one of the four proprietors; a founder of United Kingdom alliance, vice pres. 20 years; member of Manchester school board 1870 to death; D.D. Heidelberg 1851; author of On solid reading and its advantages, a lecture 1853. _d._ Springfield, Bowdon, Cheshire 4 June 1878. _Memoir of Wm. Mc Kerrow, D.D. By His son_ (1881), _portrait_; _John Evans’s Lancashire authors_ (1850) 178–82. MACKESON, FREDERICK (son of Wm. Mackeson). _b._ Hythe, Kent 28 Sep. 1807; ensign 14 Bengal N.I. 4 Dec. 1825, captain 24 Jany. 1845 to death; superintendent of the Cis-Sutlej territory 16 March 1846; comr. at Peshawur 1851 to death; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842; _assassinated_ when sitting in his verandah at Peshawur by a fanatic from Koner 10 Sep. 1853. MACKESON, WILLIAM WYLLYS (2 son of John Mackeson of Blue Mountain, Jamaica). _b._ 1813; ed. at Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1836; barrister I.T. 1 Feb. 1836, bencher 28 April 1868 to death, treasurer 1884; edited The supreme court of judicature acts 1873 and 1875. 1875; edited 4th ed. of The law of mortgage. By R. H. Coote 1880, and with H. A. Smith 5th ed. of same book 2 vols. 1884. _d._ Laurel Bank, Lancaster 4 March 1892. MACKESY, THOMAS LEWIS. _b._ Waterford 1790; assist. surgeon in artillery at battle of Corunna; in practice at Waterford; M.R.C.S. Lond. 1809; F.R.C.S. Ireland 1844; M.D. Dublin univ. 1863; lecturer at Leper hospital Waterford; president of R. coll. of surgeons, Ireland 1862, the first provincial surgeon ever elected to the presidency, member of council 1863 to death; last mayor of Waterford under the old regime. _d._ 47 Lady lane, Waterford 9 April 1869. MC KEWAN, DAVID HALL (son of David Mc Kewan). _b._ London 16 Feb. 1816; pupil of David Cox the elder; associate of royal institute of painters in water-colours 1848, member 1850; exhibited 22 landscapes at R.A., 2 at B.I. and 20 at Suffolk st. 1836–53; author of Lessons on trees in water-colours 1859; made the drawings for R. P. Leitch’s Landscapes and other studies in sepia 1870. _d._ 11 Upper Park road, Haverstock hill, London 2 Aug. 1873. _Baines’s Hampstead_ (1890) 396–7. MACKIE, IVIE. _b._ 1805; of firm of Findlater, and Mackie, Manchester; represented Exchange ward in city council 1847–56 and New Cross ward from 1856, alderman 1856, mayor 1857–60; presented city with clock in steeple of St. Peter’s church; a munificent contributor to local charities. _d._ Manchester 23 Feb. 1873. MACKIE, JAMES (eld. son of John Mackie, M.P., _d._ 1858). _b._ 18 May 1821; ed. at Rugby and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847; advocate at Scottish bar 1847; M.P. Kirkcudbrightshire 3 April 1857 to death. _d._ Ernespie, Kirkcudbrightshire 28 Dec. 1867. MC KIE, JAMES. _b._ Kilmarnock 7 Oct. 1816; bookseller at Saltcoats to 1844; publisher at Kilmarnock in the shop from which first edition of Burns’ poems was issued 1844; started the Kilmarnock Journal and Kilmarnock Weekly Post; published Bibliotheca Burnsiana 1866; Poems chiefly in the Scotch dialect. By R. Burns, facsimile ed. 1869; Burns’ Calendar 1874; The bibliography of Robert Burns 1881 and other books about Burns; his own library of nearly 800 vols. concerning Burns was purchased by subscription for £350 and is in museum of the Burns’ Monument at Kilmarnock. _d._ Kilmarnock 26 Sep. 1891. _Kilmarnock Standard 3 Oct. 1891_, _portrait_. NOTE.--He was twice publicly entertained, once on the jubilee of his business and again on the transfer of his library to the museum. MACKIE, JOHN (son of James Mackie of Bargaly, Kirkcudbrightshire). M.P. Kirkcudbrightshire 1850–7. _d._ Bargaly 3 July 1858. MACKIE, ROBERT BOWNAS (son of Robert J. Mackie). _b._ Wakefield 1829; ed. Wesley coll. Sheffield; partner in firm of Robert Mackie and Sons, corn merchants, Wakefield; contested Wakefield 2 Feb. 1874 and 6 May 1874; M.P. Wakefield 1880 to death. _d._ 35 Hertford st. Mayfair, London 18 June 1885. M’KILLOP, HENRY FREDERICK. Sub-lieutenant R.N. 10 Aug. 1847; captain R.N. 24 Nov. 1862, retired 1 April 1870; retired R.A. 9 March 1878; C.B. 2 June 1877; captain of the port and comptroller general of ports and lighthouses in Egypt to death; knight of legion of honour; received 1st class Medjidie 1875; raised to rank of Fereek by the Khedive 1877; author of Reminiscences of twelve months’ service in New Zealand as a midshipman 1849. _d._ Ramlet, Alexandria, Egypt 5 June 1879. MC KIM, ROBERT. _b._ co. Tyrone 24 May 1816; apprenticed to a stone-mason; emigrated to U.S. of America; a stone-mason at Philadelphia, then at Madison, Indiana 1837–55; a coal merchant 1855; purchased and mounted in his observatory one of the best telescopes in America; presented to observatory of De Pauw univ. a complete astronomical outfit at cost of over 10,000 dollars. _d._ Madison 9 May 1887. MC KINLAY, JOHN. _b._ Sandbank on the Clyde 1819; emigrated to New South Wales 1836 where he took up several runs near the South Australian border; commanded expedition sent to trace the fate of Burke and Wills by South Australian government, left Adelaide 16 Aug. 1861, proved that Lake Torrens did not exist but found several new lakes, explored the country between Eyre’s Creek and Central Mount Stuart; reached Port Denison 25 Sep. 1862; voted £1000 by the government of S. Australia 1862; explored northern part of S. Australia 1865–6. _d._ 31 Dec. 1872, monument erected at Gawler, S. Australia. _Mackinlay’s Journal of exploration in the interior of Australia_ (1862); _J. Davis’s Tracts of Mc Kinlay across Australia_ (1863); _W. Howilt’s History of discovery in Australia_, _ii_ 254–83 (1865); _J. E. T. Wood’s History of discovery of Australia_, _ii_ 475–91 (1875); _I.L.N. xlvi_ 36 (1865), _portrait_. M’KINLEY, GEORGE. _b._ Devonport 1766; entered navy 5 Aug. 1773; captain 20 Oct. 1801; superintendent of royal navy asylum Greenwich, April 1821 to 22 July 1830; admiral on h.p. 11 June 1851, pensioned 16 Sep. 1851. _d._ Anglesey near Gosport 17 Jany. 1852. MACKINNON, DANIEL HENRY (youngest son of Daniel Mackinnon of Binfield, Berkshire, barrister). _b._ 18 Sep. 1813; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; cornet 16 lancers 1 July 1836; captain 6 dragoon guards 12 Nov. 1847; paymaster of 43 foot 27 Oct. 1848, placed on h.p. 6 June 1851; staff officer of pensioners Feb. 1854 to 1 Nov. 1877 when he retired on full pay with hon. rank of M.G.; author of Military services and adventures in the far east 2 ed. 2 vols. 1849; British military power in India. _d._ 7 Jany. 1884. MACKINNON, DONALD (son of rev. John Mackinnon, minister of Strath, _d._ 1856). Presbyterian minister Fearn near Tain, Rossshire 1846–56 and minister of Strath 1856 to death, the grandfather, father and son held Strath 110 years; arbiter among his flock, his decisions being accepted as final. _d._ Kilbridge, Skye 3 Jany. 1888. _The Times 10 Jany. 1888 p._ 5. MACKINNON, KENNETH M. _b._ 1805; assistant surgeon Bengal army 19 Nov. 1826, surgeon 1 March 1843, retired 11 Jany. 1857; apothecary general Bengal 1853–7; author of A treatise on the public health, climate, hygiene and diseases of the north-west provinces. Cawnpore 1848. _d._ Edinburgh 13 Feb. 1861. MACKINNON, LAUCHLAN (brother of Donald Mackinnon _d._ 1888). _b._ Kilbride, Isle of Skye 26 Feb. 1817; ed. Aberdeen; emigrated to Australia 1838; came overland with cattle from Sydney to Adelaide, the first journey of the kind made 1839; settled in Avoca, Victoria as a squatter; member of N.S.W. legislative assembly for Port Philip district 1848; member for Belfast and Warrnambool in legislative council of Victoria; the great opponent to the introduction of English convicts into Australia; with Edward Wilson one of the proprietors of The Argus a Melbourne daily journal 1852; returned to England in 1868 and lived in Devonshire. _d._ Torquay 21 March 1888. MACKINNON, LAUCHLAN BELLINGHAM (2 son of Wm. Alexander Mackinnon 1789–1870). _b._ Portswood park, Southampton 21 April 1815; entered navy 1 Oct. 1829, commander 1 Nov. 1847, retired captain 1 July 1864; M.P. Rye 1865–8; author of Some account of the Falkland islands 1840; Steam warfare in the Parana 2 vols. 1848; Atlantic and transatlantic sketches 2 vols. 1852. _d._ Ormley lodge, Ham common, Surrey 10 July 1877. MACKINNON, LIONEL DANIEL (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1825; ensign and lieut. Coldstream guards 30 May 1843, capt. and lieut.-col. 20 Oct. 1854; advancing in front of his regiment at Inkerman was shot and fell mortally wounded and _died_ soon after being brought in 5 Nov. 1854. _G. Ryan’s Our heroes of the Crimea_ (1855) _pp._ 77–80. MACKINNON, SIR WILLIAM (son of Duncan Mackinnon). _b._ Campbeltown, Argyleshire 1823; trained to business in Glasgow to 1847; partner with Mr. Mackenzie in a general store at a town on the Ganges 1847, removed the business to Calcutta 1855; senior partner in Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co. East India merchants; commenced a trade with Burmah 1855 which developed into the British India steam navigation co., one of the greatest shipping companies in the world, having 110 vessels, 1300 officers and 10,000 European and native seamen etc.; the means of annexing part of Zanzibar to Great Britain; the chief adviser of the government on granting the charter to the Imperial British East Africa co. of which he was chairman to his death; obtained funds for the Emim relief expedition under Stanley; contested Argyleshire 4 Dec. 1885; C.I.E. 23 May 1882; cr. a baronet 15 July 1889. _d._ of quinsy, Burlington hotel, 30 Old Burlington st. London 22 June 1893, personalty sworn at £560,563 Oct. 1893. _Black and White 1 July 1893 p._ 3, _portrait_; _I.L.N. 1 July 1893 p._ 7, _portrait_. MACKINNON, WILLIAM ALEXANDER (eld. son of Wm. Mackinnon of Mackinnon). _b._ 2 Aug. 1789; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; student at Lincoln’s Inn; M.P. Dunwich 1819–20; M.P. Lymington 1831–2 and 1835–52; M.P. Rye 1853–65; brought in bills for the amendment of the patent laws, to prevent intramural interments in populous places and to abate the smoke nuisance; a comr. for colonization of South Australia; F.S.A. 1820; F.R.S. 14 June 1827; author of On public opinion in Great Britain and other parts of the world 1828, anon., published subsequently as The history of civilisation 2 vols.