Modern English biography

the observatory grounds. _Monthly notices of R.A.S. xl_ 200–204 (1880); _Proc. of royal society_, _xxix_ 17–18 (1879); _Nature 14 Aug. 1879 p._ 365. MACLEAY, SIR GEORGE (son of Alexander Macleay, colonial sec. N.S.W., _d._ 1848). _b._ 29 July 1809; educ. Westminster 1822 etc.; went to N.S.W. and accompanied capt. Charles Sturt in his expedition down the Murrumbidgee and Murray rivers 1829–30; member of legislative council of N.S.W. and speaker 1843–6; member for the Murrumbidgee to the first legislative assembly of N.S.W. 22 May 1856; C.M.G. 30 June 1869, K.C.M.G. 5 March 1875; settled at Pendell court, Bletchingley, Surrey. _d._ Chalet des Rosiers, Mentone 24 June 1891. MACLEAY, JAMES ROBERT (brother of preceding). _b._ 15 April 1811; ed. Westminster 1822, king’s scholar 1825; sec. to legation in Chili 1838; registrar of commission at Cape of Good Hope for suppression of slave trade 24 Jany. 1843; retired upon superannuation allowance of £166, 1 May 1858. _d._ 49 Queen’s gate gardens, Kensington 28 Oct. 1892. MACLEAY, KENNETH (son of Kenneth Macleay of Glasgow, physician). _b._ Oban 4 July 1802; entered Trustees’ academy, Edinb. 26 Feb. 1822; miniature painter on ivory; painter in oils and water-colours on paper; an original member of Royal Scottish academy 1826; his full-length portrait of Helen Faucit was lithographed; executed for the queen a series of full-length figures illustrative of costumes of the highland clans, 31 of these were lithographed, hand-coloured and published under title of Highlanders of Scotland 2 vols. 1870. _d._ 3 Malta terrace, Edinburgh 3 Nov. 1878, his dau. M. F. L. Macleay was granted civil list pension of £100, 16 March 1880. _R. Brydall’s Art in Scotland_ (1889) 444–5. MACLEAY, SIR WILLIAM (2 son of Kenneth Macleay of Newmore, Rossshire). _b._ Caithness 13 June 1820; ed. at new academy and univ. of Edinb.; emigrated to New South Wales 1839, a sheep farmer on the Murrumbidgee 1839–54; member of legislative assembly of N.S.W. for the Lachlan and Lower Darling 1854–75; the first president of Entomological Soc. of N.S.W. established at Sydney 17 April 1862, name changed to Linnean Soc., gave funds for endowment of the society and a house at Elizabeth Bay; expended interest on £40,000 on research fellowships in univ. of N.S.W. to which he also gave his entomological museum; in the Chevert at his own cost made an exploring expedition in New Guinea, May to Sep. 1875; member of legislative council 1875; knighted by patent 22 June 1889; author of Description of twenty new species of Australian coleoptera 1862. d. Sydney 7 Dec.