Modern English biography

MAC MASTER, GILBERT. _b._ Saintfield, Ireland 13 Feb. 1778; at Jefferson coll. Philadelphia 1791–3; licensed to practise medicine 1805; pastor of Reformed presbyterian ch. Duanesberg, New York 1808–40, and of Princetown ch. Indiana 1840–6; D.D. of Union univ. 1828; author of An essay in defence of some fundamental doctrines of christianity. Utica 1815; An apology for the book of Psalms 1818; The moral character of civil government with reference to the institutions of the United States. Albany 1832; Thoughts on the union of the church. Cincinnati 1846. _d._ New Albany, Indiana 15 March 1854. _Appleton’s American biography_, _iv_ 148 (1888). MC MASTER, VALENTINE MUNBEE. _b._ 1835; assist. surgeon 78 regt. 27 March 1855, surgeon 14 March 1868; served in Persian war 1857, in Indian mutiny, wounded at Lucknow; Victoria cross for exposing himself to the fire of the enemy in bringing in and attending to the wounded at Lucknow 25 Sep. 1857, decorated 18 June 1858. _d._ the barracks, Belfast 22 Jany. 1872. _Medical Times_, _i_ 115 (1872). MC MASTER, WILLIAM. _b._ Tyrone, Ireland 24 Dec. 1811; in mercantile house of Robert Cathcart, Toronto, Canada 1833; a merchant at Toronto; member of legislative council of Canada 1862–7 when he was called to the senate; gave 12,000 dollars to Canadian literary institute, Woodstock; built at cost of 100,000 dollars Mc Master hall, the baptist college, Toronto; with his wife gave 80,000 dollars to Jarvis st. baptist ch. Toronto; chairman of Canada board of G. W. Railway; president Canadian bank of commerce; while speaking at Mc Master hall, Toronto, fainted and remained unconscious till his _death_ next morning 22 Sep. 1887. _Appleton’s American biography_, _iv_ 149 (1888). M’MICHAEL, NEIL. _b._ 1808; minister of Gillespie church, Dunfermline 1835 to death; professor of divinity, united presbyterian church 1847–; D.D.; author of Hildebrand and his age 1853; The pilgrim psalms an exposition of the songs of degrees 1860. _d._ Dunfermline 3 April 1874. _John Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1851) 390–93. MACMILLAN, ANGUS. _b._ Glenbrittle, Skye 1810; went to New South Wales 1829, worked on sheep stations to 1839; in company with one black man explored the country south-west of Sydney 28 May 1839 etc.; discovered Gippsland 1840–1 which was originally called by him Caledonia Australis; author of On the preservation of sight 1859; settled down on a sheep-run of his own on the Avon where he _d._ May 1865. _Mc Combie’s History of the colony of Victoria_ (1858) 79, 80; _Mennell’s Australian biography_ (1892) 306. MACMILLAN, DANIEL (3 son of Duncan Macmillan of Upper Corrie, island of Arran, farmer _d._ 1823). _b._ Upper Corrie 13 Sep. 1813; apprenticed to Maxwell Dick of Irvine, bookseller 1 Jany. 1824 for 7 years; worked for Mr. Atkinson of Glasgow, bookseller 1831–33; shopman to Mr. Johnson of Cambridge 1833–37; employed by Messrs. Seeley of Fleet st. London, publishers 1837–43; bookseller and publisher at 57 Aldersgate st. Feb. 1843; bought business of Mr. Newby of Trinity st. Cambridge 1843 where he issued his first university catalogue March 1844; issued Kingsley’s Westward Ho! 1855 and Tom Brown’s school days 1857; gave up his business in London end of 1843. _d._ Cambridge 27 June 1857. _T. Hughes’ Memoir of D. Macmillan_ (1882), _portrait_; _A bibliographical catalogue of Macmillan and Co.’s publications_ (1891), _portrait_. MACMILLAN, JAMES. _b._ 1815; editor of the Worcester Herald 1836 to death; projector and founder of Worcestershire association for promotion of science; the regenerator of the Worcester races. _d._ Worcester 3 Feb. 1868. _Newspaper Press_, _ii_ 69 (1868). MACMILLAN, JOHN. _b._ Byreflat, parish of Keir, Dumfriesshire 9 June 1802; ed. at gr. sch. Dumfries and univ. of Edinb., M.A. 1829; master in Watson’s hospital, Edinb. March 1827 to Jany. 1831; rector of Dumfries gr. sch. Jany. 1831 to April 1837; one of classical masters in Glasgow high sch. April 1837 to Nov. 1844; one of classical masters in high school of Edinb. Nov. 1844 to 1867, examiner 1867–72. _d._ 1872. _W. S. Dalgleish’s Memorials of high school of Edinburgh_ (1857) 48. M’MINNIES, JOHN GORDON (son of John M’Minnies). _b._ Lancaster 1817; alderman of Warrington; senior partner in W. Bashall and Co. cotton manufacturers, Farington near Preston; M.P. Warrington 1880–85. _d._ Summer house, Warrington 1 Feb. 1890. MC MULLEN, JOHN. _b._ Ballinahinch, co. Down 8 March 1833; ed. St. Mary’s college, Chicago to 1854; studied at Urban coll. Rome 1854, priest and D.D. 1858; president of the univ. of St. Mary of the Lake, Chicago 1861–4, building destroyed in the fire 1871; in charge of the cathedral of the Holy Name, Chicago 1870, vicar general of the diocese 1877; bishop of the diocese of Davenport, Iowa 1880 to death. _d._ Davenport 3 July 1883. _Appleton’s American Biography_, _iv_ 150 (1888). MC MULLEN, RICHARD TURRILL. _b._ Surrey 10 Jany. 1830; sailed in a 3 ton cutter the Leo in a voyage to the Eddystone 1868; in the Sirius 11 tons circumnavigated Scotland; sailed with 2 seamen from Greenhithe to Cherbourg, but as they sulked and mutinied he henceforth sailed alone; had a 16 ton yacht the Orion; he skirted most of the currents and races between the Pentland Firth and the Channel islands and tried most of the anchorages between the Galloper Sands and the Land’s End; author of Down channel from London to the Land’s End in the Leo 3 tons, and from London to the Scilly islands in the Orion 16 tons 1869; Infidelity, its cause and antidote 1879; Orion, or how I came to sail alone in a 19 ton yacht 1879; An experimental cruise single handed in the Procyon 7 ton lugger 1880; Whither do they ascend? 1881; Priestly pretensions and God’s word 1885; _found dead_ sitting alone in his boat the Perseus in mid channel June 1891. _R. T. Mc Mullen’s Down channel_ (1893); _The Times 10 Oct. 1893 p._ 5. MC MURDIE, HENRY. _b._ London 21 May 1822; in a mercantile house in Liverpool; became a Romanist; educated at Mount St. Mary seminary, Emmettsburg, U.S. America; ordained priest 1854; professor of dogmatic theology and moral philosophy in Mount St. Mary, and then the director of the seminary; the ablest theologian and metaphysician of the R.C. ch. in U.S. of America. _d._ Emmettsburg 20 Jany. 1880. _Appleton’s American biography_, _iv_ 150 (1888). MACNAB, SIR ALLAN NAPIER, 1 Baronet (son of Allan Macnab, lieut. 71 foot). _b._ Newark now Niagara, Ontario 19 Feb. 1798; served against the Americans in their invasion of Canada 1813; midshipman on board H.M.S. Wolfe short time 1813; a volunteer with the 100th foot 1813; ensign 49 foot 3 March 1814, served in the American war, at end of which he left the army 1814 or 1815; articled clerk in office of attorney general; called to Canadian bar 1826, practised at Hamilton 1826; member for Wentworth in house of assembly 1830, speaker of the house 1837–41 and 1844–8; at the head of a band of volunteers defeated the Canadian rebels 1837–8 and for his services was knighted by patent 14 July 1838; a queen’s counsel; leader of the conservatives 1841–4 and 1848; formed a coalition ministry with Augustin Norbert Morin 1854–6; settled near Brighton, Sussex 1857; contested Brighton 30 April 1859; created baronet 5 Feb. 1858; returned to Hamilton and elected member again 1860; a militia A.D.C. to the queen and hon. col. in the army; col. commandant of 7th military district in Upper Canada; chosen speaker again 1862. _d._ Hamilton, Toronto 8 Aug. 1862. _Appleton’s American Biography_, _iv_ 151–2 (1888), _portrait_. M’NAB, DUNCAN. _b._ South Knapdale, Argyleshire 1807; ed. Glasgow univ.; assist. minister to Dr. Mackintosh Mackay at Dunoon 1835; assist. to the second charge at Campbelton 1839 and to the first charge 1841–3; joined the Free church 1843, minister at Campbelton, assisted in organising many congregations; minister of Free Renfield congregation, Glasgow 1856 to death; author of Discourses. Ed. by A. S. Patterson. With biographical sketch pp. ix–xv by W. Trail (1864), portrait. _d._ at house of his brother-in-law in London 12 June 1863. _Scott’s Fasti_, _iii pt. i p._ 39 (1870). MC NAB, WILLIAM RAMSAY (only son of James Mc Nab _b._ 1810, curator of Edinb. botanical gardens, _d._ 20 Nov. 1878). _b._ Edinburgh, Nov. 1844; M.D. Edinb. 1866, began practice 1867; professor of natural history in royal agricultural college, Cirencester 1870–2; introduced the facts and methods of Julius Von Sachs in teaching botany 1871; professor of botany in royal college of science, Dublin, March 1872 to death; scientific superintendent of royal botanic gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin 1880 to death; Swiney lecturer on fossil botany at British Museum 1888 to death; author of Outlines of morphology and physiology 1877, new ed. 1881; Outlines of classification of plants 1877. _d._ 2 Montrose, Cabra road, Dublin 3 Dec. 1889; a subscription raised for his wife and children. His collection of coleoptera is in the Dublin museum of science and art. _Nature_, _Dec. 1889 pp._ 112, 159, _Feb. 1890 p._ 347. MACNAGHTEN, AGNES (dau. of James Eastmont of St. Berner’s near Edinb.) An associate of British archæological assoc. 1845; resided at Bittern manor near Southampton the ancient Roman Clausentum, preserved the Roman remains found on the spot and made a collection of the coins discovered there; (_m._ first Lewis Shedden captain 15 hussars; _m._ secondly 1848 Stewart Macnaghten of Invertrossachs, Perthshire, barrister M.T. 1839). _d._ Bittern manor 28 April 1863. _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xx_ 168 (1864). MACNAGHTEN, SIR EDMUND CHARLES WORKMAN, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir F. W. Macnaghten, 1 bart. 1763–1843). _b._ Dublin 1 April 1790; succeeded 22 Nov. 1843; M.P. Antrim 1847–52; author of The elements of political economy. Coleraine 1854. _d._ Dundarave, Bushmills, co. Antrim 6 Jany. 1876. _I.L.N. lxviii_ 95, 623 (1876). MACNAGHTEN, ELLIOT (4 son of sir F. W. Macnaghten, 1 bart. 1763–1843). _b._ 1 April 1807; ed. Rugby 1818 etc.; officer of supreme court, Calcutta; director H.E.I.Co. 1842–58, deputy chairman 1854–5, chairman 1855–6; member of council for India 21 Sep. 1858 to Oct. 1871 and V.P. 1866. _d._ Ovingdean near Brighton 24 Dec. 1888. MC NAIR, WILLIAM WATTS. _b._ 13 Sep. 1849; in Indian survey department 1 Sep. 1867 to death; a good plane-tabler and an accomplished surveyor; accompanied the Khyber column of the Afghan field force 1879–80 when he explored the Lughman valley and the route to Kafiristan, of which he made maps; surveyed in Beluchistan 1881–9; visited Kafiristan disguised as a native doctor and speaking Urdu, April to June 1883, read an account of this expedition before the Royal Geographical Soc. in London 10 Dec. 1883, and was awarded the Murchison grant. _d._ of typhoid fever at Mussooree 13 Aug. 1889. _J. E. Howard’s Memoir of W. W. Mc Nair_ (1889), 2 _portraits_. NOTE.--Mc Nair was officially reprimanded by Lord Ripon for crossing the Afghan frontier against all regulations, but congratulated in private on the success of his visit to Kafiristan. MACNAMARA, SIR BURTON (youngest son of Francis Macnamara of Doolin castle, co. Clare). _b._ Doolin castle 1794; entered navy 26 July 1808; served on the lakes in Canada 1814–5; inspecting commander of coast guard 1825–32; captain 16 Nov. 1833; R.A. on h.p. 21 July 1856; admiral on h.p. 20 March 1867; knighted by Marquess of Normanby 1839; a candidate for the borough of Ennis