Modern English biography

MC NICOLL, THOMAS (5 son of rev. David Mc Nicoll). _b._ 1822; M.R.C.S. Eng.; editor of London Quarterly Rev. 1853 and a contributor to its pages to death; conducted The Planet. London 1862, four numbers; author of Essay on English literature 1861. _d._ 102 Crown street, Liverpool 1 March 1863. _London Quarterly Review_, _xxxix_ 270, 419 (1863). MACONOCHIE, ALEXANDER, Lord Meadowbank (eld. son of Allan Maconochie, Scottish judge 1748–1816). _b._ 2 March 1777; admitted advocate 2 March 1799; one of the lord advocates depute 1807; sheriff of Haddingtonshire 28 April 1810; solicitor general 13 Feb. 1813; lord advocate July 1816; M.P. Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Feb. 1817 to March 1818; M.P. Kilrenny district of burghs, March 1818 to June 1819; an ordinary lord of session and a lord of justiciary with title of lord Meadowbank 1 July 1819 to Nov. 1843; entertained the archduke Nicholas afterwards emperor of Russia at Meadowbank 1816; succeeded to estates of Garvock and Pitliver, June 1854, when he assumed additional surname of Welwood. _d._ Meadowbank house 30 Nov. 1861. _Kay’s Series of portraits_, _ii_ 21, 353, 432–4, 444, 450, 451 (1877), 2 _portraits_; _Omond’s Lord advocates of Scotland_, _ii_ 225, 231–55 (1883). MACONOCHIE, ALEXANDER. _b._ 1787; entered R.N. Aug. 1803, midshipman March 1804; served in West Indies, while on the Grasshopper taken prisoner by the Dutch 24 Dec. 1811; commander 8 Sep. 1815, retired as a captain 17 Feb. 1855; K.H. 4 May 1836; in Van Diemen’s Land 1837; governor of Norfolk island 6 March 1840 to 1845; invented the mark system of prison discipline 1846; sec. to London geographical society; sec. to lieut. governor of Van Diemen’s Land 1849; governor of Birmingham gaol Oct. 1849 to 17 Oct. 1851; author of Thoughts on convict management and the Australian penal colonies. Hobart Town 1838, 3 ed. 1839; Crime and punishment, the mark system framed to mix persuasion with punishment 1846; Emigration with advice to emigrants 1848; Norfolk island 1847; The principles of punishment on which the mark system is advocated 1850. _d._ Morden, Surrey 25 Oct. 1860. Mary his widow granted civil list pension of £60, 14 Feb. 1868. MACONOCHIE, ALLAN ALEXANDER (1 son of preceding). _b._ 1806; professor of civil law and law of Scotland in Univ. of Glasgow 1842–55. _d._ Meadowbank house, Kirknewton, Edinburgh 29 May 1885. MACONOCHIE, ROBERT BLAIR (brother of preceding). _b._ 21 May 1814; ed. Edinb. univ.; writer to the signet 23 Nov. 1837, partner with Allan Menzies to 1856; clerk of lieutenancy of Midlothian; clerk and treasurer to trustees of the Dick bequest 1856 to death. _d._ Gattonside near Melrose 4 Oct. 1883. _Journal of jurisprudence_, _Nov. 1883 p._ 600. M’OSCAR, WILLIAM. _b._ Lochwinnock, Renfrewshire 7 May 1807; taught classics and modern languages at Paisley some years; edited the Ayrshire news letter at Irvine; founded the Glasgow theatrical review; wrote most of his verse in London, where he resided over 20 years; assisted in compilation of The Renfrewshire annual 1841 and contributed The Dominie’s goat, a tale. _d._ Kilbarchan 11 Jany. 1877. _W. M’Oscar’s Poetical Works_ (1878), _memoir pp. ix–xiii_, _portrait_. MACPHERSON, ALEXANDER. _b._ Gairloch 1781; ed. univ. and King’s coll. Aberdeen, M.A. 1803, D.D. 1849; R. of the Academy at Tain 1814–6; minister of Golspie 5 March 1816 to death; author of On the perspicuity, perfection and power of the holy scriptures. Edinb. 1836. _d._ Golspie 6 Aug. 1861. _H. Scott’s Fasti_, _iii part i_, _pp._ 336–7 (1870). MC PHERSON, DUNCAN. _b._ 1778; entered Bengal army 1794; lieut. 10 Bengal N.I. 3 Oct. 1796, major 1 Oct. 1815; lieut.-col. commandant 67 N.I. 182-, col. 5 June 1829 to 8 Oct. 1836; col. of 16 N.I. 8 Oct. 1836 to death; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846. _d._ Cheltenham 24 Nov. 1853. MACPHERSON, DUNCAN. Assistant surgeon in Madras army 1836, surgeon 11 Dec. 1852; served with 37 grenadier regiment in China 1840–2; served with the irregular horse in the Hyderabad contingent; head of the medical staff of the Turkish contingent 1855–6; inspector general of medical service of Madras 8 Jany. 1858 to 1 Aug. 1864; hon. phys. and surgeon to the queen 1861 to death; author of Two years in China 1842, 3 ed. 1843; Antiquities of Kertch and researches in the Cimmerian Bosphorus