Modern English biography

_Memorials of service in India from the correspondence of major S. C. Macpherson. Ed. by W. Macpherson_ (1865), _portrait_. MACPHERSON, WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). _b._ Aberdeen 19 July 1812; ed. at Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1838; barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1837; practised at Calcutta bar 1846; master of equity in supreme court of Calcutta 1848 to March 1859; edited the Quarterly Review in London, Oct. 1860 to Oct. 1867; secretary of Indian law commission Dec. 1861 to Dec. 1870; legal adviser to India office June 1874, secretary in the judicial department Sep. 1879, retired 20 Feb. 1882; author of A treatise on the law relating to infants 1842; The procedure of the civil courts of the East India Company. Calcutta 1850, 5 ed. 1871; Outlines of the law of contracts as administered in the courts of British India 1860; The practice of the judicial committee of her majesty’s privy council 1860, 2 ed. 1873. _d._ 3 Kensington gardens square, London 20 April 1893. M’PHUN, WILLIAM RAE. _b._ 1801; publisher at Glasgow; published Mc Phun’s Glasgow magazine 1824; Mc Phun’s Guide through Glasgow 1833, 4 ed. 1837; Mc Phun’s Catechism of phrenology, 34th thousand 1850; Mc Phun’s Catechism of useful knowledge 2 parts 1857–9; Twenty thousand geographical facts 1857, another ed. 1885; Mc Phun’s New pocket lawyer 2 parts 1860–1. _d._ Greenpoint cottage, Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire 15 Sep. 1877. _Bookseller_, _March 1877 p._ 216. MACQUEEN, DONALD JOHN. Ensign 74 foot 14 July 1800, major 23 Oct. 1830, sold out 3 Oct. 1834; served in the Peninsula, Feb. 1810 to 1814, severely wounded several times; received silver war medal with 9 clasps; K.H. 1835; barrack master at Dundee and Perth some time; a military knight of Windsor about July 1865 to death. _d._ Windsor castle 20 Jany. 1866 aged 79. MACQUEEN, JAMES. _b._ Crawford, Lanarkshire 1778; manager of a sugar plantation in Grenada, West Indies 1796 etc.; settled at Glasgow 1821, became editor and part-proprietor of the Glasgow Herald; projected and organised the Colonial bank and the Royal mail steam packet company; settled in London, wrote in newspapers and magazines; F.R.G.S.; author of A geographical and commercial view of northern central Africa. Edinburgh 1821; The West India colonies: the calumnies and misrepresentations circulated against them examined and refuted 1824; General statistics of the British empire 1836; A geographical survey of Africa 1840; A new map of Africa 1841, the first map approaching correctness. _d._ 10 Norton st. Kensington 14 May 1870. _Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. xiv_ 301–2 (1870). M’QUEEN, JAMES (son of John M’Queen of Braxfield, _d._ 1837). _b._ 1798; ensign 80 foot 31 March 1814, lieut. 1819; lieut. 3 light dragoons 9 Nov. 1820, placed on h.p. 25 Oct. 1821; lieut. 6 dragoons 16 May 1822; captain 4 light dragoons 26 March 1829; major 15 light dragoons 18 June 1841, placed on h.p. 14 June 1842; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Tintoch house, Barton fields, Canterbury 25 Nov. 1883. MACQUEEN, JOHN FRASER (8 son of Donald Macqueen of Corrybrough, Invernessshire, _d._ 1813). _b._ 1803; barrister L.I. 8 June 1838, bencher 13 March 1861 to death; sec. of the divorce commission Jany. 1851, the first report was made 1853; official reporter of Scottish and divorce appeals in the house of lords 1860; Q.C. 25 Feb. 1861; author of A practical treatise on the appellate jurisdiction of the house of lords and privy council 1842; The rights and liabilities of husband and wife at law and in equity 1848, 3 ed. 1885; Reports of Scotch appeals and writs of error in the house of lords 1851–1865, 4 vols. 1855–66; A practical treatise on divorce and matrimonial jurisdiction under the act of 1857. 1858, 2 ed. 1860. _d._ 4 Upper Westbourne terrace, Hyde park, London 6 Dec. 1881. MACRAY, JOHN. _b._ Aberdeen 1796; employed by Messrs. Treuttel and Wurtz of Soho square, London, foreign booksellers; then by John Henry Parker of Oxford; librarian of the Taylor institution, Oxford 1847–71. _d._ Ducklington rectory, Oxfordshire 13 Aug. 1878. _Bookseller 3 Sep. 1878 p._ 816. MACREADY, CATHERINE FRANCES BIRCH (2 dau. of W. C. Macready 1793–1873). _b._ Elm place, Elstree, Herts. 21 July 1835, much devoted to the poor at Cheltenham; author of Leaves from the Olive mount 1860; Cowl and cap or the rival churches, and minor poems 1865; Devotional lays 1868. _d._ and _bur._ at sea on her voyage from Madeira to England 24 March 1869. _Macready’s Reminiscences_, _i_ 425, _ii_ 445, 465, 467 (1875). MACREADY, SARAH (dau. of Mr. Desmond). _b._ Newcastle 16 Feb. 1790; an actress at theatre royal, Bristol, where she played Lady Macbeth, Hermione in the Winter’s Tale, Emilie in Othello, the Widow Cheerly, Meg Merrilies, Helen Macgregor and queen Elizabeth; (_m._ as his second wife William Macready manager of the Bristol theatre and father of W. C. Macready. William Macready _d._ Queen sq. Bristol 11 April 1829, _bur._ in the cath.); lessee of Bristol theatre 1829 to death; lessee of Bath theatre 2 Sep. 1845 to death; had a residence at Queen sq. Bristol. _d._ at residence of her son in law J. H. Chute, Bath 8 March 1853. _bur._ Bristol cath. 14 March. _B. S. Penley’s Bath stage_ (1892) 145–9; _The Bristol Mercury 12 March 1853 p._ 8. MACREADY, WILLIAM CHARLES (son of William Macready _d._ 11 April 1829). _b._ Mary st. Tottenham court road, London 3 March 1793; ed. at Rugby 1803–8; first appeared at Birmingham as Romeo 7 June 1810; his portrait by De Wilde exhibited at Royal academy, London 1812; first appeared in London at Covent Garden as Orestes in the Distressed mother 16 Sep. 1816; played Richard III. at Covent Garden 25 Oct. 1819; the original in London of S. Knowles’ Virginius 17 May 1820; starred at Covent Garden 1816–23 and at Drury Lane 1823–34; first appeared in America at Park theatre, New York as Virginius 2 Oct. 1826; played Joseph Surface in The school for scandal at Drury Lane 27 Nov. 1832; assaulted Alfred Bunn at Drury Lane theatre 29 April 1836 who obtained sum of £150 damages in the Sheriff’s court 29 June 1836; lessee Covent Garden theatre 30 Sep. 1837 to 17 July 1839; produced the Lady of Lyons, playing Claude Melnotte 15 Feb. 1838 and Richelieu 7 March 1839; elected member of Athenæum club 21 June 1838; C. Dickens dedicated Nicholas Nickleby to him 1839; played at Haymarket 16 March 1840 to 13 March 1841, played Evelyn in Money 8 Dec. 1840 to 13 March 1841; manager of Drury Lane theatre 27 Dec. 1841 to 14 June 1843; acted in America 25 Sep. 1843 to 14 Oct. 1844, and in Paris, Dec. 1844 to Jany. 1845; in America again 4 Oct. 1848 to 10 May 1849 when the great riot at Astor place theatre, New York took place; made his last appearance on stage at Drury Lane 26 Feb. 1851 as Macbeth, Samuel Phelps being the Macduff; a public reader and lecturer; lived at 5 Clarence terrace, Regent’s park, London 1840–50, at Sherborne house, Sherborne, Dorset 1850–60 and at Cheltenham 1860 to death; author of The poetical works of Alexander Pope revised and arranged for young people 1849; with J. S. Knowles produced The Bridal, a tragedy altered from The Maid’s Tragedy by Beaumont and Fletcher, Haymarket 26 June 1837; _m._ (1) 24 June 1824 Catherine Frances Atkins actress _b._ 11 Nov. 1806, _d._ Plymouth 18 Sep. 1852; _m._ (2) 3 April 1860 Cecile Louise Frederica (5 dau. of Henry Spencer). _d._ 6 Wellington sq. Cheltenham 27 April 1873. _bur._ Kensal green 4 May. _Sir F. Pollock’s Macready’s Reminiscences_ 2 _vols._ (1875), 4 _portraits_; _Juliet Pollock’s Macready as I knew him_ (1884); _W. Marston’s Our recent actors_, _i_ 25–109 (1888); _G. Sharf’s Recollections of scenic effects at Covent Garden_ (1839); _T. Marshall’s Lives of the most celebrated actors_ (1847) 1–36; _A. Brereton’s Some famous Hamlets_ (1884) 36–9; _J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters_, _ii_ 215–36 (1841); _R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age_, _ii_ 104–28 (1844); _Metropolitan Mag. xvii_ 81–5 (1836); _Tallis’s Dramatic Mag._ (1851) 148, 229–34, 3 _portraits_; _Tallis’s Drawing room table book parts_ 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 17, 18 _and_ 21, 8 _portraits_. MACREDIE, PATRICK BOYLE MURE (son of Thomas Mure). _b._ Warriston near Edinb. 28 Sep. 1800; ed. Edinb. univ.; an advocate Edinb. 1822 to death; took the name of Macredie 1835; engaged in the Dreghorn parish presentation case 1830–4; F.R.S. Edinb.; an elder in the General assembly 1832; joined the Free church 1843; carried on mines and fire clay works and built improved dwellings for his workmen. _d._ Edinburgh 15 April