Cormick’s Voyages in the Arctic and Antartic seas_ 2 _vols._
(1884), _memoir ii_ 183–368, _three portraits_.
MC CORMICK, WILLIAM. _b._ Londonderry 1801; M.P. Londonderry
1860–65; contractor for public works 14 Buckingham st. Strand,
London. _d._ London 12 June 1878.
M’CREA, ROBERT CONTART. _b._ 13 Jany. 1793; entered navy 23 Nov.
1803; present at Trafalgar; commander Scourge revenue cruiser
1818–21; captain 10 Jany. 1837; commander of the Zebra, forcibly
removed the ex-rajah of Queda from his abode at Bruas on the
coast of Perak and carried him a prisoner to Penang, April 1837,
for which he was presented by H.E.I.C. with a piece of plate
value 100 guineas; admiral on h.p. 8 April 1868. _d._ Guernsey
13 Jany. 1875. _United Service mag. March 1875 p._ 407.
M’CREE, GEORGE WILSON. _b._ Newcastle-on-Tyne 28 April 1822;
commenced preaching in village chapels 1839; a missionary in
London working among the poor of the Five dials and the Seven
dials, known as the bishop of St. Giles’ 1848–73; pastor of
the Borough road Baptist chapel, Southwark 1873 to death; sec.
of Band of hope union; an originator of the London temperance
hospital, Hampstead road 1873; edited The band of hope record
4 vols. 1861–4; author of Illustrations of peace principles
1845; Day and night in St. Giles’, a lecture 1862; The pitman’s
prayer, a voice from New Hartley colliery 1862; Shadows of city
life 1873; William Brock, a biography 3 ed. 1876; Thomas Wilson
the silkman 1879; Poets, painters and players 1882; The Queen’s
health, a word for the jubilee year 1887. _d._ 16 Ampton place,
Gray’s inn road, London 25 Nov. 1892. _Black and White 17 Dec.
1892 p._ 696, _portrait_; _Times 28 Nov. 1892 p._ 6.
M’CRIE, THOMAS (eld. son of Thomas Mc Crie, ecclesiastical
historian 1772–1835). _b._ Edinburgh 7 Nov. 1797; ed. at high
sch. and univ. of Edinb.; secession minister of Crieff 1820–8
and of Clola, Aberdeenshire 1828–36; minister of West Richmond
st. meeting-house Edinburgh 1836; a contributor to The Witness;
professor of theology at the Original secession hall, Edinb.
1836; the Seceders joined the Free church of Scotland 1852;
moderator of the Free church assembly 1856; professor of church
history and systematic theology at London college of English
presbyterian church Oct. 1856 to 1866; D.D. Aberdeen and LL.D.
Glasgow; edited The British and foreign evangelical review,
Edinb.; author of Life of Thomas Mc Crie 1840; Sketches of
Scottish church history 1841, 5 ed. 1875; The ancient history
of the Waldensian church 1845; Lectures on Christian baptism
1850; Memoirs of Sir Andrew Agnew 1850, 2 ed. 1851; Thoughts on
union with the free church of Scotland 1852; Annals of English
presbyterianism 1872; The story of the Scottish church from the
reformation to the disruption 1874. _d._ 39 Minto st. Edinburgh
9 May 1875. _Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 349–56,
_portrait_.
MACCULLOCH, HORATIO (son of a weaver). _b._ Glasgow, Nov. 1805,
and named after lord Nelson; apprenticed to a house-painter;
painter of snuff-boxes for Messrs. Smith at Cumnock, Ayrshire
1824; engaged colouring prints in Edinburgh; landscape painter
at Glasgow to 1838, then at Edinb.; exhibited at R.S.A. from
1829, an associate 1834, an academician 1838, exhibited Bothwell
castle on the Clyde 1863; exhibited 2 pictures at R.A. London
and 1 at B.I. 1843–8; the most popular landscape painter of his
day in Scotland; illustrated J. P. Lawson’s Scotland delineated
1847; and with others W. Beattie’s Scotland illustrated 1838.
_d._ St. Colme’s villa, Trinity, Edinburgh 24 June 1867, two
portraits of him by Sir Daniel Macnee are in national gallery
of Scotland. _Fraser’s Scottish landscape, the works of H.
Macculloch_ (1872), _life pp._ 9–39, _portrait_; _Chambers’s
Biog. Dict. of Scotsmen_, _iii_ 11–13 (1875).
MC CULLOCH, SIR JAMES (son of George Mc Culloch). _b._ Glasgow
1819; in office of J. and A. Dennistoun, merchants, Glasgow
1839, became a partner 1853, and going to Melbourne, Australia,
opened a branch establishment there April 1853, firm wound up
1862; founded house of Mc Culloch, Sellar and Co. 1862; nominee
member of Victoria legislative council 1854; elected for Wimmera
to first legislative assembly 24 Oct. 1856; formed a government,
himself being commissioner of trade and customs 29 April
1857, resigned 10 March 1858; member for East Melbourne 1858,
treasurer 27 Oct. 1859 to 26 Nov. 1860; member for Mornington
1862, chief secretary 27 June 1863 to 6 May 1868, chief sec. and
treasurer 11 July 1868 to 20 Sep. 1869, chief sec. 9 April 1870
to 19 June 1871; knighted by patent 4 June 1870; agent general
for Victoria in London 1872–3; K.C.M.G. 9 March 1874; premier
and treasurer of Victoria 20 Oct. 1875 to 21 May 1877. _d._
Garbard hall, Ewell, Surrey 30 Jany. 1893.
M’CULLOCH, JAMES MELVILLE (1 son of John M’Culloch 1783–1845).
_b._ St. Andrews 25 Feb. 1801; ed. at the United coll. St.
Andrews, M.A. 1821, then at St. Mary’s coll.; master gram. sch.
Dunkeld 1821–6; head master Circus place sch. Edinb. Jany. 1826
to Feb. 1829; minister St. Vigean’s chapel, Arbroath 25 Feb.
1829 to 1832; minister of parish ch. Kelso 27 Sep. 1832 to 1843;
D.D. of St. Andrews 1841; minister of the west parish, Greenock
23 Nov. 1843 to death; presented on his jubilee with a salver
and £1260, Feb. 25, 1879; author of Lectures on the advantages
which the church derives from an alliance with the state 1835;
Pietas juvenilis, a manual of devotion for schools 1838. _d._
Greenock 12 Jany. 1883. _Sermons by J. M. M’Culloch_ (1884),
_memoir pp. vii–lvi_, _portrait_; _J. Smith’s Our Scottish
clergy 2 Ser._ (1849) 289–94.
MC CULLOCH, JOHN RAMSAY (eld. son of Edward Mc Culloch). _b._
Isle of Whithorn, Wigtownshire 1 March 1789; ed. at Kinross and
univ. of Edinb.; wrote the economical articles for The Scotsman
1817–27, edited it 1818–20; contributed 76 articles to Edinburgh
Review 1818–37; delivered the Ricardo memorial lectures in
London 1824; professor of political economy at London univ.
1828–32; comptroller of the Stationery Office 1838 to death; a
foreign associate of Institute of France 1843; granted civil
list pension of £200, 30 June 1846; author of The principles
of political economy, Edinb. 1825, 7 ed. 1886; An essay on
the circumstances which determine the rate of wages and the
condition of the labouring classes. Edinb. 1826, 4 ed. 1868; A
dictionary, practical, theoretical and historical of commerce
and commercial navigation 1832–9. _d._ in the Stationery Office,
Prince’s st. Storey’s gate, Westminster 11 Nov. 1864, portrait
by Sir Daniel Macnee in National portrait gallery, London.
_I.L.N. 26 Nov. 1864 p._ 541, _portrait_.
MC CULLOCH, WILLIAM (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ parish of
St. Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh 28 Feb. 1816; ed. at high sch. Edinb.
and at Addiscombe; ensign 13 Bengal N.I. 24 Sep. 1835, major
4 Sep. 1857, retired with rank of lieut.-col. 31 Dec. 1861;
assistant to political agent at Manipur, April 1840, political
agent there 1845–63 and 1864–7; author of An account of Manipur
and the Hill tribes. Calcutta 1859. _d._ 4 April 1885.
MC CULLOUGH, JOHN EDWARD (son of a farmer). _b._ in Coleraine,
Ireland 2 Nov. 1837; apprentice to a chair maker, Philadelphia,
U.S. America 1853; appeared in The Belle’s stratagem at Arch
theatre, Philadelphia 15 Aug. 1857; acted in Boston and
other cities; travelled with Edwin Forrest playing second
parts 1866–8; with Lawrence P. Barrett manager of Bush st.
theatre, San Francisco, Jany. 1869; Forrest left him his MS.
plays, regarding him as his legitimate successor 1872; acted
throughout the States 1873–83; first appeared in England at
Drury Lane theatre 25 April 1881 as Virginius, then played
Othello; returned to New York 1881. _d._ in a lunatic asylum,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 8 Nov. 1885. _The Theatre 1 Aug.
1881 p._ 121, _portrait_; _Illust. Sport. and Dram. News 14 May
1881 pp._ 199, 209, _portrait_; _New monthly mag. cxix_ 619–23
(1881), _portrait_.
M’CUTCHEON, JAMES. Editor of the ‘Tyrone Constitution.’ _d._
Omagh 4 Feb. 1855.
MAC DERMOTT, ROBERT (son of W. C. Mac Dermott, barrister). _b._
Upper Gloucester st. Dublin 1832; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A.
and M.B. 1854, M.D. 1858, gained Berkeley gold medal for Greek;
professor of materia medica in Catholic univ. Ireland 1856; the
best public lecturer of his time. _d._ of typhoid fever 9 Great
Denmark st. Dublin 8 Oct. 1859. _Memoir of Dr. R. Mac Dermott,
M.R.I.A. Dublin_ (1860).
M’DIARMID, JOHN (son of Hugh M’Diarmid, minister of Gaelic
church, Glasgow). _b._ Glasgow 1790; clerk in Commercial bank,
Edinburgh to 1817; amanuensis to professor John Playfair in
Edinb.; with Charles Maclaren and William Ritchie established
the Scotsman in Edinb. 25 Jany. 1817; edited the Dumfries and
Galloway Courier, Jany. 1817, a proprietor 1820, owner of the
paper 1837 to death, his son William Ritchie M’Diarmid admitted
a partner 1843; published the Dumfries Magazine 1825–8; the
friend of Robert Burns’ widow and her executor 1834; entertained
at a public dinner at Dumfries 1847; edited Poems of W. Cooper
1819, 4 ed. 1854; Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield 1823; and Paul
and Virginia 1824; author of The scrap book prose and verse.
Edinb. 1821, 3 ed. 1825; Letters of Junius, with dissertations
and notes. By Atticus Secundus 1822; Sketches from nature 1830;
Pictures of Dumfries and its environs 1832. _d._ Dumfries 18
Nov. 1852; a M’Diarmid bursary of £10 a year founded at Edinb.
univ. _W. Anderson’s Scottish Nation_, _iii_ 720–2 (1863).
MACDONALD, ALEXANDER. 2 lieut. R.A. 3 Dec. 1803; lieut.-colonel
20 July 1840 to 9 Nov. 1846; served in the Peninsula and South
of France 1809–14; C.B. 19 July 1838; L.G. 20 June 1854. _d._
Aix-la-Chapelle 31 May 1856.
MACDONALD, ALEXANDER. _b._ New Monkland, Lanarkshire, June
1821; commenced working in a coal pit 1831; at the age of
21 had saved £250; ed. Glasgow univ. 1851 still working as a
collier during the summer and autumn; a teacher 1853; agitated
for release of women and children from working in coal mines
1852–72, and on laws of contract and hiring, and on the truck
system; contested Kilmarnocks burghs 1868; M.P. Stafford 1874 to
death, the first working man member, known as the Working Men’s
member of parliament; sec. of Miners’ association of Scotland;
president of Miners’ national union 1863; visited the U.S.
America 3 times; presented by the miners with £1500, Jany. 1873;
member of royal commission on trade unions 1874. _d._ Well hall
near Hamilton 31 Oct. 1881. _bur._ New Monkland ch. yard 7 Nov.
_The Biograph_, _Aug. 1880 pp._ 148–57; _I.L.N. lxiv_ 551, 552
(1874), _portrait_.
MACDONALD, ANGUS. _b._ Aberdeen 1816; ed. at King’s coll.
Aberdeen and univ. of Edinb., M.D. Edinb. 1864; M.R.C.P. Edinb.
1868, F.R.C.P. 1869; practised at Edinb. 1864 to death; lecturer
at Minto house, afterwards at Surgeons’ hall; phys. and clinical
lecturer on diseases of women in Edinb. royal infirmary; phys.
to royal maternity hospital, Edinb.; F.R.S. Edinb. 1871; edited
R. E. S. Jackson’s Notebook of materia medica, Edinb. 1871,
another ed. 1875; author of The bearings of chronic diseases of
the heart upon pregnancy 1878. _d._ 29 Charlotte sq. Edinburgh
10 Feb. 1886.
MACDONALD, DUNCAN GEORGE FORBES (youngest son of John Macdonald
1799–1849, called ‘The Apostle of the North’). _b._ about
1823; agricultural engineer in London and Dingwall 1848, also
practised as a civil engineer; one of comrs. to adjust boundary
line of British North America about 1858; drainage engineer
of improvements under control of enclosure comrs. for England
and Wales; engineer in chief to inspector general of Highland
destitution; F.G.S., F.R.G.S.; author of What the farmer
may do with the land 1852; British Columbia and Vancouver’s
island, a description of these dependencies 1862; Hints on
farming and estate management 10 ed. 1869; Napoleon III. and
the Franco-German war 1871; Cattle, sheep and deer 1872; The
Highland crofters of Scotland 1878; Grouse disease 1883. _d._
Lymington house, Brighton 3 Jany. 1884.
MACDONALD, ELIZABETH (dau. of Renald Macdonald of Scotland).
_b._ 1772; sent by her guardian to school at Calais; received
22 May 1794 at the Benedictine monastery of the Glorious
assumption of the B.V.M. founded at Brussels by Lady Mary Percy
in 1597; fled with the community to England in 1794; received
the habit of religion and took the names of Mary Benedict at
the convent St. Peter st. Winchester 11 May 1795 and was the
first to be professed there 8 Sep. 1796; elected 15th abbess
of the community 9 Sep. 1811, the ceremony of her benediction
took place 10 Oct. 1811, tendered her resignation to cardinal
Wiseman, resignation accepted 25 Feb. 1848. _d._ at the convent,
Winchester 17 May 1854.
MACDONALD, GEORGE. _b._ 10 Oct. 1784; ensign 27 foot 5 Sep.
1805, captain 17 Aug. 1815, placed on h.p. 25 Feb. 1816; captain
16 foot 5 Sep. 1816, lieut.-col. 10 Jany. 1837, placed on h.p. 7
July 1841; governor of Sierra Leone 17 Dec. 1841 to March 1845;
col. of 96 foot 27 Dec. 1860, of 16 foot 13 Feb. 1863 to death;
general 25 Oct. 1871; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877. _d._
Torquay 1 March 1883. _Graphic_, _xxv_ 181 (1883) _portrait_.
MACDONALD, HUGH. _b._ Bridgeton, Glasgow 4 April 1817;
apprenticed to a block-printer; kept a provision shop in
Bridgeton; a block-printer at Paisley to 1849; wrote for the
Glasgow Citizen 1849–53 and for the Glasgow Sentinel 1855;
edited the Glasgow Times; literary editor of Morning Journal
1858 to death; author of Rambles round Glasgow 2 ed. 1856; Days
at the coast, sketches of the Frith of Clyde 1874. _d._ 16 March