of James Macfarlan, with a memoir pp. i–x_ (1882); _Rev. C.
Rogers’s Leaves from my autobiography_ (1876) 287–91.
MACFARLAN, JAMES (son of James Macfarlan, minister of
Muiravonside near Linlithgow, author of The prophecies of
Ezekiel 1845, _b._ 1800, _d._ 1871). _b._ 6 Jany. 1845; ed.
at academy and univ. of Edinb.; assistant minister at Dundee
1869–71; minister of Ruthwell 1871 to death; raised money and
built an apse to his ch., in which he placed the Runic cross
which had been expelled by the General Assembly in 1642;
collected materials for a life of Stewart Leslie the vagrant
verse writer celebrated by Carlyle. _d._ Foulden, Berwickshire
7 Oct. 1889. _bur._ Ruthwell, where a memorial has been built.
_Memoirs of James Macfarlan_ (1892).
MACFARLANE, CHARLES (son of Robert Macfarlane). _b._ Scotland;
lived in Italy 1816–27 and in Turkey 1827–9; employed by Charles
Knight the publisher many years; nominated a poor brother of
the Charterhouse about July 1857; wrote the Civil and military
history of England in Knight’s Pictorial history of England 8
vols. 1838–44; author of Constantinople in 1828, 2 vols. 1829;
The romance of history, Italy 3 vols. 1832; The book of table
talk 1836; The French revolution 4 vols. 1844–5, anon.; The
romance of travel, the East 2 vols. 1846, and 30 other books.
_d._ the Charterhouse, London 9 Dec. 1858.
MACFARLANE, DUGALD. _b._ Perthshire 6 June 1790; 1 lieut. 95
foot 18 July 1815; at Waterloo, and at occupation of Paris;
retired on h.p. 29 Feb. 1816; one of the founders of the
Canterbury province, south island, New Zealand 16 Dec. 1850.
_d._ Christchurch, N.Z. Oct. 1882. _I.L.N. 2 Dec. 1882 pp._ 567,
569, _portrait_.
MACFARLANE, JAMES (2 son of rev. John Macfarlane of Bridgton,
Glasgow). _b._ Waterbeck, Dumfriesshire 27 April 1808; ed.
Glasgow univ., M.A., D.D. 1848; presbyterian minister East
ch. Stirling 1831, of St. Bernard’s ch. Edinb. 1832 and of
Duddingston, Edinb. May 1841 to death; moderator of general
assembly 1865; F.R.S. Edinb.; author of Remarks on intrusion
1839; Letter to Sir James Graham on tests 1845; The late
secession 1846; The church and nation 1849. _d._ Duddingston 6
Feb. 1866. _Proc. Royal Soc. Edinb. vi_ 18 (1869).
MACFARLANE, JOHN (3 son of rev. James Macfarlane 1759–1823).
_b._ Dunfermline 1 April 1807; ed. at Dunfermline gr. sch.
and univ. of Edinb.; minister of Kincardine-on-Forth 1831–40;
minister of Nicholson st. U.P. church, Glasgow, Sep. 1840,
then of Erskine church, Glasgow 1840–62; LL.D. Glasgow 1842;
minister of church at Clapham, London, April 1862 to death,
the members increasing from 36 to about 800; moderator of U.P.
synod 1866; moderator of English provincial synod 1870; author
of The mountains of the Bible, their scenes and their lessons
1849; Altar zeal 1859; The life and times of George Lawson, D.D.
1862; Pulpit echoes 1868, and 12 other books. _d._ 14 Victoria
road, Clapham Common 7 Feb. 1875. _W. Graham’s Memoirs of John
Macfarlane_ (1876) _portrait_; _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_
(1849) 379–85.
MACFARLANE, ROBERT, LORD ORMIDALE (only son of Parlan Macfarlane
of Glenmallashan, Dumbartonshire, tradesman). _b._ 30 July
1802; ed. at Glasgow and Edinb. univs.; a writer to the signet
29 June 1827, and in practice as an agent 1827–37; an advocate
at Edinb. 9 March 1838; sheriff of Renfrewshire 22 Dec. 1853
to Jany. 1862; an ordinary lord of session with title of lord
Ormidale 13 Jany. 1862 to death; reformed procedure of court of
session; author of The practice of the court of session in jury
causes 1837; Reports of jury trials in the courts of session
1838 to 1839, 1841; Practical notes on the structure of issues
in jury cases in the court of session, parts i–viii 1844–5. _d._
Hartrigge, Jedburgh 3 Nov. 1880. _Journal of jurisprudence_,
_xxiv_ 659–61 (1880).
MACFARREN, SIR GEORGE ALEXANDER (son of George Macfarren,
dramatist and theatrical manager 1788–1843). _b._ 24 Villiers
st. Strand, London 2 March 1813; pupil of Charles Lucas 1827–9;
student R.A. of music 1829–36; taught music in a school in the
Isle of Man 1836–7; his Chevy Chase overture produced at the
Gewand-haus concerts, Leipsic 1836; professor of harmony and
composition at R.A. of music 1837–46 and 1851; his opera The
Devil’s Opera produced English opera house 13 Aug. 1838; founded
the Handel society 1844, secretary 1844–8 when it ceased,
edited Handel’s Belshazzar, Judas Maccabeus and Jephtha;
conductor at Covent Garden theatre Jany. 1845; his operas Don
Quixote produced at Drury Lane 3 Feb. 1846, Charles the Second,
at Princess’s 27 Oct. 1849; his cantata May Day produced at
Bradford festival 1857; became nearly blind 1860; his operas
Robin Hood, produced at Her Majesty’s theatre Oct. 1860; She
stoops to conquer, at Covent Garden 11 Feb. 1864; his oratorios
St. John the Baptist, produced at first Bristol festival 23
Oct. 1873; The Resurrection, at Birmingham festival Sep. 1876;
Joseph, at Leeds festival 21 Sep. 1877; and King David, at Leeds
festival Oct. 1883; principal of R.A. of music, Feb. 1875 to
death; professor of music at univ. of Camb. 16 March 1875 to
death; Mus. Doc. Camb. 1875, Oxf. 1879 and Dublin 1887; M.A.
Camb. 1878; knighted at Windsor Castle 22 May 1883; author of
The rudiments of harmony 1860, 16 ed. 1887; Six lectures on
harmony delivered at the royal institutions 1869, 3 ed. 1882; On
the structure of a sonata 1871; Counterpoint, a practical course
of study 1879, 4 ed. 1885. _d._ 7 Hamilton terrace, London 31
Oct. 1887. _bur._ Hampstead cemet. 5 Nov. _A life of G. A.
Macfarren. By H. C. Banister_ (1891), _portrait_; _Addresses by
G. A. Macfarren_ (1888), _portrait_; _Cazalet’s Royal academy of
music_ (1854) 307–9; _I.L.N. lxvi_ 391, 393 (1875) _portrait_,
_lxxxii_ 573 (1883) _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xxvii_ 553 (1883),
_portrait_.
MACFIE, ROBERT ANDREW (son of John Macfie provost of Leith who
received George IV. on his landing there in 1822). _b._ Leith 4
Oct. 1811; ed. at Edinb. univ.; a sugar refiner with his father
at Greenock and Leith; agent at Glasgow for National bank of
Scotland 1835–8; went to Liverpool 1838 and established firm
of Macfie and Sons, sugar refiners; resided at Ashfield hall,
Cheshire 1856–71; removed to Dreghorn castle near Edinburgh
1871; an original director of Liverpool chamber of commerce; a
trustee of the Liverpool exchange; contested Leith burghs 1859,
M.P. Leith burghs 1868–74; knight commander of royal order of
Kalakaua of Hawaii 1886 or 1887; author of The patent question
1863; Colonial questions pressing for immediate solution 1871;
Cries in a crisis of statesmanship to test and contest free
trade 1881; The questions put by the royal commissioners on the
depressed state of trade, dealt with by a Former M.P. 1885;
The Scotch church question 1885; Off-hand notes on prayers
for family worship. By Senex Scotus, an heritor 1892. _d._
Dreghorn, Collinton near Edinburgh 17 Feb. 1893. _The Biograph_,
_July 1879 pp._ 61–4; _New Monthly Mag. cxvi_ 936–8 (1879),
_portrait_.
MACGAHAN, JANUARIUS ALOYSIUS (son of a farmer _d._ 1851). _b._
New Lexington, Ohio, U.S. America 12 June 1844; a book-keeper,
a public reader, a student at law; came to London, Jany. 1869;
correspondent of New York Herald in France 1870, correspondent
at St. Petersburgh, joined the military expedition to Khiva,
sent views to Illust. London News; correspondent with Carlist
army in Spain 1874; went in the Pandora to the Polar seas 1875;
special correspondent for Daily News in Turkey 1876, narrated
the operations of the Russian army in Bulgaria 1876, continually
under fire by the side of general Skobeleff, described the
engagements from the fights at Shipka Pass to Plevna, Dec. 1877;
author of Campaigning on the Oxus and the fall of Khiva 1874,
4 ed. 1876; The Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria 1876; Under the
northern lights 1876. _d._ of typhus fever, Constantinople
9 June 1878. _bur._ Catholic cemetery 12 June. _Appleton’s
American biography_, _iv_ 115–16 (1888), _portrait_; _The war
correspondence of the Daily News 2 vols._ 1878; _I.L.N. 22 June
1878 pp._ 589, 590, _portrait_; _Graphic 25 Aug. 1877 p._ 173,
_portrait_, _6 July 1878 pp._ 3, 4, _view of funeral_; _The
Nineteenth century_, _Sep. 1891 pp._ 414–5.
M’GAULEY, JAMES WILLIAM. Professor of natural philosophy to
board of national education in Ireland 1836–56; went to Canada
1856; settled in England about 1865; member of council of the
Inventors’ Institute; managing director to the Inventors’ patent
right association; editor of Scientific review 1865; author of
Lectures on natural philosophy. Dublin 1840, 3 ed. 1851; The
elements of architecture 1846; A treatise on algebra 1854. _d._
25 Oct. 1867. _Times 26 Oct. 1867 p._ 9.
M’GAVIN, JOHN. _b._ Kilwinning, Ayrshire 1816; grain miller
of firm of Harvie and M’Gavin, Washington st. Glasgow 1838,
joined by his sons 1866, retired 1872; instituted the Commercial
abstinence society 1846; chairman of Scottish temperance
league; member of Glasgow Institute of Fine arts 1870, paid
half the expense of erecting the new picture galleries opened
2 Feb. 1880, hon. treasurer and secretary to death; had a fine
collection of modern paintings, which was dispersed at his
decease. _d._ while walking by the banks of the Garnock 12 July
1881, left £21,000 to charities and £5000 to Institute of Fine
Arts. _Maclehose’s Glasgow men_, _ii_ 191–6 (1886), _portrait_.
MAC GAVIN, JOHN DRUMMOND (son of rev. Mr. Mac Gavin). _b._ near
Edinburgh 1817; physician Paris to death; attended the grand
duchess of Hesse at Houlgate, Normandy during 1875; made a
member of the legion of honour for his ambulance services during
siege of Paris 1871; an elder of church of Scotland congregation
in Paris. _d._ Paris 19 April 1893.
MC GEACHEY, FORSTER ALLEYNE (only son of major Alexander Mc
Geachey who fell at siege of Badajoz 1811). _b._ 1809; ed. at
Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1837; a student of L.I.
1834; M.P. Honiton 1841–7; contested Bristol 10 July 1852;
sheriff of Herts. 1865; author of A speech delivered in the
house of commons on the Maynooth college bill 1845. _d._ Shenley
Hill near Barnet, Herts. 20 March 1887.
MC GEE, THOMAS D’ARCY (2 son of James Mc Gee a coastguard man).
_b._ Carlingford, co. Louth 13 April 1825; went to Providence,
Rhode Island 1842; a clerk in office of the Boston Pilot at
Boston, June 1842, editor of the paper 1844; editor of Freeman’s
Journal, Dublin 1845; assistant editor of The Nation; London
correspondent of The Nation newspaper, to which he sent poems
signed Montanus, Amergin, Feargail, Sarsfield, An Irish exile,
Gilla Eirin, Gilla Patrick, and M.; secretary to the committee
of the Irish Confederation, arrested, soon released; sent on
secret mission to Scotland 1848; escaped to America disguised
as a priest after the rout of his party Oct. 1848; started the
New York Nation in New York 26 Oct. 1848; started The American
Celt at Boston 1850 which he removed first to Buffalo and then
to New York, sold his paper and settled in Montreal 1857, where
he started The New Era 1857; member for Montreal in legislative
assembly 1858, pres. of the council 1862 and 1864–7; presented
with a handsome residence in Montreal 1865; member for Montreal
West in the Dominion parliament 6 Nov. 1867; minister of
agriculture and emigration 1867; author of Historical sketches
of O’Connell and his friends. Boston. 3 ed. 1845; Gallery
of Irish writers 1846; A memoir of Art Mac Murrogh, king of
Leinster 1847; A history of the Irish settlers in North America
1852; A life of Edward Maginn, bishop of Derry 1857; Canadian
ballads 1858; A popular history of Ireland 2 vols. 1865; _shot_
by a Fenian outside his residence in Ottawa 7 April 1868. _The
poems of T. D. Mc Gee_ (1869) _memoir pp._ 15–40, _portrait_;
_C. M. Collins’s Celtic Irish songwriters_ (1885) 103–6; _I.L.N.
lii_ 437, 457 (1868), _portrait_.
MACGEORGE, ANDREW. _b._ Port-Glasgow 6 Sep. 1774; writer in
partnership with William Bogle at Glasgow 1797–1807; extractor
in the burgh court 1807; writer by himself with a large practice
in all the courts; connected with passing of Lord Aberdeen’s
act; a member of the Coul club; a writer of verses; member of
municipal council 1832. _d._ Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire 2 Oct.