MACGEORGE, ANDREW (son of the preceding). _b._ Glasgow 13 May
1810; ed. at univ. of Glasgow, LL.D. 1891; admitted into faculty
of procurators 1836; member of his father’s firm about 1836,
head of the firm to 1889; chief founder of royal hospital for
sick children Glasgow, secretary long time; author of An inquiry
as to the armorial insignia of the city of Glasgow 1866; The
Free church, its principles examined by A Layman 1873; Old
Glasgow, the place and the people 1880; Flags, some account of
their history and use 1881; W. L. Leitch, landscape painter, a
memoir 1884. _d._ Row, Dumbartonshire 4 Sep. 1891.
MACGEORGE, ROBERT JACKSON. _b._ near Glasgow 1808; ed. at
Glasgow and Edinb.; C. of Episcopal church, Glasgow 1837–41;
incumbent of Trinity Church, Streetville, Upper Canada 1841–58;
incumbent of St. John’s ch. Oban, Argyleshire 1858–81; dean of
Argyll and the Isles 1872, resigned 1881; edited the Weekly
review at Streetville; the Church and the Anglo American Mag.
at Toronto 1853; wrote The students, a farce Jany. 1830, and A
Legend of Carrick, a drama 14 Oct. 1830, both played at York st.
theatre, Glasgow; author of The Canadian christian offering.
Toronto 1848; Tales, sketches and lyrics 1848. _d._ 14 May 1884.
_Morgan’s Bibl. Canadensis_ (1867) 238–9; _Inglis’ Dramatic
writers_ (1868) 71.
M’GEORGE, THOMAS. _b._ 1840; deputy starter for the Jockey
club at Epsom, Chester, Ascot and Goodwood 1862, starter in
succession to his father 1863 to death, no one ever had the
jockeys and the horses under better control and it was rarely
that an owner was able to complain that his horse was beaten by
a bad start. _d._ Oatlands park hotel, Weybridge 23 Feb. 1885.
_Baily’s Mag. March 1885 p._ 443; _Illust. Sport. and Dram. News
28 Feb. 1885 p._ 584, _7 March p._ 609, _portrait_.
M’GETTIGAN, DANIEL (son of Manasses M’Gettigan). _b._ parish
of Mevagh, co. Donegal, Nov. 1815; ed. at Navan seminary and
Maynooth; ordained priest Trinity Sunday 1839; priest of
Ballyshannon, June 1855; coadjutor bishop of Raphoe 13 Feb.
1856, consecrated at Letterkenny 18 May 1856, bishop of Raphoe
1 May 1861; archbishop of Armagh 11 March 1870 to death, he
requested permission to decline the archbishoprick but the Pope
overruled his objections. _d._ Armagh 3 Dec. 1887. _Brady’s
Episcopal succession_, _i_ 233, 313 (1876), _ii_ 360.
M’GHEE, CHARLES (son of a Jamaica negro _d._ aged 108). _b._
1767; swept a crossing which he called his ‘shop’ at Ludgate end
of Fleet st. London; was known as Brutus Billy, Timbuctoo and
Romeo; after ‘shutting his shop’ he sold nuts and oranges at the
doors of the theatres; always attended Rowland Hill’s chapel;
Miss Waithman the dau. of the alderman was kind to him and gave
him his Sunday dinner; saved money and retired when an old man;
lived in White Hart yard leading from Stanhope st. into Drury
Lane. _d._ Chapel court, Strand, London 1854. _W. P. Treloar’s
Ludgate hill_ (1881) 116, 118–19, _portrait_; _J. Diprose’s St.
Clement’s_, _i_ 164 (1868).
MC GHIE, JAMES. _b._ 1824; M.D. Glasgow 1850; L. and F.F.P.S.
Glasgow 1858; librarian F.P.S. Glasgow; assist. physician
Glasgow lunatic asylum to 1854; superintendent of royal
infirmary, Glasgow, the largest hospital out of London 1854 to
death; the chief actor in construction of surgical hospital,
Glasgow 1861, much praised by French academy of medicine; edited
with G. Buchanan and J. B. Cowan, The Glasgow Medical Journal
vols. 6 to 8 (1856–8); invented a tissue paper saturated with
oil for use in dressing wounds; Glasgow Medical Journal 1859.
_d._ Glasgow 15 Jany. 1862.
MAC GILCHRIST, JOHN. _b._ Glasgow 1821; ed. at Glasgow univ.;
sheep farmer in the Cape colony; M.D. St. Andrews 1850;
practised at Edinb.; author of The Cape of Good Hope. By A
Traveller 1844; Remarks on the present state of medicine 1856,
2 ed. 1856; The mutineers, a poem 1859; his dramatic works were
Chatelard, a tragedy by J. Mc G. 1852; Roseallan’s daughter,
a tragedy 1861. _d._ Edinburgh 27 March 1864. _R. Inglis’s
Dramatic writers_ (1868) 136.
MACGILL, HAMILTON MONTGOMERY. _b._ Catrine, Ayrshire 1807; ed.
at Mauchline, entered Glasgow univ. 1827 and divinity hall of
united secession church 1831; minister of Duke st. church,
Glasgow, Feb. 1837 to 1840; separated from Duke st. 1840 and
formed the Montrose st. church 1840, minister to 1858; home
mission secretary of united presbyterian church 1858 and
foreign mission secretary 1868 to death; D.D. Glasgow 1870;
edited The juvenile missionary magazine 1845; edited The
missionary record; author of The life of Hugh Heugh 2 vols.
1850, 2 ed. 1852; Songs of the christian creed and life 1876.
_d._ in Miss de Broen’s villa, Belleville, Paris 3 June 1880.
_bur._ Glasgow necropolis 11 June. _C. H. Macgill’s Memories of
Dr. H. Macgill_ (1880), _portrait_; _J. Smith’s Our Scottish
Clergy_ (1848) 67–71.
M’GILL, JAMES. _b._ 1795; minister of Reformed presbyterian ch.;
author of The four centuries or christianity and the military
profession. Glasgow 1857. _d._ Bournemouth, Oct. 1883.
M’GILL, JOHN. Professor of Hebrew and oriental languages at
college of St. Mary, univ. of St. Andrews 1868 to death,
inducted 21 Nov. 1868; member of Bible revision committee 1870.
_d._ St. Andrews 16 March 1871.
MACGILLIVRAY, CHARLES R. (son of a small farmer). _b._
Kilfinichen, Mull about 1804; employed in a druggist’s shop,
Glasgow about 1824–49; a druggist at Glasgow 1849; M.D. Glasgow
1853; lecturer in Gaelic at Glasgow Institution 1859; author of
The rudiments of the Gaelic language 1858; Turus a’ Chriosduidh