MACGILLIVRAY, JOHN (eld. child of William Macgillivray
1796–1852). _b._ Aberdeen 18 Dec. 1822; naturalist on board
the Fly in the Torres Straits and Eastern Archipelago 1842–6;
naturalist on board the Rattlesnake 1846–50; naturalist on board
the Herald on the coast of South America 1852–5; collected
natural history specimens in the Australasian islands 1855–67;
author of Narrative of the voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake 1846–50,
to which is added an account of E. B. Kennedy’s exploration of
the Cape York peninsula 2 vols. 1852. _d._ Sydney 6 June 1867.
_Good Words_ (1868) 425–9, _portrait_.
MACGILLIVRAY, WILLIAM. _b._ Old Aberdeen 25 Jany. 1796; art
student at King’s college, Aberdeen 1808, M.A. Aberdeen 1815,
LL.D. 1844; assistant and secretary to regius professor of
natural history and regius keeper of the museum of univ. of
Edinb. 1823; conservator of museum of royal college of surgeons
in Edinb. 1831 to March 1841; professor of natural history
in Marischal college and univ. of Aberdeen, March 1841 to
death; edited the Edinburgh journal of natural history and of
physical science Oct. 1835 to May 1840; author of A history of
British birds 5 vols. 1837–52; Manuals of botany, ornithology
and geology 3 vols. 1840; A history of the molluscous animals
of Aberdeen, Kincardine and Banff 1843; The natural history
of Dee Side and Braemar 1855. _d._ Aberdeen 4 Sep. 1852. _J.
A. Harvie-Brown and T. E. Buckley’s Vertebrate Fauna of the
Hebrides_ (1888), _portrait on page_ 11.
M’GILVRAY, W. _b._ island of Islay, Scotland; assist. minister
New Ch. Dumfries 1834; minister at St. Mark’s, Glasgow 1835 and
at Hope st. Gaelic ch. Glasgow, June 1842 to Sep. 1846; a member
of the Disruption assembly 1843; Gaelic minister in Glengarry
district, Canada 1846–8; wrecked in the Great Britain in Dundrum
bay 22 Sep. 1846; again minister of St. Mark’s, Glasgow 1848;
D.D. Lafayette coll. U.S. America 1847. _J. Smith’s Our Scottish
Clergy_ (1849) 230–7; _H. Scott’s Fasti_, _ii pt. i_ 44 (1868).
M’GLASHAN, JAMES. Assistant in house of Blackwood and Sons,
publishers, Edinburgh; publisher in Dublin with Wm. Curry,
junior 1830–46, alone 1846–55 when he retired; proprietor of
Dublin university magazine 1833–55, presented with a service of
plate on twentieth anniversary of the magazine; the principal
publisher in Dublin to 1855. _d._ of mental disease, Edinburgh
4 March 1858. _Bookseller_, _March 1858 p._ 108; _Fitzpatrick’s
Life of Charles Lever 2 vols._ (1879), _passim_.
MC GLASHAN, JOHN. Solicitor in Edinburgh; member of Society of
solicitors-at-law 1824; a solicitor before the supreme court
from 1831; went to New Zealand about 1855; author of Practical
notes on the act of Sederunt 1831; The law and practice in
actions of Aliment 1837; Practical notes on the jurisdiction in
the sheriff courts of Scotland 1842, 4 ed. 1868; Digest of the
laws relating to pawnbrokers 1844, 2 ed. 1847. _d._ New Zealand
1866.
MACGLASHAN, JOHN (1 son of John Macglashan). _b._ Peterborough 5
Sep. 1842; articled to Bell and Miller, engineers, Westminster
and Glasgow; assist. resident at Albert docks, Greenock;
resident engineer of graining docks at Partick; in charge of
works between Hurda and Sohagpore on Great Indian peninsula
railway 1865–8; assist. resident engineer on the Nagpore
extension 1869–76, then on the Sholapore and Raichore portion
1876; had special thanks of directors for his exertions during
water famine in 1878; had sole charge of the Dond and Munmar
line 1881–3; A.I.C.E. 23 Sep. 1875. _d._ Aboyne, Deeside,
Scotland 23 Sep. 1884. _Min. of Proc. I.C.E. lxxx_ 338–40
(1885).
MC GOUGAN, EUGENE MALCOLM. _b._ 1828; in general post office,
London to 1853; attendant in British museum library 1853–92; a
great friend of the costermongers of London, and of institutions
for the blind in north of London. _d._ St. Albans 21 July 1893.
_Civil Service prayer union Oct. 1893 p. 3._
MACGOWAN, EDWARD, M.D.; practised at Exeter; physician to the
mission of London Society for promoting Christianity among the
Jews 1841; arrived at Jerusalem 21 Jany. 1842. _d._ Jerusalem 6
Feb. 1860 aged 65. _W. H. Hunt’s Jerusalem. Bishop Gobat in re
Hanna Hadoub_ (1858) 22 _etc._
M’GRATH, HENRY WALTER (3 son of Nicholas M’Grath of Dublin).
_b._ Dublin 1803; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1825, M.A.
1830; deacon 1829; P.C. of Walton le Dale near Preston 1832–7;
R. of St. Ann’s, Manchester, Aug. 1837 to 1852; R. of St.
Paul’s, Kersal Moor 29 May 1852 when the church was consecrated
to 1865; hon. canon of Manchester 1858 to death; built a house
called Ditton at Torquay about 1878, lived there 1878 to death;
author of The sacraments practically rejected by Unitarians,
in Unitarianism confuted (1839) 593–646. _d._ Ditton, Lower
Warberry road, Torquay about 17 July 1884. _C. W. Bardsley’s
Memorials of St. Ann’s church_ (1877) 17, 20; _J. Evans’s
Lancashire authors and orators_ (1850) 174–78.
MAC GREGOR, ARTHUR TREVOR. _b._ 1799 or 1800; lieut. R.N. 22
Oct. 1823; captain 8 Aug. 1857, retired 7 March 1868; retired
admiral 7 April 1885. _d._ Ardmore, Cheltenham 21 Dec. 1886.
MACGREGOR, SIR CHARLES METCALFE (2 son of Robert Guthrie
Macgregor). _b._ Agra 12 Aug. 1840; ed. at Marlborough 1853–5;
ensign 57 Bengal N.I. 5 Jany. 1857; commanded a squadron of
Hodson’s horse in Indian mutiny Aug. 1858, second in command
1861–4; served in Fane’s horse through Chinese campaign 1860;
served in the Afghan war 1878–80; assist. deputy quartermaster
general in India 1865–7 and in Abyssinia 1867–8; commanded the
Punjab frontier force 28 Nov. 1885 to death; major general 22
Jany. 1887; author of Mountain warfare, an essay 2 ed. 1866;
A military report on the country of Bhutan 1873; Narrative
of a journey through the province of Khorassan 2 vols. 1879;
Wanderings in Balochistan 1882; compiled History of the Second
Afghan war 6 vols. 1885–6, suppressed by Indian government; The
defence of India 1884, suppressed by the government; C.S.I. 31
Dec. 1875; C.I.E. 1 Jany. 1878; C.B. 1879; K.C.B. 17 Jany.
1881; compiled the Gazetteer of Central Asia 1868 which occupied
him 5 years. _d._ Shepheard’s hotel, Cairo 5 Feb. 1887. _bur._
Glengyle on shores of Loch Katrine. _The life of Sir C. M.
Macgregor. Ed. by Lady Macgregor_ 2 _vols._ (1883), _portrait_.
MC GREGOR, SIR DUNCAN. _b._ 16 March 1787; ensign or lieut. 72
foot 31 Aug. 1801; captain 78 foot 17 April 1804, major 25 Nov.
1813, placed on h.p. 25 April 1816; major 31 foot 29 Jany. 1824,
placed on h.p. 26 May 1825; lieut.-col. 93 foot 23 March 1826,
placed on h.p. 27 July 1838; served in Sicily and Italy 1806,
in Egypt 1807 and in the Peninsula 1813–4; lieut.-col. 93 foot
23 March 1826 to 27 July 1838 when placed on h.p.; inspector
general of constabulary force, Ireland 1838–58; general 28 Oct.
1864; K.C.B. 28 Dec. 1848 for his services in Ireland; retired
from the army Oct. 1877; author of A narrative of the loss of
the Kent. By A Passenger 1825, 7 ed. 1860. _d._ 2 Vanbrugh park,
Blackheath, Kent 8 June 1881.
NOTE.--While major of 31 regt. on board the Kent East Indiaman, she
took fire 1 March 1825 in the Bay of Biscay, and he was instrumental in
saving the lives of the passengers.
MACGREGOR, SIR GEORGE HALL (son of general John A. P. Macgregor
_d._ 1868). _b._ 1810; ed. Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery
16 June 1826, lieut.-col. 18 May 1856, retired 22 Dec. 1858;
political assistant and military sec. to sir W. H. Macnaghten,
envoy to Shah Soojah 1838, present at capture of Ghuznee 1839;
assisted in capturing Hyder Khan; political agent with Sale’s
brigade 1841, present at capture of Cabul; assistant to sir
Henry Lawrence at Lahore 1846; brigade general during the mutiny
1857, present at capture of Lucknow 1858; had 3rd class of the
Douranee empire 1839 and second class 1840; major general on
retired list 18 March 1859; C.B. 10 Oct. 1842, K.C.B. 24 June