Mackarness_ (1892), _portrait_; _C. M. Davies’s Orthodox London_
(1875) 129–34, 394; _Church portrait journal_, _iii_ 65 (1882),
_portrait_; _Illust. Times 26 Jany. 1870 p._ 73, _portrait_;
_I.L.N. lvi_ 13, 14 (1870), _portrait_.
MACKARNESS, MATILDA ANNE (younger dau. of James Robinson
Planché, Somerset herald 1796–1880). _b._ 1826; author of Old
Jolliffe not a goblin story 1845; A trap to catch a sunbeam
1849, 42 ed. 1882; Thrift or hints for cottage housekeeping
1855; Minnie’s love 1860; Sunbeam stories 2 vols. 1860; The
naughty girl of the family 1866; A peerless wife 3 vols. 1871;
A mingled yarn 3 vols. 1872; The young lady’s book 1876; Sweet
flowers, ten stories 1877; A woman without a head 1892, and 50
other books for young people; (_m._ Henry Smith Mackarness,
vicar of Ash, Kent 1857, he _d._ 26 Dec. 1868). She _d._ 1 Royal
crescent, Margate 6 May 1881. _bur._ in churchyard of Ash.
MACKAY, MRS. _b._ Strathy, Sutherlandshire; (_m._ sergeant
Mackay of the 42 highlanders); went with the army to the Crimea
1854; one of the first nurses enlisted by Florence Nightingale
for service in the Crimea 1854. _d._ Golspie, Scotland, Oct.
1890.
MACKAY, ALEXANDER. _b._ Scotland 1808; conducted a newspaper in
Toronto; resided in Canada several years; on the staff of the
Morning Chronicle in London to 1849; barrister M.T. 7 May 1847;
sent by chambers of commerce of Manchester, Liverpool, Blackburn
and Glasgow to inquire into cultivation of cotton in India
1851; author of Electoral districts 1848; The Western world, or
travels in the United States 3 vols. 1849; The crisis in Canada