_v_ 224, 241, 249 (1821), _portrait_; _Dibdin’s Edinburgh Stage_
(1888) 285–92, 320, 379, 401–3, 416–7, 436, 450–1, _portrait_;
_The Scotsman 4 Nov. 1857 p._ 2; _The Era 8 Nov. 1857 p._ 10;
_Lockhart’s Life of sir W. Scott_ (1845) 389, 789.
NOTE.--He was the original representative in the following dramas
founded on Scott’s works, John Dumbie in The Heart of Midlothian 23
Feb. 1820; Edie Ochiltree in The Antiquary 20 Dec. 1820; Dugal Dalgetty
in The Legend of Montrose 13 March 1822; Caleb Balderston in The Bride
of Lammermoor 1 May 1822; Tony Foster in Kenilworth 1 July 1822; Richie
Moniplies in George Heriot 6 Feb. 1823; Sir Geoffrey Peveril in Peveril
of the Peak 12 April 1823; Friar Tuck in Ivanhoe 24 Nov. 1823; the
baron of Brawardine in Waverley 22 May 1824; Meg Dodds in St. Ronan’s
Well 5 June 1824; Peter Peebles in Redgauntlet 28 May 1825; and Hughie
Morrison in The Two Drovers 10 Nov. 1828.
MACKAY, CHARLES (son of George Mackay of the royal artillery).
_b._ Perth 27 March 1814; ed. at Woolwich 1822, in London 1825
and in Brussels 1828; sec. to William Cockerill, mechanician,
Seraing 1830–2; on staff of Morning Chronicle 1835 to July
1844; edited the Glasgow Argus, Sep. 1844 to July 1847; LL.D.
of Glasgow univ.; political and literary editor of Illustrated
London News 1848–52 and manager 1852 to Dec. 1859; lectured
on poetry and song in the United States and Canada, Oct. 1857
to May 1858; editor of The London review and weekly journal
which appeared 7 July 1860; correspondent for the Times in New
York, March 1862 to Dec. 1865; granted civil list pension of
£100, 19 June 1862; presented with testimonial of £770 at St.
James’s hall, London 27 Dec. 1877; author of A history of London
1838; The Thames and its tributaries 2 vols. 1840; Memoirs of
extraordinary popular delusions 3 vols. 1841, 4 ed. 1892; Songs
of Scotland 1857; The collected songs of C. Mackay 1859; The
Jacobite songs of Scotland 1861; Forty years recollections of
life, literature and public affairs 2 vols. 1877; Luck or what
came of it, a tale 3 vols. 1881; The poetry and humour of the
Scottish language 1882; Through the long day, or memorial of
a literary life 2 vols. 1887. _d._ 47 Longridge road, Earl’s
Court, London 24 Dec. 1889. _Biograph_, _Aug. 1879 pp._ 145–8;
_The Critic_, _xvii_ 752 (1858), _portrait_; _T. Powell’s
Pictures of living authors of Britain_ (1851) 146–49; _I.L.N.
xviii_ 180, 181 (1851) _portrait_, _xx_ 68 (1852) _portrait_;
_Pictorial World 2 Jany. 1890 pp._ 21, 23, _portrait_;
_Reynolds’s Miscellany_, _xxvii_ 105 (1862), _portrait_.
M’KAY, DAVID. _b._ near Brechin 1810; a shoemaker at Lochee near
Dundee 1828 to death; wrote verses for Chambers’ Journal and the
local papers; greatly promoted the welfare of Lochee; chairman
of Burns’ centenary festival Lochee 1859; Lochee correspondent
of Dundee Advertiser 1864. _d._ Lochee 19 Dec. 1868. _Norrie’s
Dundee celebrities_ (1873) 331–3.
MACKAY, GEORGE. L.F.P.S. Glasgow 1833; M.D. Glasgow 1835;
L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1841; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1860; senior assist.
surgeon to H.M. ships in attack on Bogue forts, Canton river
1841; senior medical officer of Agamemnon before Sebastopol
1854; staff surgeon and medical storekeeper, royal hospital,
Plymouth, June 1855; deputy inspector general Hong Kong 29 Dec.
1860 and at Haslar hospital 1865; hon. surgeon to the queen to
death; retired inspector general of hospitals 26 Oct. 1870;
wrote Notes on the cholera at Varna, in Edinb. Med. Journal
1857, and on Medical arrangement in naval actions, in Medical
Times 1854. _d._ Sutherland house, Wellington 26 April 1879.
_The Lancet 3 May 1879 p._ 640.
MACKAY, GEORGE R. ABERIGH (son of James Aberigh Mackay, D.D.,
senior British chaplain, Paris). _b._ 1849; junior professor
government coll. Delhi; on staff of the Pioneer newspaper;
principal of Rájkumár college, Indore; sent newspaper
correspondence to Vanity Fair 1878, Ali Baba letters 1879, and
Baby in partibus 1880; a correspondent of the Bombay Gazette
under name of Political Orphan; author of Notes on Western
Turkistan, Calcutta 1875; The chiefs of Central India 1879, vol.
1 only; The prince’s guide book. The Times of India, handbook
of Hindustan 1875; Twenty-one days in India, being the tour of
Sir Ali Baba 1880, 3 ed. 1881; Serious reflections and other
contributions 1881. _d._ Calcutta 13 Jany. 1881. _Vanity Fair_
(1881) 80, 90, 118; _S. W. O’Neil’s Preparation for death.
Funeral sermon_ (1881).
MACKAY, JAMES TOWNSEND. _b._ Kirkcaldy, Fifeshire 1775; trained
as a gardener; went to Ireland 1803; curator of botanical garden
of Trin. coll. Dublin 1806 to death; A.L.S. 2 Dec. 1806; LL.D.
Dublin 1850; discovered several species of plants new to the
British Isles; contributed much to Sir J. E. Smith’s English
Botany 1790–1814 and to Trans. Royal Irish academy; M.R.I.A.;
author of Flora Hibernica 1836. _d._ 1 Dawson grove, Beggar’s
bush road, Dublin 25 Feb. 1862.
MC KAY, JOHN. _b._ 19 Feb. 1823; served in the ranks 1841–54;
ensign and quartermaster school of musketry 25 Aug. 1854; lieut.
41 foot 1855–9; major 12 foot 1 Aug. 1867, lieut.-col. 1 May
1871, placed on h.p. 10 April 1878; D.A.A.G. school of musketry,
Hythe 1 April 1856 to 30 Sep. 1867; commanded the brigade depot
for counties of Suffolk and Cambridge at Bury St. Edmund’s,
April 1878; awarded distinguished service reward; retired on
pension with rank of M.G. 1 April 1882. _d._ 13 Gwendwr road,
West Kensington, London 14 Oct. 1887.
MACKAY, JOSEPH REILLY (son of rev. Joseph William Mackay
1819–91). _b._ 1849; an artist in black and white; wrote largely
in prose and verse; wrote Peggy 3 act drama produced at Royalty
theatre 14 Feb. 1881; wrote with H. Agoust, Macfarlane’s Will,
pantomime vaudeville in 3 acts produced Imperial theatre 26
Dec. 1881; The Novel Reader, an adaptation by Joseph Mackay
and Sydney Grundy of Meilhac and Halévy’s La Petite Marquise,
was privately performed at Globe theatre 28 Sep. 1882 the lord
chamberlain having refused to license the piece, but on the 25
April 1887 it was produced under title of May and December at
Criterion theatre. _d._ 16 Waterford road, Fulham near London 18
Dec. 1889.
M’KAY, JOSEPH WILLIAM. _b._ Shinrone, King’s county, Ireland 21
May 1819; Wesleyan Methodist minister 1840; D.D. of Victoria
univ. Coburg, Canada; minister at Belfast 1843–5, 1853–6, 1862–5
and from 1871 to death; minister at Dublin 1850–3, 1859–62 and
1868–71; at Cork 1856–9; senior assist. sec. of the conference
1855–70, secretary of the conference 1870–80, vice president
of the conference 1870, 1876 and 1886; representative of the
Irish conference in general conference America 1872, and at the
œcumenical conference London 1881; president Methodist coll.
Belfast 1880 to death; professor of systematic theology to
death. _d._ Belfast college 6 Feb. 1891. _bur._ City cemet. 9
Feb. _Daily Graphic 12 Feb. 1891 p._ 5, _portrait_; _Belfast
News-letter 7 Feb. 1891 p._ 5, _10 Feb. p._ 7.
MACKAY, MACKINTOSH (son of captain Alexander Mackay of
Duard Beg, Sutherlandshire). _b._ 1800; minister of Laggan,
Invernessshire 1825–32; LL.D. Glasgow; minister of Dunoon
1832–43; of Free church, Dunoon 1843–54; moderator of Free
church assembly 1849; minister of the Gaelic church at Melbourne
1854–6 and at Sydney 1856 etc.; minister of Free church at
Tarbett, Harris, Scotland to death; edited Dictionarium
Scoto-Celticum 1828; Songs and poems in Gaelic by R. Mackay.
Inverness 1829; author of Memoirs of J. Ewing, provost of
Glasgow 1866. _d._ 1873.
MACKAY, ROBERT WILLIAM (only son of John Mackay of St. James’,
London). _b._ Piccadilly, London 27 May 1803; ed. at Winchester
and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1828; barrister L.I.
25 Nov. 1828; an original member of Athenæum club, London 1824;
author of The progress of the intellect as exemplified in the
religious development of the Greeks and Hebrews 2 vols. 1850;
A sketch of the rise and progress of Christianity 1854; The
Tübingen school and its antecedents, a review of modern theology
1863; translated The Sophistes of Plato 1868, and Plato’s Meno