MC NICOLL, THOMAS (5 son of rev. David Mc Nicoll). _b._ 1822;
M.R.C.S. Eng.; editor of London Quarterly Rev. 1853 and a
contributor to its pages to death; conducted The Planet. London
1862, four numbers; author of Essay on English literature 1861.
_d._ 102 Crown street, Liverpool 1 March 1863. _London Quarterly
Review_, _xxxix_ 270, 419 (1863).
MACONOCHIE, ALEXANDER, Lord Meadowbank (eld. son of Allan
Maconochie, Scottish judge 1748–1816). _b._ 2 March 1777;
admitted advocate 2 March 1799; one of the lord advocates depute
1807; sheriff of Haddingtonshire 28 April 1810; solicitor
general 13 Feb. 1813; lord advocate July 1816; M.P. Yarmouth,
Isle of Wight, Feb. 1817 to March 1818; M.P. Kilrenny district
of burghs, March 1818 to June 1819; an ordinary lord of session
and a lord of justiciary with title of lord Meadowbank 1 July
1819 to Nov. 1843; entertained the archduke Nicholas afterwards
emperor of Russia at Meadowbank 1816; succeeded to estates of
Garvock and Pitliver, June 1854, when he assumed additional
surname of Welwood. _d._ Meadowbank house 30 Nov. 1861. _Kay’s
Series of portraits_, _ii_ 21, 353, 432–4, 444, 450, 451 (1877),
2 _portraits_; _Omond’s Lord advocates of Scotland_, _ii_ 225,
231–55 (1883).
MACONOCHIE, ALEXANDER. _b._ 1787; entered R.N. Aug. 1803,
midshipman March 1804; served in West Indies, while on the
Grasshopper taken prisoner by the Dutch 24 Dec. 1811; commander
8 Sep. 1815, retired as a captain 17 Feb. 1855; K.H. 4 May 1836;
in Van Diemen’s Land 1837; governor of Norfolk island 6 March
1840 to 1845; invented the mark system of prison discipline
1846; sec. to London geographical society; sec. to lieut.
governor of Van Diemen’s Land 1849; governor of Birmingham
gaol Oct. 1849 to 17 Oct. 1851; author of Thoughts on convict
management and the Australian penal colonies. Hobart Town 1838,
3 ed. 1839; Crime and punishment, the mark system framed to
mix persuasion with punishment 1846; Emigration with advice
to emigrants 1848; Norfolk island 1847; The principles of
punishment on which the mark system is advocated 1850. _d._
Morden, Surrey 25 Oct. 1860. Mary his widow granted civil list
pension of £60, 14 Feb. 1868.
MACONOCHIE, ALLAN ALEXANDER (1 son of preceding). _b._ 1806;
professor of civil law and law of Scotland in Univ. of Glasgow
1842–55. _d._ Meadowbank house, Kirknewton, Edinburgh 29 May
1885.
MACONOCHIE, ROBERT BLAIR (brother of preceding). _b._ 21 May
1814; ed. Edinb. univ.; writer to the signet 23 Nov. 1837,
partner with Allan Menzies to 1856; clerk of lieutenancy of
Midlothian; clerk and treasurer to trustees of the Dick bequest
1856 to death. _d._ Gattonside near Melrose 4 Oct. 1883.
_Journal of jurisprudence_, _Nov. 1883 p._ 600.
M’OSCAR, WILLIAM. _b._ Lochwinnock, Renfrewshire 7 May 1807;
taught classics and modern languages at Paisley some years;
edited the Ayrshire news letter at Irvine; founded the Glasgow
theatrical review; wrote most of his verse in London, where
he resided over 20 years; assisted in compilation of The
Renfrewshire annual 1841 and contributed The Dominie’s goat,
a tale. _d._ Kilbarchan 11 Jany. 1877. _W. M’Oscar’s Poetical
Works_ (1878), _memoir pp. ix–xiii_, _portrait_.
MACPHERSON, ALEXANDER. _b._ Gairloch 1781; ed. univ. and King’s
coll. Aberdeen, M.A. 1803, D.D. 1849; R. of the Academy at Tain
1814–6; minister of Golspie 5 March 1816 to death; author of On
the perspicuity, perfection and power of the holy scriptures.
Edinb. 1836. _d._ Golspie 6 Aug. 1861. _H. Scott’s Fasti_, _iii
part i_, _pp._ 336–7 (1870).
MC PHERSON, DUNCAN. _b._ 1778; entered Bengal army 1794; lieut.
10 Bengal N.I. 3 Oct. 1796, major 1 Oct. 1815; lieut.-col.
commandant 67 N.I. 182-, col. 5 June 1829 to 8 Oct. 1836;
col. of 16 N.I. 8 Oct. 1836 to death; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846. _d._
Cheltenham 24 Nov. 1853.
MACPHERSON, DUNCAN. Assistant surgeon in Madras army 1836,
surgeon 11 Dec. 1852; served with 37 grenadier regiment in
China 1840–2; served with the irregular horse in the Hyderabad
contingent; head of the medical staff of the Turkish contingent
1855–6; inspector general of medical service of Madras 8 Jany.
1858 to 1 Aug. 1864; hon. phys. and surgeon to the queen 1861
to death; author of Two years in China 1842, 3 ed. 1843;
Antiquities of Kertch and researches in the Cimmerian Bosphorus