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1857. _Stewart’s Scottish Highlanders_, _ii_ 292–322 (1822);
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_Mackinnon’s Coldstream Guards_, _ii_ 214–17 (1833).
MACDONELL, JAMES (eld. son of James Macdonell, excise officer
_d._ 1858). _b._ Dyce, Aberdeenshire 21 April 1842; left the
church of Rome and joined the Baptists 1860; wrote leading
articles in the Aberdeen Free Press 1858; on the staff of Daily
Review in Edinb. 1862; editor of the Northern Daily Express
at Newcastle 1862 at £150 a year to 1865; on the staff of the
Daily Telegraph in London 1865–75, the special correspondent in
France 9 Dec. 1871 to May 1872; leader writer on The Times 25
March 1875 to death; wrote many articles in Fraser’s Mag., North
British Review and Macmillan’s Mag.; author of France since
the first empire 1879. _d._ 78 Gower st. Bedford sq. London 2
March 1879. _bur._ Beckenham churchyard, Kent 6 March. _James
Macdonell, journalist. By W. R. Nicoll_ (1890), _portrait_.
MC DONNELL, SIR ALEXANDER, 1 Baronet (eld. son of James Mc
Donnell, M.D.) _b._ Belfast 1794; ed. at Westminster 1809–13,
King’s scholar 1809; student of Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1813–26; B.A. 1816,
M.A. 1820; barrister L.I. 23 Nov. 1824; a comr. of inquiry into
public charities; chief clerk in office of chief secretary for
Ireland; resident comr. of Irish board of education 1839 to Dec.
1871, being thus the real creator of England’s one successful
institution in Ireland; P.C. Ireland 1846; created baronet 20
Jany. 1872. _d._ 32 Upper Fitzwilliam st. Dublin 21 Jany. 1875.
_bur._ at Kilsharvan near Drogheda. _Spectator 20 Feb. 1875 pp._
240–1.
MC DONNEL, SIR EDWARD. _b._ Dublin 1806; a paper manufacturer,
Dublin; chairman of Great southern and western railway of
Ireland 1849 to death, knighted by earl of Clarendon on opening
this railway to Cork 1849; lord mayor of Dublin 1854. _d._ 31
Merrion square south, Dublin 22 Nov. 1860.
MC DONNELL, EDWARD (son of sir Edward Mc Donnell of Dunfeirth
house, Kildare). Resident Melbourne, Australia to 1866;
professor in Xavier coll. Calcutta, Jany. 1866; on the staff of
the Calcutta Englishman 1866; editor of Lahore chronicle 1867;
sub-editor of Bombay gazette 1867, then special correspondent on
staff of general Napier in Abyssinia; in Dublin, June 1868. _The
Newspaper Press 1 Feb. 1869 p._ 49.
MAC DONNELL, ENEAS (4 son of Charles Mac Donnell of Clonagh,
co. Mayo). _b._ Westport, co. Mayo 27 July 1783; ed. at lay
college of Maynooth; one of chief promoters of cause of Catholic
emancipation 1810–23, when new catholic association was formed;
agent to Irish catholics in England 1824–29; imprisoned for
an alleged libel against the government 1816, and for another
alleged libel against the character of archdeacon French 1828;
author of The hermit of Glenconella, a tale 1820; Catholic
question, letters on securities 1829; The Roman catholic oath
considered 1835; Vindication of the house of lords, letters to
The Times 1836; The ‘Crisis’ unmasked 1843; Letter to W. E.
Gladstone respecting the Maynooth grant 1845; Address and advice
to his countrymen 1849. _d._ Lara, Kildare 3 Jany. 1858. _Law
Times_, _xxxi_ 178 (1858).
MC DONNELL, RANDAL W. Called to bar in Ireland 1856; Q.C. 30
Jany. 1869. _d._ Bournemouth 5 Jany. 1875.
MAC DONNELL, RICHARD (eld. son of Robert Mac Donnell of Douglas,
co. Cork). _b._ 1787; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar
1803, B.A. 1805, LL.B. 1810, LL.D. 1813, M.A., B.D. and D.D.
1821; fellow of his college 1808, senior fellow Nov. 1836 to
1852, Donegal lecturer 1820–7; professor of oratory in Trin.
coll. Dublin 1816–52, regius professor of laws 1840–1, regius
professor of Greek 1843–52, provost 24 Jany. 1852 to death. _d._
Provost’s house, Trinity college, Dublin 24 Jany. 1867. _bur._
under chapel of Trin. coll. 28 Jany.
MACDONNELL, SIR RICHARD GRAVES (eld. son of Richard Macdonnell
_d._ 1867). _b._ Dublin 3 Sep. 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin,
scholar 1833, B.A. 1835, M.A. 1836, LL.B. 1845, LL.D. 1862;
called to Irish bar 1838; barrister L.I. 25 Jany. 1841; chief
justice of the Gambia 20 July 1843 to 1 Oct. 1847; governor
of British settlements on the Gambia 1 Oct. 1847 to 23 Feb.
1852, conducted several exploring expeditions opening up the
interior of Africa from the Gambia to the Senegal; administrator
of St. Vincent 23 Feb. 1852 to 6 Nov. 1854; governor of South
Australia 8 June 1855 to 4 March 1862; lieut.-governor of Nova
Scotia 28 May 1864 to Oct. 1865; governor of Hong Kong 19 Oct.
1865, retired on pension 1872; C.B. 12 Feb. 1852; knighted at
Buckingham palace 28 Jany. 1856; K.C.M.G. 23 Feb. 1871. _d._
Hyères, France 5 Feb. 1881. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 14 Feb.
_I.L.N. lxxviii_ 220, 222 (1881), _portrait_.
MC DONNELL, ROBERT (2 son of John Mc Donnell, M.D. medical
commissioner of local government board, _b._ 1796, living 1889).
_b._ Dublin 15 March 1828; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1844, B.A.
and M.B. 1850, M.D. 1857; apprenticed to Richard Carmichael,
surgeon 1845–9; M.R.C.S. Ireland 1851, F.R.C.S. 1853, pres.
1877; attached to British hospital at Smyrna 1855 and to general
hospital in camp before Sebastopol 1855–6; demonstrator of
anatomy in Carmichael school of medicine Dublin 1856, lecturer
on anatomy and physiology; medical superintendent of Mountjoy
prison 1857–67; surgeon to Jervis st. hospital Dublin 1863;
M.D. Queen’s univ. Ireland 1864; surgeon to Stevens’s hospital,
Dublin, and professor of descriptive anatomy in its medical
school 1866; member of council of univ. of Dublin twice;
F.R.S. 1 June 1865; pres. of academy of medicine in Ireland
1885–8; author of many scientific papers; edited Selections
from the works of A. Colles in New Sydenham Soc. 1881; author
of Observations on the function of the liver 1865; Lectures on
surgery, two parts 1871–75; What has experimental physiology
done 1882. _d._ 89 Merrion sq. west, Dublin 6 May 1889. _Sir
C. Cameron’s History of college of surgeons in Ireland_ (1886)
429–32.
MC DONNELL, THOMAS. _b._ 1793; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin,
scholar 1811, B.A. 1813; called to Irish bar 1816; Q.C. 1 July
1837; a crown prosecutor for co. of Down. _d._ Eglantine hill
near Belfast 25 Sep. 1878.
MC DONOGH, ALLEN. _b._ Galway 1804; one of the best known
steeplechasers in Ireland; won a steeplechase on Sir William
1830, sold him to John Elmore for £350 who resold him to lord
Cranstown for £1000; rode Sir William in a match for £1000
against Jerry for 4 miles over the Quorn country and won; won
over 20 steeplechases on Brunette a mare belonging to Mr.
Preston 1847 etc. _d._ Dublin, May 1888. _Baily’s Mag. xlix_
269–70 (1888).
MC DONOGH, FRANCIS (son of Morgan Mc Donogh of Sligo). _b._
1806; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1825, M.A. 1864; called
to Irish bar 1829; Q.C. 2 Nov. 1842; counsel to inland revenue
department; one of counsel for the defence of D. O’Connell 1843;
contested Carrickfergus 2 April 1857; M.P. Sligo 1860–65. _d._
41 Rutland sq. Dublin 18 April 1882. _Irish law times_, _xvi_
177 (1882).
MAC DOUALL, CHARLES. _b._ 1814; professor of humanity, Queen’s
coll. Belfast, Oct. 1849, then professor of Greek 1851 to death;
author of A discourse on the study of oriental languages 1849.
_d._ Belfast 24 Feb. 1883; his library sold at Sotheby’s, London
20–23 Feb. 1884. _Testimonials in favor of C. Mac Douall as
candidate for Greek chair in Univ. of Edinb._ 1852.
MACDOUGAL, DONALD (son of a farmer). _b._ 1800; apprentice to
Mr. Bremner, draper, Inverness; a draper Inverness, waited
upon customers in their hotels with selections of his goods,
originator of the tweed trade in Scotland; chief exhibitioner at
Great Exhibition of 1851 of tweeds, plaids, brooches, shawls,
&c., his stall became famous and was figured in I.L.N., he was
also noticed in Punch 1851; became an advertiser with the motto
‘When you are in the Highlands visit Macdougal’s’; in 1856
paid his creditors in full and was entertained at a banquet in
Glasgow 30 April 1857; made a speciality of tartans and plaids;
retired 1861; gave a working men’s club to Inverness 1862;
presented with his bust in Carrara marble 18 March 1879. _The
Biograph_, _v_ 544–9 (1881).
MAC DOUGAL, THOMAS ST. CLAIR. _b._ Jany. 1804; a master in
Islington proprietory school; first master of lower department
of city of London school 1837 to Dec. 1874; author of
Descriptive outlines of modern geography and a short account
of Palestine 1835, 12 ed. 1857. _d._ 107 Stockwell park road,
Brixton 10 March 1880. _City Press 13 March 1880 p._ 3.
MC DOUGALL, ARCHIBALD. _b._ Tarbut Kintyre, Argyllshire; ed. at
univ. of Edinb.; governor of Edinb. orphan hospital 1839–43;
minister of Kirkfield ch. Gorbals, Glasgow 1843–47; minister of
Argyll ch. Glasgow 1847; author of The family text book 1880.
_J. Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy_ (1849) 398–400.
MAC DOUGALL, SIR DUNCAN (son of Patrick Mac Dougall of Soroba,
Argyllshire). _b._ Soroba 1790; entered army 1804, served
in Spain, France, America, West Indies and Cape of Good
Hope; brigadier general second in command and quartermaster
general in British auxiliary legion of Spain; lieut.-col. 79
highlanders 6 Sep. 1833 to 13 March 1835; knighted at St.
James’s palace 18 July 1838; raised and disciplined Royal
Lancashire artillery 1853, lieut.-col. commandant 15 April 1853
to 23 May 1857; author of Remarks on the military sanitary
commission, suggestions for the improvement of the soldiery and
prevention of drunkenness 1838; Remarks on national defence and
the instruction of volunteer corps 1860; The history of the
volunteer movement 2 ed. 1861. _d._ 112 Eaton sq. London 10 Dec.
1862.
MC DOUGALL, FRANCIS THOMAS (only son of Wm. Adair Mc Dougall,
captain 88 foot). _b._ Sydenham, Kent 1817; medical student
King’s college, London 1835, demonstrator of anatomy there 1838;
M.R.C.S. 1839, F.R.C.S. 1854; matric. from Magd. hall, Oxf.,
B.A. 1844, M.A. 1845, D.C.L. 1854; rowed bow oar in the Oxford
eight against Cambridge 1842; superintended iron-works in South
Wales which failed 1842–4; C. of Framingham, Pigot 1845–6; C.
of St. Mark’s, Lakenham 1846; C. of Ch. Ch. Woburn sq. London
1846; went to Borneo as a missionary 30 Dec. 1847; bishop of
Labuan 6 Aug. 1855, consecrated at Calcutta 18 Oct. 1855, it
was the first consecration that had taken place out of England;
also bishop of Sarawak by appointment from the Rajah, Dec.
1855, resigned April 1868; V. of Godmanchester, Hunts. 1868–74;
archdeacon of Huntingdon 1870–4; canon of Ely 1871–3; canon of
Winchester 16 Oct. 1873 to death; archdeacon of Isle of Wight
1874 to death; V. of Milford, Hants. 1881–5; R. of Mottistone
with Shorwell, Isle of Wight 1885 to death; (_m._ July 1843
Harriette 2 dau. of Robert John Bunyon, she preached to the
native women of Borneo, she was author of Letters from Sarawak
addressed to a child 1854, and Sketches of our life at Sarawak
1882, she _d._ Shorwell 7 May 1886); author of Life in death, a
sermon with memoir of Capt. J. M. Boyd 3 ed. 1861; A catechism
of the christian religion. English and Malay 1868. He _d._
Winchester 16 Nov. 1886. _bur._ Shorwell 20 Nov. _C. J. Bunyon’s
Memoirs of F. T. Mc Dougall and of Harriette his wife_ (1889), 2
_portraits_.
MC DOUGALL, HENRY JOHN. _b._ 1820; pupil and dresser at Exeter
hospital; ed. Univ. coll. hospital, London, one of the house
surgeons; M.R.C.S. 1844; in practice in Henrietta st. Cavendish
sq. London; intense study of the microscope led to disease
of the brain; wrote on Spermatorrhœa in the Medical Times;
translated F. Lallemand’s A practical treatise on the cause of
spermatorrhœa 1847, 2 ed. 1851. _d._ Exeter 18 June 1853.
M’DOUGALL, SIR JOHN (2 son of Patrick M’Dougall of Dunolly
castle, co. Argyle). _b._ Edinburgh 1790; entered navy 16 Dec.
1802; lieut. of the Superb at bombardment of Algiers 27 Aug.
1816; captain 16 Aug. 1836; commander of Nimrod 1833, Vulture
1845 and La Hogue 1849; senior officer at Hong Kong at capture
of Bogue forts 1847; admiralty superintendent of packets at
Southampton 1855; R.A. 12 May 1857, V.A. 3 Nov. 1863; K.C.B. 10
Nov. 1862. _d._ Dunolly 12 April 1865.
MAC DOUGALL, NIEL PATRICK. _b._ 1812; entered Bombay army 1826;
ensign 9 Bombay N.I. 27 June 1827; lieut. 13 N.I. 21 Aug. 1835,
major 1 Aug. 1850 to 1 May 1855; lieut.-col. of 21 N.I. 1 May
1855 to 1857; lieut.-col. of 16 N.I. 1857–8, of 2 N.I. 1858–9,
and of 8 N.I. 1859–61; commandant at Skikarpore 1858–9, and at
Sattara 1859–60; retired M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. _d._ Ootacamund,
Madras 10 June 1865.
MAC DOUGALL, PATRICK CAMPBELL (son of Hugh Mac Dougall, parish
minister at Killin). _b._ Killin 1806; ed. at Edinburgh high
sch. and univ.; classical master in Edinburgh academy 1834–44;
prof. of moral philosophy in the New or Free church coll.
Edinburgh 1844–53; prof. of moral philosophy in univ. of
Edinburgh 1 Nov. 1853 to death; author of Introductory lecture
on moral philosophy, at the inauguration of the New college
1851; Papers on literary and philosophical subjects 1852. _d._
9 Buckingham terrace, Edinburgh 30 Dec. 1867. _Grant’s Univ. of
Edinb. ii_ 77, 347–8 (1884).
M’DOUGALL, WILLIAM. _b._ Inverary; ed. at univ. of Glasgow;
minister of Relief ch. Campbeltown 1823, of Kilmarnock 1827 and
of Thread st. ch. Paisley 1843; author of The Saviour’s trouble
of soul in anticipation of his sufferings 1836; Discourses 1848.
_J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1849) 319–25.
MACDOWALL, CHARLES (son of Wm. Macdowall, watchmaker). _b._
Pontefract 6 April 1790; apprentice to a chemist; repaired
a repeater watch without any instruction; a watchmaker at
Wakefield; invented the helix lever clock 1831; at 21 Church
st. Kensington, London 1836; invented the helix lever watch and
the helix lever escape; patronised by the duke of Sussex when
at Kensington palace, where he attended at the conversaziones
to explain the inventions; removed to 41 St. James’ st. Pall
Mall 1839, to 8 Victoria road, Pimlico 1840, and to 30 Hyde
st. Bloomsbury 1848; patented the single pin escapement, for
which he received bronze medal at Great Exhibition of 1851;
experimented on the three-leg gravity escapement; re-invented
the spiral drill. _d._ 26 Jermyn st. London 27 Oct. 1872. _The
Horological Journal_, _Sep. 1873 pp._ 5–9, _portrait_.
M’DOWALL, CHARLES (only son of Robert M’Dowall of Sheffield).
_b._ 1837; ed. Univ. coll. Oxf., scholar 1856–62; B.A. 1859,
M.A. 1865, B.D. and D.D. 1882; head master’s assistant Rossall
sch.; senior assistant master Malvern coll. 1864–74; head master
Cholmeley high sch. Highgate, London, Jany. 1874 to death; preb.
of St. Paul’s, April 1883 to death. _d._ Cholmeley school house
29 June 1893.
MACDOWALL, DAY HORT. _b._ 3 July 1795; ensign 52 foot 15 April
1813; major 44 foot 27 Nov. 1828 to 21 Feb. 1840 when placed on
h.p.; col. 3 Buffs. 9 Sep. 1864 to death; L.G. 4 March 1866.
_d._ 14 Sep. 1870.
M’DOWALL, WILLIAM (son of a traveller for a cabinet-making
firm). _b._ Maxwelltown, Kirkcudbrightshire 21 July 1815;
learnt bookbinding in Dumfries, Glasgow and London; on the
staff of the Scottish Herald 1843; editor of the Dumfries and
Galloway Standard 1846–53 and 1854 to death; edited a Sunderland
paper 1853–4; author of The man of the woods and other poems
1844, 2 ed. 1882; Burns in Dumfriesshire 1870; History of the
burgh Dumfries 1867, 2 ed. 1873; Memorials of St. Michael’s
churchyard, Dumfries 1876; The mind in the face 1882, 3 ed.
1888; Chronicles of Lincluden as an abbey and as a college 1886;
Among the old Scottish minstrels 1888. _d._ Dumfries 28 Oct.
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