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MACLAGAN, PHILIP WHITESIDE (son of David Maclagan, M.D., _d._
1865). L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1839; M.D. Edinb. 1840; assistant
surgeon in the army 15 Jany. 1841; assistant surgeon royal
Canadian rifle regiment 19 Dec. 1845; surgeon 20 foot 24 Sep.
1850, resigned 3 Dec. 1853; much interested in philanthropic
movements; botanist. _d._ Berwick 26 May 1892; memorial fountain
unveiled in High st. Berwick 14 June 1893. _Daily Graphic 17
June 1893 p._ 5, _view of fountain_.
MACLAINE, SIR ARCHIBALD (2 son of Gillean Maclaine of Scalasdale
in the Isle of Mull, _d._ 23 Nov. 1778 aged 64). _b._ 13 Jany.
1773; ensign 94 foot 16 April 1794; held Matagorda an outwork of
Cadiz with 155 men against 8000 French under marshal Soult 22
Feb. to 22 April 1810; major 87 foot 4 Oct. 1810; lieut.-col.
7 West India regiment of foot 25 Jany. 1813 to 25 April 1816;
lieut.-col. 14 foot 9 Aug. 1821 to 4 Nov. 1822; lieut.-col. 17
foot 4 Nov. 1822 to 30 July 1829 when placed on h.p.; colonel
of 52 foot 8 Feb. 1847 to death; C.B. 4 June 1815; knighted at
St. James’s palace 19 Oct. 1831; K.C.B. 6 April 1852; knight of
order of Charles the Third of Spain 1816; general 5 June 1855.
_d._ 68 Cumberland st. Hyde park, London 9 March 1861. _bur._
Highgate cemet.
MACLAINE, HECTOR (1 son of William Osborne Maclaine). _b._
Murtle, Aberdeenshire 24 Nov. 1851; ed. Eton and Woolwich;
lieut. R.A. 6 Jany. 1872 to death; in India 1873–4, returned
to India 1879, on service in Kandahar 1880, in the action at
Maiwand 27 July 1880 showed great bravery and energy in working
his guns under fire; while in search of water on 28 July was
taken prisoner, was returned as killed or missing and name
taken out of army list in Aug.; imprisoned at Kokaran from 30
July; _murdered_ by his captors at Kandahar 1 Sep. 1880 and his
body soon after found by 92nd highlanders. _bur._ Kandahar with
military honours. _Shadbolt’s Afghan Campaign_ (1882) 131–4,
_portrait_.
MAC LAREN, ARCHIBALD. _b._ 1819; proprietor of the Gymnasium,
Alfred st. Oxford to death; the British army is trained on his
principles and in gymnasia which he invented; wrote Systematized
exercise, expansion and developement of the chest. Macmillan’s
Mag. Nov. 1890 pp. 35–40; author of A military system of
gymnastic exercises for the use of instructors 1862, 2 ed. 1868;
A system of fencing for the use of instructors in the army
1864; A system of physical education, theoretical and practical
1866; Training in theory and practice 1866, 2 ed. 1874. _d._
Summertown near Oxford 19 Feb. 1884.
MACLAREN, CHARLES (only child of a small farmer). _b._
Ormiston, Haddingtonshire 7 Oct. 1782; clerk to several firms
at Edinburgh; established with others The Scotsman 25 Jany.
1817, joint editor 1817–18 and 1820–45; a clerk in the custom
house 1818–20; edited 6th ed. of Encyclopædia Britannica 20
vols. 1822, for which he wrote articles America, Europe,
Greece, Physical geography and Troy; F.R.S. Edinb. 1837; F.G.S.
1846, pres. of Geol. Soc. of Edinb. 1864 to death; author of
A dissertation on the topography of the plain of Troy, 1822,
reissued as The plains of Troy described 1863; A sketch of the
geology of Fife and the Lothians 1839, 2 ed. 1866. _d._ Moreland
cottage, Edinburgh 10 Sep. 1866. _R. Cox and J. Nicol’s Select
writings of C. Maclaren_ 2 _vols._ (1869), _portrait_.
MC LAREN, DUNCAN (son of John Mc Laren, farmer). _b._ Renton,
Dumbartonshire 12 Jany. 1800; a draper in a shop opposite St.
Giles’s ch. Edinb. 1824; member of town council Edinb. 1833,
baillie, treasurer, lord provost 1851–4; chairman of Edinburgh
chamber of commerce; contested Edinb. 1852, M.P. Edinb. 1865–81,
used to be called in the house the Member for Scotland;
established the Heriot free schools, Edinb. 1836; author of
History of the resistance to the annuity tax under each of the
four church establishments for which it has been levied 1836, 4
ed. 1851; Facts regarding the seat rents of the city churches of
Edinburgh 1840. _d._ Newington house, Edinburgh 26 April 1886,
portrait in council chamber, Edinb. _J. B. Mackie’s Life and
works of D. Mc Laren_ 2 _vols._ (1888), 2 _portraits_.
M’LAREN, JAMES. _b._ Polmont, Stirlingshire 1829; general
superintendent North British railway co. 1843 to death, the
oldest official connected with the company. _d._ Edinburgh 30
Oct. 1893.
M’LAREN, JOHN H. _b._ Scotland 1827; assistant secretary to
Royal insurance company at Liverpool about 1855, general manager
1872 to death; effected amalgamations with other companies, that
with the Queen insurance co. in 1891 being the greatest. _d._
Claughton, Birkenhead 13 Nov. 1893.
MC LAUCHLAN, HENRY. _b._ 1791; surveyor in connection with the
manors commission, and resident at Truro for some years; F.G.S.
1832; employed on ordnance trigonometrical survey 1830; wrote
Notes to accompany geological map of forest of Dean, in Trans.
Geol. Soc. v. pt. 1; Memoir made during a survey of the Watling
street from the Tees to the Scotch border 1852; The Roman wall
and vestiges of Roman occupation in the North of England 1857;
Memoir written during a survey of the Roman wall 1858. _d._ 14
Liston road, Clapham, Surrey 4 Jany. 1881. _Quart. Journ. Geol.
Soc. xxxviii proceedings p._ 53 (1882); _Boase and Courtney’s
Bibl. Cornub._ (1874) 333.
MACLAUCHLAN, THOMAS (youngest son of James Maclauchlan, minister
of Moy, Inverness). _b._ Moy, Jany. 1816; ed. at Aberdeen univ.,
M.A. 1833, LL.D. 1864; colleague to his father at Moy 1837–43;
Free church minister at Stratherrick, Loch Ness, Invernessshire
1844–9 and at Free St. Columba’s, Edinb. 1849; convener of
committee on highlands and islands 1850; moderator of Free
church assembly 1876; F.S.A. Scotland 1856, member of council
1875–8, vice pres. 1879–82; author of The depopulation system in
the Highlands 1849; The way to God, or the doctrine of Christ’s
mediatorship explained 1853; The poems of Ossian 1859 in Gaelic;
Celtic gleanings, history and literature of the Scottish Gaels
1857; The early Scotch church 1865. _d._ Edinburgh 21 March 1886.
MC LAUGHLAN, JOHN (son of a Highland Scotchman). _b._ Dovenby
near Cockermouth 1791; a labourer known as Clattan; tallest man
in Cumberland, 6 feet 6 inches in height; appeared as a wrestler
at Carlisle 1817, threw all his competitors; thrown by Wm.
Wilson at Keswick 1819; carried off prizes at Whitehaven, Aug.
1825, at Workington races Aug. 1828, and at Keswick, Sep. 1828;
umpire at Dovenby races June 1829; gained prize at Cockermouth,
Aug. 1830, and at Liverpool 1837; thrown by John Selkirk at
Liverpool 1840; made a tour with the pugilists Tom Molyneaux and
Jack Carter in England and Scotland lasting 5 years; landlord of
The Highlandman or Rising Sun in Market place, Whitehaven many
years to 1839; employed about the docks in Liverpool several
years. _d._ Liverpool, Oct. 1876. _J. Robinson and S. Gilpin’s
Wrestling_ (1893) 208–218.
MC LAUGHLIN, HUBERT. _b._ 1805; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A.
1828, M.A. 1832; chaplain at Nice; R. of Burford, Salop, 1st
portion, 9 March 1838 to death; rural dean of West division of
Burford 1843 to death; preb. of Hereford 1857 to death; author
of A tract on church extension 1851; Biographical sketches of
ancient Irish saints 1874. _d._ Boraston rectory 15 Dec. 1882.
_Times 21 Dec. 1882 p._ 4 _col._ 4.
MACLAY, ARCHIBALD. _b._ Killearn near Glasgow 14 May 1776;
ed. Edinb. univ.; presbyterian minister Kirkcaldy 1802–1805;
minister of a congregational ch. in New York 1805–1809; pastor
of a baptist ch. New York 1809–38; general agent of American
and foreign Bible soc. 1838; an organizer of Bible translation
soc. of England, and in forming American Bible union 1850, of
which he became general agent and then president; obtained an
endowment for Maclay baptist coll. Canada; author of A selection
of hymns. New York 1816; An address at Hope st. Baptist chapel,
Glasgow 1840. _d._ New York city 2 May 1860. _Appleton’s
American biography iv_ 141–2 (1888).
MACLAY, MIKLUOHO (of Scottish and Cossack parentage). _b._ 1846;
ed. at St. Petersburg univ. and in Germany in 1860; a traveller
and explorer in New Guinea 1866 etc.; known as the king of the
Papuans; proposed to the Russian government to found a colony in
New Guinea 1887. _d._ Wylie’s hospital, St. Petersburg 15 April
1888.
MACLEA, CHARLES GASCOIGNE. _b._ 1793; member of firm of Maclea
and March, machine-makers, Dewsbury road, Leeds; had an European
fame as a maker of flax-spinning and other machinery; retired
from business Jany. 1843; chairman of Leeds and Yorkshire
insurance co. 1847–63; alderman of Leeds 1842–62, mayor 1846; a
juror for tools and manufacturing machines at Great Exhibition
1851; presented a font to St. Mark’s ch. Woodhouse. _d._
Blenheim terrace, Leeds 24 May 1864. _R. V. Taylor’s Biographia
Leodiensis_ (1865) 516–8; _Mayhall’s Annals of Yorkshire_, _i_
641, _ii_ 251–2 (1878).
MACLEAN, ALEXANDER (son of David Maclean of Glasgow,
manufacturer). _b._ Nov. 1840; in business at Glasgow to 1861;
studied painting at Rome, Florence and Antwerp; exhibited 7
pictures at R.A. 1872–7; his best pictures are Covent Garden
Market 1874, Looking Back 1876, At the railings, St. Paul’s,
Covent Garden 1877. _d._ St. Leonard’s-on-Sea 30 Oct. 1877.
MACLEAN, ALLAN THOMAS (2 son of Archibald Maclean of
Penny-cross, co. Argyle). _b._ 1791; cornet 13 hussars 23 Aug.
1810, lieut.-col. 11 July 1834 to 1 Aug. 1840 when placed on
h.p.; col. 13 hussars 12 Nov. 1860 to death; L.G. 20 Dec. 1861;
served in Peninsular war from Dec. 1810 until wounded and taken
prisoner at Conches, March 1814; received silver war medal with
6 clasps. _d._ Oxford sq. London 9 Dec. 1868. _Reg. and mag. of
biog. i_ 113, 358, 525 (1869).
MC LEAN, ARCHIBALD (son of Neil Mc Lean of Mull, Scotland, a
member of legislative council of Canada). _b._ St. Andrew’s,
April 1791; in Canadian army 1812; A.Q.M.G., and on the staff;
a prisoner at Lundy’s Lane till end of the war; barrister at
York, Canada; a representative for Stormont and Cornwall in
legislative assembly of Upper Canada, and twice elected speaker;
judge of court of King’s bench 1837–56; chief justice of Upper
Canada 1856, president of the court of error and appeal to
death. _d._ Toronto 1865. _Appleton’s American biography_, _iv_
142–3 (1888).
MACLEAN, ARCHIBALD. Rear admiral in German navy. _d._ Berlin 7
Nov. 1884.
MC LEAN, CHARLES. Carver and gilder at 181 Fleet st. London
1838, afterwards at 78 and 79 Fleet st. to 1869; manager of
Commercial plate glass co. at 78 and 79 Fleet st.; started Fun
in 1861 and Banter at 183 Fleet st. 2 Sep. 1867, ran to 4 Nov.
1867; Charles Mc Lean junior published Fun at 80 Fleet st. _d._
1869.
MACLEAN, SIR CHARLES FITZROY, 9 Baronet (son of sir Fitzroy
Jeffries Grafton Maclean, 8 baronet _d._ 5 July 1847). _b._ 14
Oct. 1798; ed. at Eton; ensign Scots fusilier guards 10 Oct.
1816; captain 81 foot 7 Aug. 1823, lieut.-col. 16 March 1832,
placed on h.p. 25 Oct. 1839; military secretary at Gibraltar;
colonel 9 Nov. 1846. _d._ West Cliff house, Sandgate road,
Folkestone 27 Dec. 1883.
MACLEAN, DONALD (brother of sir C. F. Maclean 1798–1883). _b._
1800; ed. at Eton and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1823, M.A.
1827, D.C.L. 1844; took a leading part in formation of the
Union society; barrister L.I. 9 Feb. 1827; M.P. city of Oxford
1835–47. _d._ Rome 21 March 1874.
MC LEAN, SIR DONALD (4 son of John Mc Lean). _b._ Kilmonaig near
Tiree, Argyllshire 27 Oct. 1820; employed in a merchant’s office
at Sydney 1837–9; learnt the Maori language; clerk in office of
protector of the aborigines, New Zealand 1840; local protector
for the Taranaki district 1844, inspector of police for Taranaki
1845; comr. for negotiating purchases of lands from the natives
5 March 1847 to 1863; resident magistrate Taranaki 1850–63; the
first native secretary 1856–63; member of provincial council
and superintendent of Hawke’s Bay province 4 March 1863; member
of legislative assembly 1866; native minister and minister for
colonial defence June 1869 to Dec. 1876; C.M.G. 28 July 1870,
K.C.M.G. 23 July 1874. _d._ New Zealand 5 Jany. 1877. _W.
Gisborne’s New Zealand rulers_ (1886) 163, 248, 289, _portrait_.
MACLEAN, SIR GEORGE (eld. son of Wm. Maclean of Dysart,
Fifeshire). _b._ Dysart 1795; ed. at Edinburgh; entered
commissariat service 1812; commissary general 29 Dec. 1849,
placed on h.p. 20 Oct. 1856; knighted at St. James’s palace 9
June 1854; K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856 _d._ Southampton 29 May 1861.
MC LEAN, HECTOR (3 son of John Donald Mc Lean of Sydney, New
South Wales). Matric. from New coll. Oxf. 26 Jany. 1885 aged 20;
rowed in the University boat against Cambridge 1886 and 1887;
captain of the Oxford university boat club 1887. _d._ of typhoid
fever at Oxford 20 Jany. 1888.
NOTE.--The Clinker Fours, a race between the colleges of the second
division which takes place annually in the month of March were
instituted in his memory.
MACLEAN, HENRY DUNDAS (5 son of Alexander Maclean of Ardgour,
Argyleshire 1764–1855). _b._ 1800; ed. at Harrow; lieut. 90 foot
27 Jany. 1820; captain 95 foot 6 Nov. 1824, major 20 April 1832,
placed on h.p. 17 Nov. 1840, brevet lieut.-col. 9 Nov. 1846;
sheriff of Cumberland 1848. _d._ Lazonby hall, Cumberland 8 Dec.
1863.
MACLEAN, JOHN (son of Charles Maclean of Portsoy, Banffshire).
_b._ 1828; bursar at King’s coll. Aberdeen 1847, M.A. 1851; in
a counting-house in London; ordained by bishop of Ripon 1858;
assistant to bishop of Huron in St. Paul’s cathedral, London,
Toronto 1858–66; warden and divinity professor of St. John’s
college, R. of St. John’s cathedral, Winnipeg and archdeacon of
Assiniboia or Manitoba 1866–74; bishop of Saskatchewan, Rupert’s
Land 1874 to death; consecrated at Lambeth 3 May 1874; secured
a permanent endowment for his see and for Emanuel college at
Alberta which became an university; D.C.L. Trinity college,
Toronto 1871. _d._ Alberta, Rupert’s Land 13 Nov. 1886. _The
Guardian 17 Nov. 1886 p._ 1720.
MACLEAN, JOHN. _b._ 1810; chief comr. for British Kaffraria,
Sep. 1852, lieut. governor Dec. 1860 to 27 March 1865 when
British Kaffraria was reunited to Cape Colony by 28 and 29 Vict.
cap. 5; lieut. governor of Natal 6 Oct. 1864 to Nov. 1866; C.B.
25 Aug. 1857. _d._ East London, British Kaffraria 2 Dec. 1874;
his widow Katharine Louisa Georgina was granted civil list
pension of £100, 19 June 1875 and _d._ 5 Jany. 1878 aged 60.
MACLEAN, JOHN. _b._ London 31 March 1836; gave dramatic
readings; first appeared on the stage at T.R. Plymouth 1859 and
played the King in Hamlet there 1860; acted in Jersey, Guernsey
and Birmingham; appeared at Surrey theatre, London as Peter
Purcell in the Idiot of the mountain 7 Sep. 1861; the original
Mr. Gibson in Tom Taylor’s Ticket-of-Leave man, Olympic theatre
27 May 1863; the original Saunders in Wills’s Man o’ Airlie, at
Princess’s 20 July 1867; acted at Gaiety theatre 21 Dec. 1868 to
1871 and 1872–9, at Olympic 1879–80, at Vaudeville 1881; played
at opening of Princess’s theatre 18 Jany. 1884; played Adam in
As you like it at St. James’s 24 Jany. 1885, and Camillo in the
Winter’s Tale at Lyceum 10 Sep. 1887; acted with Mary Anderson
in U.S. of America 1888; last appeared at Strand theatre as the
Old French nobleman in My Brother’s sister 15 Feb. 1890; founder
and first preceptor of the Logic club of Freemasons. _d._ at his
lodgings, Percy st. Tottenham court road, London 15 March 1890.
_bur._ Paddington cemet. 19 March where memorial monument of red
granite 9 ft. 6 in. in height was unveiled 3 May 1892. _Pascoe’s
Dramatic List_ (1880) 255; _Illust. sp. and dr. news_, _vi_ 575,
592, 593 (1877) _portrait_, _xxii_ 537 (1885) _portrait_, _and
22 March 1890 p._ 44 _portrait_; _The Era 22 March 1890_.
M’LEAN, JOHN DONALD (younger son of Donald M’Lean of Aird, Isle
of Skye). _b._ Aird 1821; emigrated to New South Wales 1837;
grazier and squatter at Westbrook on the Darling downs 1851, was
interested in 40 stations; went to reside near Sydney about Dec.
1859; member of legislative assembly Queensland 1860, colonial
treasurer and member of executive council 21 July 1866 to death.
_d._ Westbrook, Queensland by a fall from his horse 16 Dec.
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