M’BEAN, James. b. 1795; presbyterian minister; librarian to univ. of St. Andrews 1839–70. d. 8 Queen st. St. Andrews 26 April 1886.
MACBEAN, Sir William (son of Wm. Frederick Macbean, lieut.-col. 6 foot). b. Southampton 1782; cadet in service of Seven united provinces 1794; ensign 6 foot 20 Feb. 1796, captain 25 Oct. 1804; major on Portuguese and Spanish staff 16 Feb. 1809, brevet lieut.-col. 1811, placed on h.p. 1814; lieut.-col. 100 foot 7 Dec. 1815, regiment was made 99 foot and disbanded at Chatham 2 Sep. 1818 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. 54 foot 5 Oct. 1820, placed on h.p. 1 Oct. 1829; colonel of 92 foot 31 May 1843 to death; general 20 June 1854; K.T.S. 1812; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 13 Sep. 1831. d. St. John’s road, Fulham near London 24 May 1855.
M’BEAN, William. Ensign 93 foot 10 Aug. 1854, lieut.-col. 29 Oct. 1873 to 16 Feb. 1878 when he retired on a pension; M.G. 16 Feb. 1878; V.C. for killing eleven of the enemy with his own hand in the main breach of the Begum Bagh at Lucknow 11 March 1858. d. Herbert hospital, Shooter’s hill, Woolwich 23 June 1878. I.L.N. lxiii 4 (1878), portrait; Graphic, xviii 116 (1878), portrait.
MACBEAN, William Forbes. b. 5 June 1821; ensign 86 foot 7 July 1837; lieut. St. Helena regt. 7 Jany. 1842, lieut.-col. 1 May 1859; lieut.-col. 5 West India regt. 23 June 1863 to 1 April 1865 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. 13 foot 1 July 1865; lieut.-col. brigade depot 1 April 1873; M.G. 1 Aug. 1869; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 Oct. 1882. d. Ashbourne, Derbyshire 26 Feb. 1890.
MACBETH, James. b. Ayr; ed. Glasgow univ., took Thomas Campbell’s silver medal for poetry; minister Arbroath 1837; minister Norfolk st. Free church, Laurieston; author of The Bible argument for a Free church 1843; The church and the slave-holder 1850; A calm review of the debate in the Free assembly on slavery; Morrisonianism refuted. John Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1848) 266–71.
MACBETH, Norman (son of James Macbeth of Greenock, officer of excise). b. Greenock 1821; apprenticed to an engraver in Glasgow 7 years; studied in London and Paris; portrait painter at Greenock 1845–8 and 1856–61, at Glasgow 1848–56, at Edinburgh 1861–85; exhibited at R.S.A. from 1845; A.R.S.A. 1870, R.S.A. 10 Feb. 1880; removed to London about 1885; exhibited 24 portraits at R.A. 1837–77. d. 10 Belsize avenue, Hampstead, London 27 Feb. 1888.
MACBRIDE, John Alexander Paterson (son of Archibald Macbride of Cambeltown, Argyllshire). b. Feb. 1819; pupil of Wm. Spence of Liverpool, sculptor; pupil of and manager for Samuel Joseph, sculptor, London; associate of Liverpool academy 1848, member 1850, secretary 1851 and 1852; showed many important works at Liverpool academy from 1836; executed many portrait-busts and monuments in and near Liverpool; executed the full-size statues of the four seasons in front of Garswood hall for Lord Gerard; exhibited 3 pieces of sculpture at R.A. 1848–53. d. Southend-on-Sea 4 April 1890. Graphic 3 May 1890 p. 508, portrait.
MACBRIDE, John David (only son of John Macbride, admiral, d. 1800). b. Plympton, Devon 28 June 1778; ed. at Cheam in Surrey and Exeter coll. Oxf., fellow 30 June 1800 to 19 July 1805; B.A. 1799, M.A. 1802, B.C.L. and D.C.L. 1811; lord almoner’s reader in Arabic 15 Feb. 1813 to death; principal of Magdalen hall, Oxf. 18 Oct. 1813 to death, the society of Magdalen hall was moved in 1822 from near Magdalen college to Catte st., the jubilee of his headship was celebrated by foundation of a Macbride scholarship 1863; F.S.A. 1805; author of Lectures explanatory of the Diatessaron. Oxford 1835; Lectures on the articles of the united church of England and Ireland. Oxford 1853; The Mohammedan religion explained 1857; Lectures on the acts of the apostles and on the epistles. Oxford 1858. d. Magdalen hall, Oxford 24 Jany. 1868.
M’BRIDGE, James. b. 1831; huntsman to R. C. Hill 1866–9, at Berkeley castle 1869 and to the Quorn under Mr. Coupland 1870–80; commanded the parade at the hound show, Birmingham; huntsman at Meath 1880–4, and to the Shropshire hounds under Hulton Harrop 1884, received a testimonial; first whip and kennel huntsman to Mr. Corbet in Cheshire to death. d. Addesley, Shropshire, May 1886. Baily’s Mag. June 1886 p. 76.
M’CABE, Edward. b. Dublin 14 Feb. 1816; ed. at Maynooth 1833–9; curate of Clontarf, June 1839; C. of cathedral parish, Marlborough st. Dublin 1851, then administrator; refused the bishopric of Grahamstown, Africa 1854; a canon of Timothan; parish priest of St. Nicholas Without, Dublin 1856–65 where he built a new church and schools; vicar general of Dublin diocese; parish priest of Kingstown 1865–77; consecrated bishop of Gadara in partibus as assistant to Paul Cullen archbishop of Dublin 25 July 1877, succeeded him as archbishop 23 March 1879, enthroned 4 May 1879; created a cardinal priest 12 March 1882; member of senate of royal univ. of Ireland 1880 to death. d. 3 Eblana avenue, Kingstown 11 Feb. 1885. bur. Glasnevin. Memoir of Edward M’Cabe, archbishop (1879); Saturday Review, lix 243; Graphic, xxv 521 (1882), portrait; I.L.N. lxxx 372 (1882), portrait.