MACCABE, Joseph. b. Dublin 22 Feb. 1863; partner with Frank Hilton as knockabout performers on the music hall stage 1882–93, they were well known as the Two Macs; partner with Daniel Kennedy 1893; played in pantomime of Jack and Jill, at Prince’s theatre, Manchester 1883–4; performed in U.S. of America 1884; played in pantomime of Cinderella, at T.R. Birmingham 1886–7 and in Miss Esmeralda, at Gaiety theatre, London 8 Oct. 1887; (m. 27 June 1887 Alice Maydue, burlesque actress); performed at Pavilion and Tivoli music halls, London 5 Jany. 1893. d. of gastric catarrh at Stag House, Tooting Bec road, Tooting, Surrey 11 Jany. 1893. bur. St. Mary’s R.C. cemetery, Kensal Green 17 Jany.
Note.—The original Two Macs who introduced the knockabout business to England were called Frank Hilton and J. P. Macnally.
M’CABE, Richard. Printer Drogheda; foreman of The Examiner, the Drogheda Argus and the Coleraine Chronicle; manager of the Dundalk Patriot to 1848; a paragraphist and reporter on Dublin and Belfast newspapers to death. d. Drogheda 27 Jany. 1872. bur. Chord 29 Jany. Newspaper Press 1 March 1872 p. 88.
MACCABE, William Bernard. b. Dublin 23 Nov. 1801; reporter on the Dublin Morning register from 1823; edited provincial Irish newspapers; employed on the Morning Chronicle in London from about 1833, to which he contributed critical reviews; a reviewer on the Morning Herald 1835 to about 1850; edited The Telegraph newspaper in Dublin in the interest of cardinal Wiseman 1852–7; lived in Brittany many years; translated J. Venedy’s Ireland and the Irish during the repeal year, 1844, and J. J. I. Von Doellinger’s The church and the churches 1862; author of A catholic history of England 3 vols. 1847–54; Bertha, a romance of the dark ages 3 vols. 1851; Adelaide queen of Italy 1856, 2 ed. 1860; Florine princess of Burgundy 1855, 3 ed. 1873; contributed to Once a Week, Notes and Queries, and the Dublin Review. d. Donnybrook, co. Dublin 8 Dec. 1891.
M’CALL, Allan. b. Dumfries 1850; an architect; leader of Livingstonia mission in Nyasa-Land, travelled between fifteen and twenty thousand miles in South Africa 1872–8. d. Madeira 25 Nov. 1881. bur. Leicester cemet. 18 Jany. 1882.
MC CALL, William. Ensign 79 foot 29 March 1839, major 12 Dec. 1854 to 5 Aug. 1857 when placed on h.p.; standard bearer to corps of gentlemen at arms 30 Sep. 1872 to death. d. 7 Bruton st. Berkeley sq. London 20 Dec. 1875.
MACCALL, William (eld. son of John Maccall of Largs, Ayrshire, tradesman). b. Largs 25 Feb. 1812; entered Glasgow univ. 1827, M.A. 1833; Unitarian minister at Bolton, Lancs. 1837–40 and at Crediton, Devon 1841–6; preacher, lecturer and writer for the press in London 1846–61; edited The Propagandist 1862; author of The agents of civilization 1843; Sacramental services 1847; The elements of individualism 1847; Foreign biographies 2 vols. 1873; Russian Hymns 1878; Moods and memories 1885. d. Stanhope cottage, Woolwich road, Bexley Heath, Kent 19 Nov. 1888.
MAC CALMONT, Frederick Haynes (2 son of rev. Thomas Mac Calmont of Highfield near Southampton). b. Highfield 1846; ed. at Eton and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1869, B.C.L. and M.A. 1872; barrister M.T. 30 April 1872; resided at Southampton, member of the school board, alderman; author of The parliamentary poll book of all elections 1832–79, 1879, Second ed. 1880, Third ed. 1885. d. Radley’s hotel, Southampton 4 Nov. 1880. Solicitors’ Journal, xxv 56 (1880).
M’CALMONT, Hugh (3 son of Hugh M’Calmont of Abbeylands, co. Antrim, d. 1839). b. 1809; member of firm of M’Calmont Brothers & Co., merchants at 15 Philpot Lane, Cannon st. London; resided at 8 Grosvenor place, London and at Abbeylands, co. Antrim; bequeathed £100,000 to St. George’s hospital, London. d. 9 Oct. 1887, the value of his personal property was declared at £3,121,931 7s. 8d., Dec. 1887.
MC CANN, Nicholas (son of Thomas Mc Cann of Lismoy house, co. Longford). b. 1802; M.R.C.S. 1827, L.S.A. 1834; M.D. St. Andrews 1855; L.R.C.P. Edinb. 1859; surgeon to Western dispensary, London 1831–43; surgeon to royal humane soc. 1837; fellow of Medical soc. of London; surgeon to A division of police 1839; examining physician to foreign service messengers 22 Nov. 1858 to death. d. 50 Parliament st. London 24 Jany. 1867.