MACCARTHY, Sir Charles Justin. b. Brighton 1811; auditor general of Ceylon 1847, colonial secretary there 1851; governor of Ceylon 23 Aug. 1860 to death; knighted by patent 10 July 1857. d. Spa, Belgium 14 Aug. 1864.
M’CARTHY, Daniel. b. near Kenmare, co. Kerry 1823; ed. Maynooth coll., teacher of rhetoric 1846, professor of scripture and Hebrew 1854, vice president 1872–8; bishop of Kerry and Aghadoe, consecrated 25 Aug. 1878; editor of L. F. Renehan’s Collections on Irish church history 1861; M. Kelly’s Dissertations on Irish church history 1864; author of Sermons on the immaculate conception 1880. d. Killarney, July 1881. Times 28 July 1881 p. 10.
MACCARTHY, Denis Florence. b. Lower Sackville st. Dublin 26 May 1817; ed. at Dublin and Maynooth; called to Irish bar 1846; contributed a series of political verse to The Nation newspaper over signature of Desmond 1842; an original member of the ’82 club formed in 1844, on the council of the confederation 1847; resided in London 1872–82; contributed poems and humorous prose papers to periodicals signed Desmond, Vig, Trifolium, Antonio, S. E. Y. and D. F. M.; his translations of Calderon’s works appeared in six issues as follows, Justina, a play 1848; Dramas 1853; Love the greatest enchantment 1861; Mysteries of Corpus Christi 1867; The two lovers of heaven 1870; The wonder-working musician, &c. 1873; for the six volumes he was granted medal of royal academy of Spain 1881; granted civil list pension of £100, 3 Aug. 1870; author of The poets and dramatists of Ireland 1 vol. 1846; Ballads, poems and lyrics 1850; The bell founder 1857; Shelley’s Early life 1872; Poems 1882. d. Blackrock near Dublin 7 April 1882. Dublin Review, April 1883 pp. 261–93.
MAC CARTHY, Hamilton Wright (2 son of John James Alexander Mac Carthy, artist). b. 1810; sculptor and poet; exhibited 23 pieces of sculpture at R.A. and 13 at B.I. 1838–67. d. 17 Springfield villas, Kilburn, London 2 Feb. 1882.
MC CARTHY, John F. (son of Michael Mc Carthy). b. 1862; provision merchant at Tipperary; M.P. mid division of Tipperary 18 July 1892. d. Roscrea, Tipperary 8 Feb. 1893.
MACCARTHY, John George (son of John Maccarthy of Cork). b. Cork, June 1829; founded with Justin Mac Carthy, Cork historical society 1849; founded Cork Young men’s society 1852; solicitor at Cork 1853–81; M.P. Mallow 1874–80; assistant comr. under Land act of 1881, 1881–6; one of the two comrs. under land purchase act of 1885, 1886 to death; made a knight of the order of St. Gregory by Leo XIII. Feb. 1880; author of The history of Cork, a lecture. Cork 1856; Irish land questions plainly stated and answered 1870; The French revolution of 1792, its causes etc. Dublin 1884; Henry Grattan, a historical study, Dublin 1886. d. Euston hotel, London 7 Sep. 1892. bur. Glasnevin cemet. Dublin. Irish Law Times, xxii 116 (1888).
MC CAUL, Alexander. b. Dublin 16 May 1799; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 3 Oct. 1814, B.A. 1819, M.A. 1831, B.D. and D.D. 1837; tutor to Earl of Rosse; sent to Poland by London Soc. for promoting Christianity among the Jews 1821; C. of Huntley near Gloucester 1823; head of the mission to the Jews, and English chaplain at Warsaw 1823–30; settled in London 1832; published Old Paths, a weekly pamphlet on Jewish ritual 60 numbers 1836–37; principal of the Hebrew college, London 1840; declined bishopric of Jerusalem 1841; professor of Hebrew and Rabbinical literature in King’s college, London 1841–6, professor of divinity 1846–53, professor of ecclesiastical history Dec. 1853 to 1863; R. of St. James’s, Duke’s place, London 1843–50; preb. of St. Paul’s 1845 to death; declined bishoprics of Adelaide, Newcastle and Capetown 1847; R. of St. Magnus, St. Margaret and St. Michael, Fish st. hill, London 21 Jany. 1850 to death; proctor for the London clergy in convocation 1852 to death; author of A Hebrew primer 4 ed. 1836; Lectures on the Prophecies and The Messiahship of Christ, being Warburtonian lectures 2 series 1846–52; Rationalism and the divine interpretation of scripture 1850; Some notes on the first chapter of Genesis 1861; Testimonies to the divine authority of the holy scripture 1862; An examination of bishop Colenso’s difficulties with regard to the Pentateuch 2 vols. 1863–4 and 50 other works. d. St. Magnus’s rectory, London 13 Nov. 1863. bur. Ilford, Essex 20 Nov. J. B. Mc Caul’s Memoir of A. Mc Caul (1863); I.L.N. xxiv 400 (1854), portrait.
MC CAUL, John. b. Dublin 7 March 1807; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1824, B.A. 1825, M.A. 1829, LL.B. and LL.D. 1835, classical tutor and examiner; principal of the Upper Canadian coll. Nov. 1838; V.P. of King’s coll. Toronto and professor of classics, logic, rhetoric and belles lettres 1842; pres. of univ. of Toronto 1849; pres. of univ. coll. and V.C. of univ. of Toronto 1853–81; M.R.I.A.; author of Remarks explanatory and illustrative on the Terentian metres 1828; The metres of the Greek tragedians explained 1828; Selections from Lucian, with English notes 1829; Remarks on the classical studies pursued in the university of Dublin 1834; Scansion of the Hecuba and Medea of Euripides 1836; Britanno-Roman inscriptions with critical notes. Toronto and London 1863; Christian epitaphs of the first six centuries 1869. d. 15 April 1887. H. J. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 254–5.
MC CAUL, Joseph Benjamin (son of Alexander Mc Caul 1799–1863). Ed. King’s coll. London, theological associate 1850; assistant in British Museum 1846–9 and engaged upon the compilation of the catalogue March 1851 to 1865; censor, reader and divinity lecturer, King’s coll. 1852–54; C. of St. Magnus the Martyr, London 1851–4; C. of All Saints’, Gordon sq. London 1854–5; C. of St. Edmund the King, Lombard st. 1858–65; chaplain at Amsterdam 1877–9; R. of St. Michael, Bassishaw 1865 to death; hon. canon of Rochester 1865 to death; author of The abbé Migne and the Bibliothèque universelle du clergé 1857; The ten commandments, the christian’s spiritual instructor 1861; Bishop Colenso’s Criticism criticised 1862; The epistle to the Hebrews in a paraphrastic commentary 1871; Dark sayings of old, an attempt to elucidate certain passages of scripture 1873; A concise exposition of St. Paul’s epistle to the Romans 1882; The last plague of Egypt and other poems 1879. d. 11 Flander’s road, Turnham Green near London 3 Feb. 1892.
MC CAUSLAND, Dominick (3 son of Marcus Langford Mc Causland of Roe park, co. Londonderry). b. Roe park 20 Aug. 1806; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1822, gold medallist for science 1827, B.A. 1827, LL.B. and LL.D. 1859; called to Irish bar 1835, went north western circuit; a crown prosecutor for co. Fermanagh 1859 to death; Q.C. 4 July 1860; author of The latter days of the Jewish church and nation as revealed in the Apocalypse. Dublin 1841; The times of the Gentiles as revealed in the Apocalypse. Dublin 1852, reissued 1857, both were combined in a 2nd ed. as The latter days of Jerusalem and Rome 1859; Sermons in stones 1856, 13 ed. 1873; Adam and the Adamite 1864, 2 ed. 1868; Shinar the confusion of language 1867; The builders of Babel 1871. d. 12 Fitzgibbon st. Dublin 29 June 1873. W. D. Ferguson’s Memoir of D. Mc Causland (1873); Irish Law Times, vii 354 (1873).