MC CAUSLAND, John Kennedy. b. 1803; entered Bengal army 1818; commanded Gwalior district 20 Jany. 1860 to 13 Feb. 1861; retired L.G. 31 Dec. 1861; C.B. 21 March 1859. d. Melrose villa, Cheltenham 23 July 1879.
MC CAW, William. b. Antrim; minister of presbyterian church, Bridge st. Strangeways near Manchester, Nov. 1846; author of Truth frae ’mang the heather 1856, 5 ed. 1880; The gospel and total abstinence 1857; Romanism, ritualism and revelation 1876. J. Evans’ Lancashire authors (1850) 166–70.
MC CLEAN, John Robinson. b. Belfast 1813; studied at univ. of Glasgow; a civil engineer in London 1844; constructed harbour, docks and railways of Barrow in Furness; partner with F. C. Stileman 1849; engineer of harbours of Dover 1851, Alderney 1862 and St. Catherine’s, Jersey 1862 &c.; sent to Egypt as comr. to report on the Suez canal route; served on several royal commissions; retired from practice 1868; contested Belfast 3 April 1857; M.P. east Staffs. 17 Nov. 1868 to death; chairman of Anglo-American telegraph co.; M.I.C.E. June 1844, member of council 1848, vice pres. 1858, pres. 1864 and 1865; F.R.S.; F.G.S.; F.R.A.S. 8 Jany. 1858. d. Stonehouse, Isle of Thanet 13 July 1873, personalty sworn under £700,000, 6 Sep. 1873. Monthly notices of R.A.S. xxxiv 148 (1874); Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxviii 287–91 (1874); Humber’s Modern engineering 3rd series (1865), portrait.
MC CLELLAND, James. b. Ayr 18 Jany. 1799; accountant Glasgow, March 1824, retired 1874, had many apprentices in his business; president of royal institution of accountants, Glasgow 1853; great friend of George Combe the phrenologist; removed to London 1874. d. 32 Pembridge sq. London 24 Oct. 1879. W. C. Maclehose’s Glasgow men, ii 185–6 (1886), portrait.
MC CLELLAND, John. Surgeon Bengal army 30 Nov. 1846; inspector general of hospitals 8 Nov. 1860, principal inspector general 1864 to 24 Nov. 1865 when he retired; conducted The Calcutta journal of natural history 1841; author of Reports on investigation of coal and mineral resources of India 1838; Some inquiries in Kemaon relative to geology 1835; Sketches of the medical topography and soils of Bengal 1859. d. 29 Marina, St. Leonards-on-Sea 31 July 1883.
M’CLINTOCK, John (eld. son of John M’Clintock of Drumcar, M.P. Enniskillen, d. 1799). b. 14 Aug. 1770; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1790; sheriff of co. Louth 1798; present at battles of Arklow 10 June 1798 and Vinegar Hill 12 June 1798; serjeant at arms with his younger brother Wm. Foster M’Clintock 1794 to 1800 when a pension of £2545 was assigned to them in compensation for the office; M.P. Athlone, Westmeath 24 March 1820 to May 1820 when he was appointed escheator of Munster. d. Drumcar, co. Louth 12 July 1855.
MC CLURE, Sir Robert John Le Mesurier (son of Robert Mc Clure, captain 89 foot, d. 1806). b. Wexford 28 Jany. 1807; ed. at Eton and Sandhurst; entered navy 1824; mate of the Terror in her Arctic voyage 1836–7; commanded the Romney at Havana 1842–6; first lieut. of the Investigator in sir J. C. Ross’s Arctic expedition 1848–9 and commander of her in Collinson’s expedition, sailed from Plymouth 20 Jany. 1850, discovered the north-west passage 26 Oct. 1850, the Investigator was forced into a bay on the north shore of Banks’ Land 23 Sep. 1851 where in 1853 she was abandoned; crossed Banks’s Strait to Winter harbour in Melville Island, April 1852; arrived in England in the North Star 28 Sep. 1854, tried by court martial for loss of his ship when honourably acquitted; captain 18 Dec. 1850; knighted at Windsor Castle 21 Nov. 1855; parliament awarded £10,000 to officers and crew of the Investigator 1855; captain of the Esk 1856; commanded a battalion of the naval brigade at capture of Canton, Dec. 1857; C.B. 20 May 1859; R.A. 20 March 1867, retired V.A. 29 May 1873; awarded good service pension 12 Sep. 1863. d. 25 Duke st. St. James’s, London 17 Oct. 1873. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 25 Oct. The north-west passage. Capt. Mc Clure’s despatches (1853); S. Osborn’s Discovery of a north-west passage 4 ed. (1865); A. Armstrong’s Discovery of the north-west passage (1857); S. Cresswell’s Eight sketches of the voyage of H.M.S. Investigator (1854); Graphic, viii 407, 412 (1873), portrait.
MC CLURE, Sir Thomas, 1 Baronet (son of William Mc Clure, merchant). b. Belfast 4 March 1806; ed. at Belfast royal academical institution; merchant Belfast; sheriff of Downshire 1864 and vice lieut. 17 June 1872 to 1886; M.P. Belfast 1868–74; contested Belfast 6 Feb. 1874; M.P. Londonderry 1878–85; cr. a baronet 20 March 1874. d. Belmont near Belfast 21 Jany. 1893. Daily Graphic 23 Jany. 1893 p. 8, portrait.
M’COLLUM, Thomas. Lessee with Wm. Charman of New royal amphitheatre, Holborn, London, opened 25 May 1867. d. 7 Oakden st. Kennington road, London 22 March 1872 aged 44. bur. Brompton cemet. 26 March. Illust. Times 22 June 1867 p. 392, view of interior of Holborn amphitheatre.
MC COMB, William (son of Thomas Mc Comb of Coleraine, Londonderry, draper). b. Coleraine 17 Aug. 1793; teacher of Brown st. daily school, Belfast to 1828; bookseller in High st. Belfast 1828, retired 1864; established Mc Comb’s Presbyterian Almanac 1840 which ran to 1873; author of The dirge of O’Neill 1817; The school of the Sabbath 1822, 2 ed. 1825; The voice of a year, or recollections of 1848, with other poems 1849; Poetical works 1864. d. Colin View terrace, Belfast 13 Sep. 1873.