M’CREA, Robert Contart. b. 13 Jany. 1793; entered navy 23 Nov. 1803; present at Trafalgar; commander Scourge revenue cruiser 1818–21; captain 10 Jany. 1837; commander of the Zebra, forcibly removed the ex-rajah of Queda from his abode at Bruas on the coast of Perak and carried him a prisoner to Penang, April 1837, for which he was presented by H.E.I.C. with a piece of plate value 100 guineas; admiral on h.p. 8 April 1868. d. Guernsey 13 Jany. 1875. United Service mag. March 1875 p. 407.
M’CREE, George Wilson. b. Newcastle-on-Tyne 28 April 1822; commenced preaching in village chapels 1839; a missionary in London working among the poor of the Five dials and the Seven dials, known as the bishop of St. Giles’ 1848–73; pastor of the Borough road Baptist chapel, Southwark 1873 to death; sec. of Band of hope union; an originator of the London temperance hospital, Hampstead road 1873; edited The band of hope record 4 vols. 1861–4; author of Illustrations of peace principles 1845; Day and night in St. Giles’, a lecture 1862; The pitman’s prayer, a voice from New Hartley colliery 1862; Shadows of city life 1873; William Brock, a biography 3 ed. 1876; Thomas Wilson the silkman 1879; Poets, painters and players 1882; The Queen’s health, a word for the jubilee year 1887. d. 16 Ampton place, Gray’s inn road, London 25 Nov. 1892. Black and White 17 Dec. 1892 p. 696, portrait; Times 28 Nov. 1892 p. 6.
M’CRIE, Thomas (eld. son of Thomas Mc Crie, ecclesiastical historian 1772–1835). b. Edinburgh 7 Nov. 1797; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edinb.; secession minister of Crieff 1820–8 and of Clola, Aberdeenshire 1828–36; minister of West Richmond st. meeting-house Edinburgh 1836; a contributor to The Witness; professor of theology at the Original secession hall, Edinb. 1836; the Seceders joined the Free church of Scotland 1852; moderator of the Free church assembly 1856; professor of church history and systematic theology at London college of English presbyterian church Oct. 1856 to 1866; D.D. Aberdeen and LL.D. Glasgow; edited The British and foreign evangelical review, Edinb.; author of Life of Thomas Mc Crie 1840; Sketches of Scottish church history 1841, 5 ed. 1875; The ancient history of the Waldensian church 1845; Lectures on Christian baptism 1850; Memoirs of Sir Andrew Agnew 1850, 2 ed. 1851; Thoughts on union with the free church of Scotland 1852; Annals of English presbyterianism 1872; The story of the Scottish church from the reformation to the disruption 1874. d. 39 Minto st. Edinburgh 9 May 1875. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 349–56, portrait.
MACCULLOCH, Horatio (son of a weaver). b. Glasgow, Nov. 1805, and named after lord Nelson; apprenticed to a house-painter; painter of snuff-boxes for Messrs. Smith at Cumnock, Ayrshire 1824; engaged colouring prints in Edinburgh; landscape painter at Glasgow to 1838, then at Edinb.; exhibited at R.S.A. from 1829, an associate 1834, an academician 1838, exhibited Bothwell castle on the Clyde 1863; exhibited 2 pictures at R.A. London and 1 at B.I. 1843–8; the most popular landscape painter of his day in Scotland; illustrated J. P. Lawson’s Scotland delineated 1847; and with others W. Beattie’s Scotland illustrated 1838. d. St. Colme’s villa, Trinity, Edinburgh 24 June 1867, two portraits of him by Sir Daniel Macnee are in national gallery of Scotland. Fraser’s Scottish landscape, the works of H. Macculloch (1872), life pp. 9–39, portrait; Chambers’s Biog. Dict. of Scotsmen, iii 11–13 (1875).
MC CULLOCH, Sir James (son of George Mc Culloch). b. Glasgow 1819; in office of J. and A. Dennistoun, merchants, Glasgow 1839, became a partner 1853, and going to Melbourne, Australia, opened a branch establishment there April 1853, firm wound up 1862; founded house of Mc Culloch, Sellar and Co. 1862; nominee member of Victoria legislative council 1854; elected for Wimmera to first legislative assembly 24 Oct. 1856; formed a government, himself being commissioner of trade and customs 29 April 1857, resigned 10 March 1858; member for East Melbourne 1858, treasurer 27 Oct. 1859 to 26 Nov. 1860; member for Mornington 1862, chief secretary 27 June 1863 to 6 May 1868, chief sec. and treasurer 11 July 1868 to 20 Sep. 1869, chief sec. 9 April 1870 to 19 June 1871; knighted by patent 4 June 1870; agent general for Victoria in London 1872–3; K.C.M.G. 9 March 1874; premier and treasurer of Victoria 20 Oct. 1875 to 21 May 1877. d. Garbard hall, Ewell, Surrey 30 Jany. 1893.
M’CULLOCH, James Melville (1 son of John M’Culloch 1783–1845). b. St. Andrews 25 Feb. 1801; ed. at the United coll. St. Andrews, M.A. 1821, then at St. Mary’s coll.; master gram. sch. Dunkeld 1821–6; head master Circus place sch. Edinb. Jany. 1826 to Feb. 1829; minister St. Vigean’s chapel, Arbroath 25 Feb. 1829 to 1832; minister of parish ch. Kelso 27 Sep. 1832 to 1843; D.D. of St. Andrews 1841; minister of the west parish, Greenock 23 Nov. 1843 to death; presented on his jubilee with a salver and £1260, Feb. 25, 1879; author of Lectures on the advantages which the church derives from an alliance with the state 1835; Pietas juvenilis, a manual of devotion for schools 1838. d. Greenock 12 Jany. 1883. Sermons by J. M. M’Culloch (1884), memoir pp. vii–lvi, portrait; J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy 2 Ser. (1849) 289–94.
MC CULLOCH, John Ramsay (eld. son of Edward Mc Culloch). b. Isle of Whithorn, Wigtownshire 1 March 1789; ed. at Kinross and univ. of Edinb.; wrote the economical articles for The Scotsman 1817–27, edited it 1818–20; contributed 76 articles to Edinburgh Review 1818–37; delivered the Ricardo memorial lectures in London 1824; professor of political economy at London univ. 1828–32; comptroller of the Stationery Office 1838 to death; a foreign associate of Institute of France 1843; granted civil list pension of £200, 30 June 1846; author of The principles of political economy, Edinb. 1825, 7 ed. 1886; An essay on the circumstances which determine the rate of wages and the condition of the labouring classes. Edinb. 1826, 4 ed. 1868; A dictionary, practical, theoretical and historical of commerce and commercial navigation 1832–9. d. in the Stationery Office, Prince’s st. Storey’s gate, Westminster 11 Nov. 1864, portrait by Sir Daniel Macnee in National portrait gallery, London. I.L.N. 26 Nov. 1864 p. 541, portrait.
MC CULLOCH, William (eld. son of the preceding). b. parish of St. Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh 28 Feb. 1816; ed. at high sch. Edinb. and at Addiscombe; ensign 13 Bengal N.I. 24 Sep. 1835, major 4 Sep. 1857, retired with rank of lieut.-col. 31 Dec. 1861; assistant to political agent at Manipur, April 1840, political agent there 1845–63 and 1864–7; author of An account of Manipur and the Hill tribes. Calcutta 1859. d. 4 April 1885.
MC CULLOUGH, John Edward (son of a farmer). b. in Coleraine, Ireland 2 Nov. 1837; apprentice to a chair maker, Philadelphia, U.S. America 1853; appeared in The Belle’s stratagem at Arch theatre, Philadelphia 15 Aug. 1857; acted in Boston and other cities; travelled with Edwin Forrest playing second parts 1866–8; with Lawrence P. Barrett manager of Bush st. theatre, San Francisco, Jany. 1869; Forrest left him his MS. plays, regarding him as his legitimate successor 1872; acted throughout the States 1873–83; first appeared in England at Drury Lane theatre 25 April 1881 as Virginius, then played Othello; returned to New York 1881. d. in a lunatic asylum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 8 Nov. 1885. The Theatre 1 Aug. 1881 p. 121, portrait; Illust. Sport. and Dram. News 14 May 1881 pp. 199, 209, portrait; New monthly mag. cxix 619–23 (1881), portrait.
M’CUTCHEON, James. Editor of the ‘Tyrone Constitution.’ d. Omagh 4 Feb. 1855.